<;AKI;I:T AUGUSTUS. 





who had attempted to upset President Salomon iii 

 1888. and after Legitime was deposed had plotted 

 antly against Ilippolyte. was conciliated by 

 being recalled from exile in .Jamaica to In; ap- 

 pointed Haytian minister in Paris. Keturning 

 exiles fraternized with members of the Govern- 

 ment. and the people manifested joy at the signs of 

 a last in? peace, greeting President Sam everywhere 

 with enthusiasm. In July Calisthene Fouchard. 

 the Minister of Finance, was charged with embez- 

 zlement of public funds, and an investigation was 

 br^mi by the Chambers, but the proceedings 

 afterward dropped. Later in the year discontent 

 :nanifested against the Government in Cape 

 Ilaytien. in Gomuves. and even in the capital in 

 quence of the delay in granting the reforms 

 for which the people clamored. 



HOBART. GARRET Al <U STIS. twenty- 

 fourth Vice-President of the United States, born in 



the district school, and next attended ti- 



I of Mr. Woodhull in Freehold, and later that 

 of Mr. Schermerhorn {it Matawan. He made such 

 rapid :i his studies that he was more than 



h'tted for college at the aire of fourteen, and a war 

 later he entered the sophomore class at Kir _ 

 He took the prixe in mathematics, and at his gradu- 

 tion. in 1868, was chosen to deliver th English salu- 

 tatory. 



Shortly after leaving college, in September, he 

 became a teacher in Marlborouirh. X. J.. and three 

 months later he entered the law office <: 

 Tuttle in Paterson, whose daughter. .Miss Jennie 

 Tuttle. he married in 1869. In order to support 

 himself while he was studying law. he worked early 

 and late, copying law papers and acting as a clerk 

 in the First National Bank of Paterson, of which 

 institution he afterward became a director. 



Mr. Hobart was admitted to the bar of Xew Jer- 



C-ARRET AI-crSTCS HOBART 



Long Branch. X. J.. June 3. 1844. The member- of 

 the Hobart family for several generations, in Fng- 

 land and in America, have been either tea< 

 lawyers, or ministers. Addison W. Hobart. father 

 of the Vice-President. be-ran life as a schoolmaster 

 in the academy at Long Branch, in which place he 

 married Miss Sophia Vanderveer. and some years 

 later removed to Keyport. Monmouth County. N. J., 

 where he kept a store. Garret Hobart was sent to 



sey in 18(56. and was very successful in business. 

 His practice has been for the most part as a coun- 

 . and he has been the executor of many es- 

 tates. When, in 1*7"). he was made receiver o; 

 eral New Jer-ey railroads, he succeeded in the course 

 of a very few year- in making them pay their debts, 

 and v. return them to their stockholders 



with a surplus. In - - appointed clerk to 



the grand jury, which laborious office he filled so 



