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Hawley, Charles L – Hay, Andrew K

Hawley, Charles L

lawyer, prohibitionist, was born Dec. 8, 1855, in Montrose, Pa. He is a prominent lawyer of Scranton, Pa., was a candidate for auditor-general of Pennsylvania on the prohibition ticket in 1886, and in 1894 was a candidate on the same ticket for governor of Pennsylvania.

Hawley, Cyrus M

lawyer, jurist, was born in New York. He removed to Illinois, and was appointed from that state a justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah, residing at Salt Lake City.

Hawley, Gideon

missionary, was born Nov. 11, 1727, in Bridgeport, Conn.

In 1753 the commissioners of Indian affairs sent him to establish a mission in the Iroquois country, on the Susquehanna river. He remained there teaching and preaching until 1756, when the French war obliged him to return to civilization.

He died Oct. 3, 1807, in Marshpee, Mass.

Hawley, Gideon

educator, author, was born Sept. 26, 1785, in Huntington, Conn. From the organization of the Smithsonian institution, in 1846, until his death, he was one of its four regents-atlarge. He printed for private distribution Essays in Truth and Knowledge. He died July 16, 1870, in Albany, N. Y.

Hawley, Joseph

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1723, in Northampton, Mass. From 1764 to 1776 he held a seat in the Massachusetts legislature.

In 1774 he was chairman of the committee to consider the state of the country, in the provincial congress, and was a member of that body in 1775. He died May 10, 1788, in Northampton, Mass.

Hawley, R. B

merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born in October, 1859, in Memphis, Tenn. He has presided several times over state conventions, and attended as a delegate national conventions. He was elected as a republican to the fifty-fifth congress.

Hawley, William Merrill

lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born Aug. 23, 1802, in Delaware county, N. Y. He served in the state senate, was a delegate to the democratic national convention of May 22, 1848, which met in Baltimore, and was identified with the Freesoil radical delegation, which culminated in the national convention of 1848, held in Buffalo. He died Feb. 9, 1869, in Hornellsville, N. Y.

Haws, J. H. Hobart

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.

Hawthorne, James Cossett

physician, state senator, was born March 12, 1819, in Mercer county, Pa. In 1854 he was elected state senator from Placer county, Cal. He died Feb. 15, 1881, in Portland, Ore.

Hawthorne, Julian

author, was born June 22, 1846, in Boston, Mass. He is the author of Bressant; Garth; Dust; Idolatry; Fortune's Fool; Beatrix Randolph; Saxon Studies; Archibald Malmaison; Sebastian Strome; Noble Blood; Love, or a Name; Mrs. Gainsborough's Diamonds; David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales; A Dream and a Forgetting; Confessions and Criticisms; Constance; Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife; American Literature; The Trial of Gideon; Prince Saroni's Wife; and Love Is a Spirit.

Haxall, Robert William

physician, was born Aug. 1, 1802, in Petersburg, Va. He was on several occasions president of the Medical society of Virginia, and was one of the founders of the American Medical association. He died March 26, 1872, in Richmond, Va.

Hay, Andrew K

congressman, was born in Massachusetts. Having become a resident of New Jersey, he was elected a representative in congress from 1849 to 1851.