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 IIENNIXCSEN

HENRY

sianuni, Milwaukee, 1854-o.j, and made Father (afterward Archbishop) Heiss its first president. The Catholic population of Wisconsin had in- creased to 300,000 in 1868 and the dioceses of La Crosse and Green Bay were created out of the northern part of the state. In 1875 Milwaukee was erected into an archbishopric and Bishop Henni was raised to the archiepiscopal dignity. He received the pallium in July. His iiealth be- gan to fail but he continued his laborious visita- tions through 1879, and on March 14, 1880, was given as coadjutor the Rt. Rev. Michael Heiss, who became his successor. Archbishop Henni died in Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 7, 1881.

HENNINQSEN, Charles Frederick, soldier, was born in England in 181.J. His parents were natives of Sweden. He became a soldier of for- tune, serving in the Carlist army in Spain in 1834, gaining the ranks of lieutenant-colonel and subse- quently colonel and commander of cavalry. He was taken prisoner and released on parole. He then served in the Russian army in Circassia, and later joined Kossuth in the Hungarian revolu- tion. He was sent to America in the interests of Kossuth, and in 1856 joined William Walker in Nicaragua. He was made brigadier-general, commanded the artillery and distinguished him- self at Grenada and Queresma and took part in the negotiations which resulted in President Walk- er's surrender to Commodore Charles H. Davis, U.S.N., May 1, 1857. He entered the Confederate army in 1861 as colonel and was made brigadier- general in the artillery service. He superin- tended the manufacture of the first Minie rifles made in the United States. He published: Reve- lations of Russia (1845); The Most Striking Events of a Ticelve-months' Campaicjn ivith Zu- Toalacarregui in Navarre and the Basque Prov- inces {2 vols., 1836); The miite Slave (a novel); Eastern Europe and Emperor Nicholas (2d ed., 1846); Sixty Years Hence (a novel of Russian life); Past and Future of Hungary (1853); Anal- ogies and Contrasts; Personal Recollections of Nicaragua, and other works published in England. He died in Washington, D.C., June 14, 1877.

HENRY, Alexander, trader, was born in New Brunswick, N.J., in 1739. He joined the army of Sir Jeffrey Amherst in 1760 in its expedition against Montreal and was present at the surren- der of that place. This opened a new market and Henrj' became a fur-trader. In 1761 he went to Fort Mackinaw as a trading-post and won the friendsiiip of Wawatam, a CJiippewa Indian, who adopted him as a brother and who saved his life in the Indian massacre which occurred at the post June 4, 1763. Henry thereafter lived with the Indians, wearing their dress and speaking their language. In June, 1764, he went to Fort Niagara, where he commanded an Indian battal-

ion and accompanied Bradstreet to Detroit. After that city had been reinforced and Pontiac had retired to the borders of the Maumee river, Henry re-engaged in the fur trade and extended his travels to the Rocky mountains. In 1770 he induced the Duke of Gloucester, Sir William Johnson, Henry Bostwick and others, to form a company to work the copper mines of Lake Su- perior, but it was done in a half-hearted way, and in 1774 the company was dissolved. In company with David Thompson lie organized the North- west company, and while lie was the fur-trader and business manager, Thompson was the oflScial geographer and explorer. They extended their journeys to the Pacific ocean, 1799-1814, and in- cluded the Red River of the North, the heart of the Rocky mountains, and the Columbia river. He resided at Astoria or Fort George and from that post traded in all directions. He published: Travels and Adventures in Canada and the In- dian Territories betiveen the Years 17G0 and 1776 (1809), and left manuscript journals which Dr. Elliott Coues used as the basis of his Neio Lights on the Early History of the Greater Northtcest (3 vols., 1897). He was drowned in going from Fort George to the Isaac Todd, May 23, 1814.

HENRY, Caleb Sprague, author, was born in Rutland, Mass., Aug. 3. 1804; son of Silas and Phoebe (Pierce) Henrj'. He was graduated at Dart- mouth in 1825, and studied theology at Andover Theological seminary and in New Haven, Conn. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Jan. 31, 1829; was pastor at Greenfield, Mass., 1829-31, and at West Hartford, Conn., 1833- 35. He then entered the Protestant Epis- copal church and was ordained a deacon, June 28, 1835, and a priest, Nov. 27, 1836. He held the chair of moral and natural philosophy in Bristol college. Pa., 1835-38. He was married in March, 1838, to Cornelia M., daughter of James Heard. He was professor of moral and intellectual philosopiiy in the Uni- versity of the City of New York. 1838-39; of in- tellectual philosophy and belles lettres, 1839- 40; and of intellectual philosophy, belles let- tres and Iiistory, 1840-52. In 1837 he founded, with Dr. Francis L. Hawks, the New York Re- view, and conducted it until 1840. He was rector of St. Clement's church. New York city, 1847-50, during which time and up to 1877 he was a frequent