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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



County, N. Y., died in Brooklyn, January 25th, 

 a^ed 47 years. He was first engaged in mer- 

 cantile pursuits, but latterly gave his entire 

 attention to journalism, writing chiefly on art 

 matters. For several years he contributed to 

 the "Aldine," "Commercial Advertiser." 

 "Evening Post," "Appletons' Art Journal," 

 the " Brooklyn Eagle," and other papers. He 

 was a member of the Palette Club, of the 

 Brooklyn Art Association, and of the Masonic 

 Order. 



GRANT, GORDON, died at Basle, Switzerland. 

 He was previously a commercial agent at Bres- 

 lau, Germany, and under President Grant was 

 appointed Vice-Consul at Geneva, Switzerland. 



GUION, Rev. JOHN M., for twenty years Rec- 

 tor of Trinity Church at Seneca Falls, N. Y., 

 died there, on July 20th, aged 77 years. He 

 was once the Chaplain of Auburn Prison. 



HACKETT, W. H. T., a leading lawyer of the 

 State, and one of its wealthiest citizens, died 

 at Portsmouth, N. H., August 9th, aged 78 

 years. He organized the First National Bank 

 of that city, which was also the first national 

 bank of the country, and was its president at 

 the time of his death. 



HAIGHT, HENRY HUNT, died in San Francisco, 

 September 3d. He was born in Rochester, N. Y., 

 May 20, 1825. He graduated at Yale College in 

 1844, and two years later removed to St. Louis, 

 where he engaged in the practice of the law 

 with his father, Fletcher M. Haight, who was 

 a distinguished lawyer, and died while Judge of 

 the United States District Court for the South- 

 ern District of California. The son went to San 

 Francisco in 1850, where he afterward con- 

 tinued to practice his profession. He became 

 prominent in politics in 1864, and in 1867 was 

 elected Governor by the Democratic party. 

 He was renominated in 1871, but was defeated 

 by Newton Booth. Pie then resumed his pro- 

 fessional practice, and at the time of his death 

 was a member elect of the State Constitutional 

 Convention. 



HALLETT, JOHN H., died at Mount Pleasant, 

 N. Y., April 21st, aged 69 years. He had 

 been employed in the New York Post-Office 

 since 1826, and during Postmaster James's 

 administration had been in charge of the In- 

 quiry and Dead-Letter Department. 



HALSTED, WILLIAM, died in Trenton, N. J., 

 March 4th. He was a member of Congress 

 from New Jersey from 1837 to 1839, and from 

 1841 to 1843. 



HAMILTON, Colonel JAMES ALEXANDER, the 

 oldest surviving son of Alexander Hamilton, 

 died near Irvington, N. Y., September 24th, 

 aged 91 years. After the war of 1812, in which 

 he won his military title, he began the practice 

 of law. Under President Jackson he was Min- 

 ister to Russia, the only important political of- 

 fice he ever held. 



HAND, AUGUSTUS C., died at Elizabethtown, 



. Y., March 8th. He was born at Shoreham, 

 Vt., September 4, 1803, and studied law at 

 the famous Litchfield (Conn.) School. Soon 



after beginning practice he was appointed by 

 the Governor Surrogate of Essex County, and 

 then took up his residence in Elizabethtown, 

 which afterward continued to be his home. 

 For many years he was the leading lawyer of 

 northern New York. He was elected to Con- 

 gress in 1838, but defeated in 1840. In 1844 

 he was elected to the State Senate, and was 

 made chairman of the Judiciary Committee. 

 At the first election of Justices of the Supreme 

 Court under the Constitution of 1846, he was 

 elected to that position. On this bench and 

 that of the Court of Appeals he sat from 1847 

 to 1855. In the latter year he was defeated as 

 a candidate for Judge of the Court of Appeals, 

 and resumed the practice of his profession. In 

 1868 he was a delegate to the National Dem- 

 ocratic Convention. He was the father of 

 Samuel Hand, a well-known lawyer, who re- 

 cently served for a time as a Judge of the Court 

 of Appeals by appointment of the Governor. 



HANDY, Rev. ISAAC W. K., D. D., died in Phil- 

 adelphia, June 14th. He was born in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., December 14, 1815, and gradu- 

 ated at Jefferson College and at the Princeton 

 Theological Seminary. For several years he 

 was a pastor in Pennsylvania and Delaware. 

 His last pastorate was at Augusta Church, Fort 

 Defiance, Va. When the New School Presby- 

 terians separated, he assisted in forming the 

 plan for reorganizing the Southern branch. 

 For a long time he was one of the trustees of 

 Delaware College. During the war he was a 

 political prisoner at Fort Delaware for fifteen 

 months. He was a noted genealogist, and was 

 a member of several historical societies. 



HARKNESS, Rev. JAMES, died in Jersey City, 

 July 5th. He was born in Roxburghshire, Scot- 

 land, in 1803, graduated at the University of 

 Edinburgh, became pastor of the Presbyterian 

 Church at Ecclesfechan, Scotland, and seven 

 years afterward came to this country. After 

 preaching for a few months at the Franklin 

 Street Reformed Church in New York, he be- 

 came pastor of the Laight Street Presbyterian 

 Church. He founded the First Presbyterian 

 Church at Fishkill, N. Y., resigned the charge 

 in 1845, and accepted a call from Rochester. 

 In 1862 he was installed over the Third Pres- 

 byterian Church in Jersey City, where he 

 preached until his death. Besides publishing 

 a work entitled "Messiah's Throne and King- 

 dom," he was a frequent contributor to the 

 magazines of his denomination, and in 1840 be- 

 came an homoeopathic physician. 



HARRIS, TOWNSEND, died February 26th, in 

 New York City, where he was born in 1803. 

 He was appointed Consul-General to Japan in 

 1855, was promoted to the rank of Minister 

 Resident in 1868, and negotiated a treaty with 

 that empire. In recognition of the assistance 

 he gave the British Minister to Japan he re- 

 ceived from Queen Victoria a gold watch stud- 

 ded with diamonds. After his retirement from 

 the Legation in Japan he traveled for some 

 time in Europe and Asia. 



