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HERRESHOFF, Julian Lewis, educator, was born ill Bristol. K. I., July 09. lS.-)4; son of Ciiarles Frederick and Julia Ann (Lewis) Herreshoff. He was a student of Berlin university, Germany, and studied music under Franz KuUak in Berlin. He became well known a", a musician, and as a linguist, and in 1888 opened and became princi- pal of a successful school of languages and music in Providence, R.I. He was married, Sept. 11, 1879, to Ellen F., daughter of James M. Taft, of Pawtucket. R.L

HERRESHOFF, Nathanael Greene, naval ar- chitect, was born in Bristol, R.L, March 18, 1848; son of Charles Frederick and Julia Ann (Lewis) Herreshoff. He became a skilful sailor of small craft and pursued mechanical studies, in the direction of designing and building boats. He took a special course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, and in 1869 be- came connected with the Corliss Steam Engine company of Providence. At the j'^- i^' -^ same time he designed

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steam yachts for the - Herreshoff company. One of his first yachts, the Riviera, was built at Nice, France, in 1874, and helped to establish the reputation of the Herreshoffs as buil- ders of fast yachts. In 1875 he procured a pat- ent for a jointed boat, or catamaran, which soon became very popular and attained the highest speed under sail of anything on rec- ord. He assisted in designing, building and set- ting vip the Corliss engine that moved all the machinery in the Centennial exhibition buildings at Philadelphia in 187G. In 1879 he joined the Herreshoff Manufacturing company at Bristol and continued as designer of yachts and engines, adding to his duties those of superintendent of the company's works. In 1890 he designed the Pelican and in 1891 the Gloriana for E. D. Morgan; in 1892 the Dilemma and the WasjJ for Archi- bald Rogers; in 1893 the Navaho for Royal Phelps Carroll, the Vigilant a^nd the Colonia; in 1895 the Defender, and in 1899 the Columbia. Among the vessels designed by him and not be- fore mentioned are the fast steam j'achts Stiletto, Noiv Then, Say Mlien, Henrietta, Ballymena, Javelin and Vamose, and the torpedo boats Cush- ing, Porter, Dupont and Morris. Mr. Herreshoff was married in 1883 to Clara Anna, daughter of A. Sidney De Wolf, of Bristol.

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HERRICK, Anson, representative, was born in Lewiston, Maine, Jan. 21, 1812; son of Ebenezer and Hannah (Molloy) Herrick, and grandson of John and Lydia ((iraffain) Herrick and of Hugh Molloy. He attended the pviblic schools, served an apprenticeship to a printer and in 1833 estab- lished the Citizen at Wiscasset, Maine. He sub- sequently published papers at Hallowell and Bangor, but failed in the financial panic which prostrated the business of the latter town. He removed to New York in 1836 and worked as a journeyman printer until 1838, when he estab- lished the New York Atlas, a weekly newspaper, which he edited until his death. He was an alderman of New York city, 1854-56; naval store- keeper of the port of New York, 1857-61; a rep- resentative in the 38th congress, 1863-65! and was one of tiie few Democrats in the house who voted for the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery and thus secured its submission to the states. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia National Union convention of 1866. He was mar- ried to Lydia Wood, of Wiscasset, Maine, and their son, Carleton Moses Herrick (born in New York, Nov. 4, 1836) was graduated from Colum- bia, A.B., 1854, A.M., 1857, and LL.B., 1861; suc- ceeded his father as editor and part proi:)rietor of the New York Atlas; later removed to Paterson, N.J., and edited and published the dail}^ and weekly Guardian, which he transferred to a stock com pan yinl899. Anotherson, Anson, born Dec. 26, 1838, Avas associated with his brother Carleton Moses on the Atlas and the Guardian, and died at Paterson, N.J., June 15, 1878. Anson Herrick, Sr., died in New York city, Feb. 6, 1868.

HERRICK, Christine Terhune, author, was born in Newark, N.J., June 13, 1859; daughter of the Rev. Edward Payson and Mary Vir- ginia (Hawes) Terhune; granddaughter of Judge John and Esther (Letson) Terhune, of New Brunswick, N.J., and of S. P. and Judith (Smith) Hawes, of Richmond, Va., and a de- scendant of Robert and Ann Pierce, who came from England and landed in Massachusetts in 1630, and of Albertje and Christiantje Ter- hune, who came from Holland and landed at Gravesend in 1647. She was educated under the supervision of her mother, "Marion Harland," and was thoroughly ti'ained in English literature, philology and Anglo-Saxon by private teachers. She visited Europe with her parents in 1876. and spent two years there acquiring a knowledge of foreign languages and other branches. On her return she resided in Springfield, Mass.. pursued a course of study, and for a time instructed a class in a private school for girls. She was mar- ried, April 23, 1884. to James Frederick Herrick, a member of the editorial staff of the Springfield Republican, and shortly after her marriage con-