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Mr. Harper's remains are resting at Mount Hope, Westchester County, New York.
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MORRIS HENRY HAYMAN
"THE cosmopolitan population of the United States, and especially of its metropolis, is made up of people of every tribe and nation, and from every land under the whole heavens. There is no state, however ancient or however modern, or great or small, or famous or obscure, that does not make its contribution. The former duchy of Nassau in Germany, since 1866 forcibly incorporated into the kingdom of Prussia, bears one of the historic names of Europe. It has given also, through the Netherlandish branch of its dneal family, its ancient name to towns and streets and institutions of great number in the United States.
From the original duchy of Nassau not a few esteemed citi- zens of the United States have come. Among them, in the last generation, was Henry Hayman, who settled in the city of New York and became a stable proprietor. He not only became a thoroughly naturalized and acclimated American, but he married an American wife, a native of New York, who had been educated in the old Broome Street public school.
To Henry and Emma Hayman was born Morris Henry Hay- man, in the city of New York, on March 5, 1864. He was educated in the public schools of the city, attending at first No. 40, and afterward the College of the City of New York, which forms the highest department of the publie-school sys- tem. Finally, adopting the law as his profession, he pursued a course in the Law School of New York University.
During his student life, and prior to his successful entry upon the practice of the law, Mr. Hayman was for a time engaged in teaching in New York city.
Having successfully completed the university law course, Mr.
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Hayman was admitted to the bar in 1888, and thereupon began the practice of his chosen profession in New York. His practice has been general in character, embracing nearly all departments of litigation, and he has attained both prosperity and estimable repute.
Mr. Hayman has held no political office, and indeed has been a candidate for none, preferring, at least for the present, to devote his entire attention to the prosecution of his professional work. He has, however, become interested in some business enter- prises outside of his profession. He is now president of the Golden Chest Mining Company, and also president of the Columbian Land and Investment Company.
Mr. Hayman is not identified with many clubs or other social organizations. Among those with which he is connected is the Progress Club, of which he is financial secretary.
He was married in New York, on April 17, 1892, to Miss Dora Doeter of Port Henry, New York.
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FREDERICK ROWLAND HAZARD
F FREDERICK ROWLAND HAZARD, who was born at Peace Dale, Rhode Island, on June 14, 1858, is the son of Row- land Hazard and Margaret Rood Hazard. His father, who died in 1898, was a prominent manufacturer of woolen goods, trea- surer of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company, and president of the Solvay Process Company, makers of alkali. Mr. Hazard is a brother of Rowland Gibson Hazard, Miss Caroline Hazard, president of Wellesley College, Mrs. N. T. Bacon of Peace Dale, Rhode Island, and Mrs. Irving Fisher of New Haven, Conneeti- cut. He is a grandson of Rowland Gibson Hazard, author of "Hazard on the Will" and other works, and a descendant of Thomas Hazard, who came from England and settled at Boston in 1635.
Mr. Hazard received in his youth a liberal education. He attended elementary schools at Peace Dale and Kingston, Rhode Island, and the Providence English and Classical School. Thence, in 1877, he went to Brown University, from which he was grad- uated in 1881 with the degree of A. B. Three years later he received the degree of A. M. in course, having meantime given more than a year to special chemical work, partly at the French chemical works of Solvay et Cie., at Dombasle, near Nancy. On returning to the United States in the spring of 1884. he went to Syracuse, New York, and there became assistant treasurer of the Solvay Process Company, manufacturers of alkali. During 1881-83 he was connected with the Peace Dale Manufactur- ing Company as a student of the woolen manufacturing industry.
The practical business career of Mr. Hazard began in May, 1884, with his connection with the Solvay Process Company, at Syracuse. The early history of that company is one of experi-
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ment and struggles. It had to adapt principles and apparatus to new and unknown conditions, and in so doing now and then met with failure, though in the long run it made successful progress. In all this work Mr. Hazard was prominently associ- ated with W. B. Cogswell, the treasurer and general manager. In 1890 he succeeded Mr. Cogswell as treasurer, the latter re- maining general manager. The business of the company steadily increased, and at present its daily output at Syracuse is about six hundred tons of alkali, and at Detroit, where it has branch works, five hundred tons. The capital has been increased from three hundred thousand dollars to five million dollars, and the number of employees from less than two hundred to more than forty-five hundred. Mr. Hazard became president of this com- pany upon the death of his father in 1898.
In addition Mr. Hazard has been, since 1888, a director and treasurer of the Split Rock Cable Road Company of Syracuse; since 1889 a director and treasurer of the Tully Pipe Line Com- pany of Syracuse ; since 1892 a director of the Commercial National Bank of Syracuse ; since 1894 a director and treasurer of the Semet Solvay Company of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; since 1896 a director of the First National Bank of Syracuse ; and sinee 1898 a director of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Com- pany of Peace Dale, Rhode Island. He has held no public office save that of President of the village of Solvay, near Syra- euse, since its organization in 1894. He makes his home in that village, and has there a fine farm. He is a member of the Uni- versity, Citizens', and Syracuse clubs of Syracuse ; the Univer- sity and Transportation clubs and the Down-Town Association of New York ; the Detroit Club of Detroit, Michigan ; and the American Chemical Society, the American Geographical Society, and the American Society of Mining Engineers.
Mr. Hazard was married on May 29, 1886, at Syracuse, to Miss Dora Gannett Sedgwick, daughter of the Hon. Charles B. Sedgwick of that city. He has three daughters and two sons.
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GEORGE JACOB HELMER
A MONG the foremost practitioners of the new branch of the healing art which bears the name of osteopathy is Dr. George Jacob Helmer of New York. He is a Canadian by nativity, having been born at Williamsburg, Ontario, on Jannary 21, 1866, the son of Z. E. and Angeline Hollister Helmer. His grandparents on both sides of the family were of German origin. and moved into Canada from New York State about 1812. He received a good education at local schools, and then left his father's farm for mercantile life. For a time he was shipping- clerk and salesman for finns at St. Paul, Minnesota, and travel- ing salesman for large factories at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the meantime his inclinations were turning more and more strongly toward the medical profession, and he began, while pursuing his mercantile career, to prepare himself to enter a medical college.
Just as he was about to enter a medical college at St. Louis, Missouri, however, osteopathy was brought to his attention. A member of his family, whom other physicians had failed to cure, led him to investigate it. He was profoundly impressed with the theory and practice, and determined to devote himself to its study. Dr. Helmer says: "The science of osteopathy depends upon the principles of anatomy and physiology for its results. It is a science of treating disease without drugs or knife, dis- covered in 1874 by Dr. A. T. Still. It is based on the principle that disease is caused by some part of the human mechanism being out of proper adjustment, namely, misplaced bone, carti- lage, ligament, adhesions, muscular contractions, etc., resulting in unnatural pressure on, or obstruction to. nerve, blood, or lymph so essential for the vitality, nutrition, and the perform-
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ance of the normal function of each and every part of the human organism. By means of a thorough knowledge of the human mechanism and a highly developed sense of touch, the osteopath, through the agency or use of the bones (especially the long ones which he uses as levers), correctly adjusts the misplaced parts, reëstablishing the freedom of action of all fluids, forces, or sub- stances pertaining to life."
He entered the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, and there, on March 2, 1886, was graduated with the degree of D. O., or Doctor of Osteopathy. At that time oste- opathy was nowhere legally recognized, and the practice of it was not sanctioned in any State of the Union. Dr. Helmer first went to Colorado and began his practice. Although he met with success there, he came East after six months to fulfil a pre- vious engagement, and settled at Chelsea, Vermont. There also he was successful in practice, but he found himself strongly op- posed by the "regular " schools of medicine. A bill was intro- duced into the Legislature prohibiting the practice of osteopathy in Vermont. Dr. Helmer hastened to Montpelier, and at a public hearing discussed the matter before the Legislature to such effect that not only was the hostile bill dropped, but another was passed recognizing and officially sanctioning the practice of osteopathy in that State.
Dr. Helmer came to New York on January 5, 1897, and estab- lished himself in that city as a practitioner of osteopathy. He has met with much prosperity, and has, by his example and his writings, contributed much to the extension of the practice. He is president of the New York State Society of Osteopathists, a prominent member of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Osteopathy, being one of its first officers, a member of the Medical Relief Society of New York city, and also of the Order of Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum.
Dr. Helmer is a member of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church. He is married and has twin daughters, May and Katherine.
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CECIL CAMPBELL HIGGINS
C' TECIL CAMPBELL HIGGINS, at one time an influential political leader, long a successful lawyer, and a popular club-man in two countries, is descended on the paternal side from a family which came from England and settled in Virginia and Maryland more than two and a half centuries ago, and for many generations were prosperous planters in those States. On his mother's side he comes from the Scotch family of Campbell, one of the most illustrious in Scotland, the Scotch-Irish family of Butler, also eminent, the English family of Stearns, and the French Huguenot family of Sigourney, all of which settled at Oxford, Massachusetts. His mother's maiden name was Celia Campbell. His father was Samuel Hale Higgins, D. D., a well- known preacher and theologian.
Mr. Higgins was born on August 28, 1850, at Roxbury, Massa- chusetts, now an important part of the city of Boston. He received a careful education in primary and preparatory schools, and was then matriculated at Princeton College, New Jersey. There he pursued the regular collegiate course with distinction, and was graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1871. Selecting the legal profession as his occupation in life, he then came to New York and entered the Law School of Columbia College, under Professor Theodore W. Dwight. There he was successful as a student, and was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1873. The next year he received the degree of M. A. from Princeton.
On leaving the Columbia Law School Mr. Higgins was ad- mitted to practice at the bar. He entered the office of Colonel George Bliss, who was at that time United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, and there rapidly developed
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facility in the practical application of the legal principles with which he had familiarized himself in the law school. Later he entered the office of John L. Cadwalader, and when the latter accepted the office of Assistant Secretary of State under Seere- tary Hamilton Fish, Mr. Higgins became managing elerk in the office of Messrs. Eaton & Tailer, commencing practice a few months later. His career as a lawyer has throughout been marked with great success.
Mr. Higgins has not recently taken an active part in political affairs. He was formerly for some years a leader of the Demo- cratie party in the old Seventh Assembly District, there being associated with his kinsman, Peter B. Olney, Judge Martin T. McMahon, and other prominent men. Later he was one of the committee appointed by the Young Men's Democratic Club to confer with the so-called Brunswick Hotel Committee in organ- izing and perfecting the movement out of which grew the County Democracy. He was the secretary of the meeting at Cooper Union at which the Committee of Fifty was appointed for the purpose of reforming the Democratic party of this city, and was himself a member of that committee.
He has long been a prominent club-man. For nearly twenty- five years he has been a member of the Union League Club of this city. He was one of the active movers in the reorganization and revival of the University Club. He is also a member of the Westchester Historical Society and other organizations in and near New York, and of the St. George's Club, Hanover Square London, England.
Mr. Higgins was married, on September 17, 1887, to Miss Susan Rush of Philadelphia. She is a daughter of Colonel Richard Henry Rush, who was a son of Richard Rush, a grandson of the famous Dr. Benjamin Rush, and a great-grandson of Richard Stockton of New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Higgins have one son, Campbell Higgins, and one daughter, Celia Campbell Higgins.
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FERDINAND HIRSCH
T THE "Nestor of the cigar trade " of the United States, as he has widely been called, David Hirsch, is a native of Rastatt, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany. At the age of nine- teen he entered the Austrian army, in which he served as a captain. In middle life he came to the United States, settled for a time at St. Louis, and then entered the Confederate service in the Civil War. He was in the first engagement of that war, at Camp Jackson, Missouri, and later was provost-marshal at Columbus, Kentucky. After the war he continued in the cigar manufacturing business, in which he is still largely engaged. His wife, Babette Hirsch, was born in Flehingen, Baden.
Ferdinand Hirsch, son of this couple, was born at Flehingen, Baden, on December 6, 1851, and was brought to this country in early childhood. His education in school was limited because of his own unwillingness to pursue his studies further. His father wished him to become highly educated, and offered to send him to the University of Cambridge, England, for five years. The alternative was that he should go to work. He chose the latter, and at the age of thirteen began to learn the trade of a cigar-maker. Then, before his seventeenth year, his father sent him " on the road" to sell cigars, and thus he traveled ex- tensively throughout the country, as far south as Texas and as far west as the Pacific Coast. He was a hard and conscientious worker, dreading neither wind nor weather nor any other diffi- culties, and daunted by no rivalry. Thus he attained the success he deserved, and probably sold as many eigars in the years he was thus employed as any other man in America.
After a few years in such service for his father, he became th. sole representative on the road of the great house of Straiton &
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Storm, in which place he remained for a number of years. Fi- nally, in July, 1883, he embarked in business on his own account, as a manufacturer of clear Havana cigars, in which he has ever since been successfully engaged. He established his factory at Key West, Florida, in 1885, and still maintains it at that place.
Mr. Hirsch is president of the Ferdinand Hirsch Company of New York and Key West ; president of the Khedivial Company, cigarette manufacturers, Chicago, Illinois ; president of Celestine Palacio & Co., New York and Key West, Florida; sole repre- sentative in the United States and Canada of Henry Clay & Bock & Co., Limited, of London, England, and Havana, Cuba, which position he has filled for seventeen years; and sole repre- sentative of the Cigar and Tobacco Factories, Limited, of London and Havana. The extent of his business may be estimated from the fact that the yearly output of one of these concerns, Henry Clay & Bock & Co., is 85,000,000 cigars and 1,200,000,000 ciga- rettes.
The direction of the great business enterprises has proved sufficient to satisfy Mr. Hirsch's energies and ambition. He has identified himself with no other important interests, and has held and sought no political offices. Neither has he cared to spend much time in nor to give much of his attention to clubs or other social organizations. It is his pride to have attained a foremost place in the trade with which he has so long been identified, and to command a patronage that now embraces not only the North American continent, but Europe, Africa, and Australasia.
Mr. Hirsch was married at St. Louis, Missouri, on April 19, 1876, to Miss Minnie F. Hineman, who has borne him a daughter, Effie Adelaide Hirsch, and a son, Harvey Arthur Hirsch.
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JOHN PHILIP HOLLAND
TOHN PHILIP HOLLAND, whose name has become known throughout the world in connection with his invention of a submarine boat calculated largely to revolutionize naval warfare, is a true son of the Emerald Isle, and it is largely if not entirely due to that fact that he is the inventor and promoter of the de- vice which bears his name. He was born on February 24, 1841, at Liscanor, County Clare, Ireland, the son of John and Mary Holland, who came respectively from County Cork and County Kerry. His education was acquired in the school of the Chris- tian Brothers, Sexton Street, Limerick.
For twenty years Mr. Holland pursued the occupation of a school-teacher. The first fifteen years were spent in Ireland. Then he came to the United States, and for five years more taught school in Paterson, New Jersey. Meantime he conceived a deep interest in naval warfare, and studied naval architecture and engineering. He was in Ireland during the Civil War in the United States, but he watched with acute interest the develop- ment of the iron-clad fighting-ship, and especially the epoch- marking performance of the famous little Monitor, invented by John Eriesson. Foreseeing that England would be the first na- tion to take advantage of the lesson taught by the Monitor, and being aware that as that country possessed unequal advantages in materials and experience, her navy would soon become invin- cible and she would be more firmly established than ever as mistress of the seas, he sought some device by which weak maritime countries could protect themselves against armored ships and defy the tyranny of sea power.
He presently turned his attention to the fascinating plan of submarine boats. That plan had been studied and tried without
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success by various men before his time, including an English- man of more than three centuries ago, a Dutchman of about the same time, Bushnell of Connecticut, 1871, and Robert Fulton himself. But Mr. Holland was not dannted by the failures of others. In 1870 he began actual engineering and construc- tive work, which he continued with added energy when he came to America. He first submitted his plans for a submarine boat to the Navy Department in 1875, and built his first boat of that type in 1877. This vessel was hampered with a useless engine, and he decided to sink her as a failure and build another. The first boat, however, gave him some useful ideas and experience, and as a consequence his second boat, built in 1881, proved suc- cessful and attracted much attention. Disagreement between Mr. Holland and his partner led to the abandonment of the vessel, however, and dissolution of the partnership. In 1886 Mr. Holland joined forces with Captain E. L. Zalinski, the inventor of the dynamite-gun, and a company was formed for the promo- tion of the submarine boat. The rude experimental boat which was made was wrecked, however, while being launched, and the company was dissolved. Finally, a few years later, at the in- stance of Commander W. W. Kimball, U. S. N., another company was formed, a contraet was made with the government, and the submarine boat Plunger was built. This was followed by the more perfect Holland, the successful performances of which are at the present time among the most interesting topies of consid- eration before the naval experts of the world. Mr. Holland is identified with the Holland Torpedo Boat Company and the Electric Boat Company, which have in charge the promotion of his invention.
He was married, on January 25, 1887, to Miss Margaret Foley of Paterson, New Jersey, and has five children : John, Robert, Julia, Joseph, and Margaret.
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RICHARD ALEXANDER HUDNUT
THE ancestry of Richard Alexander Hndnut is English on both sides of the house. His father's family came from England and settled at Princeton, New Jersey, about a hundred years ago. There the family filled an important place in local affairs, and the unele and namesake of Mr. Hudnut's father, Alexander Hudnuit, was Mayor of the borough of Princeton. Mr. Hudnut's father. Alexander Hudnut, had a conspicuous career in New York as proprietor of one of the best-known drug stores in the city, which, on Broadway between Fulton and Ann streets, was for many years a landmark. He some years ago retired from active business life, and recently died at Brigh- ton, England.
The maiden name of Mr. Hudnut's mother was Margaret Parker. She was a daughter of Peter Parker, who had married Rebecca Herbert. Both the Parker and Herbert families are of English origin, and are well known in the State of New Jersey. in which they have held large landed estates, and have been influential in social, industrial, and political affairs since the days of the Revolution. Mr. Hudont's mother is now deceased.
Mr. Hudnut was born in the city of Philadelphia on June 2, 1856. Soon thereafter the family removed to New York, and he was educated in the schools of that city and in the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn.
At the age of eighteen years he left school and entered the drug store conducted by his father in New York. There he made a thorough study of the drug business, and paid especial attention to the chemistry and the manufacture of perfinnes. He remained in association with his father in that store until the latter's re- tirement from business and the closing of the famous store in 1889.
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Mr. Hudnut made a prolonged visit to Europe, during which he traveled widely, and made a careful study of the most approved and successful methods of manufacturing perfumery. Then, on his father's retirement, he opened the Richard Hudnut Pharmacy (Incorporated), at No. 925 Broadway, New York. To that establishment he has since devoted practically his entire business attention.
While conducting a general pharmacy business of the best kind, Mr. Hudnut's corporation, as might be supposed, makes a specialty of the manufacture and sale of perfumery. In that industry nearly a hundred persons are employed, and the "Rich- ard Hudnut Perfumes " are sold in all parts of the country, and are recognized as of the highest standard of excellence, compet- ing not only with the best American but with the best foreign makes.
Mr. Hudnut has not engaged in politics, beyond discharging the duties of a citizen, nor has he engaged conspicuously in any other business undertakings. He is secretary and treasurer of the Richard Hudnut Pharmacy (Incorporated), and gives his time and energies to the promotion of its prosperity.
Mr. Hudnut was married in 1881, at St. Thomas's Church, New York, to Evelyn I. Beals, daughter of Horace Beals, and grand-niece of the late Hannibal Hamlin, formerly Vice-Presi- dent of the United States. Horace Beals was a well-known granite-quarry owner and the builder of many important public buildings, including the custom-house and the post-office in New York and the post-office in Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. Hudnut have no children.
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TITHE family of Hunter is traced back in a direct line to the
1 days of William the Conqueror. Norman Hunter was one of William's captains, and, after his king's death, was obliged to flee to Scotland to escape the displeasure of the tyrannical Wil- liam Rufus. He was granted lands by the Scottish king, and built the castle of Hunterston in Ayrshire, which, with the estates, has remained in the possession of the family for nearly eight hundred years, withont, it is said, ever lacking lineal repre- sentative. From this prolific stock many branches have sprung. General Robert Hunterston founded the English branch which gave to New York and New Jersey one of the ablest royal gover- nors of colonial days. Robert Hunter, Governor from 1710 to 1719, was a pioneer in inducing the settlement of Germans in New York and Pennsylvania. He brought over a colony of two thousand, and spent twenty thousand dollars of his private for- tune in establishing and maintaining them. The Long Calder- wood brauch, founded by Francis Hunter of Hunterston, gave to the world the famous surgeon, JJohn Hunter, who became president of the Royal College of Surgeons, surgeon to the king, and surgeon-general of the British army ; also William Hunter, distinguished as a physician, at whose death, in 1798, Parliament voted thirty-five thousand pounds for the purchase of his manu- scripts and scientific works, which were deposited in the British Museum.
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