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still the fundamental school law of the State. 

 In 1877 he was recalled to the head of the Central 

 City schools. In 1878 he was elected by the Re- 

 publican party a regent of the State University 

 for six years. In 1882, and again in 1883, he wa3 

 chosen mayor of Central City. In 1887 he was 

 made president of Colorado State University, and 

 he ably administered the of lice until his retire- 

 ment in 1892. 



Hamersley, James Hooker, born in New 

 York city, Jan. 26, 1844; died at Garrisons-on- 

 Hudson, Sept. 14, 1901. He was graduated with 

 honors at Columbia University in 1865, and at 

 Columbia Law School in 1867. For ten years he 

 practised law, finally leaving it to devote his time 

 to acting as cotrustee in the large estate left by 

 his father, the late John William Hamersley. He 

 was an extensive traveler and a well-known soci- 

 ety and club man. He was the author of several 

 poems, and contributed articles on politics and 

 history. In 1877 he was nominated for the As- 

 sembly, but he withdrew in favor of his friend 

 William W. Astor, who was elected by a large 

 majority, largely through the efforts of Mr. 

 Hamersley. 



Hamilton, Morris B., journalist, born in Ox- 

 ford Furnace, N. J., May 24, 1820; died in Tren- 

 ton, N. J., Jan. 23, 1901. He was graduated at 

 Princeton in 1839, and admitted to the bar in 

 1842. In 1849 he began a long newspaper career 

 as editor of the Trenton True American, remain- 

 ing its owner and editor till 1853. He was after- 

 ward on the staffs of the New York National 

 Democrat, the Sussex Herald, the Camden Demo- 

 crat, Newark Journal, Sussex Record, Kansas 

 City News, Elizabeth Herald, and Philadelphia 

 Record. He was elected State Librarian of New 

 Jersey in 1884, and held the office fifteen years. 

 He was known as Col. Hamilton from having 

 served on the staff of Gov. Foot. 



Hammond, Jane Nye, sculptor, born in New 

 York city, March 3, 1857; died in Providence, 

 R. L, Oct. 23, 1901. She spent a great part of 

 her life in study abroad, returning to the United 

 States to work in her studio with the little artist 

 colony in the Grundman Studio Building in Bos- 

 ton, where she had been for more than five years. 

 Afterward she visited Paris several times, spend- 

 ing another year working under Inj albert and 

 Bartlett, studying at the Beaux Arts and attend- 

 ing the Sorbonne lectures. Three examples of her 

 work were accepted at the Champs Elysees Salon. 

 At the World's Fair in Chicago she was a mem- 

 ber of the Board of Sculpture for Rhode Island, 

 and exhibited several noteworthy pieces. She 

 also exhibited in Boston, New York, and Provi- 

 dence. She was the representative woman sculp- 

 tor of her State, and as such she was repre- 

 sented at the Pan-American Exposition, to which 

 she sent, in response to the request of the com- 

 missioners, a portrait bust of Stephanie, the little 

 daughter of Hugo Breul, which shows her art at 

 its best. 



Haney, Jesse, publisher, born in Nicetown, 

 Pa., Feb. 19, 1829; died in New York city, Aug. 

 5, 1901. He was apprenticed to a printer in 

 Philadelphia, but he afterward attended the Cen- 

 tral High School ' in that city two years, and 

 then taught in private schools. He removed to 

 New York in 1852, and a year later joined Mr. 

 Levison in the proprietorship of the New York 

 Picayune, the first of the comic papers. Later 

 they began the publication of Nick Nax. Levi- 

 son died about 1856, and the publication of 

 the Picayune ceased, but Haney continued the 

 publication of Nick Nax till 1859, when it was 

 succeeded by the Comic Monthly, which included > 



Frank Bellew on its staff, and numbered Thomas- 

 Nast, Sol Eytinge, and " Doe.sticks " Thompson 

 among its contributors. Jn 1863 Mr. Haney en- 

 listed in the 22d New York Volunteer* and 

 served till the end of the war. In i860 he joined 

 with William Burroughs in the publication of 

 trade manuals and books of dialogues and reci- 

 tations. They also published llaney's Journal. 

 From 1885 till his retirement from active business 

 in 1897 Mr. Haney was associated in the man- 

 agement of the American News Company. 



Hardin, George A., jurist, born in Winficld, 

 N. Y., Aug. 17, 1832; died in Little Falls, N. Y., 

 April 16, 1901. He was graduated at Union Col- 

 lege, and received the degree of LL. D. from Ham- 

 ilton College. He was admitted to the bar in 

 1854, and practised law in Little Falls, N. Y., in 

 the intervals of his public service. He was a 

 Republican in politics, and was a member of the 

 State Senate in 1861. He was elected justice of 

 the Supreme Court for the 5th Judicial District 

 in 1871, and served as a trial judge till 1879, 

 when, on the reorganization of the General Term, 

 Gov. Cleveland designated him presiding justice 

 of the 4th Department. In the reorganization 

 of the courts following the adoption of the Con- 

 stitution in 1894 Gov. Morton designated him 

 presiding justice of the Appellate Division for 

 the 4th Department, which place he held till his 

 retirement in 1899. 



Harley, Orlando, singer, born in Pittsburg, 

 Pa., in 1856; died in Margate, England, Aug. 28, 

 1901. He studied in the United States and in 

 Europe, and was accounted one of the most suc- 

 cessful American grand-opera tenors. He ap- 

 peared during the last fifteen years of his life 

 with many of the famous prima donnas. 



Harris, William H., naval officer, born in 

 Charlestown, Mass., March 23, 1840; died in Bos- 

 ton, Jan. 5, 1901. He was appointed a 3d assist- 

 ant engineer in 1861, and assigned to the gunboat 

 Sagamore, then with the Eastern Gulf squadron? 

 In 1863 he was made 2d assistant engineer and 

 assigned to the steam frigate Niagara, on which 

 he served till 1865. He spent one year in the 

 Naval Academy, and then was made 1st assist- 

 ant engineer. From 1867 till 1870 he served on 

 the Piscataqua, then with the Asiatic squadron; 

 during 1871 and 1872 he was stationed at the 

 Boston Navy-Yard, and from 1873 till 1876 did 

 special duty on the Despatch, on the North At- 

 lantic station. In 1878 and 1879 he was again 

 assigned to the Boston Navy-Yard, and the fol- 

 lowing year did special duty. From 1881 to 1883 

 he was on the Galena, then on the European 

 station, and from 1884 till 1889 served in the 

 Bureau of Steam Engineering. Dec. 27, 1883, he 

 was made chief engineer. He was on the At- 

 lanta, in the squadron of evolution, in 1889 and 

 1890. He was retired June 30, 1900, his last 

 active duty being at the Portsmouth Navy-Yard, 

 to which he was assigned in March, 1899. 



Harrison, Benjamin, twenty-third President 

 of the United States (for portrait and biography, 

 see Annual Cyclopaedia for 1888), born in North 

 Bend, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1833; died in Indianapolis. 

 Ind., March 13, 1901. He was a son of John 

 Scott Harrison, a grandson of President William 

 Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benja- 

 min Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of In- 

 dependence. His father was a farmer, and he 

 received his first education in a log schoolhou*e 

 facing the Ohio river near the mouth of the Big 

 Miami. Later he was sent to Farmer's College. 

 near Cincinnati, where he remained two years. 

 leaving to enter the junior class at Miami t 

 versity, Oxford, Ohio. There he made a goot 



