memorable mass reform meeting held at Cooper institute, 4 Sept., 1871, and his speech on that occasion was one of the most fearless and outspoken of any in its denunciation of the official thieves. The meeting was composed of business and professional men who usually took no part in politics. In the autumn of 1872 he was nominated for mayor as representing the reform movement, and elected by a small majority. He assumed office, 1 Jan., 1873, and at his death had a month more to serve. His third term was not successful. The greater part of his time was spent in unseemly wrangles with the aldermen and other city officers; several of his appointments were injudicious, and an application was made to the governor for his removal from office, a step which the executive declined to take. Still, there was no doubt of his integrity. — His son, Henry, b. in New York city, 25 July, 1838; d. near Babylon, L. I., 2 June, 1886, was the fourth of six sons. He became a member of the family sugar-refining firm, which controlled more than half the entire sugar interest of the country. He was also engaged in the tobacco commerce. Although only forty-eight years of age at the time of his death, Mr. Havemeyer had long been a prominent Democrat and intimately associated with Samuel J. Tilden, and was appointed with him as a New York commissioner to the Centennial exhibition. He was at one time president of the Long Island railway, and built the iron pier at Rockaway. He was exceedingly popular, and often gave eccentric banquets at Oak island, off the Long Island coast, which he had purchased for that special purpose. Most of the latter years of his life were spent abroad.
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HAVEN, Alice Bradley, author, b. in Hudson, N. Y., 13 Sept., 1828; d. in Mamaroneck, N. Y., 23 Aug., 1863. Her maiden name was Emily Bradley, and while attending school she sent, under the pen-name of “Alice G. Lee,” many sketches to the Philadelphia “Saturday Gazette.” In 1846 she married its editor, Joseph C. Neal, and at his request assumed and retained the name of Alice, and wrote under the pen-name of “Cousin Alice.” On her husband's death in 1847 she took editorial charge of the “Gazette,” and conducted it for several years, contributing at the same time poems, sketches, and tales to other magazines. In 1853 she married Samuel L. Haven. Her books include “The Gossips of Rivertown, with Sketches in Prose and Verse” (1850); “Helen Morton”; “Pictures from the Bible”; “No Such Word as Fail”; “Patient Waiting no Loss”; “Contentment Better than Wealth”; “All's not Gold that Glitters”; “Out of Debt, Out of Danger”; “The Coopers”; and “The Good Report: Lessons for Lent” (New York, 1867). Parts of her private diary were published under the title of “Cousin Alice: a Memoir of Alice B. Haven” (New York, 1865).
HAYEN, Erastus Otis, M. E. bishop, b. in Boston, Mass., 1 Nov., 1820 ; d. in Salem, Oregon, in August, 1881. He was graduated at Wesleyan
university in 1842, and afterward had charge of a private academy at Sudbury, Mass., at the same time pursuing a course of theological and general
study. He became principal of Amenia seminary, N. Y., in 1846, and in 1848 entered the Meth- odist ministry in the New York conference. Five
years later he accepted the professorship of Latin in Michigan university, which he exchanged the next year for the chair of English language, literature, and history. He resigned in 1856, and returned to Boston, where he was editor of "Zion's Herald" for seven years, during which period he
served two terms in the state senate, and a part of the time was an overseer of Harvard university. In 1863 he was called to the presidency of Michigan
university, which place he occupied for six years.
He then became president of Northwestern uni-
versity, Evanston, 111., and in 1872 was chosen
secretary of the board of education of the Methodist
Episcopal church, which place he resigned in 1874
to become chancellor of Syracuse university, N. Y.
In May, 1880, he was elected and ordained a bishop.
Bishop Haven was a man of great versatility of
talent. As a preacher he was able and earnest — didactic and hortatory rather than oratorical ; he was judicious and successful as an administrator,
but wearied among the details of preceptoral duties. His religious convictions were positive and controlling in all his life, and while ardently devoted to his own denomination, he was also broadly and generously catholic toward all other Christian bodies. He was given the degree of D. D. by Union
college in 1854, and a few years later that of LL.D. by Ohio Wesleyan university. He served five times in the general conference, and in 1879 visited Great Britain as delegate of the Methodist Episcopal church to the parent Wesleyan body. He wrote largely for the periodical press, and also published "American Progress"; "The Young Man Advised," made up from discourses delivered in the chapel of Michigan university (New York,
1855): "Pillars of Truth," a work on the evidences of Christianitv (1866) ; and a treatise on " Rhetoric."
HAYEN, Gilbert, M. E. bishop, b. in Maiden, Mass*., 19 Sept., 1821 ; d. there, 30 Jan., 1880. He united with the Methodist Episcopal church in his nineteenth year, became a student in Wesleyan university, and was graduated in 1846. Soon afterward he was employed as a teacher in Amenia seminary, N. Y., and while there was licensed to preach. Two years later he was chosen principal of the institution as successor to his kinsman, Rev. E. 0. Haven. In 1851 he became a member of the New England conference, and entered upon the regular work of the ministry, and for the next nine years served as pastor of churches in Massachusetts. At the beginning of the civil war he was for part of the year 1861 chaplain of one of the Massachusetts regiments, but the state of his health soon compelled him to resign. In 1862 he travelled in western Europe, Palestine, Egypt, and Greece. After his return, having partially recovered his health, he resumed his ministerial work in Boston, and in 1867 was chosen to the editorship of " Zion's Herald," a weekly paper. In May, 1872, at the general conference held in Brooklyn, he was elected and ordained bishop. He had his official residence at Atlanta, Ga., but travelled through all parts of the country in the discharge of his duties. He visited Mexico in 1873 and 1876, and Liberia in 1877, superintending and setting in order the missions in those countries. He was also actively interested in the educational work of his church, especially among the freedmen of the south, and Clark university, at Atlanta, was largely indebted for its prosperity to his wise counsels and
