Hawley, Joseph – Hayden, Hezekiah Sidney
Hawley, Joseph
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1723, in Northampton, Mass. From 1764 to 1776 he held a seat in the Massachusetts legislature.
In 1774 he was chairman of the committee to consider the state of the country, in the provincial congress, and was a member of that body in 1775. He died May 10, 1788, in Northampton, Mass.
Hawley, Joseph R
soldier, journalist, legislator, was born Oct. 31, 1826, in Richmond county, N. C. He graduated at Hamilton college, New York, in 1847, and was admitted to the bar in 1850 at Hartford, Conn., where he has since resided. He became editor of the Hartford Evening Press in 1857, which was consolidated with the Hartford Courant, of which he is editor. He enlisted in the union army as a lieutenant in 1861, and became brigadier and brevet major-general. He was elected governor of Connecticut in 1866. He was president of the United States centennial commission from its organization, in March, 1873, to the completion of the work of the centennial exhibition. He was elected in 1872 a representative in the forty-second congress to fill a vacancy; was re-elected to the forty-third congress, and was elected to the forty-sixth congress. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican; took his seat March 4, 1881, was re-elected in 1887, and was again elected in 1893.
Hawley, R. B
merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born in October, 1859, in Memphis, Tenn. He has presided several times over state conventions, and attended as a delegate national conventions. He was elected as a republican to the fifty-fifth congress.
Hawley, William Merrill
lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born Aug. 23, 1802, in Delaware county, N. Y. He served in the state senate, was a delegate to the democratic national convention of May 22, 1848, which met in Baltimore, and was identified with the Freesoil radical delegation, which culminated in the national convention of 1848, held in Buffalo. He died Feb. 9, 1869, in Hornellsville, N. Y.
Haws, J. H. Hobart
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.
Hawthorne, Alice H
poet, was born Nov. 8, 1842, in Louisville, Ky., which city has always been her home. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Hawthorne Leaves; and has contributed poems and prose to current literature.
Hawthorne, Benjamin James
educator, college president, was born June 19, 1837, in Lunenberg, Va. He graduated from the Randolph Macon college with the degree of A. M., and was a student at Clark university and at Yale. He was a professor in the Collegiate institute of Baton Rouge, La.; has been president of the West Tennessee college; professor in the State Agricultural college of Oregon, and now fills the chair of mental philosophy in the university of Oregon.
Hawthorne, James Cossett
physician, state senator, was born March 12, 1819, in Mercer county, Pa. In 1854 he was elected state senator from Placer county, Cal. He died Feb. 15, 1881, in Portland, Ore.
Hawthorne, Julian
author, was born June 22, 1846, in Boston, Mass. He is the author of Bressant; Garth; Dust; Idolatry; Fortune's Fool; Beatrix Randolph; Saxon Studies; Archibald Malmaison; Sebastian Strome; Noble Blood; Love, or a Name; Mrs. Gainsborough's Diamonds; David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales; A Dream and a Forgetting; Confessions and Criticisms; Constance; Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife; American Literature; The Trial of Gideon; Prince Saroni's Wife; and Love Is a Spirit.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
novelist, was born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass.
During 1838-41 he held a position in the Boston custom house, was next a member of the Brook Farm association, and after 1843 a resident at Concord, Mass., from time to time until his death, though within that period he was surveyor of the port of Salem, 1846-50, and from 1853 to 1857 consul at Liverpool. He was the author of Fanshawe; Twice-Told Tales; Grandfather's Chair; Mosses from an Old Manse; Famous Old People; Liberty Tree; Biographical Stories for Children; The Scarlet Letter; True Stories; The House of the Seven Gables; A Wonder Book; The Snow Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales; The Blithedale Romance; Tanglewood Tales; The Marble Faun, known in England as Transformation; Our Old Home; Passages from American Note-Books; English Note-Books; French and Italian Note-Books; Septimius Felton; The Dolliver Romance; and Dr. Grimshawe's Secret. He died May 19, 1864, in Plymouth, N. H.
Hawthorne, Mrs. Sophia
(PEA- BODY), author, was born in 1810 in Salem, Mass. She was the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and sister of Elizabeth Peabody. Her only publication was Notes in England and Italy. She died Feb. 26, 1871, in London, England.
Haxall, Robert William
physician, was born Aug. 1, 1802, in Petersburg, Va. He was on several occasions president of the Medical society of Virginia, and was one of the founders of the American Medical association. He died March 26, 1872, in Richmond, Va.
Hay, Andrew K
congressman, was born in Massachusetts. Having become a resident of New Jersey, he was elected a representative in congress from 1849 to 1851.
Hay, Charles Augustus
clergyman, theologian, was born Feb. 11, 1821, in York, Pa. He was pastor at Hanover in 1848-49, and at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1849-65. In the latter year he was called to the Theological seminary as professor of Hebrew, German, biblical criticism, and pastoral theology. He translated from the German, Dr. Schmid's Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Hay, Eugene G
lawyer, legislator, was born March 26, 1853, in Charlestown, Ind. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Minnesota state legislature, and in 1890-94 was United States district attorney of that state.
Hay, George
lawyer, jurist, author.
He was a member of the Virginia legislature and was for many years United States attorney, in which capacity he was the prosecutor of Aaron Burr. He was subsequently judge of the United States court for the eastern district of Virginia.
He wrote a treatise against the Usury Laws; Life of John Thompson; and a treatise on Emigration in 1814. He died Sept. 21, 1830, in Richmond.
Hay, James
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 9, 1856, in Millwood, Va. He was elected attorney for the commonwealth in 1883, and reelected to that office in 1887, 1891, and 1895. He was elected to the house of delegates of Virginia in 1885, and was reelected in 1887 and 1889. He was elected to the state senate in 1893. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Hay, John
lawyer, statesman, poet, was born Oct. 8, 1838, in Salem, Ind. In 1861 he became Lincoln's private secretary, adjutant, and aide-de-camp during the civil war, and attained the rank of brevetted colonel. For five years he was an editorial writer on the New York Tribune, during 1870-75. He is now United States minister in London, England. He is the author of A Life of Abraham Lincoln; Pike County Ballads, and Other Poems; and Castilian Days, a volume of travels. Of his dialect poems, Jim Bludso and Little Breeches are the best known.
Hay, John B
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1834, in Belleville, Ill. He was for eight years a district attorney for the state; served in the union army during the rebellion, and was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Hay, Malcolm
lawyer, was born in 1842 in Pennsylvania. He became president of the Mercantile Library association of Pittsburg; was a trustee of the Dollar Savings bank, and was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1872. In 1885 he was appointed first assistant postmaster-general. He died Oct. 20, 1885.
Hay, Walter
physician, journalist, was born June 13, 1830, in Georgetown, D. C. He organized St. Luke's hospital in Chicago in 1864, became editor of the Chicago Medical Journal in 1867, and retained this connection until the sale of the paper in 1875.
Hayden, Charles S
LL. B., lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 10, 1848, in Harvard, Mass. Since 1891 he has been chief justice of the court. In 1889 he was elected mayor of Fitchburg.
Hayden, Edward Daniel
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1833, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1862 he entered the United States navy as assistant paymaster. He was a member of the state house of representatives of Massachusetts in 1880, 1881, and 1882. He settled at Woburn, Mass., and was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Hayden, Ferdinand Vander- Veer
geologist, author, was born Sept. 7, 1829, in Westfield, Mass. He was a professor of geology in the university of Pennsylvania, and the author of Origin and Progress of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories; and The Yellowstone National Park. He died Dec. 22, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Hayden, Hezekiah Sidney
capitalist, senator, was born Jan. 29, 1816, in Windsor, Conn. In 1858 he erected a building for a Young Ladies' institute, which has been conducted successfully.
He served in both branches of the state legislature, and in the senate in 1866.