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Hadlock, William Edwin – Hague, Arnold

Hadlock, William Edwin

soldier, merchant, state senator, was born Oct. 26 , 1834, in Cranberry Isles, Maine. He served . He served in the war as lieutenantcolonel; twice elected state senator from Hancock county. was

Hafer, George

railroad president.

Since 1885 he has been president of the Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern rail- Northern railway.

Haga, Godfrey

philanthropist, state legislator, was born Nov. 30, 1745, in Wur- , in Wurtemberg. He was a member of the Philaof the Philadelphia city council in 1797-1800; and of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1800-1. in 1800-1.

He bequeathed an estate valued at $350,at $350, 000 to charitable purposes. He died Feb. died Feb. 5, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Hageman, Samuel Miller

clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1848 in New Jersey. He is a presbyterian clergyman who has published Once, a novel; a novel; and several volumes of poems, including Vesper Voices; Greenwood and Other Poems; Silence; and Saint Paul .

Hagemeyer, George

merchant, manufacturer, was born in 1837. He was the pioneer hardwood lumber merchant of New York city. He died June 14, 1892, 14, 1892, in Cornwall, N. Y.

Hagen, Hermann August

entomologist, author, was born in 1817. He was an entomologist of prominence who came to Cambridge from Königsberg in 1870, in 1870, and was professor of comparative zoölogy at Harvard university. He is the author of Catalogue of Neuropterous Insects in the British Museum; Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America; North ; North American Astacidæ; and Some Insect De- Insect Deformities. He died in 1893.

Hager, Albert David

geologist, author, was born Nov. 1, 1817, in Vermont.

He was a geologist; and since 1877 librari- 1877 librarian of the Chicago Historical society. He was the author of Geology of Vermont; and Economic Geology of Vermont . He died July 29, 1888, in Chicago, Ill.

Hager, Peter V

soldier, was born Aug. 28, 1815, in Washington, D. C. He D. С. Не served with distinction in the Mexican and civil wars, and attained the rank of brigadier-general.

Hagerman, James J

railroad president, was born in 1838 in Canada. He is . He is president of the Pecos Valley railway at Colorado Springs, Colo.

Hagert, Henry Schell

lawyer, poet, was born May 2, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a noted lawyer of Philalawyer of Philadelphia; and the author of a volume of Poems, with Memoir by C. A.

Lagen.

He died Dec. 18, 1885, in Philadelphia , Pa .

Hagood, Johnson

lawyer, was born in 1771 in West Virginia. He practiced law until 1813, and attained note in his profession. He also devoted much attention to natural sciences, was interested in the study of electricity and galvanism.

He died in 1816 in Charleston, S.

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Hague, Arnold

geologist, author, was born Dec. 3, 1840, in Boston , Mass.

He is a geologist in the government sergovernment service; and the author of Volcanoes of Caliof California, Oregon, and Washington; Volcanic Rocks of the Great Basin; Nevada, Basin; Nevada, with Notes on the Geology of the District; Volcanic Rocks of Salvador; and Crystallization in the Igneous Rocks of Washoe.

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