was a professor in Miami university at the time of her birth, and afterward became president of the seminary in Oxford. She was graduated at the seminary in 1852. the same year that Gen. Harrison took his degree at the university, and was married to him on 20 Oct., 1853. She is a musician, and is also devoted to painting, besides which she is a diligent reader, giving part of her time to literary clubs, of several of which she is a member. Mrs. Harrison is a manager of the orphan asylum in Indianapolis and a member of the Presbyterian church in that city, and until her removal to Wash- ington taught a class in Sunday-school. They have two children. The son, Russell, was graduated at Lafayette in 1877 as a mining engineer, and, in addition to other engineering work, has been con- nected with the U. S. mints at New Orleans and Helena as assayer. He is now a resident of Mon- tana, where he has a cattle-ranch, and is also en- gaged in journalism. The daughter, Mary, married Robert J. McKee, a merchant of Indianapolis.
HARTLEY, Robert Milham, philanthropist,
b. in Cockermouth, England, 17 Feb., 1796; d. in
New York city, 3 March, 1881. He was a nephew
of David Hartley (vol. iii., p. 104). He came to this
country in infancy and became a merchant in New
York city, but in 1829 he founded the New York
city temperance society, and in 1833-'42 held its
secretaryship. In 1842 he originated the New
York association for improving the condition of
the poor, remaining with it thirty-five years, and
issuing 34 octavo volumes of reports. Various
charitable institutions in New York had their
origin in him. Besides numerous contributions
to the press, he published " Historical, Scientific,
and Practical Essay on Milk " (New York, (1841),
and "Intemperance in Cities and Large Towns"
(1851). — His son, Isaac Smithson, clergyman, b.
in New York city, 27 Sept., 1830, was graduated
at New York university in 1852 and at Andover
theological seminary in 1856, and after extensive
travels became pastor of the Union Reformed
Dutch church, New York city, in 1863. Seven
years later he removed to Philadelphia to become
a pastor in that city, and in 1871 he accepted the
Eastorate of the Reformed church at Utiea, N. Y.
le received in 1873 from Rutgers the degree of
D. D., and the same year founded at that college
the Vedder lectureship on modern infidelity, and
published under its auspices " Prayer and its Rela-
tion to Modern Thought and Criticism " (New York,
1874). His other works are " History of the Re-
formed Church, Utica, N. Y. *» (1880); " Memorial
of Rev. Philip H. Fowler, D. D. " (New York, 1881) :
" Memorial of Robert Milham Hartley " (Utica,
1881); " Old Fort Schuyler in History " (1884); and
m The Twelve Gates," poems (Utica, 1887).
HASKELL, James Richards, inventor, b. in
Geneva, N. Y., 17 Sept., 1825. He was educated at
Richfield (Ohio) academy, and at the preparatory de-
partment of Western Reserve college. He was as-
sistant postmaster of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1849-'53,
and then engaged unsuccessfully in business in
New York. In 1854 he began a series of experi-
ments with steel breech-loading rifled cannon and
breech-loading small-arms, manufacturing twenty-
five of the former, which were purchased by the
Mexican government, and were the first of the de-
scription that were made in the United States. In
1855 he began experimenting with multicharge
guns in association with Azel S. Lyman, who first
conceived the idea of applying successive charges
of powder to accelerate the velocity of a projectile.
In 1885 congress appropriated funds in order to
test these guns, but the bureau of ordnance op-
Eosed such action. Mr. Haskell's experiments
ave cost more than $300,000, and the system is
now completed, so that the power of these guns
is more than doubled, and at the same time the
maximum pressure used is less than that in other
guns. In 1862, with Rafael Rafael, he invented
and constructed a machine gun for very rapid fir-
ing, but, notwithstanding a favorable report on it
by a board of army officers, the authorities refused
to adopt it. Mr. Haskell is a member of the Ameri-
can association for the advancement of science, and
has written several pamphlets on national arma-
ment and on ordnance problems.
HENDRIX, Eugene Russell, M. E. bishop,
b. in Fayette, Mo., 17 May, 1847. He was gradu-
ated at Wesleyan in 1867, and at Union theologi-
cal seminary, New York, in 1869, and after holding
several pastorates in the Methodist church, south,
became in 1878 president of Central college, Fay-
ette, Mo. In 1886 he was made a bishop. In 1878
he received the degree of D. D. from Emory col-
lege, Ga. Dr. Hendrix declined the vice-chancellor-
ship of Vanderbilt university in 1885, and also the
g residency of the University of Missouri. Bishop
[endrix was chairman of the committee to arrange
for the centennial celebration of organized Ameri-
can Methodism in behalf of the church, south, when
$2,000,000 were raised as a thank-offering. He was
a delegate to the oecumenical conference in London
in 1881 and to the centennial conference in Balti-
more in 1884, and a member of the general confer-
ences of 1882 and 1886. He made a missionary tour
of the world in 1876-7 with Bishop Marvin, of St.
Louis, and on his return published "Around the
World " (Nashville, Tenn., 1878). In 1876-'8 he was
an editor of the St. Louis " Christian Advocate."
HENNESSY, John Joseph, R. C. bishop, b.
near Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, 19 July, 1847.
He came to the United States in his youth, was
graduated at the College of the Christian Brothers,
St. Louis, Mo., in 1862, and pursued theological
studies in the Seminary of St. Francis de Sales,
Milwaukee, Wis. After his ordination he was rector
of Iron Mountain, Mo., in 1870-80, and then of the
cathedral of St. Louis. He was appointed bishop
of Wichita, Kan., on 28 Aug., 1888, and conse-
crated on 30 Nov.
HERBERT OF LEA, Elizabeth, Baroness,
philanthropist, b. in England about 1825. She is
the only daughter of Lieut.-Gen. Charles Ashe
A'Court", and niece of Lord Heytesbury, and on 12
Aug., 1846, married Sidney Herbert, second son of
the 11th Earl of Pembroke. Her husband was
created Baron Herbert of Lea, 15 Jan., 1861, held
for some time the secretaryship of state for war,
and died, 2 Aug., 1861. His elder brother died
childless, and Lady Herbert's eldest son, George
Robert Charles, succeeded to the earldom of Pem-
broke in 1862. Lady Herbert has passed many
years in the West Indies in philanthropic labors
among the negroes, and came to this country in
1888 to work among the colored people of the ,
south, seeking their conversion to Roman Catholi-
cism. She purposes to erect an orphanage in
Baltimore. — Her son, Michel Henry, b. 25 June,
1857, as attache of the British legation at Wash-
ington, became acting minister in November, 1888,
on the dismissal of Lord Sackville, and on the 27th
of that month married an American.
HILLERN, Bertha von, artist, b. in Treves, Germany, 4 Aug., 1857. She came to this country in 1877, and for two years devoted her time to ad-
vocating athletic exercises for women, appearing in public as a pedestrian. She then devoted herself to the study of art, which she has since pur-
