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March 12, 1820, in IlM-rville was made brevet lieutenant 184i>;

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two terma in the state senate of Louiaiana; and waa engineer of the state. He waa commiaBioned colonel of the third Louisiana infantry in tlu- oiitrderate army in 1861; and became brigadier-gen«ral in IMS. He ia a repreaentative m the old served

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French or Creole |hoj)Ic of Louisiana; and active iu the management of his sugar (dantation. Bebert, Paul Octave, soldier, povernor. was

Xov. 12, 181H, in Louisiaiift. He si-rvt-d the conrt'ilcrate states army and attained the rank of brifjadier-peneral. In lS54-ri8 he was the fourteenth governor of the state of Louiaiana. He died April aO» 1880, in Louia-

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iana.

Hebron, John 6.

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lawyer, merchant, in

Vi.k-liurjr, "Nlis^.

was lit-

was educated at the Mis8iHBii>pi college and at the uniTeraity of Miaeifisippi. He ia a nun liiint of succeHHful lawyer, planter un Greenville, Miss.; and prominently identified with the buflineas and public affaira of that city. He has b«*<'n count ^• ntforncy ii.uiiuiui oi for Washington county. Miss.; the democratic executive coMiiiiittfe of Washington county. Miss.; trustee of the university of Mississippi: and has filled various other positions of trust and honor. He waa a meml>er of the Miaaieeippi stat** senate for Washington county in 1904-08. !

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Hecker, John Valentine, mauufaeturer. waa lH>m Dec. SJ5, 1848, in New York t iiy. He iKfarne pn-siilent of the (It-orge.

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company; and subsetjueully

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levee commtaBioncrs, one of the most reaponaihte poaitions in the greni Yazoo delta. Hecbelman. Herman William, e<lucator, physician, Burgi-on, was )orn Auf?. 10, 1S48.

In 1870 he was en^i^'d in in Germany. the practice of medicine in Allegheny, Pa. In 1884-87 he was surgeon to the West Pennsylvania hospital. In 1880 he wh'* elected professor of anatomy at the Western Pennsylvania medical college.

Heck, Barbara, ministi-r. fouiidt r, w ;is born in Ireland. She was the wife of Paul Heck. When the rerolutionary war began they settled in northern New York; and founded the first Methodist society in that district. She waa known as the mother of American niPthodi'jm, She died in 1S04 in Canada, Hecker, Isaac Thomas, h r^'yman, author, waa born Dee. 18, 1819, in New York City (

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g:inization of tiie (lour mills of New York into the Uecker J ones- Jewell milting oompany, of which he is president. Heckert, Charles Girven, i'ducator. college president, was bom on March 22, 18(i3, in

Northumberland, Pa. He waa managing e<|itor of the Lutheran World. In l8!t.'M".»o;l he was professor of Engliah and logic; and since 1003 baa been president of Wittenberg rolli

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born July

died Dee. 22, 1888, in

City.

Hebert, LouiSy soldier, engineer, Htate

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of Sjtriiigfii'ld, Ohio.

Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Enieatua, missionary, author, in

Kngl.iiid.

bom March

was

Ilf

in

ciifj.igi'd

12, 1743, literary pur-

waa the author of Account of Uie History, .Manners and Customs of the ln>

suits.

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diaii Nations who once Inhabited Poinsyl: vania and the Neighboring States. He died Jan. 21, 1823, in Bethlehem, Pa. Heckman, Charles Adam, soldier, was born

Dec.

3,

the elvil

1822, in

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in

I'a. He >civ.d in 1802 was made brigas. He died Jan. 14,

Ka^it»n.

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Pliiladelphia,

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Heckman, George C., clergyman, college president, was bom Jan. 20, 1823, in Easton.

He has filled several pastorates in the presbyt<'rian ••hurches of Indiana and New

Pa.

York; and

in 1870-70 was president of Han* over college. Hcddoeus, John, educator, clergyman, poet, waa born .pril 15, 1847, (jiermany. He is a teacher of modem 1anguag«>s; and en* gagr'd Jit the military academy in Sing Sing, N.V, He is the author of Lord Lively.

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Beddings, Elijah, clergyman, bishop, was .June 7. 17S(i. in IMne Plains. N.V. .t the general conference in 824 he waa elected to the office of bishop of the methodi-f piMopiii clnircli. He died April 9, 1852, iMtrt:

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Hedemann, Christian J., business manager and diplomat of Honolnln. Hawaii, was bom May 25, lS."»iJ, in Ficn-bur};. Denmark, now Germany. He studied niarim' engineering in the royal p<dytecliiii( in-l itiitiDn of Cojienhagen. Iti 1878 he went to Hawaii as a sugar factory engineer. In 1S84 lie entered the service of the Honolulu lion Works com*

pany

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assistant manafirer. and in 1800 manager. In 1009 be

apiM^iiited general

waa waS

He was a Roman

appointed coii-ni

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Hedge, Frederic Henry, hiiraiian, hiliUographer. was born June 18:U. in Arlington, Mass. He wa.s educated at the high school of Bnngnr, Maine; and in 18.51 grail uated from Harvard coll-ge. He lias been atsiatant librarian at the Providence athenaeum of Rhode Island: and librarian ot Massachusetts historical society. tile In 1874-1001 he wa-i librarian of the public Hiiro rr of Lawrence, Mass.

catholic rlt rjr>Tnan : and in early life was one of tin noted Brook Farm community. Becoming a Roman catholie he foitnded the Order of the Paulists in 1888. In 1865 he established The Catholic World, of which ho remaini-d the editor till bia death. He wa^^ the author of Questlona of the Soul; Aspirations of NaI'liitcd "^lates; ture; Catholicity in the Catholics and Protestants Agreeing on the

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