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erate army iu 1861 and served as an aide to his uncle, Lt.-Geu. T. H. Holmes; asadjutant-general on the staff of Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew in the battle of Fair Oaks, or Seven Pines, Va.; and as acting assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Maj.-Gen. W. D. Pender in the seven days" fights around Richmond. In 186'J, wlien Gent:-.:1 Holmes was transferred to the command of the Trans- Mississippi department, Lieutenant Hinsdale was made his aide-de-camp and took part in t.ie battle of Helena, Ark., being subsequjatly made assist- ant inspector-general of tlio district of Arkansas. He commanded the T,\l North Carolina regiment (3d regiment of junior reserves) i:i the battles of Kinston and B>intonville. N.C.,:-ud surrendered with General Jolinston's army at High Point. N.C. He studied law at Columbia college, 1865-66, and began the practice of law at Raleigh, N.C, and for many years was attorney of the Seaboard Air Line raili-oad system iu North Car- olina. He also practised before the U.S. su- preme court in important cases, and was retained by the state in various tax suits. He is the author of an annotated edition of Winston's North Carolina Reports, and of the Xon-Suit Act, and Equity Reference Act. as adopted by the state legislature. He was married in 1869 to Ellen, daughter of Maj. John Devereux. chief quartermaster of North Carolina. 1861-6.'). and granddaugliter of the Hon. T. P. Devereux, a prominent Nortli Caiolinn lawyer.

HINSDALE, Robert Graham, educator, was born in New York city, Nov. 2, 1833. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 18o6, A.M., 1859, and was a tutor at the college, 1858. He was graduated at Nasliotah House, ,^ Nashotah, Wis., S.T.B.. 1860, I and was ox'daiiied deacon, J, 1866, and priest, 1867. He 5: '^ / 'J served as professor of chem-

istry at Racine college in 1806. On Sept. 6. 1876, lie assumed tiie presidency of Hi^bart college, as successor to William Stevens Perry, elected bishop of Iowa, and while serving as president also filled the Charles Startin chair of evidences of Christianity and the chair of Christian ethics. He resigned the presidency, July 1, 1883, and was elfcted professor of geology. He was obliged to seek a milder climate on account of threatened pulmonary troubles due to close attendance in the class room for thirty-one years, and he ac- cepted the rectorship of the Church of the Re- deemer, Biloxi, Miss., in 1883, and remained in charge of the church up to the time of his death. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Hobart in 1877. He died iu Biloxi, Miss., Jan. 9, 1889.

HINTENACH, Tobias (Abbot Andrew), R. C.

prelate, was born in SchoUbrunn, Baden, Ger- many, May 12, 1844. He was brought to the United States in 1846 and was educated at St. Vincent's college, Beatty, Westmoreland county, Pa., 1851-61. He joined the Benedictine order, July 11, 1801, as Brother Andrew, and was or- dained a priest, April 12, 1867, by Bishop Domenec, of Pittsburg. He was professor of classics in St. Vincent's college, 1861-78; master of novices in St. Vincent's arch-abbey, 1879-86; prior, 1876-81, and was elected abbot of St. Vincent's, Feb. 8, 1888. The election was confirmed at Rome, March 4, 1888, and he was blessed at St. Vincent's, July 5, 1888, by Bishop Phelan, of Pittsburg. He was made arcli-abbot iu Septem- ber, 1888. His resignation was accepted at Rome, May 25, 1892, and announced to the chajiter, June 14, 1893. He was made chaplain of the Benedictine convent of Mt. St. Scholastica's academy. Canon City, Col., in 1892.

HIRSCH, Emil Gustav, educator and rabbi, was born in the independent grand-duchy of Lux- emburg, ilay 22, 1852, son of the Rev. Samuel and Louise (Nickols) Hirsch, and grandson of Solomon and Sarah (Gottliebe) Hirsch, and of Henry and Bett}' (L'Arrouge) Nickols. He re- ceived an acadeiiiic education in Luxemburg, re- moved to America with his parents in 1866 and continued his preparatory education at the acad- emy of the Episcopal church in Philadelphia. He was graduated from the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1872. He returned to Europe to finish his education, was a student in the Univei.sity of Berlin, and at the high school for Jewish science in Berlin, 1872-76, and was graduated from the latter in 1878. He was rabbi in charge of the Har Sinai congregation at Baltimore, Md., 1877, of the Adath-Israel congregation at Louisville, Ky., 1878-80, and of the Sinai congregation at Chicago, 111., from 1880. He was a member and president of the public library board of Chicago, 1888-97. antl became professor of rabbinical liter- ature and philosophy in the University of Chicago in 1892. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Leipzig in 1876; that of LL.D. from Austin col- lege. 111., in 1896. and that of L.H.D. from West- ern University of Pennsylvania in 1900. He was a Republican presidential elector-at-large for Illinois in 1890; was editor of the Zeitgeist, ^VA- waukee. 1880-87; of the Reformer. New York. 1SS6, and of the Reform Adrocafe. Chicago, from

1891, and was instrumental in establishing the Jewish Manual Training school in Chicago in

1892, and in organizing the Congress of Religion, of which he was chosen vice-president. He became well known as an orator and as the autlior of various scholarly monographs on Biblical and religious subjects.