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HART, Dr. SAMUEL, youngest son of Dr. John 

 Hart, the surgeon of Colonel Prescott's regi- 

 ment under Washington, died in Brooklyn, N. 

 Y., September 3d. He was born at Reading, 

 Mass., November 27, 1796, graduated at Harvard 

 College in 1817, received the degree of M. D. 

 in 1821, and removed to Brooklyn in 1828. Be- 

 sides being President and Censor of the King's 

 County Medical College, he was a member of 

 the American Medical Association, the New 

 York State Medical Society, the Long Island 

 Historical Society, and the Massachusetts branch 

 of the Society of the Cincinnati. 



HAETT, CHARLES FREDERICK, born about 1838 

 at St. John, N. B., died at Rio de Janeiro, Bra- 

 zil. He studied under Agassiz from 1862 to 

 1865, accompanied that eminent scientist to 

 Brazil as geologist of his expedition, and on 

 his return was appointed Professor of Geology 

 and Physical Geography at Cornell University. 

 He acquired a thorough knowledge of the Por- 

 tuguese language, returned three times to Bra- 

 zil, where he zealously explored the northern 

 provinces and the valley of the Amazon, and 

 during one of these expeditions sent home an 

 interesting series of letters for publication. 

 The Brazilian Government had recently given 

 him the charge of the geological survey of the 

 empire, and he had made important surveys, 

 the results of which have not been published. 

 In 1870 he published his principal work, "The 

 Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil," 

 and he wrote several valuable articles on that 

 country. 



HAYWOOD, BENJAMIN', born in Southwell, 

 England, died at Pottsville, Pa., July 9th. In 

 1833 he purchased the first steam-engine put up 

 in Schuylkill County. In 1835 the firm of Hay- 

 wood & Snyder was formed in Pottsville, which 

 carried on an extensive business in building 

 steam-engines, mining machinery, etc. The firm 

 made the first apparatus for sawing hot iron, 

 and the first set of rolls used in the United 

 States for the manufacture of T rails. He also 

 carried on extensive mining operations, but sold 

 out in 1850. He erected at Sonora, Oal., the 

 first saw-mill put up in the State outside of 

 San Francisco, and organized the San Fran- 

 cisco Mechanics' Institute, of which he was 

 president. In 1855 he returned to Pottsville, 

 where he purchased an interest in the Palo 

 Alto rolling-mill. 



HENRY, Colonel JAMES T., died at Jamestown, 

 N. Y., June 16th, aged 56 years. He was a 

 well-known editor. 



HEWES, Rev. 0. M. A., for eleven years Rec- 

 tor of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the 

 Holy Communion at Paterson, N. J., died there 

 July 24th, aged 37 years. 



HEWSON, JAMES, died at Newark, N. J., Au- 

 gust 17th, aged 76 years. He had been Collec- 

 tor of the Port of Newark under President 

 Polk, an Alderman and Judge of the Court of 

 Common Pleas, and the first Auditor of the 

 city under the new charter. 



HILLIARD, FRANCIS, died in "Worcester, Mass., 



October 9th. He was born at Cambridge, Mass., 

 in 1806, graduated at Harvard College in 1823, 

 and began the practice of the law. He served 

 for a time ns a judge, but he is best known as 

 a writer of legal text-books. Among his works 

 are: "Bankruptcy and Insolvency," " Con- 

 racts" (2 vols.), " Injunctions," "Mortgages " (2 

 vols.), "New Trials," "Real Property" (2 

 vols.), "Torts" (2 vols.), "Remedies for Torts," 

 " Vendors and Purchasers," and " Taxation." 

 These are standard works, and some of them 

 have passed through several editions. 



HITCHCOCK, JAMES ROOSEVELT, died in New 

 York City, April 12tb. He was born at Tonap- 

 kinsville, S. I., March 23, 1841, and served in 

 the late war, and after its close became colonel 

 of the Ninth Regiment, National Guard of New 

 York. 



HOFF, HENRY K., Rear -Admiral United 

 States Navy, died in Washington, December 

 25, aged 69 years. He was appointed a mid- 

 shipman from South Carolina in 1823, lieuten- 

 ant in 1831, commander in 1853, captain in 

 1861, commodore in 1862, and rear-admiral in 

 1867. In 1832 he landed from the Potomac 

 with a force of seamen and took by storm one 

 of the forts at Qualla Battor, in the East Indies. 

 He commanded the frigate Independence of the 

 Pacific Squadron in 1857, the sloop of war 

 John Adams in 1858, and the steam-sloop Lan- 

 caster, of the Pacific Squadron, in 1861-'62. 

 From 1864 to 1867 he performed ordnance 

 duty at Philadelphia, and in 1868-'69 was in 

 command of the North Atlantic Squadron, in 

 which position he rendered valuable service 

 during the Cuban troubles. In October, 1869, 

 he was made a member of the Retiring Board, 

 and in 1870 he acted as President of the Board 

 of Examiners at Annapolis. 



HOFFMAN, MURRAY, an American lawyer, 

 died in Flushing, L. I., May 7th. He was born 

 in New York City, September 29, 1791. He 

 graduated from Columbia College in 1809, 

 practiced law for several years, and from 

 1839 to 1843 was Assistant Vice-Chancellor. 

 From November, 1853, to the close of 1861, 

 he was a Judge of the Superior Court in 

 New York City. He was author of "Office 

 and Duties of Masters in Chancery" (1824); 

 "Chancery Reports" (1839-'40) ; a "Treatise 

 on the Practice of the Court of Chancery" (3 

 vols., 1839-'43); "Estate and Rights of the 

 Corporation of the City of New York" (1853) ; 

 " Digest of the Statutes and Decisions relating 

 to the Board of Supervisors of the County of 

 New York" (1866). He was an active layman 

 in the Episcopal Church, and published " Trea- 

 tise on the Law of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church in the United States" (1850) ; " Eccle- 

 siastical Law of the State of New York" 

 (1868); and "The Ritual Law of the Church, 

 with Notes on the Offices, Articles," etc. (1872). 



HOTOHKISS, GILES W., died in Binghamton, 

 N. Y., July 5th. He was born in Windsor, 

 Broome County, N. Y., in 1815. He was a 

 lawyer, and in 1862 was elected to Congress. 



