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tributed her first article to a magazine. Her husband died in 1893. leaving lierwith two young sons. In collaboration with her mother she pre- pared a series of articles on housekeeping topics for a newspaper syndicate, and her first article entitled The ]Vastes of the Household was fol- lowed by others which soon gave her a reputation as a writer on domestic economy. She wrote the series entitled Cottage Dinners (1886), and All Round the Year with the Houjiewife (1887), in the Ladies' Home Joitnutl; My Housekeeping Diffi- culties (1885), in Table Talk; Seasonable Enter- tcinments (1889) and Housekeeping Made Easy (1887), in Demorest's Magazine; and Cradle and Nursery (1888), and Mlait to Eat and Hoio to Serve It (1895), in Harjier's Bazar. Several of these were published in book form, as were Liberal Living on Xarroiv Means (1800), and Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J. (1889). She was associate editor of the Home Maker, 1888- 90, and editor of the woman's page of the New York Recorder, 1891-92. and also collaborated with her mother, " Marion Harland," in The National Cook-Bnok (1897).

HERRICK, Clarence Luther, educator, was born in Minneapolis, Minn., June 21, 1858; son of Henry Natlian and Anna (Strickler) Herrick, and grandson of Nathan and Laura Roby (Small) Herrick. He was graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1880; studied at Leipzig and Berlin, 1881-82, and was instructor in botany at the University of Minnesota, and served on the geological survey of ^Minnesota, 1880-84. He was professor of natural history at Deuison university, 1884-89, and professor of biology at the University of Cincinnati, 1889-92, and at Denison university, 1892-97. He was elected president of the University of New Mexico in 1897. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1898. He was asso- ciate editor of the American Geologist, 1889-92; editor of the Bulletins of Denison University, 1885-89; associate editor of Baldwin's Dictionary of Philosophy, and became editor-in-chief of the Journal of Comparative Neurology in 1889. He is the author of: Mammals of Minnesota (1892); Entomostraca of Minnesota (1895); Waverly Group of Ohio, and about two hundred papers on neurological, geological and ijsychological subjects.

HERRICK, D. Cady, jurist, was born in Esper- ence, Sclioharie county, N.Y., in April, 1846; son of Jonatlian and Harriet (Deuel) Herrick, grandson of James Herrick, and a descendant of Henry Herrick, who settled in Salem, Mass., in 1629. His parents removed to Albany in 1852 and his early education was received in the com- mon schools of that city. Later he was sent to Anthony's Classical institute, thereafter entering

the law office of Lyman Tremain, and Rufus W. Peckham afterward justice of the supreme court of the United States, and subsequently became a student at the Albany- hiw school, where he was graduated in 1808 and admitted to the bar in the same year. He was the candidate of the Democratic party for district attorney of Albany county in 1877, but was defeated. He was elected to that office in 1880 and again in 1883. He was made a member of the Democratic state committee in 1885 to succeed Daniel Manning, who became secretary of the treasury of the United States. In 1884 he formed a law partner- ship with John A. Delehanty, which continued until 1891. In 1886 he was appointed corporation counsel of the city of Albany; in 1891 he was elected one of the judges of the supreme coui't of the state of New York, and in 1894 he was ap- pointed associate justice of the appellate division of the supreme court of the state of New York. His name was used several times in connection with the Democratic nomination for governor of New York.

HERRICK, Ebenezer, representative, was born in Lincoln county, Maine, Oct. 21, 1785; son of John and Lydia (Graffam) Herrick; grandson of Major Israel and Abigail (Kilham) Herrick; great-grandson of Benjamin and Lydia (Hay- wood) Herrick, and greats-grandson of Henry Herrick, who came to America from Leicester, England, in the 17th century. His father was for many j-^ears a representative in the Massa- chusetts legislature; his grandfather Herrick entered the army as a lieutenant in 1745; served in nineteen campaigns in the French and Indian war; left the army in 1703 as brevet major; served in the Revolution, fighting at the battle of Bunker Hill, and resigned his major's com- mission when the army removed from Cam- bridge. Ebenezer Herrick received a public school education; was a member of the conven- tion which framed the constitution of the state of Maine, 1820; secretary of the state senate in 1821; a representative in the 17th, 18th and 19th congresses, 1821-27, declining re-election; and a member of the state senate, 1828 and 1829. He was married to Hannah, daughter of Hugh Mol- loy. He died in Lewiston. Maine, May 7, 1839.

HERRICK, Edward Claudius, scientist, was born in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 24, 1811; son of the Rev. Claudius and Hannah (Pierpont) Her- rick. His father was born in 1775 in Southamp- ton, L.I., N.Y., where his ancestors for four generations had lived; was graduated at Yale in 1798, was pastor of the Congregational cliurch in Woodbridge, Conn., and finally opened a school for young ladies at New Haven, Conn., which he conducted successfully imtil his death in 1831. Hannah (Pierpont) Herrick was a descendant of