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setts legislature in 1840 and was several times re- elected. He was a state senator, 1854-56, and solicitor of the city of Boston, 185G-82. Dart- mouth conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1871. He died in Boston, Mass., Jan. 4, 1882.

HEALY, Joseph, representative, was born in Cheshire, N.H., in 1776. He served in the state senate in 1824; was a representative in the 19th and 20th congresses, 1825-29; a member of the committee on Revolutionary claims; and a state councillor, 1829-32. He died at Washington, N.H., Oct. 10, 1861.

HEAP, David Porter, engineer, was born in San Stefano, Turkey, March 24, 1843; son of Gwynn Harris and Evelina Cora (Porter) Heap, and grandson of Samuel Davies and Margaret (Porter) Heap and of Commodore David and Evelina (An- derson) Porter. He attended Georgetown college, D.C., and was graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1864, serving in the army of the Potomac during the remaining year of the civil war. He was brevetted captain for gallantry during the siege of Petersburg, April 2, 1865. He was promoted captain, March 7, 1867, and in 1871 was engaged in exploring the section which after- ward became Yellowstone national park. He was placed in cliarge of the engineering section of the war department exhibit at the Philadelphia exposition in 1876, and in 1881 was military representative of the United States at the Paris congress of electricians. He was promoted major of engineers, June 23, 1882, and lieutenant -colo- nel. May 10, 1895. In 1897 he was placed in charge of the defensive works on the coast of North Carolina, and in 1899 was transferred to the charge of the 3d lighthouse district and of the general lighthouse depot, with headquarters at Tompkinsville, N.Y. He is the author of History of the Application of the Electric Light to Lighting the Coasts of France (1883) ; Eeport of Engineer De- partment of the Philadelphia Exhibition (1884) ; Electrical Appliances of the Present Day (1884); Ancient and Modern Light-Houses (1887) ; and an article on lighthouses in the American supple- ment to the Encyclopa'dia Britannica.

HEAP, Qwynn Harris, diplomatist, was born in Chester, Pa., March 23, 1817; son of Samuel Davies and Margaret (Porter) Heap; and grand- son of George Heap. His father was appointed consul at Tunis in 1825 and in 1839-40 the son served as vice- and acting-consul there. In 1846- 55 he was employed as a government clerk. He was married in Washington, D.C., to Evelina Cora, daughter of Com. David and Evelina (Ander.son) Porter. In 1855-57 he was sent by the war department to Turkey to purchase camels. On his return he was made a clerk in the navy department, and at the outbreak of the civil war he volunteered in the U. S. secret service. He was

placed in charge of the pilots of Admiral Porter's squadron on the Mississippi river in 1863. In 1866 he was appointed U.S. consul at Belfast, Ireland; was consul at Tunis, 1867-78; and secretary of legation and consul-general at Constantinople, 1878-87. He compiled A Synoptical Index to the Statutes at Large (1849-50) ; and wrote Exploration of the Central Route to the Pacific (1853); and Itineracy of the Central Route to the Pacific (ISM). He died in Constantinople, Turkey, Marcli 6, 1887.

HEARD, Franklin Fiske, editor, was born in Way laud, Mass., Jan. 17, 1825. He was gradu- ated at Harvard in 1848, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1850. In 1855 he removed to Boston and was an editor of the Monthly Laio Reporter, 1861-66. He was a painstaliing editor of reference books for lawyers and published between 1856 and 1887 over twenty works that became standard. He also contributed to gen- eral literature an edition of Poem's Essays (1867) ; Curiosities of the Law Reporters (1871) ; Oddities of the Law (1881) ; and Shakespeare as a Laioyer (1883). He died in Bo.ston, Mass., Sept. 29, 1889.

HEARD, John T., representative, was born at Georgetown, Mo. , Oct. 29, 1840 ; son of George Heard, a lawyer. He prepared for college in the common schools and was graduated at the University of Missouri in 1860. He read law with his father and after admission to the bar prac- tised in partnership with him. He was elected a representative in the state legislature of Missouri in 1872 and served as state senator, 1881-85. In 1881 he was employed by the fund commissioners of the state to prosecute and adjust all claims of the state against the general government. He was a Democratic representative from the seventh district of Missouri in the 49th, 50th, 51st, 52d and 53d congresses, 1885-95, and was defeated for the 54th congress by John Tracy, by 303 votes.

HEARD, Thomas Jefferson, physician, was born in Morgan county, Ga., May 14, 1814; son of Capt. John and Susan (Fannin) Heard; and grandson of William Heard, a native of Pittsyl- vania county, Va., and a Revolutionary soldier, present at capture of Cornwallis. He attended the medical department of Transylvania uni- versity and removed to Texas, practising medi- cine in Washington, 1837-57, and in Galveston, 1857-99. He was professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the Galveston medical scliool in 1866 and was professor of materia med- ica and therapeutics in the University of Louisi- ana in 1876. He was one of the first to introduce the use of quinine in the treatment of fevers in Texas ; one of the organizers and the first presi- dent of the Texas medical association, and a member of the American medical association. He received the degi'ee of M.D. from the Uni- versity of Louisiana in 1845. He is the author of