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 HENS HAW

HEPBURN

Progress (1835) ; Incitement to Moral and Intel- lectual Well-Dolng ( 1836} ; Around the World, by an Officer of the U.S. Navy (2 vols., 1840) : Life of Father Matheiv (1849) ; and United States Manual for Consuls (18^9). He died in Utica, N.Y., April 29, 1859.

HENSHAW, Marshall, educator, was born in Bethany, Pa., Oct. 3, 1820; son of Eli and Abigail (Sanford) Hensliaw, and grandson of Josiahand Sarah (Phipps)Hensliaw. His grand- father, an uncommissioned officer in the Revo- lution, served throughout the war in Washing- ton's army and participated in all the battles fought by that general. He was wounded in the battle of White Plains. After the war he settled at West Brookfield, Mass., and refused a pension from the government. Marshall Henshaw was graduated from Amherst college in 1845 and was a tutor there, 1847-49. He was principal of the academy at Derry, N.H., 1849-53 ; principal of the Byfield, Mass., academy, 1853-59; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy at Rutgers, 1859-63; principal of Williston seminary, East- hampton, Mass., 1863-76 ; and a lecturer on natural philosophy at Amherst, 1881-90. He gave up active work on account of defective hearing. His only son, Arthur Williston, was graduated from Lehigh university in the department of electrical engineering in 1894, and became con- nected with the General Electric company, Sche- nectady, N.Y. Marshall Henshaw received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of the City of New York in 1863 and that of D.D. from Amherst in 1872. He is the author of The Greek Verb (1860). Hediedat Amherst, Dec. 12,1900.

HENTZ, Caroline Lee (Whiting), author, was born in Lancaster, Mass., June 1, 1800 ; daughter of Gen. Jolin Whiting. She began to write stories and verses at a very early age. In 1824 slie was married to Nicholas Marcellus Hentz. In 1831 she won a prize of §500 for a tragedy en- titled De Lara, or the Moorish Bride, which was produced on the stage and subsequently j)ublished in book-form. She afterward wrote two other plays : Lamorah, or the Western Wild, and Con- stance of Werdenherg. Her published books include: Aunt Patty's Scrap-Bag (1846); Tlie Mob Cap (1848) ; Linda, or the Young Pilot of the Belle Creole (1850) ; Rena, or the Snow-Bird (1851) ; Marcus Warland, or the Long Moss Spring (1852) ; Wild Jack (1852) ; Helen and Arthur (1853) ; The Planter's Northern Bride (1854) ; Love after Marriage (1854) ; The Lost Daughter (1855); Robert Graham (1856), and Ernest Linwood {\8^iC)). She died in Marienna, Fla., Feb. 11, 1856.

HENTZ, Nicholas Marcellus, educator, was born in Versailles, France, July 25. 1797. He was educated in Paris and in 1816 removed to

the United States where he tauglit French and miniature painting in the principal eastern cities. He was married in 1824 to Caroline Lee, daugh- ter of Gen. John Whiting. He was a teacher in George Bancroft's Round Hill school at North- ampton, Mass., 1824-25, and held the chair of modern languages and belles-lettres in the Uni- versity of North Carolina, 1826-31, receiving from that institution the honorary degree of A.M. in 1830. In 1831 he removed to Covington, Ky., and thence in 1832 to Cincinnati, Ohio, where, with his wife, he conducted a private school for young women. They subsequently had charge of several schools in the southern states. He is the author of : Manual of French Phrases (1822) ; Classical French Reader (1825) ; Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale (1825); Arachnides, or Spiders of the United States, published by the Boston society of Natural history (1875). He died in Marienna, Fla., Nov. 4,1856.

HEPBURN, Andrew Dousa, educator, was born in Williamsport, Pa., Nov. 14, 1830. He was graduated from Jefferson college. Pa., in 1851, from the University of Virginia in 1854, and from Princeton Theological seminary in 1857. He was stated supply at Harrisonburg, Va., 1857-58 ; was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry, Oct. 22, 1858 ; was pastor at New Providence, Va., 1858-60 ; professor of rhetoric and logic in the University of North Carolina, 1860-67 ; professor of logic, rhetoric and the English language and literature, 1867-71, and of philosophy and literature, 1871-73, in Miami university ; president of the University of Ohio, 1871-73 ; president of mental philosophy and English literature in Davidson college, N. C, 1874-77; president of Davidson college, 1877-85; and professor of the English language and litera- ture in Miami university from 1885. He received f rom Hampden-Sidney the degree of D.D. in 1876, and from the University of North Carolina that of LL.D. in 1881. He is the author of Manual of Rhetoric.

HEPBURN, James Curtis, missionary, was born in Milton, Pa., March 13, 1815 ; son of Sam- uel and Ann (Clay) Hepburn ; grandson of James and Mary (Hopewell) Hepburn and of the Rev. Slator Clay ; and great-grandson of Samuel Hep- bvirn, who was born near Glasgow in 1698, fled to Donegal, Ireland, on account of religious per- secution and thence emigrated to America in 1773, arriving in Philadelphia and settling in Northumberland, Pa. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1832, A.M., 1835, and at the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1836, and practised medicine at Norristown, Pa. He was married to Clara Maria Leete, of Guilford, Conn. In 1840 he volunteered as a medical mis- sionary of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions and was sent to Siam. His destination