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 HEPBURN

HERBERT

being cliangeil to Cliina, lie remained in Singa- pore until tlif enil of the '" opium war " in 1843. He then went to China, where he worked in Amoy, 1843-46. He practised in New York city, 1846-59, and then went to Yokohama, Japan, where he labored, 1859-92. In addition to his medical missionary work lie assisted in the trans- lation of the Holy Scriptures, made a Japanese- English and English-Japanese lexicon which passed through three editions and became the basis of all other similar works ; translated and publislied several Ciiristian tracts and hymns, and the Confession of Faith of the Presbyterian Church, and in 1892 published a Japanese dic- tionary of the Bible. Lafayette college conferred on him the lionorary degree of LL.D. in 1868.

HEPBURN, William Peters, representative, was born in Wcllsville. Ohio, Nov. 4, 1833 ; son of Lieut. James Sc-hmidt (U.S.A.) and Ann Fair- fax (Catlett) Hepburn, grandson of James and Frances (Lynch) Hepburn and of Dr. Hanson (surgeon, U.S.A.) and Minerva (Lyon) Catlett; great-grandson of Matthew and Beulali (Chitten- den) Lyon ; and great--grandson of Thomas Chit- tenden, first governor of Vermont (q.v.). He was taken to Iowa Territory in April, 1841, was edu- cated in the public schools there, and received a practical training in a printing office. He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and practised in Iowa. He served in the U.S. army as captain, major and lieutenant-colonel of the 2d Iowa cavalry, 1861-65. He was a delegate to the Re- publican national conventions of 1860, 1888 and 1896 ; a presidential elector in 1876 and 1888 ; and a representative from Iowa in the 47th. 48th and 49th congresses, 1881-87, and in the 53d, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57tli, 58th congresses. 1893-1905. He was solicitor of the treasury during the Harrison administration. He was chairman of the com- mittee on interstate and foreign commerce in the 55th and 56th congresses, and when the Hay- Pauncefote treaty was submitted to congress he was against its ratification on the ground that it was an abandonment of the Monroe doctrine and suneinlered everytliing to Great Britain.

HEPWORTH, George Hughes, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 4, 1833 ; son of George and Charlotte (Touzeau)Hepworth. He was pre- pared for college at the Boston Latin .school and was graduated from Harvard Theological semi- nary in 1855. He was ordained a Unitarian min- ister and was i)astor of the Unitarian church at Nantucket, Mass., 1855-57 ; of the Church of the Unity, Boston, 18.58-70, excepting the years 1862- 63, when he was chaplain in the U.S. army and lieutenant on the staff of Gen. N. P. Banks in the Department of the Gulf ; and of the Church of the Messiah, New York city, 1870-72. In 1872 he announced himself a believer in the doctrines of

the Trinitarian Congregational church and or- ganized anew society called the Church of the Disciples in New York city, where he preached until Feb. 14, 1879. He was pastor of the Belle- ville Avenue Congregational church, Newark, N.J., 1882-85, and in the latter year became an editor of the New York Herald. He was sent by that paper to Asia Minor to investigate the Ar- menian massacres, and on his return resumed his duties as associate editor. His published works include : IMtijy, Sword and Hoe (1864) ; Rocks and Shoals (1870) ; Lectures to Young Men (1870); Star- board and Port (1876) ; Tliree Exclamation Points (1885); Hiram Golfs Religion (1894); Through Armenia on Horseback (1898) ; Tlie Life Beyond; TVie Farmer and the Lord ; Brou-n Studies. Herald Sermons. He died in New York city. June 7, 1902.

HERBERMANN, Charles George, educator, was born near Munster, Westplialia. Dec. 8, 1840. He removed to the United States in 1850 and in 1858 was graduated from the College of St. Fran- cis Xavier, New York city. He remained there as a teacher until 1869, when he accepted the chair of the Latin language and literature in the College of the City of New York, holding also the position of librarian from 1873. St. Francis Xavier conferred upon him the degrees of Ph.D. in 1866 and LL.D. in 1884. His published works include: Business Life in Ancient Rome (1880); Sallusfs Jugurtha (edited, 1886); and Sallust's Bellum Catilince. (edited, 1890). He is also the au- thor of a series of papers on Education in Egypt ; Assyria and Babylonia, and Ancient Greece, in the American Catholic Quarterly Revieio ; and in 1897 he became the editor of Historical Records and Studies, published by the Catholic Historical society of New York.

HERBERT, Henry William, author, was born in London, England, April 3, 1807; son of the Rev. "William Herbert, a cousin of the Earl of Carnarvon. He was graduated at Cambridge in 1830, an honor man. He became impoverished through the dishonesty of a trustee, and emi- grated to America, where he taught in private schools in New York and vicinity, 1831-40. He also engaged in literary pursuits, but found little market for his productions. Tliis induced him to establish the .flHier/ea?i Monthly Magazine, of which Charles Fenno Hoffman subsequently be- came editor. He was deterred from studying law as he was not willing to renounce his alle- giance to England. He wrote numerous papers on sporting umler the pen-name " Frank For- ester." He made his home at "The Cedars," on the Passaic river near Belleville, N.J. His wife died in 1846 and he lived alone, surrounded by his dogs, for many years. In 1858 he was mar- ried a second time and after three months his wife, having heard rejiorts of his former dis-