Hale, Charles Reuben – Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha
Hale, Charles Reuben
bishop, coadjutor, of Springfield, Ill., was born March 14, 1837, in Lewiston, Pa. In 1886 he was appointed dean of Davenport. In 1892 he was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Springfield. He is the author of The Mozarabic Liturgy; The Universal Episcopate; and Speeches and Addresses.
Hale, David
journalist, philanthropist, was born April 25, 1791, in Lisbon, Conn. He became the associate editor and subsequently joint proprietor with Gerald Hallock of the New York Journal of Commerce. He contributed largely to benevolent and religious enterprises, and for many years supported several missionaries. He died Jan. 25, 1849, in Fredericksburg, Va.
Hale, Edward Everett
clergyman, author, was born April 3, 1822, in Boston, Mass. He is a prominent unitarian clergyman of Boston, widely known as a writer, whose literary activity covers a wide field. Since 1856 he has been pastor of the South Congregational church of Boston. As a writer of short stories he will, perhaps, be longest remembered, his work in this direction including The Man Without a Country; Ten Times One Is Ten; In His Name; Mrs. Merriam's Scholars; His Level Best; The Ingham Papers; Four and Five; Crusoe in New York; Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Christmas in Narragansett; Our Christmas in a Palace. Longer essays in fiction are, Margaret Percival in America; Mr.
Tangier's Vacations; Ups and Downs; Philip Nolan's Friends; The Fortunes of Rachel. Other works of his are, Sketches in Christian History; Kansas and Nebraska; How to Do It; What Career?; Gone to Texas: Seven Spanish Cities; June to May, a collection of sermons; Boys' Heroes; The Story of Massachusetts; Sybaris and Other Homes; Sunday- School Stories on the Golden Texts of 1889; For Fifty Years, a collection of poems; A New England Boyhood, an autobiographic work; Chautauquan History of the United States; and If Jesus Came to Boston.
Hale, Edwin Moses
physician, author, was born Feb. 2, 1829, in Newport, N. H. He is a Chicago physician, professor in the Homœopathic college; and the author of Pocket Manual of Domestic Practice; Homœopathic Materia Medica; Treatment of Diseases of Women; and Treatise on Cérebro-Spinal Meningitis.
Hale, Ellen Day
artist, was born Feb. 11, 1855, in Worcester, Mass. She has traveled in Spain and Italy, and has resided in Paris and in London. Her present home is in Boston, where she has attained success in art.
Hale, Enoch
physician, author, was born Jan. 19, 1790, in Westhampton, Mass.
He was a physician in Boston; and the author of History of the Spotted Fever at Gardiner, Maine, in 1814; and Typhoid Fever. He died Nov. 12, 1848, in Boston, Mass.
Hale, Eugene
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born June 9, 1836, in Turner, Maine. He was appointed attorney for Hancock county, Maine, and was three times reappointed. In 1866 he was elected to the state legislature, serving two years. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Maine to the fortyfirst congress, and was re-elected to the forty-second, forty-third, and forty-fourth He was re-elected to the congresses. forty-fifth congress. He was elected a United States senator from Maine for the term of six years from March 4, 1881; and was re-elected in 1887 and 1893. His term expires in 1899.
Hale, Franklin D
lawyer, state senator, was born March 7, 1854, in Barnett, Vt. He was educated at Northfield high school and St. Johnsbury academy, and graduated from the law department of Michigan university in 1877, afterward practicing law at Lewiston, Maine. He was state's attorney for Essex county from 1883-91, with the exception of one term. He was a member of the house of representatives in 1884, and of the senate in 1886; was elected auditor of Vermont in 1892, and re-elected in 1894 and 1896. In 1881 he settled in Lunenburg, Vt., where he has attained success as an able lawyer.
Hale, George Silsbee
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 24, 1825, in Keene, N. H. He was the editor of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth volumes of the United States Digest. He has written Memoirs of Joel Parker.
Hale, Horatio
lawyer, ethnologist, author, was born May 3, 1817, in Newport, N. H. He was a lawyer and ethnologist of prominence who lived in Clinton, Ontario, from 1856. He was the author of Ethnology and Philology; Indian Migrations as Evidenced by Language; and Report on the Blackfeet Tribes. He has edited the Iroquois Book of Rites.
Hale, James T
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in October, 1810, in Bradford county, Pa. In 1851 he was appointed president judge of the twentieth judicial district of Pennsylvania. In 1858 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth congresses. He died April 7, 1865, in Bellefonte, Pa.
Hale, John
clergyman, author, was born June 3, 1636, in Charlestown, Mass.
During the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692 he attended the examinations of the accused persons, and approved of the judicial murders resulting from the charges. He afterward published A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft. He died May 15, 1700.
Hale, John Blackwell
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 27, 1831, in Hancock county, W. Va. He was a representative in the Missouri legislature from 1856 to 1858; and was a presidential elector in Missouri in 1860. He was colonel of the sixty-fifth regiment Missouri militia, and of the fourth pro-. visional regiment of Missouri militia in the United States service during the civil war. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Hale, John Parker
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born March 31, 1806, in Rochester, N. H. In 1832 he was elected to the state legislature; in 1834 was appointed district attorney for New Hampshire, and reappointed by President Van Buren. In 1843 he was elected a representative in congress; and in 1846 was again elected to the state legislature, and chosen speaker. In 1847 he was elected a senator in congress, and after serving until 1853 was again elected to the United States senate in 1855; and in 1859 was re-elected for the term ending in 1865. In 1852 he was the free-soil candidate for vice-president of the United States. In 1865 he was appointed minister to Spain. He died Nov. 18, 1873, in Dover, N. H.
Hale, Lucretia Peabody
author, was born Sept. 2, 1820, in Boston, Mass.
She is a writer who is best known by her humorous juvenile books; and is the author of The Peterkin Papers: The Last of the Peterkins. Her other works comprise The Lord's Supper and Its Observance; The Service of Sorrow; Sunday- School Stories for Little Children; Fagots for the Fireside, a collection of games; The Struggle for Life, a Story of Home; Art Needle Work; An Uncloseted Skeleton; and The New Harry and Lucy.
Hale, Nathan
patriot, was born June 6, 1755, in Coventry, Conn. He was sent by Washington, after the battle of Long Island, to ascertain the strength and position of the enemy, and was captured and hanged as a spy. His last words were, I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. He died Sept. 22, 1776.
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, Robert Safford
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1822, in Chelsea, Vt. He was judge of Essex county from 1856 to 1864; in 1859 was appointed a regent of the university of New York; and in 1860 was a presidential elector. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy. He was a delegate to the national union convention at Philadelphia in 1866; and was re-elected to the forty-third congress as a republican. He died Dec. 14, 1881, in Elizabethtown, N. J.
Hale, Salma
journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born March 7, 1787, in Alstead, N. H. From 1812 to 1834, with the exception of a few years, he was clerk of the supreme court of Cheshire. He was a representative in congress from 1817 to 1819; and afterward practiced at the bar. He was a member of the legislature from 1823 to 1825; and secretary of the board of commissioners under the treaty of Ghent. He was the author of History of the United States; and Annals of Keene. He died Nov. 19, 1866, in Somerville, Mass.
Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha
[BUELL], author, was born Oct. 24, 1788, in Newport, N. H. She was a once wellknown writer of Philadelphia who was editor of The Lady's Book for forty years. She was the author of Woman's Record, a large biographicaland critical work, and her most important.
Others are, The Genius of Oblivion, and Other Poems; Northwood, a novel; Sketches of American Character; Traits of American Life; Flora's Interpreter; The Way to Live Well; Grosvenor, a Tragedy; Manners, or Happy Homes; Love, or Woman's Destiny, with Other Poems; The White Veil; The Judge, a drama; Three Hours, or the Vigil of Love; Harry Gray, a Sea Story; and Alice Ray, a Romance in Rhyme. She also edited cookery books, compilations, annuals, and the letters of Madame de Sévigné and Lady Mary. Wortley Montagu. She died April 30, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa.