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was the original Hiram Sloane in May Blossom at the Madison Square Theater, April 12, 1884, and retained the part for the long run of the play. In April, 1885, he went to the Lyceum Theater and was the first player of Noel in Datolar. In the spring of 1886 he became a member of the company supporting Richard Mansfield, playing with that actor for several seasons in the United States, Canada, and England. He retired from the stage in 1897 and became private secretary to his brother-in-law, Jacob Hess, commissioner of police of the city of New York.

Fritschel, Sigmund, educator, born in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Dec. 2, 1833; died in Dubuque, Iowa, April 26, 1900. He was educated in his native city, and became connected with the Lutheran theological seminary of the Iowa Synod. For several years he served as a missionary in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and in 1858 returned to the theological seminary, which had meanwhile been re-established as Wartburg Seminary at St. Sebald, Iowa, and his brother Gottlob had become one of the professors in 1857. He remained in connection with the seminary during the rest of his life, and for many years was its president. In 1860 his synod sent him to Europe to solicit help for its work among the Germans in America. This journey took him as far as St. Petersburg and Moscow. In 1866 he was again sent to Europe to obtain the opinions of Lutheran theologians on the synod's doctrinal position with reference to the predestinarian controversy with the Missouri Synod, and to represent the synod of Iowa at the second anniversary of the Society of Home Missions at NeuendettelIn 1870 he was sent to Germany a third time, to secure young men for the seminary and for the rapidly increasing work of missions. In the doctrinal controversies of the Iowa and Missouri synods he took a prominent part, and wrote many of the reports and essays in defense of the position of Iowa. In connection with his brother he edited the Kirchliche Zeitschrift, established in 1876, and he also wrote numerous theological articles for periodicals. In 1879 Muhlenberg College conferred on him the degree of doctor of divinity. He and his brother Gottlob (died July 13, 1889; see Annual Cyclopædia for 1889, page 630) were for many years the two most influential theologians, educators, and literary workers in the German Iowa Synod. Their books were published in this country and republished in Germany.

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Fullerton, William, lawyer, born in Minisink, N. Y., May 1, 1817; died in Newburg, N. Y., March 15, 1900. He was graduated at Union College in 1838, and in 1841 was admitted to the bar. Soon afterward he became district attorney of Orange County. His reputation won for him in 1852 an invitation by Charles O'Conor to remove to New York city and enter into partnership with him. This partnership was dissolved in 1860, and Mr. Fullerton formed the firm of Fullerton, Raymond & Knox, which after several changes became in 1873 Fullerton, Knox & Crosby. Mr. Fullerton was appointed to the Supreme Court bench in 1868, and became ex officio a member of the Court of Appeals, in which he sat till the expiration of his term. He was one of the counsel for the defense in the many indictments and civil proceedings against William M. Tweed. The most noted incident in his career was his cross-examination of Henry Ward Beecher in the famous Tilton-Beecher case.

Fulton, Albert Kimberly, dramatist, born in Baltimore, Md., in 1836; died there, Jan. 31, 1900. He was a son of Charles Fulton, editor of the

Baltimore American, and served during the civil war as an engineer in the United States navy. For three years he served on board the Hartford, Admiral Farragut's flagship. At the close of the war he became a member of the editorial staff of the American. He was the author of a libretto of Jack Sheppard, a musical comedy, and a comedy which was very successfully acted by Miss Lotta, called Mademoiselle Nitouche.

Galloupe, Dwight, clergyman, born in Stamford, N. Y., in 1871; died in Newark, N. J., July 11, 1900. He was graduated at Alfred University, and studied for two years at the Albany Medical College; he also studied theology at Hobart College and at Harvard University. His first charge was at Angelica, N. Y. Then for two years he was an assistant in the cathedral in Portland, Me. He was appointed rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Newark, N. J., in 1896. He was known as an orator of rare ability. In 1898 he offered his services to the President, and on May 8 was ordered to join the 9th Infantry at Tampa, Fla., as its chaplain. He endeared himself to the men by enduring their hardships, and while assisting the wounded on the firing line in the battle of Santiago he was wounded by a piece of shell, and, although he returned to his duties, he never fully recovered.

Garrison, Lloyd McKim, author, born in Orange, N. J., May 4, 1867; died at Lenox, Mass., Oct. 4, 1900. He was a grandson of William Lloyd Garrison. He was graduated at Harvard in both the academic and the law departments, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1892. He published Ballads of Harvard and Other Verse 1891) and History of the Hasty-Pudding Club (1897).

Gear, John Henry, merchant, born in Ithaca, N. Y., April 7, 1825; died in Washington, D. C., July 14, 1900. At the age of ten he removed with his parents to Galena, Ill.: two years later to Fort Snelling, Minn.; and in 1843 to Burlington, where he became a clerk in a grocery. In 1849 he was made a partner, and in 1854 became sole owner of the business. In 1852 he was elected alderman, and in 1863 mayor of Burlington. In 1872 he was elected to the Legislature, serving three terms, in the latter two of which he was Speaker of the House. From 1878 till 1881 he was Governor of Iowa. He was elected to Congress in 1886, was twice re-elected, and was defeated on his fourth nomination. He was a member of the Ways and Means Committee that framed the McKinley tariff law. Nov. 19, 1892, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury by President Harrison, and in 1894 was elected United States Senator from Iowa; his term would have expired in 1901, and he had been re-elected. At the time of his death he was chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads, and a member of the Committees on Agriculture and Forestry, Education and Labor, Interstate Commerce, Post Offices and Post Roads, and Improvements of the Mississippi River.

Gerry, Charles F., author, born in Sudbury, Mass., June 3, 1823; died there, Sept. 4, 1900. He was graduated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1851, and became a teacher in the Boston Mercantile Academy, and later in the Fort Hill School, Boston. In 1877 and 1880 he was a member of the Legislature. He also served in the State Senate in 1882-83. He was a frequent contributor to periodical literature, and published Meadow Melodies (Boston, 1887).

Gibson, Charles Hopper, lawyer, born in Queen Anne County, Maryland, Jan. 19, 1842; died in Washington, D. C., March 31, 1900. He was

graduated at Washington College, Chestertown, Md.; was admitted to the bar in 1864, and began practice in Easton. In 1869 he was appointed commissioner in chancery, and in 1870 was made auditor of the county. This latter office he vacated the same year to become State's attorney for Talbot County, to which office he was elected for a full term of four years in 1871 and again in 1875. He was elected to Congress in 1885, and served three terms. Nov. 19, 1891, he was appointed United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Wilson, and Jan. 21, 1892, was elected for the unexpired term. He served till March 3, 1897, and then returned to the practice of law.

Gilbert, Mahlon Norris, clergyman, born in Laurens, N. Y., March 23, 1843; died in St. Paul, Minn., March 2, 1900. He was educated at Fairfield Seminary and Hobart College, and after preparing for the Episcopal ministry at Seabury Divinity School, in Faribault, Minn., took orders in 1875. From 1875 to 1881 he was rector of St. Peter's Church, Helena, Mont., and in 1881-'86 rector of Christ Church, Minneapolis, Minn. In October of the last-named year he was consecrated Assistant Bishop of Minnesota, receiving at a later date the title of bishop coadjutor.

Gilder, William Henry, explorer, born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 16, 1838; died in Morristown, N. J., Feb. 5, 1900. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a private in the 5th New York Volunteers (Duryee's Zouaves). He was transferred as a lieutenant to the 40th New York Regiment, of which his father was chaplain. He served until the close of the war with the Army of the Potomac, and was wounded at Fredericksburg and at Gettysburg. He was commissioned captain in 1864, and brevetted major in 1866. After the war he engaged in artistic and journalistic work. From 1871 till 1877 he was managing editor of the Newark Register. From 1878 till 1880 he served as second in command of the Franklin search expedition, conducted by Lieut. Schwatka, which made a sledge journey in King William's Land lasting twelve months. He acted on this expedition as a correspondent of the New York Herald. In 1881 he accompanied the De Long expedition under Capt. Berry, in the Rodgers, and when that vessel was burned on the western shore of Bering Strait he was assigned to take the news to the nearest telegraph station, which involved a winter journey of nearly 2,000 miles across Siberia. Having accomplished this task, he joined in the search on the Lena delta for the survivors of the Jeannette. In 1882 he was commissioned by the Herald to go on a French war vessel to observe the war in Annam. In 1886 he set out to reach the far north alone and on foot, but was driven back after reaching Point Barrow. He wrote during his later life for various magazines and newspapers. He recorded his arctic experiences in two published volumes Schwatka's Search (New York, 1881) and Ice Pack and Tundra (1883).

Glenny, William, soldier, born in Virgil, N. Y., May 31, 1831; died in New York city, Jan. 6, 1900. When a young man he lived for several years in Kansas. Later he returned to his native State, and at the outbreak of the civil war recruited a company at Elmira for the 64th New York Regiment. He was promoted to the colonelcy, and at the close of the war was brevetted brigadier general. At the battle of Fair Oaks he was severely wounded. He was postmaster of Ithaca during President Grant's administration. For twenty-four years previous to his death he was a clerk in the post office in New York city.

Goebel, William, lawyer, born in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, in 1856; died in Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 3, 1900. With his parents he removed to Covington, Ky., and from that place he went to Cincinnati to learn the jewelry trade. Before completing his apprenticeship he returned to Covington, and entered a law office in 1873. He began practice with the firm with whom he studied, and later became the law partner of ex-Governor John W. Stevenson, and still later of John G. Carlisle. In 1887 he was elected State Senator for Kenton County, and by successive re-elections he continued to represent it in the Legislature till his death. In 1897 he secured the passage of what is known as the Goebel election law, the aim of which was to put the control of State election returns into the hands of election commissioners, who were the appointees of the Legislature, by which control the Democrats hoped to secure the State government. The election commissioners appoint in each county local canvassing boards, who declare the results, which the State Board approves. With this machinery in Democratic hands, Mr. Goebel believed that nothing could defeat the candidates of his party, and he set out to secure the nomination for Governor. He succeeded in obtaining this nomination in June, 1899, after an exciting convention. The result of the campaign that followed was officially declared as follows: Taylor (Republican), 193,714; Goebel (Democrat), 191,331; Brown (Anti-Goebel Democrat), 14,050. Taylor was inaugurated Governor Jan. 12, 1900. Goebel began a contest before a committee of the Legislature, which was Democratic. The committee was to hear arguments before reporting to the Legislature, when Goebel was shot on Tuesday, Jan. 30, by some person unknown, as he was walking to the Capitol. Gov. Taylor, on account of the excitement at the Capitol, adjourned the Legislature to meet in London, Laurel County. The Democratic members tried to hold a meeting, but were shut out of all the public buildings, and finally the members signed a certificate declaring, on the report of the committee, that Mr. Goebel was the duly elected Governor, and he took the oath of office Jan. 31, on his dying bed. The candidate for Lieutenant Governor with him was also sworn in.

Gotwald, Luther A., theologian, born in York Springs, Pa., Jan. 31, 1833; died in Springfield, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1900. He was educated at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, and at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa. He was ordained to the office of the ministry in the Lutheran Church in 1859, and held the following pastorates: At Shippensburg, Pa., 1859-'63; at Lebanon, Pa., 1863-65; at Dayton, Ohio, 1865-69; at Chambersburg, Pa., 1869-74; at York, Pa., 1874-'86; and at Springfield, Ohio, 1886-'88. He was Professor of Practical Theology in Wittenberg Seminary from 1888 till 1895, when he was disabled by paralysis. He published pamphlets on doctrinal and practical subjects, and was a frequent contributor to the periodicals of the Church.

Gould, Annie A., missionary of the American Board, born in Bethel, Me., Nov. 8, 1867; killed in Paoting-Fu, Chi-Li province, China, July 1, 1900. She was graduated, the valedictorian of her class, at Mount Holyoke College in 1892. She joined the North China Mission, in Paoting-Fu, in 1893.

Gould, Ezra Palmer, clergyman, born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 27, 1841; died at White Lake, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1900. He was educated in the Latin Schools of Roxbury and Boston, and served in a Massachusetts regiment during the civil war. At its close he was mustered out with the rank of captain. He then entered the Baptist Theo

logical Institution, at Newton, Mass., and after his
graduation, in 1868, became Professor of New
Testament Interpretation there, resigning in 1882.
After holding the pastorate of a Baptist church
in Burlington, Vt., in 1884-'88, he studied for
orders in the Episcopal Church, and was ordained
in 1891. He was New Testament Professor at the
Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia until
1898, when he resigned to become assistant minis-
ter at St. George's Church, New York city, which
post he held at the time of his death.
He was
the author of Notes on the Lessons of 1885 (Bos-
ton, 1885); Commentaries on the Epistles to the
Corinthians (Philadelphia, 1887); The Gospel of
Mark (New York, 1896); and The Theology of the
New Testament (1900).

Green, Henry, jurist, born in Warren County, New Jersey, Aug. 29, 1828; died in Atlantic City, Aug. 16, 1900. He was graduated at Lafayette College in 1846, was admitted to the bar in 1849, and began practice in Easton. In 1879 he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, to fill a vacancy, and in 1880 was elected for a full term of twenty-one years. He was the first justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania who went directly from the bar to the bench. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1873.

Green, William Henry, clergyman, born in Groveville, N. J., Jan. 27, 1825; died in Princeton, N. J., Feb. 10, 1900. He was graduated at Lafayette College in 1840, and for two years was a tutor there. He was graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1846, and he was immediately appointed instructor in Hebrew, and during the following three years was stated supply in the Second Presbyterian Church of Princeton. He was ordained May 24, 1848. He was pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia in 1849-51, when he was chosen Professor of Biblical and Oriental Literature in Princeton Seminary. Since 1859 this chair has been designated as that of Oriental and Old Testament Literature. Dr. Green was moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly in 1891. He was chairman of the Old Testament Committee of the Anglo-American Bible Revision Committee. By virtue of his place as senior professor, he was the official head of Princeton Theological Seminary, and in 1868 was offered the presidency of Princeton College, but declined it. He was a volumi nous writer. His best known books are A Grammar of the Hebrew Language (1861, and many later editions); A Hebrew Chrestomathy (1863); The Pentateuch Vindicated from the Aspersions of Bishop Colenso (1863); The Argument of the Book of Job Unfolded (1874); Moses and the Prophets (1883); Hebrew Feasts (1885); The Unity of the Book of Genesis (1895); The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch (1895); and a General Introduction to the Old Testament.

Grose, William, lawyer, born in Ohio in 1812; died in Newcastle, Ind., Aug. 3, 1900. When three years of age he was taken to the Territory of Indiana. By working in a brickyard he earned money enough to study law. He was originally a Democrat, but in 1854 entered the Republican party. He became colonel of the 36th Indiana Regiment in 1861, and served till the close of the war. He was commissioned brigadier general in 1864, and brevetted major general in 1865. After the war he was assigned to duty as president of a court-martial to try military offenders, and served till December, 1865. In 1866 he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Fifth District, and he held the office eight years. In 1877 he was a member of the Legislature, and from

In 1878 he was

1879 till 1883 a State Senator.
defeated as a candidate for Congress.
Grosvenor, William Mason, editor, born in
Ashfield, Mass., April 24, 1835; died in Engle-
wood, N. J., July 20, 1900. He entered Yale Col-
lege in 1855, but left to become editor of the New
Haven Palladium. At the outbreak of the civil
war he enlisted in the 13th Connecticut Regiment,
and soon became adjutant. In December, 1862, he
was promoted captain. He was shot through the
arm at Port Hudson, June 14, 1863, but soon re-
joined his regiment. Oct. 29, 1863, he became
colonel of the 2d Regiment, Louisiana Native
Guards (colored), which he commanded till the
close of the war. He returned to New Haven,
and was for a time one of the editors of the Journal
and Courier. In 1866 he took editorial charge of
the St. Louis Democrat, resigned in 1870, again
became its editor in 1872, and finally left it in
1875. In October, 1875, he began editorial work
on the New York Tribune, which he continued
till his death. He wrote on financial and economic
topics mainly. In 1885 he began to write weekly
articles for Dun's Mercantile Agency, and in 1893
he began to edit the weekly Review. His pub-
lished books include Does Protection Protect?
(New York, 1870); American Securities (1885);
and Trades Unions Investigated in the Light of
Common Sense (1885).

Hale, Charles Reuben, clergyman, born in Lewistown, Pa., March 14, 1837; died in Cairo, Ill., Dec. 25, 1900. After graduating at the University of Pennsylvania in 1858, he studied for the Episcopal ministry and was ordained deacon in 1860 and priest in 1861. He was successively assistant minister of All Saints parish, Lower Dublin, Pa., 1861-'63; chaplain in the United States navy, 1863–70; rector of St. John's, Auburn, N. Y., 1870-'75; rector of St. Mary the Virgin, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1875-77; assistant minister of St. Paul's, Baltimore, Md., 1877-86; and dean of Grace Cathedral, Davenport, Iowa, 1886-'92. In the last-named year he was consecrated bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Springfield, with the title of Bishop of Cairo. He was one of the most learned men in his Church, and was an authority on matters pertaining to the ancient liturgies and similar subjects. He published Sermons (1874); The Mozarabic Liturgy (1876); The Universal Episcopate (1882); and Speeches and Addresses (1885).

Hale, Lucretia Peabody, author, born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 2, 1820; died there, June 12, 1900. She was a daughter of Nathan Hale, and the oldest surviving sister of Edward Everett Hale. She was educated at the schools of Elizabeth P. Peabody and George B. Emerson. With the exception of a residence of ten years in Brookline, her entire life was passed in Boston. She served on the Board of School Commissioners, and to her the city is indebted in a great measure for the movement in regard to vacation schools and the teaching of sewing and morals in the public schools. She was also deeply interested in the charitable associations of her city. She contributed many short stories to periodicals, and published the following books: Seven Stormy Sundays (Boston, 1858); The Lord's Supper and its Observance (1865); Service of Sorrow (1866); Struggle for Life (1868); Art Needlework (1878); More Sketches in Decorative Embroidery (1879); Peterkin Papers (1880); Art of Knitting (1882); Last of the Peterkins (1886); Fagots for the Fireside (1886); Stories for Children (1892). edited Plain Needlework (1878) and Point Lace (1879). In collaboration with Mrs. Bernard Whitman she wrote Sunday-school Stories for

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Little Children; with Edwin Lasseter Bynner, The Uncloseted Skeleton (1888); with her brother, Edward Everett Hale, The New Harry and Lucy (1892); and with Harriet Beecher Stowe and others, Six of One by Half a Dozen of the Other.

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Hall, Thomas Winthrop, author, born in Ogdensburg, N. Y., Nov. 13, 1862; died in Hannibal, Mo., Aug. 21, 1900. He was graduated at West Point, June 4, 1887, and was assigned as second additional lieutenant to the 4th Cavalry. He served at Fort Huachucha and San Carlos Agency, Arizona, for a time, and was promoted full second lieutenant of the 10th Cavalry, Oct. 5, 1887; he resigned from the service, Jan. 1, 1889. During the Spanish-American War he was quartermaster of the Rough Riders," and served with them till Aug. 1, 1898, when he resigned and came home ill with a fever. Under his pen name, Tom Hall, he was well known as a writer of short, bright sketches, poems, and stories; his published works include When Hearts are Trumps (Chicago, 1894); When Love Laughs (New York, 1897); Experimental Wooing (1898); Little Lady, Some Other People, and Myself (1898); When Cupid Calls (1898); Fun and Fighting of the Rough Riders (1899); Tales (1899); and When Love is Lord (1899).

Hamilton, Louise, actress, born in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 23, 1875; died in London, England, March 3, 1900. She was a daughter of a theatrical family who at the time of her birth were engaged with the Tamberlik Opera Company, then making a tour of the West Indies, and the child made her début at the age of three months as the baby Arline in The Bohemian Girl. She was for several years a player of children's parts in the Mapleson Opera Company. Her first appearance in drama was in the company of Mr. and Mrs. McKee Rankin when they were playing The Danites. In the autumn of 1890 she began a successful four years' tour of the United States as a star in the dual rôle of Little Nell and the Marchioness in Old Curiosity Shop. Her last appearance was at The Pavilion, London, in February, 1900.

Hamlin, Cyrus, educator, born in Waterford, Me., Jan. 5, 1811; died in Portland, Me., Aug. 8, 1900. He was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1834, and at Bangor Theological Seminary in 1837. He was a missionary of the American Board in Turkey from 1837 till 1860, when he became president of Robert College, Constantinople, which he had organized after a seven years' contest with the Turkish authorities. In order to give employment to indigent Armenians, he had introduced the making of bread with hop yeast in Constantinople. During the Crimean War this bread was in great demand, and at its close he had cleared $25,000, which he applied to the building of churches and schoolhouses. He resigned the presidency of Robert College in 1876, and in 1877 became Professor of Dogmatic Theology in Bangor Theological Seminary. He was President of Middlebury College, Vermont, from 1880 till 1885. In the latter year he retired to Lexington, Mass., where, though superannuated, he remained an agent of the American Board. While at Bowdoin, in 1832, he made the first steam engine built in Maine. He had made a brass screw for Prof. Smith's theodolite, and he asked the professor if he thought he could sell an engine, if he could make one, for as much as he could earn by teaching in the vacation, and the professor encouraged him. Hamlin never had seen an engine, but went to work in a Portland clockmaking establishment. In ten weeks he had com

pleted the engine, and he sold it to Bowdoin College for $175. He could have earned $40 by teaching. It was said of Dr. Hamlin that he had 16 professions, every one of which was subordinate to the one great missionary and educational purpose of founding Robert College in Constantinople. He published, in the Armenian dialect, Upham's Mental Philosophy; Arithmetic for Armenians; and a Turkish translation and critique on the writings of Archbishop Matteos. In English, Papists and Protestants; Cholera and its Treatment; Among the Turks; and My Life and Times.

Hammond, William Alexander, surgeon, born in Annapolis, Md., Aug. 28, 1828; died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 5, 1900. He was graduated at the medical department of the University of New York in 1848, after which he attended a course of clinics in the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. July 3, 1849, he entered the army of the United States as assistant surgeon general with the rank of lieutenant, which rank was raised to captain, June 29, 1854. He did duty at various forts and military posts, and acted as medical director of the Sioux expedition and as surgeon to the troops engaged in laying out a road through the Rocky mountains. Oct. 31, 1860, he resigned from the army to become Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Maryland. At the beginning of the civil war he resigned his chair and re-entered the army. He was appointed assistant surgeon May 28, 1861, and promoted April 25, 1862, to surgeon general with the rank of brigadier general. He instituted many reforms, but became involved in a controversy, was tried by court-martial, and was dismissed from the service Aug. 18, 1864. In 1868 he was appointed Professor of Diseases of the Mind and the Nervous System in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City; subsequently he filled similar chairs in Bellevue Hospital Medical College and in the University of the City of New York. In 1882 he was one of the founders of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, in which he held the professorship of Diseases of the Mind for years. In the meantime the President and the Secretary of War had been authorized to review the proceedings of the court-martial that had removed him from the army, and on Aug. 27, 1879, he was, after fifteen years of suspension, restored to his former place on the rolls of the army as surgeon general and brigadier general on the retired list. In February, 1888, he abandoned his practice in New York and removed to Washington. He wrote many books on nervous complaints and other medical topics, as well as some novels. His published works are Physiological Memoirs (Philadelphia, 1863); Treatise on Hygiene (1863); Lectures on Venereal Diseases (1864); A Chapter on Sleep (1865); Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations (New York, 1866); Robert Severne: His Friends and his Enemies (Philadelphia, 1866); Medico-Legal Study of the Case of Daniel McFarland (New York, 1867); Sleep and its Derangements (Philadelphia, 1869); Physics and Physiology of Spiritualism (New York, 1870); Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System (1871); Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System (1871); Insanity in its Re

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lation to Crime (1873); Spiritualism and Allied Causes and Conditions of Nervous Derangement (1876); Cerebral Hyperæmia (1878); Fasting Girls (1879); Neurological Contributions of Studies and Case Records (1879); On Certain Conditions of Nervous Derangement: Somnambulism, Hypnotism, Hysteria, Hysteroid Affections (1881); Dr. Grattan (1884); Lal (1884); A Strong-minded Woman (1885); Mr. Oldmixon (1885); On the Susquehanna (1887); Sexual Impotence in the Male (1886); Sexual Impotence in Male and Female (Detroit, 1887); Spinal Irritation (1888); The Son of Perdition (Chicago, 1898); and with Clara Lanza, Tales of Eccentric Life (New York, 1886).

Harmer, Alfred Crout, merchant, born in Germantown, Pa., Aug. 25, 1825; died there, March 6, 1900. He was educated in the public schools and at the Germantown Academy. He began business as a shoe manufacturer, and later became a wholesale dealer. He was afterward identified with railroad enterprises and mining and land operations. He was elected to the city council of Philadelphia in 1856, and served till 1860, when he was elected recorder of deeds, which office he held three years. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention that nominated General Grant for President. He was elected to Congress in 1870, and re-elected in 1872 and 1876. He was "father of the House" after the death of Representative O'Neill.

Harnden, Henry, soldier, born in Massachusetts in 1823; died in Madison, Wis., March 17, 1900. He followed the sea several years, and later took part in the Mexican War. He served in the civil war, and on May 6, 1865, was ordered by Gen. Wilson, in command of the 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland, to take 150 men and pursue Jefferson Davis and his party, who several days previously had been at Macon, Ga. After a chase of four days he overtook Davis and a number of Confederate officers. During the capture there was by mistake a collision between Harnden's men and a small detachment from the 4th Michigan, which caused the death of two men; each party took the other for Confederates. A congressional investigation exonerated Harnden. At the time of his death he was commander of the Wisconsin department of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Haskell, Thomas Hawes, lawyer, born in New Gloucester, Me., May 18, 1842; died in Portland, Me., Sept. 24, 1900. He was graduated at the Norway Liberal Institute in 1862. In 1862-63 he served in the National army. He was admitted to the Maine bar in February, 1865, and began practice in Portland in 1866. He was elected in 1884 Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine. His term would have expired in 1905. Judge Haskell was known as one of the greatest case lawyers in New England. He published Haskell's Reports (2 vols.). and The New Gloucester Centennial (1874).

Hastings, Silas Wright, soldier, born in Franklin County, New York, April 30, 1846; died in Washington, D. C., June 3, 1900. He enlisted in the volunteer army in 1862, and at the close of the war was colonel of the 142d New York Regiment, and had been brevetted brigadier general. He was badly wounded in one of the battles in which he was engaged. After the war he returned to Franklin County, and later he spent some years in California. In 1889 he went to New York city, and became general agent of the Consolidated Coal Company.

Hazen, Henry Allen, meteorologist, born in Serur, India, Jan. 12, 1849; died in Washington,

D. C., Jan. 23, 1900. He was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1871, and was instructor in drawing in Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University till 1875, becoming Assistant Professor in Meteorology, which chair he held till 1879. May 1, 1881, he went to Washington as computer in the United States Signal Service. In October, 1887, he became one of the regular officers in this department, and made forecasts for the whole country. July 1, 1891, he was made Professor of Meteorology of the Weather Bureau. He devised a system for reducing barometric observations to sea level, a sling psychrometer, and a thermometer shelter. He published Meteorological Tables (1888) and The Tornado (1890).

Healy, James Augustin, clergyman, born in Macon, Ga., Aug. 6, 1830; died in Portland, Me., Aug. 5, 1900. He studied civil engineering, and began its practice, but later turned to the Church, and in 1849 was graduated at Holy Cross College, at Worcester, Mass., at the head of his class. He continued his theological studies at the Grand Seminary, in Montreal, and at St. Sulpice, at Paris. June 10, 1854, he was ordained a priest in the Catholic cathedral of Notre Dame. He returned to the United States, and for a time acted as secretary of Bishop Fitzpatrick in Boston; later he became first chancellor of the diocese of Boston, serving as rector of the cathedral twelve years. In 1866 he became rector of St. James's Church, which place he held nine years. Feb. 12, 1875, he was elected bishop of the diocese of Maine, and he was consecrated June 2, 1875.

Hendrie, John W., philanthropist, born in Sound Beach, Conn., Nov. 18, 1821; died there. Nov. 25, 1900. He was graduated at Yale University in 1851, and in 1854 he went to San Francisco, where he became a merchant and a dealer in real estate. After amassing a fortune in California, he returned to his native town. His principal gifts were $15,000 to the Mercantile Library in San Francisco and $10,000 to the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the same city, in 1897; in the same year a gift of $50,000 to Yale Law School was announced, and later contributions made his gifts to that university double that amount. He also made various liberal gifts to local churches and benevolent institutions.

Hennessy, John, clergyman, born in Limerick County, Ireland, Aug. 20, 1825; died in Dubuque, Iowa, March 4, 1900. In 1847 he removed to Carondelet, Mo., where he studied theology. Nov. 1, 1850, he was ordained a priest, and his first mission was at New Madrid, Mo., where he entered upon his duties, Jan. 20, 1851. A few months later he became pastor of St. Peter's Church, Gravois, Mo., where he remained till 1854. He was then called to the duty of preparing priests for missionary work, being installed in the Carondelet Seminary as vice-president and Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Ecclesiastical History. In 1857 he became president of the seminary. In 1858 he was sent to Rome as representative of Archbishop Kenrick. After his return he officiated a year at the St. Louis Cathedral. Jan. 12, 1860. he became pastor of St. Joseph's Church, at St. Joseph, Mo., remaining there six years. April 24, 1866, he was elected Bishop of Dubuque, Iowa, and Sept. 30, 1866, was consecrated. The diocese of Dubuque was created an archdiocese in 1893, and Sept. 17, 1893. Bishop Hennessy was made archbishop. In 1873 he was instrumental in founding the New Melleray Abbey, and in the same year he founded St. Joseph's College, Dubuque.

Henry, William Wirt, lawyer, born in Red Hill, Charlotte County, Va., Feb. 14, 1831; died in Richmond, Va., Dec. 5, 1900. He was

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