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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



the " Jewish Times," translated the fourth vol- 

 ume of Graetz's "Geschichte der Juden," wrote 

 the " Temple Pulpit," and a metrical para- 

 phrase of the book of Psalms, and compiled 

 the " Hymns of the Temple Emanuel." He 

 was a member of the New Orleans Conference 

 of Charities, the Auxiliary Sanitary Associa- 

 tion, the Louisiana Historical Society, and the 

 Society of the Red Cross. 



Halm, Michael, an American lawyer, born in 

 Bavaria, Germany, in November, 1830; died 

 in Washington, D. C., March 15, 1886. He 

 was brought to America when a child, and set- 

 tled in Louisiana, receiving a public- school 

 education in New Orleans and adopting the 

 profession of law. In 1862, while the State 

 was under military rule, he was elected to 

 Congress, and took his seat at the close of the 

 session. In 1864 Mr. Hahn, his congressional 

 colleague, B. F. Flanders, and J. Q. A. Fellows 

 were candidates for Governor of the State. 

 Mr. Hahn represented that portion of the citi- 

 zens who were in accord with the policy of 

 Gen. Banks, then in command of the Military 

 Department of the Gulf, and was elected. He 

 was inaugurated March 14, taking a specially 

 prepared oath of office. On the following day 

 President Lincoln, by telegraph, invested him 

 with the powers that had been exercised by 

 the military Governor, and on the succeeding 

 one Gov. Hahn issued a proclamation to the 

 sheriffs of the State, directing an election for 

 delegates to a convention to be held for the re- 

 vision and amendment of the State Constitu- 

 tion in consonance with the reconstruction 

 policy of the Federal Government. From this 

 time until his term expired, in 1868, he was a 

 leading actor in the remarkable political events 

 of his State. At the close of his term the 

 University of Louisiana conferred upon him 

 the degree of LL. D. He became editor of 

 the New Orleans " Republican " in 1867; was 

 a member of the Legislature from 1872 till 

 1876; was appointed Superintendent of the 

 New Orleans Mint in 1878 ; and was elected 

 a District Judge in 1879 and 1884, resigning 

 the office in 1885 on being elected a member 

 of the Forty- ninth Congress. He founded the 

 village of Hahnville, in St. Charles County, and 

 made that his home in late years. 



Hamilton, Frank Hastings, an American sur- 

 geon, born in Wilmington, Vt., Sept. 10, 1813 ; 

 died in New York city, Aug. 11, 1886. He 

 was graduated at Union in 1830, and began 

 studying medicine with Dr. John G. Morgan in 

 Auburn. During the winter of 1831-'32 he 

 attended a course of lectures at the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons in Fairfield, N. Y., 

 and received from the Cayuga County Medical 

 Society a license to practice medicine and sur- 

 gery. After practicing for two years in Au- 

 burn, he was graduated at the medical depart- 

 ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 

 1835, and in the same year began a course of 

 lectures on anatomy and surgery in his office 

 in Auburn. In 1839 he was elected Professor 



of Surgery in the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons in Fairfield, and in the following year 

 became Professor of Surgery in the Geneva 

 Medical College. After spending some time in 

 Europe, he settled in Buffalo in 1844, and was 

 appointed surgeon to the Buffalo Hospital of 

 the Sisters of Charity. He was associated with 

 Drs. James P. White and Austin Flint in the 

 organization of the Buffalo Medical College in 

 1846, and became Professor of Surgery, holding 

 that chair until 1858. Removing to Brooklyn, 

 he accepted the professorship of the Principles 

 and Practice of Surgery in the Long Island Hos- 

 pital College, and in 1861 became Professor of 

 Military Surgery, Fractures, and Dislocations, 

 and Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Belle- 

 vue Hospital Medical College. These he con- 

 tinued to hold until May, 1868, when, on the 

 death of Dr. James R. Wood, he succeeded to 

 the chair of the Principles and Practice of Sur- 

 gery with operations, which he retained until 

 March, 1875. During the civil war he went to 

 the front as surgeon of the Thirty-first New 

 York Volunteers, and at the first battle of Bull 

 Run had charge of the general field hospital in 

 Centreville. In August, 1861, he was made 

 brigadier-surgeon, and later medical director in 

 Gen. William B. Franklin's division. By order 

 of Gen. George B. McClellan, he was appointed 

 medical director of the Fourth Corps of the 

 Army of the Potomac. In September, 1862, 

 he organized and took charge of the U. S. 

 General Hospital in Central Park, New York, 

 becoming, in February, 1863, Medical Inspector 

 of the U. S. Army, with the rank of lieuten- 

 ant-colonel. This commission he resigned in 

 1863, and returned to New York. Subsequent 

 to 1875 he retained his appointment of visiting 

 surgeon to Bellevue Hospital, and was also 

 consulting surgeon to St. Elizabeth Hospital, 

 to the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, 

 and to various city dispensaries. Dr. Hamil- 

 ton's reputation as a surgeon extended through- 

 out the United States, and his consulting prac- 

 tice was very great. At the time of the assas- 

 sination of President Garfield, he was called in 

 as consulting physician, and, after approving 

 the treatment pursued by the attending physi- 

 cians, remained associated with the case. Dr. 

 Hamilton was elected President of the New 

 York State Medical Society in 1855, of the 

 Erie County Medical Society in 1857, of the 

 New York Pathological Society in 1866, of the 

 New York Medico-Legal Society in 1875 and 

 1876, of the American Academy of Medicine 

 in 1878, of the New York Society of Medical 

 Jurisprudence in 1878 and 1885, and from 1880 

 till 1884 was Vice-President of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine. In 1868 he was made 

 an honorary associate member of the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1869 re- 

 ceived the degree of LL. D. from Union Col- 

 lege. He was the inventor of a bone-drill, and 

 also of an apparatus for broken jaw, and in- 

 vented or modified the apparatus for almost 

 every fracture of long bones, with various in- 



