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he was made prize commissioner and advocated the reopening of the U.S. courts and in January, 1864, purchased and conducted the Xftr Orleans True D>Un in the interest of emancipation. He was elected antl inaugurated tlie first free state governor of Louisiana March 4, 18«>4. and was rec- ognized hy the U.S. congress. He was appointed military governor by Presi- dent Lincoln March l.j. 1^64. Henr) F. Allen exerci.sed au- tiiority as governor over the portions of the state undei; Con- lederate control, and (rovernor Hahn con- tinued in office till January, 1865, when ,^ ■"' he was elected U.S. senator, and he re- signed the govern- orship, but did not press his claim to a seat in the senate, and B. F. Flanders was apix)inted military governor. In 1867 Hahn became editor of the Stw Orleans Jieptiblican and was made administra- tor of the charity hospital of New Orleans. In 1871 he removed to a sugar plantation in St. Charles parish where he founded the village of Hahnville. He was a representative in the state legislature. 1872-76; superintendent of the U.S. mint at New Orleans, 1878; U.S. district judge, 1879-85, and representative from the .second dis- trict in the 49th congress, 1885-86. He died in Wa.shington. DC, March 15, 1886.

MAID, Leo, R.C. bi.shop. was born in Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pa., July 15, 1849. He received his primary education at St. Vincent's college. Beatty. Westmoreland county, and pursued his theological course at St. Vin- cent's Abbey, where he entered as a novitiate, Oct. 5, 1872, and was ordained a priest, Dec. 21, 1872, by Bishop Domenec of Pittsburg. He was made chaplain and instructor of lay-brothers, and professor of theology. On July 14, 1885. he •was elected abbot of Mary Help abl)ey, Belmont, Ga.ston county. N.C., the election being confirmed by Rome. Aug. 30. 1885, and he also filled the chair of moral theology. He was consecrated as a mitred alibot, Nov. 26. 1885, by BLsliop Northrop of Charleston. He was app<^)inted vicar apostolic of North Carolina by brief dated, Dec. 7, 1887, and was consecrated at Baltimore, July 1, 1888, by Cardinal Gibbons, his title being Bishop of Messene. He erected St. Benedict's church and school for colored persons at Belmont and greatly extended the work of the church in North Caro- lina where Cardinal Gibbons first broke the

ground in 1868, on the erection of the vicariate- apostolic. He was elected praises of the Ameri- can Congregation. O.S.B., Aug. 19, 1890, and was re-elected in 189:3.

HAIGHT, Albert, jurist, was born in EUicott- ville, N.Y., Feb. 20, 1842; .son of Henrj-and Sarah (Sisson) Haight; grandson of Ambrose and Clar- inda (Laphan) Haight, and a descendant of Simon Haight. who came to America from Dorchester, England, in 1628. He was educated at Springville academy, N.Y., and was admitted to the bar in 1863. He held several local offices and was elected county judge of Erie county in 1872: jus- tice of the sujireme court of the 8th judicial dis- trict, 1876, for a term of fourteen years, and was re-elected in 1890. During his service in the su- preme court he was appointed successively asso- ciate justice of the general term of the supreme court for the 5th department by Governor Cleve- land in 1884, and associate judge of the second division of the court of appeals by Governor Hill in 1892. In 1894 he was elected to the office of associate judge of the court of appeals for a term of fourteen years.

HAIQHT, Benjamin Isaacs, clergyman, was born in New York city, Oct. 16, 1809. He was graduated from Columbia, A.B., 1828, A.M., 1831, and from the General theological seminary, B.D., 1831. He was ordained a deacon in the Protes- tant Episcopal church in 1831, and a priest in 1833 ; was rector of St. Peter's church. New York, 1831- 34; of St. Paul's, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1834-37, and of All Saints', New York city, 1837-46; was in- structor of pastoral theology and pulpit eloquence in the General seminary, 1837-39, and professor of the same, 1841-55; and assistant minister of Trinitj" church. New Y''ork city, 1855-77. He was. a delegate to the general conventions of 1868. 1871 and 1874, secretary of the New York convention for twenty years, and a member of the standing committee of the diocese of New York ten years. He served as a trustee of Columbia college, 1843- 79; and was elected bi.shop of the diocese of Massachusetts in 1872, but declined on account of ill health. He received the honorary degree of S.T.D. from Columbia in 1846. and that of LL.D. from Hobart in 1873. His son, Charles Coolidge, was graduated at Columl)ia in 1861, was a captaii* in tlie U.S. volunteers. 1861-65, l>ecame an archi- tect and designed the General theological semi- nary and Columbia university buildings. Dr. Haiglit died in New York nity. Feb. 21. 1879.

HAIGHT, Henry Huntley, governor of Cali- fornia, was born in Rochester. N.Y., May 20, 1825. son of Fletcher M. Haight, judge of the U.S. dis- trict court for the .southern district of California. 18.50-61. The son was graduated at Yale in 1844, and settled in St. Louis. Mo., where his father re- sided, and whare he was admitted to the bar in