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HAVEN
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liberal gifts. Bishop Haven was an able writer, a zealous reformer, an earnest preacher, and an inde- fatigable laborer. He was a delegate in the gen- eral conference of 1868, and in that of 1872. He steadfastly declined all honorary collegiate de- grees. Besides his abundant writings in news- papers, magazines, and reviews, he published " The Pilgrim's Wallet, or Sketches of Travel in Eng- land, France, and Germany " ; " National Ser- mons " ; " Life of Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher " (New York, 1871) ; and " Our Next-Door Neighbor, or a Winter in Mexico " (1875).


HAVEN, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Dennis, Mass., 4 Jan., 1816 ; d. in Chicago, 111., 23 May, 1874. His parents removed to Amherst, Mass., and he was graduated at the college in 1835. For two years he taught in the New York deaf and dumb institution, studying at the same time in Union theological seminary. He was graduated at the Andover seminary in 1839, and ordained pas- tor of the Congregational church in Ashland, Mass., where he remained until 1846. He then ac- cepted a call to the Harvard church, Brookline, Mass., and held this charge until 1850, editing at the same time " The Congregationalist." He was professor of mental and moral philosophy in Am- herst from 1850 till 1858, and of systematic the- ology in the Chicago theological seminary from 1858 till 1870, when he resigned on account of failing health. He then visited Germany, Pales- tine, and Egypt, after which he devoted himself to preaching and lecturing upon ancient and mod- ern philosophy and the English classics. In 1873 he became acting professor of mental and moral philosophy in the Chicago university, which office he held until his death. He was a close student, remarkable for the extent and thoroughness of his scholarship. He received the degree of D. D. from Marietta in 1859 and Amherst in 1862, and that of LL. D. from Kenyon in the latter year. He published "Mental Philosophy" (Boston, 1857); " Moral Philosophy " (1859) ; " Studies in Philoso- phy and Theology " (Andover, 1869) ; and a work on "Systematic Divinity," which was completed a few weeks before his death (Boston, 1875).


HAVEN, Samuel, clergyman, b. in Framing- ham, Mass., 15 Aug., 1727; d. 3 March, 1806. He was a descendant of Richard Haven, who settled in Lynn, Mass., in 1636. Samuel was graduated at Harvard in 1749, and after studying theology with Rev. Ebenezer Parkman, of Westborough, was ordained in 1752 pastor of the 1st Congrega- tional church in Portsmouth, N. H., which charge he held until 1806. He received the degree of D. D. from Edinburgh in 1770, and from Dart- mouth in 1773. Among his printed sermons are on the " Death of George II. " (1761) ; on the "Restoration of Peace" (1763); "The Dudleian Lecture " (Cambridge, 1798) ; and a " Discourse " on the ordination of his colleague, Rev. Timothy Alden (1800). — His grandson, Nathaniel Apple- ton, lawyer and author, b. in Portsmouth, N. H., 14 Jan., 1790; d. there, 3 June, 1826, was gradu- ated at Harvard in 1807, studied law, and settled in Portsmouth. From 1821 till 1825 he edited the " Portsmouth Journal." He delivered an oration at Plymouth, 4 July, 1814, a Phi Beta Kappa ora- tion at Dartmouth in 1816, and one at Plymouth at the second centennial celebration of the landing of the first settlers. He also wrote several poems and contributed to the " North American Review." A volume of his writings was published, with a me- moir, by George Ticknor (1827). — Another grand- son, Samuel Forster, archaeologist, b. in Dedham, Mass., 28 May, 1806; d. in Worcester, Mass., 5 Sept., 1881, was graduated at Amherst in 1826. He studied law at the Harvard law-school, and practised his profession in Dedham and in Lowell. For many years he served as librarian of the American antiquarian society, Worcester, Mass., in whose " proceedings " he published many reports and papers from 1850 till 1881. He was the au- thor of several addresses, including a " Centennial Address," delivered at Dedham, 21 Sept., 1836; " Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay to the Embarkation of Winthrop and his As- sociates for New England " (1850) ; " Remarks on the Popham Celebration " (1865) ; and " History of Grants under the Great Council for New England " (1869). He published " Archaeology of the United States," printed by the Smithsonian institution (Washington, 1855), and a new edition of Thomas's " History of Printing in America " (Albany, 1874).


HAVEN, Solomon George, lawyer, b. in Che- nango county, N. Y., 27 Nov., 1810 ; d. in Buffalo, N. Y., 24 Dec, 1861. His early life was spent in working on his father's farm. He obtained a good common -school education, studied the classics under a private tutor, and began a course in medi- cine. This was soon abandoned for the law, and at the age of eighteen years he entered the office of Gov. John Young, of Geneseo, teaching during the winter months to gain the necessary funds. In 1835 Mr. Haven removed to Buffalo, and completed his studies in the office of Fillmore and Hall. In May of the same year he was admitted to practice, and in January, 1836, became a partner with his preceptors in the firm of Fillmore, Hall and Haven. This relation existed several years, and until each member of the firm had attained national reputa- tion. Mr. Haven filled the offices of commissioner of deeds, district attorney of Erie county, and mayor of Buffalo. He was chosen to congress as a Whig, and served three terms, in 1851-'7, exerting extended influence at an important and critical period of the history of the country.


HAVENS, James, clergyman, b. in Mason county, Ky., 25 Dec, 1763 ; d. in Indiana in No- vember, 1864. He was licensed to preach in 1781, and in 1820 joined the itinerant ministry in the Ohio conference. He was one of the founders of Methodism in the northwest, especially in Indiana, where the last forty years of his life were spent.


HAVESTAD, Bernhard, German missionary, b. in Cologne in 1715 ; d. in Miinster in 1778. He became a member of the Jesuit order, and in 1748 was ordered as a missionary to Chili. He remained twenty years in the missions of Concepcion, and ex- plored the country in parts that were until then en- tirely unknown, pushing as far as lat. 49° S., and visiting the unsubdued tribes of Araucanians, Guaycurus, Huilliches, and Pehuenches. As he spoke fluently the Chilidugu, a dialect used by the traders with the Indian tribes, he had an opportu- nity to gather valuable information about the cus- toms, statistics, and natural history of the abo- rigines. When the expulsion of the Jesuits was decreed on 29 June, 1768, Havestad was arrested and returned to Germany, where he published "Chilidugu, sive res Chilenses" (2 vols., Miinster, 1777). This work is now very rare.


HAVILAND, John, architect, b. near Taunton, England, 15 Dec, 1792; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 28 March, 1852. After studying his profession with James Elmes, he went to Russia in 1815 to enter the Imperial corps of engineers, but came to the United States in the following year. He settled in Philadelphia, where he became associated with Hugh Bridgport in the management of an architectural drawing-school. Among the buildings that