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HAVILAND, Charles T .:
Lawyer; born at Waterville, Me., Aug. 24, 1850; graduated at Union College and Albany Law School; in 1882 commenced the practice of law in New York City, where he has since continued, giving his principal attention to corporation law. Member of University Club and Bar As- sociation. Author of a work on "Corpora- tions and the Liabilities of Officers and Stockholders," and of annotated editions of the N. Y. corporation laws for several years; also contributor to magazines and reviews on legal, economical and philo- sophical subjects; his summer home is at Westlake Farm, Chapinville, Conn. Of- fice, 32 Nassau St., New York.
HAWKES, McDougall:
Lawyer; was born in New York City in 1862, and comes from an old New York family, identified with public affairs from colonial times; his great great-grandfath- er, Alexander McDougall (after whom McDougall St. was named) commanded the vessels of war Barrington and Tiger in the conflict of 1756 with the French; was colonel of the First New York Regiment in 1775, raised to the rank of major-general in 1777, put in com- mand of the Highlands and West Point upon the discovery of Arnold's treachery, and after termination of the war, was first president of the Bank of New York and of the New York Society of the Cin- cinnati; his great-grandfather was the distinguished judge advocate-general of the Revolution. John Lawrance, who of- ficiated at the trial of Major Andre, was subsequently United States senator and United States judge for the District of New York; his grandfather, George Wright Hawkes, came to New York from Dudley, England, about 1798, and mar- ried in 1807, Ann, daughter of Judge Ad-
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vocate-General Lawrence, whose wife was the only daughter of General McDougall; his father, W. Wright Hawkes, LL.D., was a brilliant public speaker, well known at the bar, and in public life, during the period of Governor Marcy's administra- tion, and held for some time the chair of English literature at Trinity College. His mother, Eliza Forbes Hawkes, was born in New Haven, Conn., and was a daughter of William Jehiel Forbes, a real estate owner and wealthy shipping merchant of New England of the first quarter of a century; Mr. Hawkes attended the Trin- ity Church School in Philadelphia, the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, the French University Lycées of Tours, and of St. Louis in Paris, where he pre- pared for the French Ecole Polytechnique, Dr. Winneberger's School at Marburg, in Germany, and, returning to New York in 1881, entered Columbia College, where he graduated from the School of Mines with the degree of Engineer, in 1885, the School of Political Science in 1886, and the School of Law, of which Professor Dwight was then dean, in 1887, being admitted to the bar in the same year from the office of the late Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Charles P. Daly. In the sound-money Presidential campaign of 1896 he took an energetic part, and, be- coming actively interested in Republican politics, was elected in 1899 first vice- president of the New York County Com- mittee; and in 1900, one of the Republican leaders of New York County. The law firm of which he has been a member has represented large foreign investing inter- ests in American enterprises, many of which have been prominent factors in the development of Western railroads and industries. As an authority on legal, en- gineering and real estate matters con- cerning the water front and port of New York he was selected by Mayor Low for the position of commissioner of docks. served in that capacity during 1902 and 1903, carried out the Chelsea improvement, the most important piece of water-front work undertaken by the city. extending from 23d St. to 12th St., North river. adding over three miles of available dock- age space on the city's water front (quick prosecution of the work being made pos- sible by chanter 611 of the Laws of 1902) ; established the Trunk Line Union Ferry Terminal Center at West 23d St .; built the large recreation pier at the foot of Market slip, East river; presented to the Sinking Fund Commission plans for municipal ferries from Whitehall St., Manhattan, to 39th St .. South Brooklyn. and to St. George. Stapleton and Port Richmond, Staten Island. and largely in- creased the water front revenues of New York City. Mr. Hawkes is a member of the Union, Metropolitan. Union League. Republican and Westchester Country Clubs. and the Bar Association and the Law Institute of the City of New York; of the Society of the Cincinnati; of the Society of Colonial Wars; the St. Nicho- las Society, and the New York Histori-
cal Society. Address, 42 East 26th St., New York.
HAWKINS, Rush Christopher, A.M., LL.D .:
Brevet brigadier-general, U. S. Vol- unteers, and officer of the Legion of Honor of France; born at Pomfret, Vt., Sept. 14, 1831; educated in the common schools; failed in an attempt to be a lawyer, was in the army in 1848 and again during the rebellion when he commanded the Ninth New York Volunteers ("Hawkins' Zou- aves") and a brigade and division of the Ninth Army Corps; in 1860 he married Annmary, the daughter of Nicholas Brown of Providence, R. I .; was a mem- ber of the New York Legislature of 1872, and was the art commissioner for the United States at the Centennial Exhi- bition of France in 1889; since childhood he has been a book collector of early English letters; and especially of books printed before the year 1501, which illus- trate the progress of wood engraving and printing during the second half of the fifteenth century. Of his writings there have been published: "Titles of the First Books from the Earliest Presses," "Better than Men," "The Assassination of North Carolinians for Serving in the Union Army," articles for the Century War History, and also pamphlets on various subjects and magazine articles. Address, 21 W. 20th St., New York.
HAWLEY, Charles B .:
Composer, organist, vocal teacher; born in Brookfield, Conn., of old New England stock; began playing the church organ in his native town at the age of twelve; at- tended the Military Academy at Cheshire, Conn., and there had charge of the boy choir; 1876 began study of music with Rivarde, Federlein and George James Webb, of New York; studied organ and composition with Dudley Buck, Mosen- thal, Dyas and Ruthenbur; at the age of 19 he was engaged as solo basso of Cal- vary Episcopal Church, and as assistant organist of St. Thomas's Church, under George William Warren; and five years later as solo basso and director of music at the Broadway Tabernacle Church, which position he still holds; for twenty- one years he has had charge of the music in the Chapel of St. James, Elberon, N. J., where Generals Grant and Gar- field, George W. Childs and other promin- ent men attended; was one of the original members of the Manuscript Society of New York, and its first vice-president; was also president of the American Com- posers' Choral Club, and for many years a prominent member and assistant con- ductor of the Mendelssohn Glee Club; also a member of the Mendelssohn Quar- tet Club; is also instructor of voice-cul- ture and composer of many songs, among
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which are: "Ah! 'tis a Dream," "My Lit- tle Love," "Because I Love You, Dear," "The Sweetest Flower that Blows," "A Rose Fable," "I Wait for Thee," "Mol- lie's Eyes,' "A Song of Life," "Spring's Awakening." Address, 230 West 99th St., New York.
HAWTHORNE, Hildegarde (Miss) :
Author; born New York; daughter of Julian Hawthorne, and granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Author of stories and poems in Scribner's, Century, Har- per's and other leading magazines. Ad- dress, 476 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, N. Y.
HAY, George T .:
Shipping and commission merchant; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 21, 1858; son of Charles H. and Rachel (White); at- tended public schools until July, 1872, when he entered the employ of J. F. Whitney & Co., shipping and commis- sion merchants; since 1882, has been in- terested in the business; 1896, when he became the senior member of firm; mem- ber of Produce and Maritime Exchanges. Residence, 80 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
HAYES, Edward M .:
Brigadier-general U. S. Army; born in New York in 1842; enlisted in the army at Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 28, 1855, at the age of thirteen years as trumpeter; served at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and Carlisle Barracks, Pa .. until 1856, when ordered to Texas and assigned to Troop B, Second Cavalry, commanded by E. Kirby Smith; saw service at Camps Cooper and Colo- rado, Texas, and engaged in Indian Cam- paign with Major Earl Van Dorn and Fitzhugh Lee; was discharged in 1860, and attended school until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he entered the military telegraph service, but was soon appointed second lieutenant of the Tenth Ohio Cavalry; was promoted to first lieu- tenant, captain, and brevet major, and was mustered out of service July 24, 1865, at Lexington, N. C .; was appointed sec- ond lieutenant, Fifth Cavalry, in Feb., 1866, and served with company and as regimental quartermaster until 1872; was aide de camp on the staff of General W. H. Emory, commanding department of the gulf at New Orleans, La., until 1875; promoted to captain and joined troop in field, serving in the Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Yellowstone expedition of 1876, and in different sections of the West. Promoted major in 1893, and assigned to the Seventh Cavalry; served at Fort Clark, Texas; was detailed with the North Carolina State Guard until the breaking out of the Spanish War; volunteered for duty, and was ordered to Tampa, Fla., to report to General Wheeler; later assigned tempo- rarily to the Fifth Cavalry and accom- panied the regiment to Cuba in 1098; as-
signed with squadron to Seventh Army Corps, commanded by Major-General Fitzhugh Lee; promoted lieutenant-colo- nel of the Fourth Cavalry, stationed in the Philippines, and assumed command of the regiment in 1899; served in the Philip- pines in command of regiment until 1901; promoted to colonel of the Thirteenth Cavalry (one of the new regiments) and returned to the United States; served at Fort Meade, S. Dak., organizing the reg- iment, and was temporarily in command of the Department of Dakota; was pro- moted brigadier general in 1903 and re- tired in Feb., 1903, at special request made to the secretary of war. Service embraced nearly all of the Indian campaigns in Texas between 1856 and 1860, and all the campaigns of the western army; the ."march to the sea," and through the Carolinas, to General Johnston's surren- der at Greensboro, N. C .; also the Indian campaigns in the West under General Sherman, General E. A. Carr, Colonel W. P. Royal and General George Crook; the northern and southern campaign of Luzon in 1899, 1900 and 1901. Address, General Delivery, Dover, Del.
HAYNES, David Oliphant:
President and general manager D. O. Haynes & Co., publishers; born Detroit, Aug. 29, 1858; for ten years connected with large firm of manufacturing chem- ists; established The Pharmaceutical Era, Detroit, 1887; removed to New York, 1894; established the New York Commercial as a daily business newspaper in 1898. Residence, 11 West 94th St .; office, 8 Spruce St., New York.
HAZEL, John Raymond:
Jurist; born Buffalo, N. Y., Dec., 1860; admitted to bar April 7, 1882; judge Uni- ted States district court, western district New York, 1900; administered constitu- tional oath of office to President Roose- velt, Sept. 14, 1901; member Ellicott, New York, Republican and other clubs. Ad- dress, 37 Hodge Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.
HAZELTON, George Cochrane, Jr .:
Lawyer and author; born in Boscobel, Wis .; son of ex-congressman from Wis- consin, George C. Hazelton; studied at Greylock Institute, South Williamstown, Mass .; graduated from Columbian Uni- versity, Washington, D. C. (LL.B.), 1895, receiving LL.M. in 1896; acted three seas- ons on the stage with Booth-Barrett and Modjeska companies to perfect his knowl- edge of stagecraft with a view to dram- atic and other writing; married Miss Byrd C. Quin, of Virginia; practiced law first in Washington, D. C., with his father; later in Philadelphia, and, in 1901, went to New York and formed the firm of Hazelton & Hazelton with his brother, John H. Hazelton, who had been associ- ated in the law with Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll; an active Republican in poli-
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tics. Author of "Mistress Nell," novel and play; "Captain Molly," and "The Raven," plays, and the historical work, "The National Capitol, Its Architecture. Art and History," etc. Residence, 35 Chestnut Lane, New Rochelle, N. Y .; of- fice, 220 Broadway, New York.
HAZEN, Allen:
Civil engineer; born Hartford, Vt., Aug. 28, 1869; studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1888-93, in charge of State Board of Health Expert Station, Lawrence, Mass .; in charge sewerage dis- posal, World's Columbian Exposition, Chi- cago, 1893; in private practice, Boston, 1894-97; New York since 1897; chief en- gineer, Albany Water Filtration Plant, built 1898-99, and other purification works; consulting engineer for water purification works for Washington, D. C .; member American Society Civil Engineers; Ameri- can Water Works Association, American Chemical Society, American Public Health Association, etc. Residence, 146 West 82d St .; office, St. Paul Building, New York.
HAZEN, Marshman Williams:
Lawyer, author, publisher; born Bever- ly, Mass., July 28, 1845; son of Grenlief Hazen (direct descendant of Israel Hazen, an English immigrant who settled in Row- ley, Mass., early in the eighteenth cent- ury) and Susan Perley Hazen (daughter of Captain Jacob Towne, a veteran of the war of 1812; youngest of seven sons; four brothers fought in the Union army through the entire civil war, and one other was killed at Antietam; fitted him- self for college; entered Dartmouth Col- lege in 1862; paid his expenses by literary work and by teaching; gained Greek hon- or at junior exhibition; was graduated in 1866 third in his class; was a D. K. E .; received degree of A. M. in 1869; chose law as his profession, but believed that a broad education should include the foun- dation principles of the various profes- sions as well as of business, and before taking up his chosen work studied medi- cine and theology. Acted as principal of Pinkerton Academy for three years; was master of the high school at West Cam- bridge, Mass .; then began study of law; resigned his position to take charge of the western house of Ginn & Company, of Boston; five years later he became manager of the New England branch of D. Appleton & Company; resigned in 1882 to engage in law; admitted to the Massachusetts bar; attorney for several New York corporations. Has devoted himself mostly to corporation law; pres- ident of the National Press Company, the Union Writing Machine Company, the Sheldon Loan and Trust Company, head of a publishing' house, and director in several other corporations; contributor of articles to various magazines. Author of "A History of the United States," in two volumes; a work on the forms of the world's governments; has prepared twen-
ty-one school books, including a series of spellers (Ginn & Company), a series of readers (the American Book Company), a course in language (Silver, Burdett & Co.), a "History of the Republican Party from 1884," a "First Year Book" (the American Book Company), and, jointly with two clergymen, a religious work called "Jehovah and Lucifer." A thirty- third degree Mason, and member of the Old South Church, Boston; is actively en- gaged in charitable work, and has de- voted a large part of his income to the poor; was never engaged in politics. Of- fice, 27 Thames St., New York.
HEARN, David William:
Roman Catholic priest; born Boston, 1861; graduated from Boston College, 1880; took further courses, academic and ecclesiastical; is president of the College of St. Francis Xavier, New York. Ad- dress, 30 West 16th St., New York.
HEARST, William Randolph:
Newspaper publisher and congressman; son of George Hearst, late United States senator, and Phoebe A. Hearst; born in San Francisco in 1863; attended the pub- lic schools of San Francisco and subse- quently went to Harvard College; became editor and proprietor of the San Fran- cisco Examiner in 1886; in 1895 he pur- chased and became editor of the New York Journal, and in 1896 he established the New York Evening Journal; founded the Chicago American in 1900, and the Chicago Examiner in 1902; is president of the National Association of Democratic Clubs; was elected as Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress. Address, 27 West 35th St., New York.
HEATH, Frank:
Lieutenant colonel, U. S. Army; born in England and appointed from New York; graduated from the Military Acad- emy and promoted second lieutenant, Third U. S. Artillery. June 15, 1868; served in garrison in Georgia 1868-69, and at Fort Marion, Fla., 1869; at Fort Pulaski, Ga .; 1869-70; assistant professor of math- ematics at the Military Academy 1871- 76; promoted to first lieutenant, ordnance dept .. Nov., 1874; at Rock Island Arsenal, III., 1878-79; promoted to captain 1880; in Wyoming in command of Cheyenne Ord- nance Depot 1879-83; assistant ordnance officer at the Springfield Armory, Mass., 1883-86, and at Watervliet Arsenal, N. Y., 1886 to 1891; commanding U. S. Proving Ground, Sandy Hook, N. J., from 1891 to 1900. Commanding Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, to date. Major July 7, 1898; lieutenant colonel 1903. Address, Ord- nance Department, Frankford Arsenal, Pa.
HEATON, John Langdon:
Journalist; born Canton, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1860; the son of Ira Wilmarth Heaton and Lucinda Langdon
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Heaton, upon the farm which his grand- father, John Heaton, coming from Ver- mont in 1816, had hewn out of the wil- derness; he was educated in the district schools, the Canton village academy and St. Lawrence University, of which insti- tution he is a Phi Beta Kappa member, and master of arts; he married in 1882 Eliza Osborn Putnam, of Danvers, Mass., and has one son, James Putnam Heaton; after a brief experience as a teacher in the Rutgers College Grammar School, in 1880-81, he entered journalism upon the Brooklyn Times, with which paper he was connected for fifteen years as an editorial writer; in 1892 established the Daily News in Providence, R. I .; return- ing to New York he joined the staff of the World, becoming in 1900 an editorial writer; has traveled extensively in Eu- rope and the East, acting as a corres- pondent, and has published "The Story of Vermont," "Stories of Napoleon," a volume of poems entitled "The Quilting Bee" and numerous magazine articles. Residence, 1025 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
HECKSCHER, John Gerard:
One of the organizers of, and a director in, the National Horse Show Association; was named after his maternal grand- father, John Gerard Coster (who came to New York about 1790, and was for many years one of the most distinguished mer- chants of the city, and president of the Bank of the Manhattan Company). Was born New York, 1837; during the Civil War he served for two years under Gen- eral Mcclellan as first lieutenant in the Twelfth United States Infantry and was highly commended for gallant conduct on the field of battle; he engaged in ac- tive business early in life, but has given the greater share of his attention to the higher forms of gentlemanly sport; he was the intimate associate of Messrs. Bel- mont, Jerome, Travers and the other gen- tlemen who established racing in Amer- ica on a firm foundation; he was also one of the founders of the Coney Island Jockey Club, and is now its vice-presi- dent; he was one of the organizers of the National Horse Show Association and its present secretary, laboring actively and efficiently as an officer and director of the latter to give it popularity and suc- cess. The institution has fully justified his views concerning the influence of the horse show it conducts, and has benefited the breeding of the highest type of horses in this country, while it has been the example for the horse shows, now so fre- quent and. popular in all parts of the Union. He still maintains his official con- nection with the organization which owes so much to his efforts and counsels; he is a member of the Jockey Club, as well as of the New York Yacht Club, the South Side Sportsmen's Club, and the Metropol- itan, Union, Recquet, and Army and Navy Clubs, while he also belongs to the Mili-
tary Order of the Legion; in 1862 he mar- ried Cornelia Lawrence Whitney, a de- scendant of Henry Whitney, who settled at Norwalk, Conn., and died in 1673; his great-great-grandson was Stephen Whit- ney, the famous New York merchant three-quarters of a century ago; Mrs. Heckscher died some years ago; in 1892 he contracted a second marriage with Mary Travers, eldest daughter of the late William R. Travers; of his four daughters by his first wife, two survive; the elder, Georgiana Louisa, is the wife of the Hon. George Brinton Mcclellan; his youngest daughter, Emeline Dore, is the wife of Egerton Leigh Winthrop, Jr., of New York. Address, 31 West 75th St., New York.
HEERMANS, Forbes:
Author; born Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1856; son of Thomas Beekman and Annie Forbes Heermans; preparatory education in schools of Syracuse, 1871-4; entered Cornell University, graduating 1878, as mechanical engineer. Author of the fol- lowing: "Thirteen Stories of the Far West" (published' by C. W. Bardeen 1887), "Love by Induction and Other Plays" (R. H. Russell & Son 1889), "The Silent Witness," four-act drama (R. H. Russell & Son 1890), "The Rancho of Heavenly Rest," "Between Two Foes," four-act drama, Penn Publishing Company, 1899; "The Vagabond," a play starred in by the late Felix Morris; "Jess, of the Bar Z Ranch," four-act drama, produced in 1901; "Down the Santa Fe Trail," four- act drama, 1903; is also a contributor to various magazines and scientific journals. Address, 217 Highland Ave., Syracuse, N. Y.
HEFFERNAN. John A .:
Appointed borough secretary of Brook- lyn, by Borough President elect Martin Littleton; born about the year 1871. For twelve years has been an active news- paper worker in the borough, and for the last four or five years of that period he has been considered one of the best in- formed writers of political news in Brook- lyn; is the son of an old-time newspaper man, his father having been a financial writer for one of the metropolitan dailies for many years; married; is a member of the Democratic organization in the Seventh Assembly District, a member of the Young Men's Democratic Club and of the Friday Club, a social organization. made up of newspaper men. Residence, 471 55th St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
HEGEMAN, John R .:
President of the Metropolitan Life In- surance Company of New York; was born in New York City, April 18, 1844, and served the usual mercantile apprenticeship from 1860 to 1866, the latter part of the time in a New York bank; he joined the Manhattan Life as an accountant in Dec., 1866; in June, 187J, he was appointed sec-
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retary of the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Company; in Oct. of the same year was elected vice-president, and in Oct., 1891, was made president; trustee Ham- ilton Trust Company and Union Dime Savings Bank; director National Shoe and Leather Bank, Lincoln Trust Com- pany and Trust Company of America. Residence, 19 Madison Ave., New York.
HELLMAN, Mrs. Theodore:
Author; daughter of the late Joseph Seligman, the founder of the banking firm, and the widow of Theodore Hellman; born in New York in 1852; has published three books, translations of Heine's "Ly- ric and Ballads," Kinkel's "Tanagra," and Leroy Beaulieu's "Israel Chez les Na- tions;" Mrs. Hellman has served as school inspector and is interested in many char- itable and educational institutions, acting as director on many boards. Address, 36 West 75th St., New York.
HEMENWAY, John Francis:
Manufacturer; born at Amber, N. Y .; son of Seneca C. and Lucy (Francis) Hemenway, both of whom were of Eng- lish ancestry; received education in the common schools of
Onondaga County, continuing studies by private tutors later; first obtained employment in a country store; afterwards turned his attention to telegraphy, and for about four years was in the service of the old Atlantic and Pacific, the Western Union and the Chi- cago and Western Railroad Companies, and at different times gave some atten- tion to railroading. Receiving a favorable opening from a woolen mill concern at Marcellus, N. Y., Mr. Hemenway took a position as bookkeeper, afterwards was similarly occupied at Auburn, N. Y., for the Empire Wringer Company, of which establishment he subsequently became manager, and maintained that connection until that enterprise was consolidated with the American Wringer Company, and as assistant general manager he de- voted seven years to the development and betterment of the consolidated organiza- tion; continuing as a director, he then withdrew from the management of that enterprise, and organized in New York the Smith & Hemenway Company, manufac- turers and importers of hardware special -- ties and cutlery, into which was merged Smith & Patterson, Bindley Automatic Wrench Company. the Maltby-Henley Company. and the Windsor Hardware Corporation; was organized in March, 1898. Connected also with Ericsson Tel- ephone Company of New York, which was organized in June, 1898. making a specialty of importing telephone appli- ances made by L. M. Ericsson & Co., of Stockholm, Sweden, St. Petersburg, Rus- sia. and London, England. He is secre- tary, treasurer and director in the Erics- son Telephone Company, the Smith & Hemenway Company, treasurer and di- rector in the Schatz Hardware Manufac-
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