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fornia to "Washington. He was appointed post- master of San Francisco in lii')2, and in 18."j3 was made superintendent of Intlian affairs, holding the position during the administrations of Presi- dents Pierce and Buchanan, 1853-61. He estab- lished several new reservations, and although his administi'ation of Indian affairs was seA^erel}' crit- icised no charges against him were substantiated. During the civil war he took no part in public affairs except to canvass the state for McClellau in 1864. He was again a ]nesidential elector in 1868, voting for Horatio Seymour. He died on liis farm in Mendocino county, Cal., in 1875.

HENN, Bernhart, representative, was born in New York in 1817. His mother was Anna Hud- son, a descendant of Henry Hudson. He was appointed register of the U.S. land office at Fair- field in the newly-organized state of Iowa by President Polk in 18-15, and was a representative from that state in the 32d and 33d congresses, 1851-55, and as a member of the liomestead com- mittee made a notable speech on the Homestead bill, giving free homes to actual settlers. On re- tiring from congress he engaged as a banker and dealer in real estate in Fairfield, Iowa. He was married in 1842 at Burlington, Iowa, to Elizabeth Price, who was a granddaughter of Dr. Ealer, of Baltimore, Md. She was a founder of the Jeffer- son County library at Fairfield, Iowa, in 1853. Mr. Henn was a contributor to the Spirit of the Times. He died in Fairfield, Iowa, in 1865,

HENNESSY, John, R.C. archbishop, was born in county Limerick, Ireland, Aug. 20, 1825. He came to America in 1847 and settled in I\Iis- souri. He was educated at Carondelet seminaiy, where he pursued the study of theology, and was ordained a priest in St. Louis, Mo., by Archbishop Kenrick, Nov. 1, 1850. He began his labors at New Madrid, Mo., where his mis- sion embraced 6000 miles of territory on which no railroad had yet been built. He was pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, New Madrid, Mo., from January to April, 1851; of St. Patrick's mission church. Gravies, attached to St. Vincent's church, Sedalia, Mo., 1851-54; was vice-president and professor of dogmatic theology and Holy Scripture in St. Mary's seminary, Perryville, Mo., 1854-57, and was made president of that in- stitution in 1857. He went to Rome as represent- ative of Archbishop Kenrick in 1858; was attached to the cathedral of St. Louis, 1859-60, and pastor of St. Joseph's church, St. Joseph, Mo., 1860-66. He was elected bishop of Dubuque April 24, 1866, as successor to Bishop Clement Smyth, deceased, and was consecrated Sept. 30, 1866, by Archbishop Kenrick, assisted by Bishops Henni and Duggan. He founded Mer- cy hospital, Davenport, Iowa, in 1869, and

placed it under the charge of the Sisters of Mer- cy in 1873, and founded St. Joseph's, after- ward St. Ambrose, seminary for the education of Catholic youths, and the same year St. Ma- lachy's Benedictine priory, Creston, Iowa, the first English-speaking community of Benedic- tines in the United States. The diocese of Daven- port was set off from the diocese of Dubuque in 1881. He celebrated the silver jubilee of his consecration as bishop in 1891, and was raised to the archiepiscopal dignity Sept. 17, 1893, Mon- signor Satolli, papal ablegate, and Cardinal Gib- bous, conducting the ceremony. All the American archbishops except one, nearly all the bishops, about four hundred priests and hundreds of prominent Catholic laymen were present. His brief was dated Rome, April, 1893, and his see was made an archdiocese and included the dioceses of Davenport, Cheyenne, Omaha and Lincoln. He was recognized as an able orator and profound theologian, and his zeal in educational matters gained for him the name of " Apostle of the American Catholic Educational Schools." His crowning work was the founding of St. Joseph's college, Dubuque, Iowa, established Sept. 1, 1873, and designed not only for ecclesiastical students but also for those aspiring to any of the other learned professions. He saw the Catholic church in Iowa increase to over 250,000 membership. He died in Dubuque, Iowa, March 4, 1900.

HENNESSY, John Joseph, R.C. bishop, was born at Lady's Bridge, county Cork, Ireland, July 19, 1847. He was brought to America by his parents when three years of age and they settled in St. Louis, Mo. He was graduated at the Chris- tian Brothers college, St. Louis, in 1802; took his theological course at the Sale- sianum, Milwaukee, and his philosophical course at St. Vin- cent's, Cape Girar- deau, and in 1866 he returned to the Sale- sianum. On Nov. 28, 1869, by special ili- pensation, being un der canonical age, he was ordained a priest. His first mission was ten counties in Mis- souri with headquarters at Iron Mountain. He built several churches and in 1887 the convent at Arcadia under charge of the Ursuline Sisters, St. Louis, Mo. In 1878 he was appointed pro- curator and vice-president of the board of man- agers of the St. Louis Catholic protectorate, and in February, 1888, he succeeded the Rt. Rev. P.

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