Henderson, Peter
Peter (1822-1890), a gardener, florist, seedsman, and writer. He was born near Edinburgh, Scotland, and died at Jersey City . Henderson learned market gardening in Scotland and came to this country in 1843 with the savings of three years of manual labor. He began raising vegetables for the New York City market. In 1865 he opened up a seed business which is still conducted by his sons. His fame rests on numerous books for the market gardener and amateur. Henderson was a natural manager of details as well as of affairs on a large scale, and his books told how. Gardening for Profit appeared in 1865. A friend states that he wrote it in bed in an aggregate of 100 hours wedged in before going to sleep at the close of a day's work of sixteen hours, largely of manual labor. One hundred and fifty thousand copies of this practical book were sold. Practical Floriculture, Gardening for Pleasure, The Handbook of Plants, Garden and Farm Topics, How the Farm Pays, followed in due succession. Although it is estimated that Mr. Henderson wrote 100,000 letters with his own hand he was never too busy to answer inquiry as to how to cultivate vegetables or flowers. Peter Henderson is an example of the simple, hard-headed, shrewd, kindly, industrious, able, unselfish, successful man of money, of whom we cannot have too many. See Vegetables
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Hendon
a suburban town of England outside of London, 8 miles from St. Paul's Cathedral, on the banks of the Brent. Its claim to distinction is the fact that here were located the aerodromes of the first aeroplanes which flew in England, before the World War, making of Hendon the center of the national interest in aeroplane events. Here were conducted the many tests of new-type machines, whose feats added extensively to the general experience in the art of flying.
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Hendricks
THOMAS ANDREWS, Vice-President of the United States; born near Zanesville, O., Sept. 7, 1819; was graduated at South Hanover College, Indiana, in 1841; went to Chambersburg, Pa., studied law in the office of his uncle and was admitted to the bar in 1843. In 1845 he was sent to the Legislature, and in 1850 and 1852 was elected to Congress. In 1860 he was the Democratic candidate for governor of Indiana, but was defeated by Henry S. Lane. In 1863-1869 he was a United States Senator; and at the Democratic National Convention of 1868 received 132 votes (second highest) for the presidential nomination. In the same year he was again defeated for the governorship of Indiana, but in 1872 was elected. In the Democratic National Convention of 1876 he received 13312 votes for the presidential nomination, and a practically unanimous vote for the vice-presidential. The Democratic ticket, headed by Tilden, was, however, defeated. In 1884 Hendricks was again nominated for the vice-presidency, and this time the Democrats were victorious, and Cleveland and Hendricks were elected. He died in Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 25, 1885.
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Heng-Kiang
a river of China, falling from the N. W. into the Yang-tse-kiang. In its course of 300 miles it has several large cities on its banks.
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Henley
WILLIAM ERNEST, an English poet and editor; born in Gloucester, Aug. 23, 1849. Months of sickness in Edinburgh Infirmary (1873-1875) bore fruit in "A Book of Verses" (1888), which won much attention, and was followed by "Views and Reviews" (1890); "The Song of the Sword" (1892); "English Lyrics" (1897); "Poems" (1898); etc. He has also been editor of the "Magazine of Art"; the "Scots (or "National") tional") Observer"; and the "New Review"; beside ; besides editing Burns and Byron. He collaborated with R. L. Stevenson in three plays, "Deacon Brodie"; "Beau Austin"; and "Admiral Guinea." He died in 1903.
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Henley-On-Thames
a municipal borough of Oxfordshire, at the base of the Chiltern Hills, and on the left bank of the Thames; 36 miles W. of London. The five-arch bridge was built in 1786 at a cost of $50,000. Malting is a principal branch of industry; there are also breweries, and a con considerable trade in corn, flour, and timber. The principal amateur regatta of England has been held here every summer since 1839.
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Henry V
king of England. He reigned 1413-22. Shakespeare describes him as a wild, dissolute youth. As a king he was not lacking in manly qualities. He invaded France in 1415 and won the brilliant battle of Agincourt. He married Catharine of France. By the treaty of Troyes, made in 1420, their son to be was agreed upon as the joint king of France and England.
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Henry VI
king of England. The son of Henry V and Catharine. His father died when he was only nine months old. He was king of England 1422-61. In 1430 he was crowned king of France at Paris, according to agreement. It was during his reign that Joan of Arc and Charles VII drove the English forces to the English Channel , leaving England no territory in France except Calais.
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Henry, Joseph
Joseph (1797-1878), the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . He was a native of Albany, New York . He took up the study of medicine, but abandoned it for engineering. In 1826 he became an instructor in Albany Academy. He was much interested in electro-magnets, a subject on which he delivered public lectures. By means of an electric battery, a coil of wire, and a soft iron core, he made a magnet capable of sustaining a weight of 3,500 pounds, to the great astonishment of the scientific world. His experiments led to the construction of the magnetic telegraph. His reputation won him the chair of natural philosophy in Princeton College. In 1846 he was made secretary of the Smithsonian. He had the privilege of organizing that institution. He won still further fame as the organizer of systematic information leading up to the establishment of the United States Weather Bureau . See Smithsonian
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Henty
GEORGE ALFRED, a popular English novelist and writer for boys; born in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, Dec. 8, 1832. He was editor of "Union Jack," a journal for boys, and has been special war correspondent of the London "Standard" in various quarters of the globe. A voluminous writer, among his works are: "The Young Franc-Tireurs," "Winning His Spurs," "Facing Death," "The Lion of St. Mark's," "In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers," "Lost Heir," and some 70 others. He died in 1902.
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