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Hanson, John Wesley

clergyman, author, was born May 12, 1823, in Boston, Mass. He received a thorough education in the private and public schools of Massachusetts, in Lowell and Boston. During the civil war he was chaplain of the sixth regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. He has attained eminence as a successful clergyman; and for many years he has been editor of the New Covenant of Chicago, Ill. He is the author of about thirty volumes, the most notable of which are: Histories of Danvers, Norridgewock, and Gardiner, in Maine; Bible Threatenings Explained; Cloud of Witnesses, a compilation; Aion Aionos; Bible Proofs of Universal Salvation; Sermons on the Lord's Prayer; The Leaven at Work; and The New Covenant, a translation of the New Testament.

HAPGOOD, ISABELLA FLORENCE, translator, author, was born in 1850, in Massachusetts. She is a translator from the Russian and French; and the author of The Epic Songs of Russia; Russian Rambles; and Translations of Gogol and Victor Hugo.