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HARRISBURG, county-seat of Saline County, on the Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway, 70 miles northeast of Cairo Tho region is devoted to agriculture and fruit-grow. ing, and valuable deposits of salt, coal and iron are found. The town has flour and saw mill-, coal mines, dairy, brick and tile works, carriage and other wood-working establishments, two banks and three weekly newspapers. Population (1890). 1,723; (1900), 2,202.
HARRISON, Carter Henry, politician, Con- gressman and Mayor of Chicago, was born in Fayette County, Ky., Feb. 15, 1:25; at the age of 20 years graduated from Yale College and beran reading law, but later engaged in farming. After spending two years in foreign travel, he entered the Law Department of Transylvania University. at Lexington, Ky., and, after gra luation, settled at Chicago, where he soon became an operator in real estate. In 1971 he was elected a Commis sioner of Cook County, serving three years. In 1874 he again visited Europe, and, on his return, was elected to Congress as a Democrat, being re-elected in 1876 In 1879 he was chosen Mayor of Chicago, filling that office for four succe sive biennial terms, but was defeated for re-election in 1887 by his Republican competitor, John .1. Roche. He was the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1958, but failed of election. lle thereafter made a trip around the world, and, on his return, publi hed an entertaining account of his journey under the title, "A Hace with the Sun " In 1891 he was an Independent Demo- cratic candidate for the Chicago, mayoralty, but was defeated by Hempstead Washburne, Repub- lican. In 1893 he received the regular nomina-
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tion of his party for the office, and was electe 1. In 1892, in connection with a few associates, he purchased the plant of "The Chicago Times, " plac- ing his sons in charge. He was a man of strong character and intense personality, making warm friends and bitter enemies; genial, generous and kindly, and accessible to any one at all times, at either his office or his home. Taking advantage of this latter trait, one Prendergast, on the night of Oct. 28, 1893-immediately following the clos- ing exercises of the World's Columbian Exposition -gained admission to his residence, and, without the slightest provocation, shot him down in his library. He lived but a few hours. The assassin was subsequently tried, convicted and hung.
HARRISON, Carter Henry, Jr., son of the preceding, was born in Chicago, April 23, 1860, being a lineal descendant of Benjamin Harrison, an early Colonial Governor of Virginia, and lat- erally related to the signer of the Declaration of Independence of that name, and to President William Henry Harrison. Mr. Harrison was educated in the public schools of Chicago, at the Gymnasium, Altenburg, Germany, and St. Igna- tius College, Chicago, graduating from the latter in 1881. Having taken a course in Yale Law School, he began practice in Chicago in 1993, remaining until 1889, when he turned his atten- tion to real estate. His father having purchased the "Chicago Times" about 1892, he became associated with the editorship of that paper and, for a time, had charge of its publication until its consolidation with "The Herald" in 1895. In 1897, he received the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Chicago, his popularity being shown by receiving a majority of the total vote. Again in 1399, he was re-elected to the same office, receiving a plurality over his Republican com- petitor of over 40,000. Mayor Harrison is one of the youngest men who ever held the office.
HARRISON, William Henry, first Governor of Indiana Territory (including the present State of Illinois), was born at Berkeley, Va., Feb 9, 1773, being the son of Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; was educated at Hampden Sidney College, and began the study of medicine, but never finished it. In 1791 he was commissioned an Ensign in the First U. S. Infantry at Fort Washington (the present site of Cincinnati), was promoted a Lieutenant a year later, and, in 1797, assigned to command of tho Fort with the rank of Captain He had pre- viously served as Aid-de-Camp to Gen. Wayne, by whom he was complimented for gallantry at the battle of Miami, In 1798 he was appointed by
President Adams Secretary of the Northwest Territory, but resigned in 1299 to become Dele- gate in Congress; in 1800 he was appointed Gov- ernor of the newly created Territory of Indiana. serving by reappointment some 12 years. During his incumbency and as Commis Joner, a few years later, he negotiated many important treaties with the Indians. In 1811 he won the decisive victory over Chief Tecumseh and his followers at Tippecanoe. Having been made a Brigadier- General in the War of 1812, he was promoted to Major-General in 1813 and, as Commander of the Army of the Northwest, he won the important battle of the Thames. Resigning his commission in 1814, he afterwards served as Representativo in Congress from Ohio (1916 1819); Presidential Elector in 1820 and 1824; United States Senator (1824-1828), and Minister to the United States of Colombia (1828-29). Returning to the United States, he was elected Clerk of the Court of Com- mon Pleas of Hamilton County, serving twelve years. In 1836 he was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for President, but was elected in 1840, dying in Washington City, April 4, 1841, just one month after his inauguration.
HARTZELL, William, Congressman, was born in Stark County, Ohio, Feb. 20, 1837. When he was three years old his parents removed to Illi nois, and, four years later (1814) to Texas. In 1853 he returned to Ilinois, settling in Randolph County, which became his permanent home. He was brought up on a farm, but graduated at Mc- Kendree College, Lebanon, in June, 1859. Tivo years later he was admitted to the bar, and began practice. He was Representative in Congress for two terms, being elected as a Democrat, in 1871. and again in 1876.
HARVARD, an incorporated city in MeHenry County, 63 miles northwest of Chicago on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. It has elec- tric light plant, artesian water system, hardware and bieyele factories, malt house, cold storage and packing plant, a flouring mill, a carriage- wheel factory and two weekly papers. The region is agricultural. Population (1890), 1.967; (1900), 2,602.
HASKELL, Harriet Newell, educator and third Principal of Monticello Female Seminary, was born at Waldboro, Lincoln County, Maine. Jan. 11. 1835; educated at Castleton Seminary, Vt , and Mount Holyoke Seminary, Mass., graduating from the latter in 1855. Later, she served as Principal of high schools in Maine and Boston until 1862, when she was called to the principal ship of Castleton Seminary. She res-ned this
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position in 1867 to assume a similar one at Monti- cello Female Seminary, at Godfrey, IL, where she has since remained. The main building of this institution having been burned in Novem- ber, 1889, it was rebuilt on an enlarged and improved plan, largely through the earnest efforts of Miss Haskell. (See Monticello Female Semi- nary.) c
HATCHI, Ozias Mather, Secretary of the State of Illinois (1857-'65), was born at Hillsborough Center, N. IL, April 11, 1814, and removed to Griggsville, Ill., in 1836. In 1829 he began life as a clerk for a wholesale and retail grocer in Bos- ton. From 1836 to 1811 he was engaged in store- keeping at Griggsville. In the latter year he was appointed Circuit Court Clerk of Pike County, holding the office seven years. In 1858 he again embarked in business at Meredosia, Ill. In 1850 he was elected to the Legislature, serving one term. An earnest anti-slavery man, he was, in 1856, nominated by the newly organized Repub- lican party for Secretary of State and elected, being re-elected in 1860, on the same ticket with Mr. Lincoln, of whom he was a warm personal friend and admirer. During the war he gave a zealous and effective support to Governor Yates' adininistration. In 1864 he declined a renomi- nation and retired from political life. Ile was an original and active member of the Lincoln Monu- ment Association from its organization in 1865 to his death, and, in company with Gov. R. J. Oglesby, made a canvass of Eastern cities to col- lect funds for statuary to be placed on the monu- ment. After retiring from office he was interested to some extent in the banking business at Griggs- ville, and was influential in securing the con- struction of the branch of the Wabash Railway from Naples to Hannibal, Mo He was, for over . thirty-five years, a resident of Springfield, dying there, March 12, 1893.
HATFIELD, (Rev.) Robert Miller, clergy- man, was born at Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, N. Y., Feb. 19, 1819; in early life enjoyed only such educational advantages as could be obtained while living on a farm; later, was em ployed as a clerk at White Plains and in New York City, but, in 1841, was admitted to the Providence Methodist Episcopal Conference, dur- ing the next eleven years supplying churches in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In 1852 lie went to Brooklyn and occupied pulpits in that vicinity until 1865, when he assumed the pastor- ship of the Wabash Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church in Chicago, two years later going to the Centenary Church in the same city. He subse-
quently had charge of churches in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, but, returning to Hlinois in 1877. he occupied pulpits for the next nine years in Evanston and Chicago. In 1886 he went to Sum- merfield Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn. which was his last regular charge, as, in 1889, he became Financial Agent of the Northwestern University at Evanston, of which he had been a Trastos from 1 78. As a temporary supply for pulpits or as a speaker in popular assemblies, his services were in constant demand during this period. Dr. Hatfield served as a Delegate to the General Conferences of 1860, '61, '76, '80 and '81, and was a leader in some of the most important debates in those bodies. Died, at Evanston, March 31, 1891.
HATTON, Frank, journalist and Postmaster- General, was boru at Cambridge, Ohio, April 28, 1816; entered his father's newspaper office at Cadiz, as an apprentice, at 11 years of age, bo coming foremau and local editor; in 1862, at the age of 16, he enlisted in the Ninety-eighth Ohio Infantry, but, in 1864, was transferred to the One ITundred and Eighty-fourth Ohio and commis- sioned Second Lieutenant - his service being chiefly in the Army of the Cumberland, but par- ticipating in Sherman's March to the Sea. After the war he went to lowa, whither his father had preceded bim, and where he edited "The Mount Pleasant Journal" (1869-74) ; then removed to Bur- lington, where he secured a controlling interest in "The Hawkeye, " which he brought to a point of great prosperity ; was Postmaster of that city under President Grant, and, in 1891, became First Assistant Postmaster-General. On the retirement of Postinaster-General Gresham in 1884, he was appointed successor to the latter, serving to the end of President Arthur's adminis- tration, being the youngest man who ever held a cabinet position, except Alexander Hamilton. From 1882 to 1884, Mr. Hatton managed "The National Republican" in Washington; in 1855 removed to Chicago, where he becaine one of the proprietors and editor-in-chief of "The Evening Mail"; retired from the latter in 1887, and, pur. chasing the plant of "The National Republican" in Washington, commenced the publication of "The Washington Post," with which he was con- nected until his death, April 30, 1894.
HAVANA, the county-seat of Mason County, an incorporated city founded in 1827 on the Hhnois River, opposite the mouth of Spoon River, and a point of junction for three railways. It is a ship- ping-point for corn and osage orange hedge plants. A number of manufactories are located
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here. The city has several churches, three pub- lie schools and three newspapers. Population (1890), 2,525; (1900), 3,268.
HAVANA, RANTOUL & EASTERN RAIL- ROAD. (See Illinois Central Railroad.)
HAVEN, Erastus Otis, Methodist Episcopal Bishop, was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1820; graduated at the Wesleyan University in 1812, and taught in vanous institutions in Massachu- setts and New York, meanwhile studying theol- ogy. In 1848 he entered the Methodist ministry as a member of the New York Conference; five years later accepted a professorship in Michigan University, but resigned in 1856 to become editor of "Zion's Herald," Boston, for seven years-in that time serving two terms in the State Senate and a part of the time being an Overseer of Har- vard University. In 1863 he accepted the Presi- dency of Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill .; in 1872 became Secretary of the Methodist Board of Education, but resigned in 1874 to become Chancellor of Syracuse University, N. Y. In 1880 he was elected a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Died. in Salem, Oregon, in August, 1881. Bishop Haven was a man of great versatility and power as an orator, wrote much for the periodical press and published several volumes on religious topics, besides a treatise on rhetoric.
HAVEN, Luther, educator, was born near Framingham, Mass., August 6, 1806. With a meager country-school education, at the age of 17 he began teaching, continuing in this occupa- tion six or seven years, after which he spent three years in a more liberal course of study in a private academy at Ellington, Conn. Ile was next employed at Leicester Academy, first as a teacher, and, for eleven years, as Principal. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits until 18-19, when he removed to Chicago. After several years spent in manufacturing and real-estate business, in 1854 he became proprietor of "The Prairie Farmer," of which he remained in con- trol until 1858. Mr. Haven took an active interest in public affairs, and was an untiring worker for the promotion of popular education. For ten years following 1853, he was officially connected with the Chicago Board of Education, being for four years its President. The comptrollership of the city was offered him in 1860, but declined. During the war he was a zealous supporter of the Union cause. In October, 1861, he was appointed by President Lincoln Collector for the Port of Chicago, and Sub-Treasurer of the United States for the Department of the Northwest, serving in
this capacity during a part of President Johnson's administration. In 1866 he was attacked with congestion of the lungs, dying on March 6, of that year.
HAWK, Robert M. A., Congressman, was born in Ilancock County, Ind., April 23, 1839; came to Carroll County, III., in boy hood, where he attended the common schools and later graduated from Eu- reka College. In 1862 he enlived in th. Wat army, was commissioned First Lieutenant, next promoted to a Captaincy and, finally, brevetted Major for soldierly conduct in the field. In 1565 he was elected County Clerk of Carroll County, and three times re-elected, serving from 1865 to 1879. Tho latter year be resigned, having been elected to Congress on the Republican ticket in 1878. In 1890 he was re-elected, but died before the expiration of his teri, his successor being Robert R. Hitt, of Mount Morris, who was chosen at a special election to fill tho vacancy.
HAWLEY, John B., Congressman and First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, was born in Fairfield County, Conn., Feb 9, 1831; accompa- nied his parents to Illinois in childhood, residing in his early manhood at Carthage, Hancock County. At the age of 23 (1951) he was admitted to the bar and began practice at Rock Island. From 1856 to 1860 he was State's Attorney of Rock Island County. In 1861 he entered the Union army as Captain, but was so severely wounded at Fort Donelson (1862) that he was obliged to quit the service. In 1865 President Lincoln appointed him Postmaster at Rock Island, but one year afterward he was removed by Presi- dent Johnson. In 1868 he was elected to Congress as a Republican, being twice re-elected, and, in 1876, was Presidential Elector on the Hayes- Wheeler ticket. In the following year he was appointed by President Ilayes First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, serving until 1880, when he resigned. During the last six years of his life he was Solicitor for the Chicago & North . western Railroad, with headquarters at Omaha, Neb. Died, at Hot Springs, South Dakota, May 24, 1895.
HAY, John, author, diplomatist and Secretary of State, was born in Salem, Ind., Oct. 8, 1838, of Scottish ancestry; graduated at Brown Univer- sity, 1858, and studied law at Springfield, Ill., his father, in the meantime, having become a resi- dent of Warsaw, Ill .; was admitted to practice in 1861, but immediately went to Washington as assistant private secretary of President Lincoln. acting part of the time as the President's aid-de- camp, also serving for some time under General
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Hunter aud Gilmore, with the rank of Major and Adjutant-General. After President Lincoln's assassination he served as Secretary of Legation at Paris and Madrid, and as Charge d'Affaires at Vienna; was also editor for a time of "The Illi- nois State Journal" at Springfield, and a leading editorial writer on "The New York Tribune." Colonel Hay's more important literary works include "Castilian Days, " "Pike County Ballads," and the ten volume "History of the Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln," written in collabo- ration with John G. Nicolay. In 1875 he settled at Cleveland, Ohio, but, after retiring from "The New York Tribune, " made Washington his home. In 1897 President Mckinley appointed him Am- bassador to England, where, by his taet, good judgment and sound discretion manifested as a diplomatist and speaker on public occasions, he won a reputation as one of the most able and ac- complished foreign representatives America has produced. His promotion to the position of Secretary of State on the retirement of Secretary William R. Day, at the close of the Spanish- American War, in September, 1898, followed naturally as a just tribute to the rank which he had won as a diplomatist, and was universally approved throughout the nation.
HAY, John B., ex-Congressman, was born at Belleville, 11., Jan. 8, 1834; attended the com- mon schools and worked on a farm until he was 16 years of age, when he learned the printer's trade. Subsequently he studied law, and won considerable local prominence in his profession, being for eight years State's Attorney for the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit. He served in the Union army during the War of the Rebellion, and, in 1868, was elected a Representative in the Forty-first Congress, being re-elected in 1870.
IIAY, Milton, lawyer and legislator, was born in Fayette County, Ky., July 3, 1817; removed with his father's family to Springfield, III, in 1832; in 1838 became a student in the law office of Stuart & Lincoln; was admitted to the bar in 1840, and began practice at Pittsfiehl, Pike County. In 1855 he returned to Springfield and formed a partnership with Judge Stephen T. Logan (afterwards his father-in-law), which ended by the retirement of the latter from prac. tice in 1861. Others who were associated with him as partners, at a later date, were Hon. Shelley M. Cullom, Gen. John M. Palmer, Henry S. Greene and D. T. Littler. In 1869 he was elected a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention and, as Chairman of the Committee on Revenue and member of the Judiciary Committee, was
prominent in shaping the Con titution of 1870. Again, as a member of the lower branch of the Twenty-eighth General Assembly (1878-71), he assisted in revising and adapting the laws to the new order of things under the new Constitution. The estimate in which he was held by his associ- ates is shown in the fact that he was a member of the Joint Committee of five appointed by the Legislature to revise the revenue laws of the State, which was especially complimented for the manner in which it performed its work by concurrent resolution of the two houses. A con- servative Republican in politics, gentle and unob- trusive in manner, and of calm, dispassionate judgment and unimpeachable integrity, no man was more frequently consulted by State execu- tives on questions of great delicacy and public importance, during the last thirty years of his life, than Mr. Hay. In 1881 he retired from the active prosecution of his profession, devoting his time to the care of a handsome estate. Died, Sept. 15, 1893.
HAYES, Philip C., ex-Congressman, was born at Granby, Conn., Feb. 3, 1933. Before he was a year old his parents removed to La Salle County, Ill., where the first twenty years of his life were spent upon a farm. In 1860 he graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio, and, in April, 1861, en- listed in the Union army, being commissioned successively, Captain, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel, and finally brevetted Brigadier-General. After the war he engaged in journalism, becom- ing the publisher and senior editor of "The Morris Ilerald," a weekly periodical issued at Morris, Grundy County. In 1872 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia which renominated Grant, and represented his district in Congress from 1877 to 1881. Later lie became editor and part proprietor of "The Repub- lican" at Joliet, III , but retired some years since.
HAYES, Samuel Snowden, lawyer and politi- cian, was born at Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 25, 1820; settled at Shawneetown in 1838, and engaged in the drug business for two years; then began the study of law and was admitted to practice in 1812, settling first at Mount Vernon and later at Carmi. He carly took an interest in politics, stumping the southern counties for the Demo- cratie party in 1813 and '44. In 1845 he was a delegate to the Memphis Commercial Convention and, in 1846, was elected to the lower House of the State Legislature. being re-elected in '48. In 1817 he raised a company for service in the Mexican War, but, owing to its distance from the seat of government. its muster rolls were not
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received until the quota of the State had been filled. The same year he was chosen a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention for White County, and, in 1848, was a Democratic Presi- dential Elector. About 1852 he removed to Chi- cago, where he was afterwards City Solicitor and (1862-65) City Comptroller. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore in 1560, and an carnest worker for Douglas in the campaign which fol- lowed. While in favor of the Union, he was strongly opposed to the policy of the administra- tion, particularly in its attitude on the question of slavery. His last public service was as a Dele- gate from Cook County to the State Constitu- tional Convention of 1869-70. His talents as an orator, displayed both at the bar and before popu- lar ass mblies, were of a very high order.
HAYMARKET RIOT, THE, an anarchistic outbreak; which occurred in Chicago on the evenin : of May 4, 1886. For several days prior, mertinos of dissatisfied workingmen had been andreord by orators who sought to inflame the warst passions of their hearers. The excitement (previously more or less under restraint) culmi- nated on the date mentioned. Haymarket Square, in Chicago, is a broad, open space formed by the widening of West Randolph Streot for an open-air produce-market. An immense concourse assembled there on the evening named; inflam- matory speeches were made from a cart, which was used as a sort of improvised platform. Dur- ing the earlier part of the meeting the Mayor (Carter H. Harrison) was present, but upon his withdrawal, the oratory became more inmpassioned and incendiary. Towards midnight, some one whose identity has never been thoroughly proved, threw a dynamite bomb into the ranks of the police, who, under command of Inspector Jolin Bonfield, had ordered the dispersal of the crowd and were endeavoring to enforce the command. Simultaneously a score of men lay dead or bleed- ing in the street. The majority of the crowd fled, pursued by the officers. Numerous arrests followed during the night and the succeeding morning, and search was made in the office of the principal Anarchistic organ, which resulted in the discovery of considerable evidence of an incriminating character. A Grand Jury of Cook County found . indictmonts for murder against eight of the suspected leaders, all of whom were convicted after a trial extending over several months, both the State and the defense being represented by some of the ablest counsel at the Chicago bar. Seven of the accusel were con-
demned to death and one (Oscar Necbe) was given twenty years' imprisonment. The death sentence of two-Samuel Fielden and Justus Schwab-was subsequently commuted by Gov- ernor Oglesby to life-imprisonment, but executive clemency was extended in 1893 by Governor Altgeld to all three of those serving terms in the penitentiary. Of those condemned to execution, one (Loni- Linng) committed suicide in the county jail by exploding, between his teeth, a small dynamite bomb which he had surrepti- tiously obtained; the remaining four (August Spies, Albert D. Parsons, Louis Engel and Adolph Fischer) were hanged in the county jail at Chicago, on November 14, 1887. The affair attracted wide attention, not only throughout the United States but in other countries also.
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