OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (GAY HEDGE.) 



Gay, Edward 3,, manufacturer, born in Liberty, Bed- 

 ford cotmty, Va., Feb. 3, 1816; died in Plaquemine, 

 La., April 25, 1890. In 1820 he accompanied his 

 father's family to Illinois, and four years later to St. 

 Louis, Mo. He was a student in Augusta College, 

 Kentucky, in 1833-'34. From 1838 till 1860 he was en- 

 gaged in commercial business in St. Louis, though he 

 had established his home in Plaquemine, La., in 

 1855. He was closely identiried with the erection of 

 the first and the present Merchants' Exchange build- 

 ing in St. Louis, and was President of the Louisiana 

 Sugar Exchange in New Orleans from its organization, 

 in 1833. In recent years, besides his commercial 

 business, he was largely engaged in agriculture and 

 manufacturing. He was elected to Congress from the 

 3rd Louisiana District as a Democrat in 1884, and 

 was re-elected in 1886, this being the only political 

 office he ever held. In Congress he served on the 

 Committee on Appropriations. 



Glisson, Oliver S., naval officer, born in Ohio, in 1809 ; 

 died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 20, 1890. He was 

 appointed a midshipman in the United States navy. 

 Nov. 1, 1826; was promoted past midshipman, April 

 18, 1832 ; lieutenant, March 8, 1837 ; commander, 

 Sept. 14, 1855 ; captain, July 16, 1862 ; commodore, 

 July 25, 1866; and rear-admiral, June 10, 1871 ; and 

 was retired Jan. 18, 1871. During his naval career he 

 was on sea duty twenty-two years and three months, 

 on shore or oth'er duty fifteen years and nine months, 

 and was unemployed twenty-six years and one month. 

 He made his first cruise, to the West Indies, in 1827-'28 ; 

 to the Mediterranean in 1836 commanded the schooner 

 " Reefer" in the Mexican War; accompanied Perry's 

 expedition to Japan in 1852-'55; and commanded at 

 the Naval Asylum in Philadelphia in 1857. In 1862, 

 while commanding the steamer "Mount Vernon," of 

 the North Atlantic blockading squadron, he saved the 

 transport " Mississippi," with Gen. Butler and 1,500 

 men on board, which had run aground on Frying Pan 

 Shoals, off the North Carolina coast, while on the way 

 to New Orleans. Later, .he burned a Confederate 

 " lightboat" directly under the guns of Fort Caswell. 

 In 1863 he commanded the steam sloop " Mohican " 

 in pursuit of the privateer " Alabama." In Decem- 

 ber, 1864, and January, 1865, he took part in the at- 

 tacks on Fort Fisher, commanding the 3rd Division 

 of the fleet. After the war he commanded the League 

 Island naval station and the European squadron. 



Goff, Milton B., educator, born in Allegheny City, 

 Pa., Dec. 17, 1831 ; died there, Nov. 8, 1890. He was 

 graduated at Alleghany College in 1854 5 was Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics and Natural Science in Madison 

 College, Union town, Pa., in 1854-' 57 ; principal of 

 North Illinois University, Henry, 111., for three years ; 

 principal of the Sharpsburg (Pa.) Academy ; and 

 principal of the Third Ward School, Allegheny, for 

 four years. From 1867 till 1882 he was Professor of 

 Mathematics in Western University, Allegheny ; in 

 1882 was chosen Professor of Mathematics and As- 

 tronomy in Alleghany College ; and from 1884 till his 

 death was Chancellor of Western University. He had 

 received the degree of LL. D., and published several 

 works on mathematics and astronomy. 



Gray, Hiram, jurist, born in Salem, Washington Coun- 

 ty, N. Y., in 1801 ; died in Elmira, N. Y., May 6, 1890. 

 He was graduated at Union College in 1821, studied 

 law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Elmira 

 in 1825-' 28. He was admitted to practice in the Su- 

 preme Court in 1833, and elected to Congress from 

 the Elmira District in 1836, serving there on the 

 Committee on Claims. In 1838, before retiring from 

 Congress, he was appointed by Gov. Silas Wright 

 circuit judge and Vice-Chancellor of the 6th Judi- 

 cial District of New York, and his appointment was 

 confirmed by the Senate without reference. On the 

 abolition of these offices soon afterward he retired to 

 private practice, from which he was called in 1847 by 

 his election as a. justice of the Supreme Court of New 

 York. In 1851 he was re-elected for the term that 

 expired in 1859. He received the degree of LL. D. 

 from Union College in 1867. 



Hartzell, J, Hazard, clergyman, born in Washington 

 County, Pa., April 6, 1830; died in Waverly, N. Y., 

 June 9, 1890. He was left an orphan at a very early 

 age, succeeded in making a living as a farmer's boy 

 for a few years, and afterward learned the saddler's 

 trade in Pittsburg. Eemoving to Marietta. Ohio, he 

 entered the college there, and was graduated with 

 high honors. He entered the Universalist ministry in 

 1854, and soon received a call to Quincy, 111. 'His 

 next parish was in Cincinnati, and subsequently he 

 was pastor of the Church of the Messiah in Buffalo 

 for fourteen years. Thence he removed to Albany, 

 N. Y. In 1881 he united with the Protestant Episco- 

 pal Church, and he was rector of Grace Church, Wa- 

 verly, N. Y., at the time of his death*. As an orator 

 he achieved considerable distinction, and delivered 

 many addresses before literary associations and at 

 college commencements and religious conventions. In 

 1870 he delivered the centennial address of the Uni- 

 versalist denomination at Boston. His works com- 

 prise discourses, lectures, orations, and a volume of 

 poetry " Wanderings on Parnassus" (1884). 



Harper, Fletcher, publisher, born in New York city, 

 Oct. 7, 1828 ; died there, May 22, 1890. He was the 

 second and last surviving son of Fletcher Harper, the 

 youngest of the four brothers who established the 

 publishing house of Harper & Brothers. At the age 

 of sixteen he made a voyage, as a sailor before the 

 mast, to China. He was educated in the public 

 schools and in Columbia College, traveled for a year 

 in Europe, became connected with the publishing 

 firm at an early age, was admitted to the firm in 1869, 

 and in 1877 succeeded his father in the direct manage- 

 ment of " Harper's Weekly " and the other serial pub- 

 lications of the house. Since 1880 he had not taken a 

 very active part in the business. He was an adept 

 in manly sports, a man of artistic, literary, and musi- 

 cal talents, and a discriminating collector of books, 

 works of art, 'and bric-a-brac. He was president for 

 many years of the New York Homoeopathic Asylum 

 for the Insane at Middletown, and was an early and 

 active member of the Union League Club. 



Haven, Samuel Rush, physician, born in Sheridan, 

 Chautauqua County, N. Y., in 1827 ; died in Chicago, 

 111., May 5, 1890. He removed to Illinois in 1834, 

 studied medicine and surgery, and achieved a wide 

 reputation for his skill as a surgeon. At the out- 

 break of the civil war he volunteered his services and 

 went to the field with the first troops from Illinois as 

 brigade surgeon. He enjoyed the personal friend- 

 ship of Gen. Grant; was promoted rapidly to division, 

 corps, and general army surgeon ; and served on the 

 staffs of Generals Grant, Hancock, and Heintzclman. 

 Hedge, Frederick Henry, educator, born in Cambridge, 

 Mass., Dec. 12, 1805; died there, Aug. 21, 1890. He 

 was a son of Levi Hedge, LL. D., a well-known teach- 

 er in his day. In 1818 he accompanied George Ban- 

 croft, the historian, to Germany as a companion. 

 After studying there five years he returned to Cam- 

 bridge and was graduated at Harvard College in 1825, 

 and at its Divinity School in 1828. He was ordained 

 pastor of the Unitarian church in West Cambridge 

 (nowv Arlington) in 1829 ; accepted a call to the Inde- 

 pendent Congregational Church in Bangor, Me., in 

 1835, and served it till 1850 ; was pastor of West- 

 minster Church in Providence, R. I., from 1850 till 

 1856; was called to the church in Brookline, Mass., 

 in 1856 ; and retired from active pastoral labor _in 

 1872. In 1857 he became teacher of ecclesiastical his- 

 tory in Harvard Divinity School, and in 1872 Professor 

 of the German Language and Literature in Harvard 

 University, and he held the former chair till 1877 and 

 the latter' till 1881. Dr. Hedge was President of the 

 American Unitarian Association and editor of the 

 "Christian Examiner" for several years. He re- 

 ceived the degrees of D. D. and LL. D. He was au- 

 thor of several hymns and a number of widely read 

 books ; among the latter " Prose Writers of Ger- 

 many " (Philadelphia. 1848; 3d ed., 1871) ; " Chris- 

 tian Litunry for the Use of the Church " (Boston, 

 1853); " Reason in Religion" (1865; 2d ed., 1875); 



