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Hahn, Emil – Hale, Charles

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Hahn, Emil

musician, composer, was born in September, 1854, in St. Joseph, in September , 1854, in St. Joseph, Mo. He is a successful musician of Burlington, lington, Iowa; and is the author of and a number of songs. He is also the author of several instrumental compositions for the piano, the most notable of which is The Forest Flower Waltzes.

Hahn, John

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1817.

Hahn, Michael

soldier, lawyer, journalist, congressman, governor, United States senator , was born Nov. 24, 1830, in Bavaria , Germany. During the civil war he served in the union cause; was elected to congress in 1862; was inaugurated governor in 1864; and in 1865 became a United States senator. In 1867 he was the organizer and the chief editor of the New Orleans Republican. He has been superintendent of the United States mint in New Orleans; and in 1876 became judge of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit; and was a representative in the thirty-ninth congress . He died March 15, 1886.

Haidt, John Valentine

artist and evangelist, was born Oct. 4, 1700, in Germany.

When he was forty years of age he united with the Moravian church and devoted himself to painting portraits of its clergymen and other pictures, the majority of which represented scriptural incidents.

He died Jan. 18, 1780, in Bethlehem lehem, Pa.

Haight, Charles

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 4, 1838, at Colt's Neck , N. J. He was elected to the New Jersey legislature in 1861 and 1862, and was chosen speaker in the latter year.

He was commissioned a brigadiergeneral of militia in 1861, and rendered effective service in raising troops for the war.

In 1866 he was elected a representative from New Jersey to the fortieth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfirst congress as a democrat.

Haight, Charles C

architect. He designed the new buildings of Columbia college and the General Theological seminary.

Haight, Edward

merchant, banker, congressman, was born March 26, 1817, in New York city. In 1860 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress, serving on the committee on manufactures.

Haight, Fletcher M

jurist. He was an emigrant to California; and was appointed United States judge for that district.

Haight, Henry Huntley

lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born May 20, 1805, in Rochester, N. Y. He graduated at Yale college in 1844, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of St. Louis in 1846. He settled to practice law in San Francisco in 1850; was appointed United States district judge of California, by President Lincoln; and was elected governor of California in 1867, serving until 1871. He died Sept. 2, 1878, in San Francisco, Cal.

Haight, Theron Wilber

lawyer, jurist, was born in the state of New York. , was born in the state of New York.

He is a successful lawyer of Waukesha, Wis.; for many years a justice of the peace; and has been secretary of the Wisconsin state board of charities and reforms reforms. was

Haile, William

congressman, was born in 1797.

He was a member of congress from Mississippi from 1826 to 1828.

He died March 7, 1837, in Woodville, Miss、

Hailey, John

congressman, born Aug. 29, 1835, in Smith county, Tenn.

Aug. 29, 1835, in Smith county, Tenn.

He was elected delegate from Idaho to the fortythe forty-third congress; in 1880 was member of the legislative council of Idaho, and was president of the council; and in 1884 was elected delegate from Idaho to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.

Hain, Harry H

journalist, was born in 1873 near Liverpool, Pa. He has filled 1873 near Liverpool, Pa. He has filled many positions of trust; and is a prominent member of various fraternal orders, and is now the editor of The Record of Duncannon, Pa.

Hainer, Eugene J

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1851, in Hungary. He moved to Aurora, Neb., in 1877, where he has since resided, and engaged in the practice of law. He was elected to the fifty-third congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Haines, Alanson Austin

clergyman, author, was born March 18, 1830, in Hamburg, N. J. In 1873 he was appointed engineer of the Palestine Exploration society, and in that capacity visited ing maps, sketches of oriental scenery, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Turkey , makand transcripts of rock inscriptions. He is the author of a History of the Fifteenth Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers.

Haines, Charles D

railroad build- Medusa, N. Y. He was president of and er, congressman, was born June 9, 1856, in 9 , 1856, in built the only two street railway systems in the state of Vermont; and is now or has been president of eighteen street and steam railway companies. In 1888 he located in Kinderhook, and built the Kinderhook and Hudson railway. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.

Haines, Daniel

jurist, governor, was born Jan. 6, 1801, in New York city.

He was elected governor of New Jersey in 1843, serving one year; and in 1848 was again elected, and continued in office until 1851. He afterward served as a judge of the supreme court. He died Jan. 26, 1877, in Hamburg, N. J.

Haines, Richard Townley

merchant, was born May 21, 1795, in Elizabeth, N. J. He was one of the founders of the American Tract society. He was the first president of the board of trustees of the Union Theological seminary in New York city. He died Aug. 21, 1870, in Elizabeth, N. J.

Haines, Thomas Jefferson

soldier, mathematician, was born Oct. 26, 1827, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was as- , in Portsmouth, N. H. He was assistant professor of mathematics in West Point; and major and brevet brigadiergeneral in the United States army in 1865. He died Aug. 14, 1883, in Hartford, Conn.

Haire, Norman W

lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 24, 1855, in Columbia, Mich.

He served as prosecuting attorney of his county for four years; and since 1891 has been circuit judge at Ironwood, Mich.

Haish, Jacob

merchant, inventor, was born March 9, 1826, in Germany. He has about thirty patents of various kinds, many of them relating to fence wire. The controlling owner, is now an important Haish Manufacturing Co., of which he is industry industry of De Kalb, Ill.

Haldeman, Richard J

journalist, congressman, was born May 19, 1831, in Harrisburg, Pa. He was elected to the forty-first congress, and re-elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.

Haldeman, Samuel Stehman

philologist, author, was born Aug. 12, 1812, in Locust Grove, Pa. He was a professor of comparative philology in the university of Pennsylvania in 1869-81.

He was the author of Zoölogical Contributions; Analytical Orthography; Word - Building; Tours of a Chess Knight; Elements of Latin Pronunciation; Pennsylvania Dutch; Outlines of Etymology; Affixes in Their Origin and Application ; and Rhymes of the Poets.

He died in 1880 He died in 1880. a lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born April

Halderman, John Adams

soldier, , soldier, 15, 1833 , was brought up and educated to the bar of Kentucky, whence he emigratopposed slavery, and was successively ed to Kansas in 1854. In his new home he judge of the probate court, mayor of the city of Leavenworth two terms, member of the house of representatives, state senator, and regent of the state university.

He was major of the first regiment of infantry , and major-general of the Kansas state forces in active service on the union side during the war of the rebellion, and attained the rank of brigadier-general.

After the war he traveled extensively in western Europe, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the Holy Land. In 1880 he was appointed consul at Bangkok, and subsequently promoted to the post of consulgeneral by President Garfield. In 1882 he was further advanced to the station of minister resident in Siam.

Hale, Anne Gardner

author, poet, was born Aug. 2, 1823, in Newburyport, Mass.

She has attained a national reputation as a poet; and is the author of several prose works, and a volume of poems.

Hale, Artemas

manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 20, 1783, in Winchendon, Mass. He was a representative in the legislature for several years, and a state senator in 1833 and 1834. In 1853 he was a member of the state constitutional convention; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1845 to 1849. In 1864 he was a presidential elector.

Hale, Benjamin

educator, college president, author, was born Nov. 23, 1797, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1818 he graduated from Bowdoin college, and subsequently filled the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy in that institution. In 1827 he became professor of chemistry and pharmacy in Dartmouth college. In 1836 he elected president of Geneva college in western New was York, and for ten years filled that position with honor. He was the author of Introduction to the Mechanical Principles of Carpentry; Scriptural Illustrations of the Liturgy the Liturgy; Education in Its Relations Government; and Historical Notices of Geneva College. He died July 15, 1863, in Newburyport, Mass.

Hale, Charles

journalist, public official, was born June 7, 1831, in Boston, , was born June 7, 1831, in Boston, Mass. He was United States consul to Egypt from 1864 to 1870; and was assistant secretary of state from 1872 to 1874.

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