Hart, Dan – Harter, Michael D
Hart, Dan
educator, farmer, legislator, was born Nov. 6, 1855, in Andrews, Ohio. He attended the Normal school of Valparaiso, Ind., and the Normal school of Worthington, Ohio. For many years he was engaged in educational work, and is now a successful farmer and stockraiser of Norton, Kan. He served two terms as clerk of the district court; was elected a representative in the Kansas state legislature in 1894; and to the state senate in 1896.
Hart, David Hasleton
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 9, 1839, in Lycoming county, Pa. He served as captain of company C, one hundred and sixth Illinois volunteer infantry, during the civil war. He was elected a member of the Illinois legislature in 1879; and has been candidate for congress and governor on the prohibition ticket in 1882 and in 1884.
Hart, E. Kirke
banker, congressman, was born April 18, 1841, in Albion, N. Y. He was a member of the assembly in 1872; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Hart, Emanuel Bernard
merchant, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1811, in New York city. He was a representative in congress from 1851 to 1853. He was at one time a lieutenantcolonel of the state militia; was appointed surveyor of the port of New York; and was also frequently a member of the state and national conventions of the democratic party.
Hart, Hastings Hornell
philanthropist, was born Dec. 14, 1851, in Brookfield, Ohio. In 1883 he was appointed secretary of the state board of corrections and charities; and during 1894-98 was secretary of the national conference of charities and corrections. In 1898 he became superintendent of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid society of Chicago.
Hart, Henry
lawyer, state legislator, jurist, was born May 13, 1840, in China, Mich. He has been a justice of the peace; was prosecuting attorney of his county for four years; and in 1875 was elected a member of the Michigan state legislature. The same year he was elected judge of the twenty-first judicial circuit, which office he still fills, having been reelected three times.
Hart, James Morgan
educator, author, was born in 1839, in New Jersey.
He has been a professor of Germanic languages at Cornell university since 1868, and is the author of Handbook of English Composition; Syllabus of Anglo- Saxon Literature; and German Universities.
Hart, Joel T
sculptor, inventor, was born in 1810, in Clark county, Ky.
His best compositions are Charity; Woman Triumphant; and Penserosa. He invented an apparatus for obtaining mechanically the outline of a head from life. He died March 1, 1877, in Italy.
Hart, John
signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in 1708, in Hopewell, N. J. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and great confidence was reposed in the wisdom and judgment of honest John Hart. He died in 1780, in Hopewell, N. J.
Hart, John Seely
educator, author, was born Jan. 28, 1810, in Stockbridge, Mass. He was an educator of New Jersey who was professor of rhetoric at Princeton college in 1872-77. He was the author of Manuals of English and American Literature; Composition and Rhetoric; and In the Schoolroom. He died March 26, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Hart, Joseph J
journalist, business man, congressman, was born April 18, 1859, in Nyack, N. Y. He attended the schools of his native village and the Charlier institute of New York city, from which institution he graduated in 1876; became bookkeeper in grain warehouse in Brooklyn; on attaining his majorſty returned to Nyack and purchased City and Country, the leading a democratic newspaper of the section, which he successfully conducted until 1883, when he removed to Pike county, Pa., where he has since resided. He is engaged in insurance and real estate business at Milford. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Hart, Joseph Peeples
lawyer, journalist, was born May 9, 1847, in Arkadelphia, Ark. This successful lawyer and journalist has always been prominently identified with the public affairs of his native city and county. He has been special circuit judge; United States circuit court commissioner; commissioner of accounts for his county; and for many years a justice of the peace.
Hart, Nancy
revolutionary heroine, was born about 1755, in Elbert county, Ga. On the occasion of an excursion of the British from the camp at Augusta into the interior, a party of five of the enemy came to her cabin to pillage.
While they were eating and drinking at her table she contrived to conceal their arms, and when they sprang to their feet at the sound of the approaching neighbors she ordered them to surrender or pay the forfeit with their lives. One man stirred, and was shot dead. Terror of capture induced another to attempt escape, but he met with the same fate. When the neighbors arrived they found the woman posted in the doorway, two men dead on the floor, and the others kept at bay. Hart county, Ga., is named for her. She died about 1840, in Elbert county, Ga.
Hart, O. B
jurist, governor, was born in the north. He was made associate judge of the supreme court in 1868; was elected governor of Florida in 1872. He died March 18, 1874.
Hart, Oliver
clergyman, author, was born July 5, 1723, in Warminster, Pa.
He was an active patriot, and was sent with William Tennant by the council of safety to reconcile some of the disaffected frontier settlers to the change in public affairs consequent upon the revolution.
He had some ability as a writer of verse, and published a Discourse on the Death of William Tennant; Dancing Exploded; The Christian Temple; and A Gospel Church Portrayed. He died Dec. 31, 1795, in Hopewell, N. J.
Hart, Roswell
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1824, in Rochester, N. Y. In 1864 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fortieth congress. He died April 20, 1883.
Hart, Samuel
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1845, in Connecticut.
He is an episcopal clergyman, professor in Trinity college; and has published editions of Juvenal and Persius; and Historical Sermons of Bishop Seabury.
Hart, William
artist, was born March 31, 1823, in Scotland. At the organization of the Brooklyn academy of design in 1865, he became its president, and continued in that office several years.
He has exhibited at the National academy The September Snow; and Autumn in the Woods of Maine; Scene on the Peabody River, in water colors; Twilight on the Brook.
Hart, William Octave
lawyer, was born Aug. 19, 1857, in New Orleans, La. He received his education in the pub- In lic schools of his native city, and at Lusher's Commercial academy. 1878 he commenced the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1880 by the supreme court of Louisiana. Since that time he has the record of having tried more cases than any other lawyer in New Orleans. He has traveled extensively throughout the American continent; has been in every state and territory of the union; every city of any size in the United States; and through Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Mr. Hart owns the largest private library in the south. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Louisiana in 1898; and has served three terms as a member of the examining committee of the supreme court of the state of Louisiana, for the admission of candidates to the bar. He is a member of the Commercial Law league and the American Bar association.
HARTE FRANCIS BRET, journalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 25, 1839, in Albany, N. Y. He is a California writer who first drew public attention in 1868 by a short story called The Luck of Roaring Camp, published in the Overland Monthly, which he edited. This tale, and the now famous poem, Plain Language from Truthful James, established his reputation. From 1871 to 1878 he resided in New York, and since that date he has lived abroad, but mainly in London from 1885. His writings include, Condensed Novels; The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches; Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands; Tales of the Argonauts; Gabriel Conroy; Two Men of Sandy Bar, a play; The Story of a Mine; Drift from Two Shores; Thankful Blossom; The Twins of Table Mountain; By Shore and Sedge; Flip, and Found at Blazing Star; In the Carquinez Woods; On the Frontier; Maruja; Snow- Bound at Egle's; The Queen of the Pirate Isle, a Chila's Story; A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready; The Crusade of the Excelsior; A Phyllis of the Sierras; The Argonauts of North Liberty; Cressy; The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh; A Waif of the Plains; A Ward of the Golden Gate; A Sappho of Green Springs; Colonel Starbottle's Client; A First Family of Tasajara; Susy; A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's; Sally Dows; The Bell-Ringer of Angel's; Clarence; and In a Hollow of the Hills; Barker's Luck. In verse he has published East and West Poems; Echoes of the Foot Hills.
Harte, Walter Blackburn
author, was born in 1866, in Canada. He has published Meditations, in Motley.
Harter, Michael D
banker, manufacturer, congressman, was born April 6, 1846, in Canton, Ohio. He was elected from Ohio to the fifty-second and reelected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.