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and was editor of the Financial Neivs, 1881-82. He returned to the Tribune in 1882, and in Jan- uary, 1883, joined the editorial staff of the New York Times, becoming its musical critic in August, 1887. He is the author of several adap- tations for the stage, including Le Petit Due in collaboration with H. C. Bunner, for the Casino, and Bellinger's Lorraine for the Mc- CauU opera company; and of the following books: The Story of Music (1889); Preludes and Studies (1891); Sea Yarns for Boys (1893); Afloat u-ith the Flag (1894); Elements of Navigation (1895); Tlie Last Cruise of the Mohawk (1897); What is Good Music? (1898); How Music Developed (1898); The Orchestra and Orchestral 3/etsic (1899), and of numerous poems and short stories for the leading magazines.

HENDREN, John Newton, jurist, was born in Augusta county. Va., Aug. 3, 1822; son of the Rev. Dr. John and Elizabeth Eldredge (Rivers) Hendren. He was a student at the University of Virginia, 1839-41, and received from that institu- tion the degree of M.A. in 1841. He taught school for a time and then began the practice of law in Staunton. Va. He was judge of the county court of Augusta county, and in 1864-65 was treasurer of the Confederate States of America. He died near Staunton. Va.. March 5, 1898.

HENDRICKEN, Thomas Francis, R.C. bishop, was born in Chapel street, Kilkenny, Ireland, May 5, 1827; son of John and Anna (Maher) Hendricken. He was graduated in philosophy at St. Kyran's college, 1847, and in theology at the seminary at May- nooth in 1853. He was ordained to the priesthood by the Rt. Rev. Bernard O'Reil- ly, second bishop of Hartford, then on a visit to Ireland, at All Hallows college on Easter Monday , April 25, 1853, and that prelate induced Father Hendricken to make America his field for work instead

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disposed. He sailed for New York on an emi- grant ship in 1853 and on the voyage a con- tagions disease broke out among the steerage passengers. Contrary to the orders of the cap- tain, who feared a spread of the contagion. Father Hendricken ministered to the wants of the sick and dying and the captain ordered him bound and thrown overboard. The interference of the passengers saved his life. He was pastor

of St. Joseph's church, Winsted, Conn., 1854; of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Wa- terbury, 1855-72, and while there he built a costly Gotiiic church edifice, a school and a pastoral residence. He also laid out a beautiful cemetery, founded St. Michael's convent, opened a school free to children of all denominations, and was elected a member of the buard of education of the city. When the diocese of Providence. R.I., was set off from the see of Hartford in 1873, Father Hendricken was elected its first bishop and was consecrated at Providence, R.I., April 28, 1872, by Archbishop McCloskey, of New York. He removed a heavy debt from the Cathedral church, and built an episcopal residence and a new cathedral, among the finest in America. He doubled the working force of liis diocese and its churches and parishes, and during the twenty- four years of his ministry paid for church prop- erty over one million of dollars. He received the degree of D.D. from Pius IX. in 1868. He died in Providence, R.I., June 11, 1886.

HENDRICKS, Thomas Andrews, Vice-Presi- dent of the United States, was born on a farm in Muskingum county, Ohio, Sept. 7, 1819; son of Maj. John and Jane (Thomson) Hendricks, and a nephew of William Hendricks (q. v.). In the spring of 1822 his parents removed to Shelbj' county, Ind., and while a resident of that county his father was appointed by President Jackson deputy survej'or of public lands, and in 1832 took up a home- stead on the site of Shelbyville, Ind. Thomas was prepared for college at the Shel- by County seminary and entered Hanover college with the class of 1841. Absence dur- ing the last three ^^-y-^*^ jNd^^' months of his senior year prevented his obtain- ing a diploma with the class, but he was after- ward placed on the list of the alumni. He then studied law with Stephen Major in Shelbyville, 1842, and with his uncle. Judge Alexander Thom- son, at Gettysburg college, Chambersburg, Pa., 1843; was admitted to the bar at Shelbyville, Ind., in 1843, and practised there, 1843-50. He was married, Sept. 26, 1845, to Eliza C, daughter of the Hon. Isaac Morgan, of North Bend, and their only child, Morgan Hendricks, died in 1851 when three years old. In 1848 he was elected a Democratic representative in the state legislature, and he was a member of the state

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