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In 1870 he went to St. Paul's church, Fall River. His next appointment was to the Hanson Place M. E. church, Brooklyn, New York East conference. Here he was phenomenally successful, the society and congregation increasing so in numbers that in 1873 the corner-stone of a new and much larger church edifice was laid. It is now the largest Methodist church on this con- tinent. This church was finished and dedi- cated in January, 1874. During his min- istry here occurred the death of his wife, a lady much beloved by all who knew her.
His next call was to the Seventh Avenue M. E. church. He left the Hanson Place church with the mutual expectation that he would return at the end of three years, the Episcopal limit. Before the close of the second year he was no longer a Metho- dist. His convictions had forced him to sever his connection with the M. E. church, and unite with the Baptist denomination.
In 1877 he accepted the call from the Washington Avenue Baptist church, and remained its pastor until 1885, when he re- ceived an earnest call from the Union Tem- ple church, Tremont Temple, Boston, the pastorate of which he accepted, and where he yet remains, blessed in his labors and loved and esteemed by church and people.
His present pastorate is one of the most laborious and influential in the Christian world,- the aggregate audiences gathered at all religious services in Tremont Tem- ple, each Sunday, numbering ten thousand people. It is a free "church of the stran-
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gers." His sermons have now been pub- lished weekly for several years.
His style is brilliant, his sermons full of religious fervor, and his presence com- manding. He is the author of several works of fiction : "Dollars and Duty," "A Wedding in War Time," and many short stories. He received the degree of doctor of divinity from Colby University in 1888.
On the 29th of April, 1874, at New York, Mr. Haynes married for his second wife, Grace, daughter of William and Mary E. (Rousseau) Forby. They have five chil- dren: Blanche, Alice, Mary, Francis S., and Helen Haynes.
HAYNES, JOHN CUMMINGS, son of John Dearborn and Eliza Walker (Stevens) Haynes, was born in Brighton, Suffolk county, September 9, 1829.
He was educated in the public schools of Boston, finishing with the English high school, under masters Bacon and Robin- son. He left school at the age of fifteen, as his parents needed his active help.
In July, 1845, he went as a boy into the employ of the late Oliver Ditson, Boston, the celebrated music publisher. He re- mained with Mr. Ditson until his majority, when he became interested in the business, receiving a percentage of the sales. Jan- uary 1, 1857, he became a partner, and the style of the firm was changed to Oliver Ditson & Co. The death of Oliver Ditson, in December, 1888, dissolved the firm in which Mr. Haynes had been a partner for thirty-two years. The surviving partners of the firm (Mr. Haynes and Mr. Charles H. Ditson, son of Oliver Ditson) and the executors of the estate of Oliver Ditson at once organized a corporation, under the laws of Massachusetts, under the title of the " Oliver Ditson Company," admitting as stockholders several of the best of the young men who had grown up with the business, Mr. Haynes becoming the presi- dent and Charles H. Ditson treasurer of the new corporation, with headquarters in the buildings 449 and 451 Washington Street. The branch houses are as follows: John C. Haynes & Co., Boston, Charles H. Ditson & Co., New York, and J. E. Ditson & Co., Philadelphia.
The growth of the publishing house of Oliver Ditson & Co. has been identical with, and a powerful factor of, the growth of musical taste and culture in the United States. The influence of this house as a civilizing and refining agent, as our country has been developed, can scarcely be esti- mated.
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Mr. Haynes has also been interested in large and successful real estate ventures that have materially added to the assessed valuation of the city of Boston, where he has resided for over fifty years. When a young man he was instrumental in organ- izing the Franklin Library Association, and his many years' connection with it was of great advantage to him in his early training and culture. He is a life member of the Mercantile Library Association, and of the Young Men's Christian Union, also of the Women's Industrial Union, and of the Aged Couples' Home Society ; is one of the trustees of Franklin Savings Bank ; director in the Massachusetts Title Insur- ance Company, and Prudential Fire Insur- ance Company ; treasurer of the Free Re- ligious Association ; member of the Mas- sachusetts Club and Home Market Club, also of the Boston Merchants' Associa- tion.
He joined the Free Soil party when a young man, went with it into the Repub- lican party, with which he is still identified, and was a member of the Boston common council four years, from 1862 to 1865 in- clusive.
In early life, after having been for many years a scholar in one of Boston's Baptist Sunday-schools, he became interested in the preaching of Theodore Parker in 1848, and ever since has been connected with the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, which was organized to allow Mr. Parker to be heard in Boston, serving for many years as chairman of its standing commit- tee. He was active in the construction of Parker Memorial Building, and in its re- cent transfer to the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches, Boston, the object of this transfer being to perpetuate the memory of Theodore Parker in practical, charita- ble, educational and religious work.
Mr. Haynes was one of the organizers of the Parker Fraternity of Boston, for many years a powerful social and religious society. The " Parker Fraternity Course of Lectures," inaugurated and sustained for nearly twenty years, were remarkable for their influence in moulding and direct- ing public opinion - especially during the war of the rebellion and the years of re- construction immediately following. In the first course Mr. Parker delivered his celebrated lectures on Washington, Frank - lin, Adams and Jefferson.
Mr. Haynes was married, in Boston, by Theodore Parker, May 1, 1855, to Fanny, daughter of Rev. Charles and Frances (Seabury) Spear. Of this union were
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seven children: Alice Fanny (Mrs. M. Mor- ton Holmes), Theodore Parker (deceased), Lizzie Gray, Jennie Eliza (Mrs. Fred O. Hurd), Cora Marie (Mrs. E. Harte Day), Mabel Stevens, and Edith Margaret Haynes.
HAYNES, TILLY, son of Lyman and Caroline (Hunt) Haynes, was born in Sud- bury, Middlesex county, February 13, 1828. On his father's side he was a direct de- scendant of Walter Haynes, who was born in England 1583, and came to America in 1635 from the parish of Sutton - Mande- ville, Salisbury, county of Wilts. From the General Court of the colony he obtained a grant of land in Sudbury, where he set-
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tled, being one of the original founders of that town. On the maternal side Mr. Haynes is directly descended from William Hunt, who came over in 1635 and settled in Concord, where he received a grant of land, and was one of the original founders.
When Tilly Haynes was but two years old, his father removed to Billerica, and there the young man received his educa- tion in the schools of that place. In 1842 he went to North Reading and obtained work in a country store ; three years later he entered the employ of Josiah Crosby, in the first, and for some time the only, store in Lawrence.
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In April, 1849, at the age of twenty-one, he went to Springfield, and opened a small store for the sale of men's goods, and, as the demands of an increased trade neces- sitated, he added two adjoining stores. He was one of the original stockholders in the Indian Orchard Mills.
In connection with others, he built a small button factory in Springfield, manu- factured flax machines at Mill River, and sewing machines at Chicopee. In 1857 he built the music hall and theatre, corner of Pynchon Street, Springfield, which was destroyed by the great fire of 1864. This was replaced by the new music hall, and the Haynes Hotel was built and success- fully opened within the next twelve months.
Mr. Haynes was married in 1853 to Martha C., daughter of Archelaus and Elizabeth (Hacket) Eaton, of Salisbury. Mrs. Haynes died in 1876, and Mr. Haynes disposed of the hotel and music hall which he had run so successfully, and relin- quished all business. Not desiring to lead an idle life, however, in 1880 he accepted the invitation of the directors of the old United States Hotel, Boston, to take charge of that property, which was con- sidered a hopeless undertaking. He has made a most phenomenal success in its management, doubling the value of the property and quadrupling its business.
Mr. Haynes served in the first city gov- ernment of Springfield ; was a member of the lower branch of the Legislature 1867, '68, '69, and '70 ; was a member of the state Senate 1875 and '76, 1877 and '78, and in 1878 and '79 served as a member of the executive council of Governors Rice and Talbot. He was chairman of the commit- tee on state-house during its rebuilding in 1869 ; chairman of the railroad committee 1876, and served on various other commit- tees of the House and Senate, and in every position secured the respect and confidence of his associates. He is one of the metro- politan sewage commissioners recently ap- pointed by Governor Ames.
The name of Haynes was originally spelled Hayne, as evidenced on the Haynes coat-of-arms, "confirmed to Thomas Hayne of Fryer Waddon, County Dorset, by Sir William Segar, Garter, 1607."
HAYWARD, JOSEPH WARREN, son of George W. and Sylvia S. (Pratt) Hay- ward, was born in Easton, Bristol county, July 11, 1841.
His early education was received in the common schools, and the academy at North Middleborough. He was afterwards grad- uated from the Bridgewater normal school,
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and studied medicine in the Harvard med- ical school, from which he graduated in 1864, and in the medical school of Maine. In 1866 he formed a partnership with George Barrows, M. D., Taunton.
In 1872 the partnership was dissolved, and he has continued the practice of med- icine and surgery by himself. His school of practice is homeopathic.
Dr. Hayward was married in Easton, January 9, 1866, to Lemira Harris, daugh- ter of John R. and Lemira H. (Daily) Drake. Of this union are four children : Ernest Lowell, Ralph Morris, Walter Bar- rows, and Josephine Lemira Hayward.
Dr. Hayward has been a member of the Taunton school board nine years.
He was medical cadet in the U. S. army from March, 1863, to March, 1864, assist- ant-surgeon and brevet-major, U. S. volun- teers, from date of graduation till Novem- ber 25, 1865; was present, on General Ord's staff, at the fall of Petersburg and the surrender of General Lee ; surgeon 3d regiment, Massachusetts volunteer militia, and medical director Ist brigade, Massa- chusetts volunteer militia. He has been a member of the pension board, a lecturer on surgery, Boston University medical school, vice-president and president of the Massa- chusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society.
HEDGE, FREDERIC HENRY, son of Levi and Mary (Kneeland) Hedge, was born in Cambridge, Middlesex county, De- cember 12, 1805.
He was educated at home until 1818, when he went to Germany, under the guard- ianship of George Bancroft, and entered a gymnasium or German school at Ilfeld ; subsequently studied in the gymnasium at Schulpforte ; returned to America in 1823; entered Harvard College, and was gradu- ated in the class of 1825.
After leaving college he studied in the Harvard theological school, and was or- dained a minister in 1828, being settled over the Congregational church of West Cambridge (now Arlington). From this church he went to Bangor, Me., as pastor of the Unitarian church, where he re- mained until 1850. He was then called to the Westminster Congregational church, Providence, where he remained six years. He was pastor of the First Congregational church, Brookline, from 1856 to '72, when he left to become professor of German in Harvard University, which professorship he held until 1881. He was also professor of ecclesiastical history from 1857 to '76.
Dr. Hedge was married in Brookline, September 10, 1830, to Lucy, daughter of
John Pierce, D. D., and Lucy (Tappan) Pierce. Of this union were: Frederic Henry, Jr., Charlotte Augusta, Ellen Eliza- beth and Caroline Farrar Hedge.
Dr. Hedge is the author of several works, among which are "Prose Writers of Germany" (1848); " Reason in Re- ligion " (1865); " Primeval World in He- brew Tradition " (1870); "Ways of the Spirit " (1877); " Atheism in Philosophy, and Other Essays" (1884); "Hours with German Classics " (1886); " Martin Luther, and Other Essays " (1888). In conjunction with Mrs. A. L. Wister he published " Met- rical Translations and Poems " the same year. Dr. Hedge, together with L. Noa, also edited an edition of Goethe's works, published by Estes & Lauriat, 1883.
HEMPHILL, ASHTON ERASTUS, son of Freeland and Lydia (McKeen) Hemphill, was born in Acworth, Sullivan county, N. H., September 17, 1849.
His early education was secured in the schools of Acworth, and high school of Walpole, N. H. He was graduated at the
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Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Bos- ton, in the class of 1876.
From 1871 to '73 he was with George 1 .. Brown & Co., Holyoke, druggists, and their successor, Dr. L. M. Tuttle. He had virtual charge of the store from July, 1882."
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While in Boston attending lectures, he was with C. E. Tappan & Co., and their succes- sors, F. M. Loring & Co.
He returned to Holyoke after gradua- tion, and was with Dr. L. M. Tuttle and E. W. Gridley, druggists, until June, 1882. Since the autumn of 1882, he has been in the storage-warehouse business for himself.
Mr. Hemphill was chairman of the Re- publican city committee of Holyoke for several years ; organized the Holyoke Re- publican Club in 1888, and was its secretary during the Harrison and Morton campaign ; has been chairman of the board of regis- trars of voters since its organization under the law of 1884. He was in the House of Representatives in 1881, and again in '85 ; was on the committee on printing in 1881 ; in 1885 was chairman of committee on print- ing, and on public health.
He has written for local papers on polit- ical and economic subjects.
His residence is Windsor Hotel, Hol- yoke. He is an active worker in the Re- publican party ; has been a delegate to every state convention held in Massachu- setts since 1881.
HENRY, BENJAMIN THOMAS, the son of John and Jane (Farmer) Henry, was born in Boston, May 12, 1858.
The only education he received was that at the common school of his native place.
Upon leaving school he went into a printing-office and learned the printing trade. He was for several years engaged in a printing-office in West Newton, and afterward worked in the " Franklin Senti- nel" office. He then removed to Rowe, and commenced business as a merchant, which business he still carries on.
Mr. Henry has served on the school committee for three years. He is also town clerk, treasurer, trustee of the public library, and has been postmaster since 1884.
He is much interested in the Unitarian society of Rowe, in which he is chairman of the parish committee, and parish clerk.
He was married at Rowe, February 16, 1886, to Anna Laura, the daughter of Rob- ert and Laura Z. (Ballou) Wells of Rowe. He has one child, a daughter.
HERRICK, HENRY K., son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Knox) Herrick, was born at Blandford, Hampden county, on the 24th day of August, 1839.
His preliminary education was acquired at the public schools as opportunity was offered, while from his earliest boyhood, labor upon the farm claimed his attention,
and at the age of twenty-four he began in- dependent farming, which vocation he has followed successfully throughout his life.
On the 20th of November, 1862, he was married at Blandford, to Sarah E., daugh- ter of Lewis and Mary E. (Cook) Parks. Their children are: Hattie P., Jennie M. and Sadie E. Herrick.
Mr. Herrick has filled almost all of the offices of responsibility in his native town of Blandford, where he still resides. He was town clerk for one year, and select- man, assessor, and overseer of the poor for six years in succession.
He is at present chairman of the school committee, and president of the Union Agricultural Society of Blandford, which office he has held for two years. He has at different times been director, secretary, chief-marshal, vice-president, and delegate to the state board of agriculture for three years for the above society. In 1886 he was elected to the state Legislature by the Democrats, the district comprising at the time six towns.
HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH, the son of Stephen and Louisa (Storrow) Higginson, was born in Cambridge, Middle- sex county, December 22, 1823.
He is in the seventh generation of descent from the Rev. Francis Higginson, an Eng- lish clergyman, who, for conscience' sake, in 1629, exchanged his position in the bosom of the old church for the toilsome experi- ence of a New England Puritan minister. He was settled over the first parish in Salem, and in his day was not unknown as an author.
The subject of our sketch was graduated from Harvard University in the class of 1841, and spent the customary years in study for a profession, and was graduated from the divinity school. He was settled as pastor of the First church in Newbury- port in 1847, and after being dismissed from that parish because of anti-slavery preaching, he organized the Free church in Worcester, where he remained nearly six years. During these years he was an enthusiastic soldier in the anti-slavery ranks, whose work it was to prepare the way for freedom, and was the intimate associate and friend of Garrison, Parker, Phillips, and other famous leaders in the great movement. He, with the two dis- tinguished agitators, was indicted for com- plicity in the attempt to rescue Anthony Burns from the hands of the federal authorities.
His theories were not formulated senti- ment merely, for early in the civil war, he
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threw himself into the thick of the fray, recruited two companies near Worcester, and received a commission as captain in the 5Ist regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, September 25, 1862. He was, while in camp, appointed colonel of the Ist regi- ment of colored troops enlisted in South Carolina, this being the first regiment of freed slaves mustered in during the war. Col. Higginson captured and held Jack- sonville, Fla, but was seriously wounded in a skirmish at Wiltown Bluffs, S. C., in August, 1863, and was honorably discharged October 27, 1864.
But however creditably he fulfilled his mission as clergyman and soldier, it was not on either of these planes that the bur- den of his soul was to find its loftiest expression. The higher development of human nature, physically, mentally, morally and socially, - this was his life work, and whether as essayist, poet, novelist, or lec- turer, this was the germinal motive of his every effort.
Col. Higginson's earliest recognition by the reading public, as an original prose writer, was through a series of essays con- tributed to the " Atlantic Monthly." The most famous of these is "Saints and Their Bodies," one of the most attractive papers ever written on the subject of physical development and its relation to moral and intellectual health. Besides these, his principal works are " Malbone ; An Old- port Romance " (1869); " Army Life in a Black Regiment " (1870) ; " Atlantic Es- says" (1871); "Oldport Days" (1873) ; "Young Folks' History of the United States " (1875) ; " Short Studies of Ameri- can Authors " (1879) ; "Common Sense about Women " (1881) ; " Larger History of the United States " (1885) ; "The Monarch of Dreams " (1886) ; "Hints on Writing and Speech-making " ( 1887) ; and a volume of essays contributed to "Har- per's Bazar " under the title of "Women and Men." He has lately published another prose volume, " Travellers and Outlaws" (1888), and a volume of poems entitled " The Afternoon Landscape " (1889).
As a lecturer, Col. Higginson stands in the very foremost rank. In the days when the lecture platform was a high plane of intelligence and cultivation, he made a national reputation in the " Aristocracy of the Dollar."
His devotion to the interests of humanity has led him to espouse with vigor the cause of woman, not only in her higher education, but in her emancipation from
intellectual subjection and political servi- tude.
While not seeking political honors, Col. Higginson has been called twice by his fellow-citizens of Cambridge to serve his representative district in the General Court, 1880 and '81, and in 1888 he received the nomination for congressional honors, heart- ily voiced by his fellow-citizens, though not successful.
HILDRETH, JAMES 2d, son of George and Lucy Torrey (Winslow) Hildreth, was born in Shirley, Middlesex county, May 29, 1839. His mother is a direct descend- ant of John Winslow, who married Mary
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Chilton, she being the first person to step upon Plymouth Rock at the landing of the Pilgrims.
He gathered his knowledge of books in his early youth in the common schools of Lunenburg, to which place his father moved while he was an infant. His ad- vantages were limited, but he made dili- gent use of those at his command.
Upon the death of his father the charge of the home farm fell upon him at the age of seventeen. This was in 1856, and he worked without pay until he became of age. At his majority he bought the several interests of the other heirs, excepting that of his mother.
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He taught school in the winter of 1860 and '61.
He was married in Cambridge, Septem- ber 18, 1867, to Abbie Amelia, daughter of William T. and Abigail Burnam (Story) Shattuck. They have no children.
Mr. Hildreth has served his town as selectman, overseer of the poor for several terms, member of the school board, etc. In 1872 he was chosen moderator of the town meeting, and has since continued to serve in that capacity at every annual meeting. In 1878 he was a member of the House of Representatives, and the same year he re- ceived the appointment of justice of the peace, which position he still holds.
In 1879 he was chosen secretary of the Farmers' Club (the oldest town club in the State), serving in that capacity to the present time-he had served two years previous to this as president of the club. In 1888, at the organization of the grange in his town, he was chosen master, and re- elected at the next annual meeting.
In politics Mr. Hildreth has been actively identified with the Republican party, hav- ing cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, and has attended many of the conventions called in its interests. He is always promi- nent in public matters, and has ever been ready to aid any educational, social or lit- erary enterprise that may affect the pros- perity of Lunenburg, where he still resides. His success in life is due entirely to his industry and intelligent economy.
HILDRETH, MILO, was born in Town- send, Middlesex county, August 17, 1824. His ancestors came from England in early colonial times. He is the sixth child of Zachariah and Hannah Sawtelle Hildreth.
Until he attained the age of sixteen, his life was spent on the paternal farm. He secured his early education in the district schools of East Townsend.
April 1, 1841, he was apprenticed to a manufacturer of combs in Leominster, where he was to serve four years in learn- ing the trade. He enjoyed the privileges of a good district school during the winter season, and here became deeply interested in the study of physiology and phrenology, and felt strongly inclined to prepare him- self for the medical profession. At the expiration of his apprenticeship he entered the Townsend Academy, a select school of high reputation at that time, and there applied himself earnestly to the work. He taught school and worked at his trade in order to supply himself with funds to again defray his expenses while in school ; but in the spring of 1847 he was offered a
partnership in the manufacture of combs, which he accepted, and since 1849 he has been senior partner in the management of the same business-in 1860 tortoise-shell jewelry and novelties were added to the list of manufactures. The brother of the sub- ject of this sketch is associated with him, the firm name being Milo Hildreth & Co.
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On the 31st of December, 1846, Mr. Hildreth married Frances J. Hooker, of North Brookfield. The children were: Alice J., Clara F., Mary E., Jennie F., Annie C., Walter H. and Florence G. Hildreth. Of these, only four are now living : Mary, Jennie, Annie and Walter.
Mr. Hildreth was a member of the House of Representatives in 1858, of the Senate in 1865, and of the governor's council in 1872, '73 and '74. In 1876 he was ap- pointed by Governor Rice a member of the board of managers on the Centennial Ex- position, at Philadelphia. He has been thirty years justice of the peace. He has served as trustee of the state reform school at Westborough, was appointed one of the trustees of the state primary and reform schools by Governor Talbot, when the board was first organized, and has re- ceived a re-appointment for a term of five years each by Governors Long and Rob- inson. He has been called to numerous
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