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Hale, Robert Beverly

author, was born in 1869 in Massachusetts. He was the author of Elsie and Other Poems; and Six Stories and Some Verses. He died in 1895.

Hale, Susan

author, was born Dec. 5, 1838, in Boston, Mass. She was coauthor with her brother of the Family Flight series of travels for young people.

She has also published The Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton.

Hale, William

congressman, was born in 1764. He was one of the most influential men in New Hampshire. He was a member of congress from 1809 to 1811, and again from 1813 to 1817. He died Nov. 8, 1848, in Dover, N. H.

Hale, William

lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born Nov. 18, 1839, in Iowa. He settled at Glenwood, Iowa, in the practice of law; and was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1863, and re-elected in 1864, 1865, and 1866. He was a presidential elector in 1868; was chairman of the republican central committee of the eighth and ninth congressional districts for a number of years; and in 1883 was appointed governor of Wyoming territory.

Hale, William Bayard

clergyman, art critic, socialist, author, was born April 6, 1869, in Richmond, Ind. He founded the church of Our Savior of Middleborough, Mass.; and is a leader among high church episcopalians. He is the author of The New Obedience, a most notable socialistic document; Phillips Brooks, a Memorial; The Eternal Teacher; The Making of the American Constitution; A Genesis of Nationality; and A Plea for Social Submission to Christ.

Haley, Elisha

congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1839.

Haley, Thomas Preston

clergyman, author, was born April 19, 1832, in Lafayette county, Mo. He fills a pastorate in the First church of Kansas City, Mo.

He is the author of a work entitled The Dawn of the Reformation.

Halford, Elijah Walker

journalist, statesman, was born Sept. 4, 1843, in Nottingham, England. He is now editor and proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal. He was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1888; and during 1889-93 was private secretary to the president of the United States.

Hall, Abraham Oakey

journalist, politician, author, was born in 1826 in New York. He was a prominent Tammany politician of New York city, of which he was at one time mayor. He was subsequently on the staff of The World, but for many years has lived in Europe.

He is the author of The Manhattaner in New Orleans; The Congressman's Christmas Dream; Ballads; and Old Whitey's Christmas Trot, a story for the holidays.

He died in October, 1898, in New York city.

Hall, Alexander Wilford

philosopher, author, was born Aug. 18, 1819, in Bath, N. Y. In 1881 he established the Microcosm, which he made the organ of substantialism, which in modern metaphysics is the antithesis of speculative idealism. He is the author of Problem of Human Life; Immortality of the Soul; and Scientific Arena.

Hall, Allen A

lawyer, journalist, diplomat, was born in North Carolina. He was charge d'affaires to Venezuela from 1841 to 1845; and assistant secretary of the United States treasury in 1849 and 1850. He edited the Republic at Washington; afterward edited the Daily News from 1857 to 1859 at Nashville, Tenn.; and was minister to Bolivia from 1863 to 1867.

He died May 18, 1867, in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Hall, Andrew Douglass

physician, was born July 2, 1883, in Hempstead, N. Y. He has attained success as a physician and surgeon in his native state.