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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HALL HAND.) 



duty. He was collected and fearless in battle, a 

 favorite among officers, and beloved by his men. 

 After the war he was called to the pastorate of the 

 Presbyterian church in Hamburg, which he held till 

 July, 1890, when failing health forced him to resign. 

 Chaplain Haines, who in early life had studied and 

 practiced civil engineering, served as engineer of the 

 United States Palestine Exploration Society in 1873 

 and 1876, and, visiting the Holy Land, Egypt, and 

 Turkey, made numerous maps, sketches, and tran- 

 scripts of rock inscriptions. He published "Ex- 

 plorations in Moab and Sinai " and " History of the 

 Fifteenth Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers," 

 (New York, 1883). He was a member of the New 

 Jersey Historical Society and of the Grand Army of 

 the Republic, and posts of veterans for miles around 

 followed his remains to the grave. 



Hall, Benjamin Franklin, jurist, born in Whitehall, 

 N. Y., July 23, 1814 ; died in Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 6, 

 1891. He began the study of law in Whitehall, and 

 continued it in the office of William H. Seward in 

 Auburn, whither he removed in 1835, and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1837. From December, 1850, till 

 February, 1852, he was employed in Washington in re- 

 vising and compiling the official opinions of attorney- 

 generals of the United States, and in 1852 was elected 

 Mayor of Auburn. In April, 1861, on the recommen- 

 dation of Secretary Seward, President Lincoln ap- 

 pointed Mr. Hall chief justice of the newly created 

 Territory of Colorado, and during his three years' 

 tenure of the office he did much to establish the 

 present judicial system of the State. He was ap- 

 pointed chief of the Bureau of Commercial Statistics 

 in the State Department at Washington in'1867, and 

 after he retired from that office failing health forced 

 him to seek private life. Judge Hall was an enthusi- 

 astic student of history and a writer of much clear- 

 ness and power. His publications include " The Re- 

 publican Party and its Candidates" (1856) ; an earlier 

 law digest for the use of Western settlers entitled 

 " The Land-owner's Manual " ; and many political and 

 historical pamphlets. 



Hamilton, Charles Smith, military officer, born in 

 Western, Oneida County, N. Y., Nov. 16, 1822 ; died 

 in Milwaukee, Wis., April 17, 1891. He was gradu- 

 ated at the United States Military Academy and ap- 

 pointed 2d lieutenant in the Second United States 

 Infantry in 1843 ; served through the Mexican War, 

 taking part in the battles of Monterey, Contreras, 

 Churubusco, and Molino del Rey ; was brevetted 

 captain for gallantry in the war; and after a period 

 of frontier duty, he resigned fronj the army in 1853 

 and engaged in farming and in manufacturing flour 

 in Fond du Lac, Wis. On May 11, 1861, he was ap- 

 pointed colonel of the Third Wisconsin Volunteers, 

 and on May 17 he was promoted brigadier-general 

 He took part in the siege of Yorktown and the chief 

 military operations in Virginia in 1862, and was pro- 

 moted major-general of volunteers on Sept. 19 of that 

 year. Transferred to the Army of the Mississippi, he 

 commanded a division at Corinth and luka, and 

 from October, 1862, till January, 1863, commanded 

 the left wing of the Army of the Tennessee in Gen. 

 Grant's flank movement to Oxford, Miss. On April 

 13, 1863, he resigned his commission, and resumed 

 manufacturing in Fond du Lac. subsequently settling 

 in Milwaukee. In 1863 he became a regent, and in 

 1866 President of the Board of Regents of the Wis- 

 consin State University, and from "1869 till 1877 he 

 was United States marshal for Wisconsin. 



Harnlin, Hannibal, statesman, born in Paris, Me., 

 Aug. 27, 1809; died in Bangor, Me., July 4, 1891. 

 His paternal grandfather was an officer in the Conti- 

 nental army. He received his early education in the 

 district school, and was prepared for college in Hebron 

 Academy. Circumstances compelling him to give up 

 his proposed college course, he began teaching, and 

 with the money so acquired purchased books and un- 

 dertook the study of law. The death of his father 

 obliged him again to abandon sft^dy in order to take 

 charge of the home farm. Two y^ars after the death 



Of his father he, in association with Horace King, 

 purchased a weekly paper, " The Jeifersonian," but 

 soon afterward he sold his interest to his partner and 

 resumed law study. In 1833 he was admitted to the 

 bar, and about the same time began to be active in 



Ealitics as a Democrat. He was a member of the 

 egislature in 1836-'40 and 

 in 1847, and Speaker in 1837, 

 1839, and 1840. He was 

 elected to Congress in 1842 

 and 1844. In 1848 he was 

 elected United States Sena- 

 tor to fill a vacancy caused 

 by the death of Senator 

 Fairchild, and in 1851 was 

 re-elected for a full term. 

 In 1856 his strong antislav- 

 ery convictions led him to 

 sever his connection with 

 the Democratic party and 

 become a Republican, and 

 in the same year he was 

 elected Governor of Maine, 



resigning his seat in the United States Senate in 1857. 

 Within a fortnight he was again elected Senator, and 

 resigned the office of Governor. In 1860 he was elected 

 V ice-President of the United States on the ticket with 

 Abraham Lincoln, and, resigning his seat in the Sen- 

 ate, he presided over that body' from March 4, 1861, 

 till March 3, 1865. In 1864 his name was proposed 

 for renominatipn, but, as it was deemed politic to 

 place on the ticket the name of a man representing 

 the loyal element of the Southern States, the nomina- 

 tion was given to Andrew Johnson. After Mr. Ilam- 

 lin's death the question of his availability and of 

 President Lincoln's preference for the second place 

 on the ticket was the subject of much newspaper dis- 

 cussion. In 1865 President Johnson appointed him 

 Collector of the Port of Boston, where lie remained a 

 year. In 1868 and 1875 he was re-elected United 

 States Senator, and in 1881-'83 he was United States 

 minister to Spain, resigning in the latter year to re- 

 tire to private life after a public service of nearly fifty 

 years. He was a regent of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution in 1861-'65 and 1870-'82, and for twelve years he 

 was dean of the board. He had also been a trustee 

 of Colby University (formerly Waterville College) 

 for twenty years. 



Hancock", John, educator, born in Ohio, Feb. 19, 1825;. 

 died in Columbus, Ohio, June 1, 1891. He received 

 a common-school education, and supplemented it 

 with continuous private study ; taught for several 

 terms in country schools ; became first assistant in a 

 district school in Cincinnati in 1852, and subsequently 

 principal; and in 1867 was elected superintendent of 

 the puolic schools of that city. He held this office 

 several years, resigning to become superintendent of 

 schools in Dayton, and after serving there ten years 

 he accepted a similar office in Chillicothe. While in 

 Chillicothe he was appointed by Gov. Foraker State 

 School Commissioner of Ohio, which office he held 

 until his sudden death. He had been a member of 

 the Ohio Teachers' Association since 1852, and its 

 president since 1860; a member of the National Edu- 

 cational Association since 1858, its treasurer in 1872- 

 '74, and president in 1879 ; and a member of the Na- 

 tional Council of the National Association since its 

 establishment in 1881. 



Hand, Daniel, philanthropist, born in Madison, Conn., 

 in 1801 ; died in Guilford, Conn., Dec. 17, 1891. He 

 received a district-school education, and in 1818 went 

 to Augusta, Ga., with his uncle, Daniel Meigs. a mer- 

 chant doing a large business in that city and in Savan- 

 nah. He began his business career as a clerk in his 

 uncle's store, and in time succeeded to the business. 

 About 1846 it had grown so large that he took a tried 

 clerk, George W. Williams, into partnership, ami es- 

 tablished a branch house in Charleston under the 

 management of Mr. Williams. At the beginning of 

 the civil war Mr. Hand, temporarily in New Orleans, 

 was arrested by the Confederates as a spy and placed 



