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 HEINTZELMAN

HEISS

partnership and devoted themselves to church architecture. They designed and superintended the erection of several prominent churches in Brooklyn. Providence and New York city. In a competition for the design for the P.E. cathe- dral, Morningside Park, New York city, their design was one of the four selected as of especial merit and these were referred to a special com- mittee. The four contestants were given time to elaborate their ]>lans during which time Mr. Heins made an exliaustive jiersonal inspection of the principal catiiedrals of the old world. They completed their final designs, March 2, 1891, and on July •24. 1S91. Heins v*i La Farge received their commission as architects of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

HEINTZELMAN, Samuel Peter, soldier, was born in 3Ianlieiin. Pa., Sept. '30, 1805. He was graduated at the U.S. military academj- in 1826. He serveil as lieutenant of iufantrj- in the west and in Florida 182G-47. and was promoted captain in 1847, serving in the Mexican war, 1847-48. He was brevetted ma- jor, Oct. 9. 1847, for gallantrj' at Hua- mautla. He was in California, 1849-.J.1, where he fought the Coyote and Yuma Indians and estab- lished Fort Yuma, on the Columbia river. He was promoted major in 1855 and operated against

Mexican marauders ^^ ^ y on the Rio Grande,

^^T^^S^az^, • l^'^'^-eO, and was bre- vetted lieutenant- colonel in May, 1861, for meritorious services against the Indians in California. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers and inspector- general of troops at Washington, D.C., in May, 1861. and was commissioned colonel of the 17th U.S. infantry. He commanded the forces that captured Alexandria, Va., May 24, 1861, and was woun.led in the battle of Bull Run. July 21, 1861, where he commanded the 3d division, McDowell's army, composed of the brigades of Franklin, Willcox and Howard, and opposed the brigades of Evans, Bee ami Bartow and drove them l;ack to the Henry Hou.se plateau. He commanded the 3d corps made up of the divisions of Kearny and Hr>oker in the army of the Potomac in March, lHfl2. iK^fore Yorktown and at Malvern Hill, Beaver Dam. Oak Grove, Savage's Station and Eraser's Farm and in the peninsular cam- paign. For his action at the battle of Williams- burg, Va., May 5, 1862, he was made major-gen-

eral of volunteers, and at Seven Pines (Fair Oaks),, Va., May 31 and June 1, 1862, he commanded the 3d and 4th corps combined and for his gal- lantry in both days' fights was brevetted briga dier-general in the regular army. He led his 3d corps in the seven days' fight before Richmond, June 25- July 1, 1862. At the second battle of Bull Run his corps formed the right wing of the army under Gen. John Pope, and when he reached Warrenton Junction, before taking part in the battle his corps numbered less than 8000 men and he had no wagons, artillery, horses or even mounts for the field officers and only about forty rounds of ammunition to the man. His corps oi^posed Jackson on Aug. 29, 1862, at Sudley Mountain near Groveton and on the 30th retreated over the stone bridge making the next stand at Chantilly, Sept. 1, 1862, and then fell back upon Washington. He commanded the department of Washington and the 22d corps during the Mary- land and Pennsylvania campaign, 1862-63, being relieved of his command in October, 1863. He commanded the northern department includ- ing the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan from January, 1864, to October, 1864, when he was placed upon court-martial duty. He was brevetted major-general in the regular army in March, 1865, and was mustered out of the volunteer service in August, 1865. In September he resumed command of his regiment and was stationed first in New York harbor and subse- quently in Texas. He was retired with the rank of colonel, Feb. 22, 1869, and on April 29, 1869, was placed upon the retired list by special act of congress with the full rank of major-general to date from his retirement. He died in Washing- ton. D.C., May 1. 1880.

HEISS, Michael, R.C. archbishop, was born in Pfahldorf, Bavaria, April 12, 1818. He was graduated at the gymnasium, Neuburg, Bavaria, in 1835 and pursued a philosophical and law course at the University of ^Munich, 1835-38, and theology at the seminary in Eichstadt, 1839-40. He was ordained a priest Oct. 18, 1840, before attaining the canonical age. Through the influ- ence of Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati, Ohio, then on a visit in Europe, he decided to make tlie United States his field of labor and reached New York, Dec. 17, 1842, and Cincinnati. Ohio, early in 1843. His first church was the Mother of God at Covington, Ky. In 1844, on thecon.secration of the Rev. John Martin Henni as the first bishop of Milwaukee, he was made the bishop's secretary and also engaged in missionary work in Wiscon- sin. He founded St. Mary's church in 1846 for the accommodation of the German poi)ula- tion of Milwaukee. This was the first parochial churcli in the city and the first house of worship built of brick, in the place. He visited Europe