Haskell, Llewellyn Solomon – Hastings, Thomas S
Haskell, Llewellyn Solomon
merchant, was born Jan. 4, 1815, in Gloucester, Maine. In 1857 he began to lay out Llewellyn park, and about 1859 retired from business to give his whole time to its improvement. He died May 31, 1872, in Santa Barbara, Cal.
Haskell, Thomas Nelson
clergyman, educator, author, poet, was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y. He is the author of The Boys in Blue; Konkaput; the King of the Utes, a fascinating poem of remarkable merit. He is the state librarian of Colorado, and fills the position of chaplain of the senate.
Haskell, Ulysses G
lawyer, genealogist, was born Oct. 3, 1863, in Chatham, N. H. He has served as examiner United States pension bureau, and president of the Beverly common council. He is the author of a Genealogy on the Haskell Family.
Haskell, William T
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was colonel of a regiment of Tennessee volunteers in the war with Mexico, and distinguished himself at Medelin and at Cerro Gordo. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1847 to 1849; and presidential elector in 1852. He died March 20, 1859, in Hopkinsville, Tenn.
Haskin, John B
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1821, in Fordham, N. Y. He held several important city offices from 1846 to 1856; and was then elected a representative in the thirty-fifth congress from New York, and re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress.
Haskin, Joseph A
soldier, was born in 1817, in New York. He served in the civil war and was promoted to be major in 1862, and brevet colonel and brevet brigadier-general in 1865. He was retired from active service in 1872. He died Aug. 3, 1874, in Oswego, N. Y.
Haskin, Nelson
merchant, state legislator, was born Oct. 20, 1849, in Canada. He is a descendant of Bartholomew Haskin, who arrived in Boston harbor from England in 1635, and settled in Elizabeth City. He moved to Michigan in 1871, and has attained success as one of the foremost merchants of Lapeer county, at Imlay City. For two terms he was village president; has filled numerous public offices of trust; is a prominent mover in various fraternal orders; and during 1887-88 served with distinction as a representative in the Michigan state legislature. ilies and Schools; French and English First Book; and Maternal Ancestors of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Haslett, John
soldier, physician, state legislator, was born in Ireland. He was repeatedly in the state assembly of Delaware. He served during the revolutionary war, and was in the actions of Long Island and White Plains. He died Jan. 3, 1777, in Princeton, N. J.
Haslett, John
physician, surgeon, was born in December, 1799, in Charleston, S. C. He entered the United States navy as a surgeon in 1822, and continued in service, reaching the rank of fleet-surgeon, until 1841, when he resigned. On the establishment of the Brooklyn city hospital Dr. Haslett became its vicepresident, and practically its head; and in 1853 its president. He died Sept. 28, 1878, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Haslett, Joseph
governor, was born in Delaware. He was governor of Delaware from 1811 to 1814, and again in 1823 and 1824. He died in July, 1824.
Hassard, John Rose Greene
journalist, author, was born Sept. 4, 1836, in New York city. He was a New York journalist, who was a literary critic on the staff of the Tribune, and was the author of The King of the Nibelung; School History of the United States; Life of Archbishop Hughes; The Life of Pope Pius Ninth; and A Pickwickian Pilgrimage. He died April 18, 1888, in New York city.
Hassard, Samuel
clergyman, was born Jan. 21, 1806, in Jamaica, W. I.
He was largely instrumental in promoting the growth of the protestant episcopal church in New England. A volume of his sermons was published after his death, with a memoir by Henry. W. Lee.
He died Jan. 13, 1847, in Great Barrington, Mass.
Hassaurek, Friedrich
lawyer, journalist, diplomat, author, was born in 1832. He was a journalist and lawyer of Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1861-66 was minister resident to Ecuador. He was the author of Four Years Among the Spanish-Americans; and The Secret of the Andes. He died Oct. 3, 1885, in Paris, France.
Hasselquist, Toovay Nelsson
clergyman, college president, was born March 2, 1816, in Sweden. He was called in 1863 to the presidency of the Swedish seminary at Paxton, which was removed in 1875 to Rock Island, Ill., under the title of Augustana college and theological seminary. He was one of the founders of the Scandinavian Augustana synod and its presiding officer in 1860-70.
Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph
civil engineer, surveyor, author, was born Oct. 6, 1770, in Switzerland. He was a noted surveyor in the government service who published System of the Universe and a series of works on astronomy, arithmetic, He died
Haskins, Charles N
educator, was born Aug. 16, 1857, in Huntington, geometry, and trigonometry. In 1881 he entered the Ohio Ohio.
Institute for the Deaf as a teacher, where he continued for thirteen years.
In 1893 he became connected with the deaf department of the Chicago city schools. For two years he edited and published a patriotic magazine known as The Washingtonian. He subsequently organized the Co-operative College of Citizenship, which now has a faculty of fifty members in twelve departments, intended to cover the whole field of sociology.
Haskins, David Greene
clergyman, author, was born in 1818, in Massa- He was an episcopal clergychusetts. man and educator of Cambridge. He was the author of Selections from the Old and New Testament for Use in Fam- Nov. 20, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Hastings, George
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 13, 1807, in Clinton, N. Y. He was district attorney for Oneida county nine years; was a representative in congress from New York from 1853 to 1855; and late in the latter year was elected judge for Livingston county, which office he held until his death. He died Aug. 29, 1866, in Mount Morris, N. Y.
Hastings, George H
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Aug. 26, 1848, in Marengo, Ill. He has been judge of Saline county, Neb.; representative of the Nebraska state legislature; and in 1890-94 was attorney-general of that state.
Hastings, Holman K
clergyman, state legislator, poet, was born Oct. 15, 1853, in Bristol, N. H. In 1875 he entered the Vermont conference and served pastorates at Guilford, Bondville, Tun- Tunbridge and Hancock, Vt. He was superintendent of schools for two years, and in 1882 was elected a representative to the Vermont legislature.
In 1886 he was transferred from the Vermont conference to northwest Iowa, where he is one of the most noted clergyman of his denomination.
HORACE LORENZO, HASTINGS, evangelist, author, poet, was born Nov. 26, 1833, in Blandford, Mass. He is the great anti -infidel lecturer; has preached since 1849; and since 1866 has published The Christian, which has had a combined issue of three million copies, and published in a dozen languages. He has written hundreds of hymns; compiled a hymn book; and issued a scores of religious books and pamphlets.
He is best known as the author of Shall We Meet Beyond the River. His other works are Signs of the Times; Reasons for My Hope: Thessalonica; and Atheism and Arithmetic.
Hastings, Hugh J
journalist, was born Aug. 20, 1820, in Ireland. He was appointed by President Taylor collector of the port of Albany. He assumed the editorship of the New York Commercial Advertiser in 1668, and in 1875 became its proprietor. He died Sept. 12, 1883, in Monmouth Beach, N. J.
Hastings, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1843. He died Dec. 29, 1854, in Columbus, Ohio.
Hastings, Samuel Clinton
lawyer, jurist, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Iowa from 1846 to 1847; and was at one time a judge of the supreme court of Iowa. He subsequently practiced law in San Francisco, Cal.
Hastings, Seth
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1760. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1801 to 1807; and after his service in congress was elected a state senator in 1810 and 1814. He was appointed chief justice of the court of sessions. He died in 1831, in Mendon, Mass.
Hastings, T. Nelson
state senator, was born May 23, 1858, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1897 he was elected a member of the New Hampshire state senate from Walpole.
Hastings, Thomas
composer, was born Oct. 15, 1784, in Washington, Conn.
His publications comprise nearly fifty separate volumes; and he left over six hundred hymns in manuscript. He died May 15, 1872, in New York city.
Hastings, Thomas S
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Aug. 28, 1827, in Utica, N. Y. In 1881 he was professor of sacred rhetoric in the Union Theological seminary; of which institution he has been president since 1887.