Hardin, John J – Hargis, Thomas F
Hardin, John J
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1810, in Frankfort, Ky.
He held the office of prosecuting attorney for his circuit; and was a member of the Illinois legislature from 1836 to 1842. He was a representative in congress from Illinois from 1843 to 1845. He commanded a regiment in the war with Mexico, and was killed at the battle of Buena Vista. He died Feb. 27, 1847, in Buena Vista, Mexico.
Hardin, Martin D
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born June 21, 1780, on Monongahela River, Pa. He served for several years in the legislature of Kentucky; and was at one time secretary of state for Kentucky. He served in the northwestern army as a major; and was a senator in congress during the years 1816 and 1817. He died Oct. 8, 1823, in Franklin county, Ky.
Harding, Aaron
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in Greene county, Ky. In 1840 he was elected to the state legislature. In 1861 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-seventh congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth and thirtyninth congresses.
Harding, Abner Clark
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 10, 1807, in East Hampton, Conn. He was a member of the Illinois constitutional convention of 1848; and served in the state legislature in 1848-50. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the eighty-third Illinois infantry, and, having been appointed its colonel, served with success at Fort Donelson; and was made a brigadier-general. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fortieth congress.
He died July 19, 1874, in Monmouth, Ill.
Harding, Benjamin F
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Jan. 4, 1823, in Wyoming county, Pa. In 1849 he settled in Oregon; and in 1850 was chosen a member of the legislative assembly. In 1852 he was chosen a member of the legislature and made speaker. In 1853 he was appointed United States district attorney for the territory of Oregon; and in 1854 was appointed secretary of the territory, which office he held until Oregon was admitted as a state.
From 1859 to 1862 he was a member of the state legislature, serving the last two years as speaker. In 1862 he was elected a senator in congress from Oregon; and took his seat during the third session of the thirty-seventh congress.
Harding, Garrick M
lawyer, jurist, was born July 12, 1827, in Exeter, Pa. He received his education at the Franklin academy, at the Madison academy, and in 1848 graduated from the Dickinson college of Carlisle, Pa. He was admitted to the bar in 1850; and during 1858-61 was attorneygeneral of Luzerne county, Pa. During 1870-80 he was president judge of the eleventh judicial district of Pennsylvania, which position he resigned and returned to the practice of law. His judicial career covered the days of the Molly McGuires in Pennsylvania, many of whom were tried before him and convicted; some were imprisoned for long terms, and some were hanged. In addition to a thorough knowledge of the law, Judge Harding possessed powers of oratory that won him fame from the commencement of his professional career.
Harding, George
lawyer, was born Oct. 26, 1827, in Philadelphia. He was associated with Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton in the McCormick reaper case, and introduced a miniature grainfield to illustrate the process of reaping by machinery. His most successful effort was in the Tilghman glycerine case, when his argument induced the supreme court to reverse its first decision on the same patent.
Harding, Stephen S
jurist, was born in Indiana. He removed to Utah; and was appointed from that territory an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Colorado, residing in Denver City.
Harding, Stephen Selwyn
governor, poet, was born Feb. 24, 1808, in Ontario county, N. Y. In 1862 he was appointed governor of Utah territory.
Harding, William White
journalist, inventor, manufacturer, was born Nov. 1, 1830, in Philadelphia. From 1863 till 1878 he manufactured paper at the Inquirer Paper mills, Manayunk, near Philadelphia, where he introduced many new systems and inventions. He died May 15, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Hardy, Alexander Merrill
journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 16, 1847, in Canada. In 1869 he went to New Orleans, where he was engaged in newspaper work until 1873, when he located in Natchez, Miss., where he conducted a republican newspaper until 1877. In 1881 he was assigned to duty as clerk to the superintendent of construction of the government building at Paducah, Ky.; and in 1884 located at Washington, Daviess county, Ind., where he has since resided. He was elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.
Hardy, Arthur Sherburne
educator, mathematician, author, was born Aug. 13, 1847, in Andover, Mass. He was professor of mathematics at Dartmouth college in 1878-93, and well known both as novelist and mathematician. He is the author of Elements of Quaternions; New Methods in Surveying; Elements of Analytic Geometry; Elements of Calculus; But Yet a Woman: The Wind of Destiny; Passe Rose; and Joseph Hardy Neesima, a biography.
Hardy, James Ward
educator, clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 19, 1815, in Georgia. He was for several years professor of mathematics in Grange college, Ala., and afterward its president.
He died Aug. 14, 1853, in Alabama.
Hardy, John
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 19, 1835, in Scotland. In 1861 he was a member of the state house of representatives. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the fortyeighth congress.
Hardy, Mrs. Lizzie Clark
poet, was born in St. Lawrence county, N. Y.
She is the author of a number of poems, many of which have been set to music.
Hardy, Samuel
congressman, was born about 1758 in Isle of Wight county, Va. He was a delegate to the continental congress from Virginia from 1783 to 1785. He died in October, 1785, in New York city.
Hare, Charles Woodroph
lawyer, journalist, was born Sept. 20, 1857, near Camden, Ala. For seven years he was editor of the Alabama Baptist; and since 1895 has been editor of The News of Tuskegee, Ala.
Hare, Darius D
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 9, 1843, near Adrian, Ohio. He entered the military service as a private in the signal corps, United States army, in 1864, and served during the remainder of the war. He was elected from Ohio to the fifty-second and. fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
Hare, George Emlen
educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1808, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an episcopal clergyman and professor of biblical learning in the Philadelphia Divinity school. He was the author of Christ to Return; and Visions and Narratives of the Old Testament, a volume of sermons.
He died in 1892.
Hare, John Innes Clark
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 17, 1816, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a noted Philadelphia jurist; and the author of Treatise on Contracts; New England Exchequer Reports; and American Constitutional Law.
Hare, Robert
scientist, author, was born Jan. 17, 1781, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He was a prominent Philadelphia scientist; and was the author of Brief View of Policy and Resources of the United States; Spiritualism Scientifically Demonstrated; and Chemical Apparatus and Scientific Manipulations. He died May 15, 1858, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Hare, Silas
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1827, in Ross county, Ohio. He served one year in the war with Mexico as a private. He was chief justice of New Mexico in 1862 under the confederate government; and afterwards served until the war closed as a captain. He settled in Sherman in 1865; was criminal district judge from 1873 till 1876; and was chosen democratic elector for the state at large in 1884. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
Hare, William Hobart
bishop of South Dakota, was born May 17, 1838, in Princeton, N. J. He has established a cathedral and a diocesan school for young ladies among the white people at Sioux Falls, and boarding schools and missions throughout the diocese.
Hare, William Robert
protestant episcopal bishop, was born May 17, 1838, in Princeton, N. J. In 1872 he was elected missionary bishop of Niobrara, and was consecrated in 1873.
Harford, Helen Dickinson
educator, lecturer, was born July 31, 1843, in Cleveland, N. Y. In 1864 she graduated from the State Normal college of Albany, N. Y.; and has successfully taught school in Bloomington and Grant Park, Ill.; and in Kansas City, Mo. She is now a national lecturer and organizer for the Woman's Christian Temperance union, and a successful advocate of temperance and woman suffrage in Kansas and Oregon.
Hargis, Thomas F
lawyer, jurist, was born June 24, 1842, in Breathitt county. He served in the war and became captain of the fifth Kentucky infantry. He subsequently studied law, and became one of the ablest jurists of Kentucky. His appeals as chief justice of Kentucky's highest court are written in a vigorous, yet graceful, style. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar, and the year following was elected judge of Nicholas county, Ky.; receiving the re-election in 1870. In 1871 he was chosen a member of the Kentucky state senate; elected judge of the criminal court in 1878; and raised to the appellate bench of Kentucky in 1879. He retired from the supreme bench in 1884, and has since practiced his profession in Louisville, Ky.