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ell, Farragut, Sheridan) (1863-64); 31assachu' setts in the MebelUon (1865) ; Secret Service in the United States in the Civil ]yar (1866); Island of Fire (1874); Evani/elists in the Church (1871); Life, Labors and Bible Studies of the liev. Geonje F. Pen- tecost (1880); Fiiblic Men of Today (1882); God and Home aitd Xafive Land (189;}); and magazijie articles. Hptlitd in I.exingt'>ii. Mass.. Jan. .">, l'.H)3. HEALY, George Peter Alexander, portrait painter, was born in Boston. Mass., July 15, 1813; son of William and Mary (Hicks) Healy. His father was a sea captain, and his paternal grand- father, an Irishman, was ruined by the rebellion of 1798. After attending the public schools he began painting in his native city in 1831, and in 1836 went to London, where he exhibited a portrait of Mr. Francis Place, and to Paris, France, where he became a pupil of Baron An- toine Jean Gros and of Thomas Couture. After visiting Swit- zerland he returned to London, and in 1839 married Louisa, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Milne) Phipps. He spent his honejnnoon in Paris, wliere he painted, and in 1840 exhibited in the Salon a portrait of Mrs. Cass, wife of the U.S. minister, which won for him a third-class medal. Through General Cass he obtained sittings from Louis Philippe, who commissioned him to proceed to the United States and copy Stuart's Washington, and also to paint portraits of other American statesmen. His painting " Franklin before Louis XVI." won for him the gold medal at the Uni- versal exhibition of ISoo, and this medal admit- ted his work to the Salon without passing before the jury. He resided in Chicago, III., 1805-67; in Rome and Paris, 1869-92; and again in Chicago, 1892-94. He exhibited frequently at the Salon and at the National academy of design. He also exhibited at the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893. He was an honorarj- member of the National academy of design, and devoted himself exclusively to portrait painting. Prob- ably his most remarkaljle productions are "Web- ster's Reply to Hayne." containing 150 portraits; and " Franklin Presenting the Claims of the American Colonists before Louis XVI." The former was completed in 1851 and was placed in Faneuil Hall, Boston. Mass. He is .said to have exe- cuted considerably over 600 portraits, his sittings including many of the more famous persons of his

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time, including Pius IX., Guizot, Thiers and Gam- betta. Among his portraits of Americans maj' be noted: Lewis Cass, Longfellow, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Grant, Stephen A. Douglas, Buchanan, Lincoln, William H. Seward and Admiral Porter. He wrote licminisccnres of a Portrait Painter (1894). He died in Chica.go, 111., June 24, 1894.

HEALY, James Augustine, R.C. bishop, was born near Macon, Ga., April 6, 1830: .son of Michael M. and Eliza (Clark) Healy. When he was quite young he was placed in Friends' schools at Flushing, L.I., N.Y., and in Burlington, N.J. He was graduated at Holy Cross college, Worces- ter, Mass., in 1849; and began his theo- logical course at the Sulpitian seminary of Montreal. Canada, completing it at Paris, France. He was ordained a priest at Paris, June 10, 1854, by Archbishop Sibour, and in the diocese of Boston was named chancel- lor and secretary to Bishop Fitzpat- rick, being stationed at the cathedral. On the death of Bishop Fitzpatrick and the election of the Rev. John J. Williams, rector of St. James's church, Boston, to the bishopric, Chancellor Healy was made rector of St. James and served the church, 1866-75. He was elected bishop of Portland to succeed the Rt. Rev. David W. Bacon, deceased, and was consecrated June 2, 1875, by Archbishop Williams of Boston, assisted by Bishops O'Reilly and McNierney. His diocese included the states of Maine and New Hampshire. In 1884 the diocese of Manchester was set off, comprising the state of New Hamp- shire. The diocese of Portland after that time included only the state of Elaine. He introduced additional French and Canadan priests to care for the wants of the large immigration of French Canadians, and in various ways greatly enlarged the educational and missionary institutions of the church, ])th English and French. He died in Portland. Maine, Aug. 5, 1900.

HEALY, John Plummer, lawyer, was born in AVasiiin-ton, X.H., Dec. 28, 1810: son of the Hon. Jo.sei>h Healy. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1835 and studied law under Daniel Webster, whose law partner he became on being admitted to the bar. He declined the chief jus- ticeship of California and also the office of chief ju.stice of the supreme court of Massachusetts. He was elected a representative in the Massachu