358 HAZEN, WILLIAM BABCOCK. 



HITCHCOCK, ROSWELL DWIGHT. 



stalments as they fall due, she is to pay inter- 

 est at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum. 



Commerce. In 1886 there were imported in- 

 to Hayti $4,965,256 worth of merchandise, 

 while the export of Haytian products reached 

 $7,555,996. The chief exports were: Coffee, 

 58,075,733 pounds; cocoa, 3,939,445 pounds; 

 wool, 2,037,653; hides, 436,579 pounds; or- 

 ange-peel, 461,768 pounds; raw sugar, 289,354 

 pounds ; cotton-seed, 34,536 pounds ; tortoise- 

 shell 906 pounds ; wax, 3,619 pounds; honey, 

 18,001 gallons; cigars. 17,000,000; logwood, 

 282,620,852 yards, and besides fustic, mahog- 

 any, and old copper sheathing. The American 

 trade with Hayti has been as follows : 



Real Estate. In a New-Year's speech de- 

 livered by President Salomon on Jan. 1, 1887, it 

 was intimated that the law of section 7 of 1804, 

 prohibiting the holding of real estate by for- 

 eigners, might be abolished. As foreigners 

 are debarred from owning real estate in Hayti, 

 structures which they cause to be built for com- 

 mercial purposes of their own, have to be put 

 under the names of native Haytians, which fre- 

 quently leads to trouble in cases of inheritance. 

 If this antiquated law were abolished, there 

 would be some inducement for foreign capital 

 to invest in real estate in the republic. 



IIA/KV WILLIAM BABCOCK, an American sol- 

 dier, born in West Hartford, Windham county, 

 Vt., Sept. 27, 1830 ; died in Washington, D. 0., 

 Jan. 16, 1887. In 1833 his father's family re- 



WILLIAM BABCOCK HAZEN. 



moved to Huron, Portage county, Ohio, where 

 he worked on a farm, enjoying few educational 

 advantages. When twenty-one years old he 

 entered the United States Military Academy, 

 where he was graduated four years later. He 

 was assigned to the army as brevet second lieu- 

 tenant of the Fourth Infantry, then serving in 

 California and Oregon. For his gallantry in 



the Indian war of 1856-'57he was made second 

 lieutenant in the Eighth Infantry, and shortly 

 after joining his new command distinguished 

 himself in an attack upon and extinction of 

 fifteen lodges of Apaches. He commanded a 

 company in five engagements, and in Decem- 

 ber, 1859, was severely wounded in a fight 

 with the Comanches. For these services he 

 was complimented in general orders and given 

 a year's leave of absence, and received his 

 brevet of first lieutenant under date of May 6, 

 1859. Reporting for duty on the expiration 

 of his leave, and still lame from his wounds, 

 he was appointed assistant professor of mili- 

 tary tactics at the United States Military Acade- 

 my in February, 1861. On April 1 he was pro- 

 moted to be first lieutenant of his company; 

 on May 14, to be captain, and on August 7 was 

 permitted to accept the command of the Forty- 

 first Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. With this 

 he took part in Gen. Buell's operations in Ten- 

 nessee, being promoted, and assigned to the 

 command of the Nineteenth Brigade of the 

 Army of the Ohio, on June 6, 1862. Under 

 the latter assignment, he participated in the 

 battles of Pittsburg Landing, the siege of 

 Corinth, Perryville, and the pursuit of Gen. 

 Bragg's army out of Kentucky. Later, he was 

 with his brigade in the battle of Stone River, 

 the Middle Tennessee campaign, the Chicka- 

 mauga contest, the Chattanooga engagement, 

 and the relief of Knoxville in 1863. During 

 Gen. Sherman's march to the sea he command- 

 ed a division, which captured Fort McAllister, 

 on Savannah river, thus opening communi- 

 cation between the army and the fleet. He 

 marched through the Carolinas, and was pres- 

 ent at the surrender of Gen. Johnston's army. 

 For his gallant services in various actions, he 

 was promoted to be colonel by brevet, Sept. 1, 



1864, brigadier-general by brevet, March 13, 



1865, and major-general of volunteers, April 

 20, 1865, to rank from Dec. 13, 1864. In 1866 

 he was mustered out of the volunteer service 

 and appointed colonel of the Thirty-eighth 

 United States Infantry, from which he was 

 transferred to the Sixth United States Infantry 

 in 1869. He was present with the Prussian 

 army during the investment of Paris in 1871, 

 appointed military attache to the United States 

 Legation at Vienna in 1877, and while holding 

 this office was detailed by President Hayes to 

 observe the conduct of the Russo-Turkish War. 

 He was appointed Chief Signal Officer of the 

 army, Dec. 6, 1880, held this office till his 

 deatli, and introduced many new and valuable 

 features in the management of the Weather 

 Bureau. 



HITCHCOCK, ROSWELL DWIGHT, an American 

 clergyman, born in East Machias, Me., Aug. 15, 

 1817; died in South Somerset, Mass., June 16, 

 1887. He was graduated at Amherst College 

 in 1836, and spent a year in teaching, pursuing 

 at the same time Biblical and other studies un- 

 der private tutors. In 1838 he entered Ando- 

 ver Theological Seminary, and from 1839 till 



