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aided President Juarez in preventing French troops establishing posts on the frontier. He re- ceived for this service the thanks of Secretary Seward and from President Juarez an offer of a high command in the Mexican army. In March, ISO"), ho transferred his headtiuarters to Baton Rouge. La., as commander of the northern division of the state and co-operated with Gen- eral Canby in his movements against Mobile and subsequently against Gen. Richard Taylor. In May, 18G.'). he arranged a meeting with Generals Buckuer, Price and Brent at the mouth of the Red river, and negotiated the surrender of Gen. Kirby Smith's trans-Mississippi army, receiving the surrender of over GO. 000 men with their arms, artillery and war material under Gen. S. B. Buckner at Shreveport, La., May 26, 1865. In July, 186."5, he was appointed with General Har- ney and others a commissioner to negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes, and later in the same year he resigned his commission as major- general of volunteers and Indian commissioner and made his home in New York city. He re- ceived the congressional medal of honor for dis- tinguished gallantrj- at Pea Ridge, Ark., and be- came a member of the G. A. R. and of the Loyal Legion. He died in New York city, Jan. 8, 1902.

HERRON, George Davis, educator, was born InMoutezuini, lud.. Jan. 21, 1862; son of 'William and Isabella (Davis) Herron, and grandson of Joseph A. Herron, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was educated at Ripon college. Wis., and spent two years in Europe as a student. He was pastor of the Congregational church at Lake City, Minn., 1888-91; and of the 1st Congregational church at Burlington, Iowa, 1892-93, and became a noted teacher and lecturer upon relations of Christian- ity to existing social conditions. He was pro- fessor of applied Christianity at Iowa college, 189.3-1900. With Franklin H. Went worth he or- ganized the social crusade in Chicago in 1901, and established The Cinisader. He was a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He received the degree of D.D. from Tabor college, Iowa, in 1891. He lectured upon social problems throughout the United States, and is the author of: The Larger Christ (1891); The Call of the Cross (1892); The Neio Redemption (1893); A Plea for the Gospel {\S^2); Social Mean- ing of Religious Experiences (1896); The Chris- tian Society (1894); TJie Christian State (1895); Between Cresar and Jesus (1899), and contribu- tions U> perioilif-als.

HERSEY, Samuel Freeman, philanthropist, was born in Sumner, Elaine, April 22. 1812; son of James and Olive (Freeman) Hersey, and grand- son of James Hersey and of Samuel Freeman, both soldiers of thp Revolution. At the age of eighteen he began teaching during part of the

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school year, and in 1831 was graduated from Hebron academy. In 1832 he went to Bangor as a clerk in a store, and some years later, engaging in the lumber busi- ness, he made large investments in the northwest, meeting with great success. Between the years 1842 and 1869 he was five times a repre- sentative in the Maine legislature. He was a member of the gov- ernor's council, was a delegate to both the Republican national conventions which nominated Lincoln, and was a representa- tive in the 43d congress, 1873-75. He bequeathed to the city of Bangor the sum of §100,000 for its public library and also left bequests to Westbrook seminary, Deering, Maine, and other charitable objects. He died in Bangor. Maine, Feb. 3, 1875.

HERTZLER, Charles William, educator, was born in Burlington. Iowa. Feb. 22, 1867; son of John and Sophia (Fox) Hertzler. He attended the public schools and the business college at Burlington, Iowa; Iowa Wesleyan university and the German college at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and Baldwin university and German Wallace college at Berea, Ohio. He was grad- uated at German Wallace, A.B. in 1889. He studied at Berlin universitj^, 1892-93, and sub- sequently travelled through Egypt and the Holy Land. He was pastor at Peoria, 111., 1889-91; St. Louis, Mo., 1891-92, and at Jordan, Minn,, 1893-95; president of St. Paul's college, Minn., 1895-1900, and was elected professor of practical theology at the Nast Theological seminary at Berea, Ohio, in Jvme, 1900. He was married, Oct. 5, 1893, to Lillio May Zom.

HESLIN, Thomas, R.C. bishop, was born in the parish Kilhoo, county Longford, Ireland, in April, 1847. lie studied for the priesthood in his native country, and accepting a call from Arch- bishop Odin of New Orleans, La., he came to America in 1863 with a body of priests and stu- dents under charge of Bishop Dubois, landing in New Orleans. There he continued his studies in philosophy and theology at Bouligny seminary and taught at St. Mary's college, Jefferson, and at the Carrollton parish school until he received ordination as a priest at I\Iobile, Ala., by Bishop Quinlan, Sept. 18, 1869, on reaching can- onical age. He was attached to the arch-diocese of New Orleans and served as assistant priest at St. Louis cathedral, at St. Vincent de Paul's