OIUTI'AUIKS, A.MKHICAN. (IIUBBABI>-JAY.) 



in 1M'); WM delegate to th Btata 



tutional Convention in i860; judge of the ::.l 



Judicial < 'iivuit of liuliiiliu ill iN'.l '.".I; appointed 



judge of the State Supreme Court in l^.'.i; Pn-ident 

 ot' tlu- Democratic Mat<- ( 'Diivi-ntiuii in Is.',.'.; and 



rict Att'irin \ IMF Indiana in 

 [n !-.'> In- was defeated t'ur <'oni:iess; in Au 

 gust. l-'.i, wa- commissioned coli. in -1 L'lth Indiana 

 Volunteers; in April, l.Ml-', wiis |>romtr<l brigadicr- 

 gciicral ; and in July, IM)!, was I, revetted major i_'> u 

 : Miluntci TS. From IM;,'> till l.sTn b was 

 i Siatt-s minister to IVru; in ISM; he wa> 

 elected t < 'oiiirivss iVoni tin- 1st Indiana District as a 

 Republican. and In- served mi the < 'ommittec nn 

 Pacific Railroads; and liu was elected Governor of 

 Indiana in l^ss. 



Hubbard, Chester D., banker, horn in liamden, Conn., 

 .. IsM; died in Wheeling, W. Va.. Aug. *!, 

 Ivl. Hi- removed with his parents to N\ 'heeling in 

 ATM LTaduated at Weslcyan L'nivi-rsitv, Middle- 

 town, Conn., in 1840; and became a bunker and a 

 heavy operator in iron and linnlu-r. In 1 >.">::-';>;} he 

 member of the Virginia Legislature; and in 

 iM'd was a delegate to the Virginia < 'onvention in 

 Richmond. where lie opposed secession, and to the 

 (.onvention in Wheeling held soon afterward. Im- 

 mediately after Virginia seceded he raised the tirst 

 rcirimciit of nutionul volunteers south of the Ohio, 

 enlisting ten full companies in Wheeling, and 

 throughout the war he gave liberal aid to the na- 

 tional cause. In IM;:; Y, 1 he was a member of the 

 Senate of the new State of West Virginia; in 1864 

 was a member of the National Republican Conven- 

 tion; and in 18i>5-'ii'. he was a member of Congress 

 from the 1st West Virginia District, serving as a 

 member of the committees on Manufactures and on 

 Banking and Currency, and as chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on Expenditures in the Interior Department. 



Hubbell, Algernon Sidney, lawyer, born in Lanes- 

 borough, Mass., Nov. -JL'. 17 W; died in Newark, N. J., 

 April 19, 1891. He was a son of Wolcott Hubbell, a 

 Revolutionary soldier, State Senator of Massachusetts, 

 and tor many years judge of the County Court. The 

 sou >tudied faw in Troy, N. Y.; was admitted to the 

 bar in Massachusetts in 1824; was elected to the Leg- 

 islature, and practiced in his native State till 1836. 

 lie then remove. 1 to Newark, N. J., where he was in 

 active iiractice till within a few years of his death. 

 Mr. Hubhcll was a member of the New Jersey Legis- 

 lature in 1847-'48; was one of the commissioners who 

 jirepared the amendments to the State Constitution 

 in \^l->: and served the city ot Newark in various 

 otliers for several years. 



Hutching, Waldo, lawyer, born in Brooklyn, Conn., 

 Sept. :;o. !-._'_!; died in New York city, Feb. 8, 1891. 

 lie was graduated at Amherst College in 1842, re- 

 moved to New York city, studied law, and became a 

 partner in the law firm 'of Schell, Slosson & llutch- 

 ins. In 1850 he was elected to the Legislature from 

 King's County, being then a resident of Brooklyn, 

 and also M-rved as chairman of the Committee on 

 the Judiciary. Three years afterward he made his 

 permanent residence at King's Bridge. In 1855 he 

 wa- appointed a member of the first park commission 

 in Ne\\ York city. In 1856 he declined the Demo- 

 cratic nomination for judge of the Supreme Court of 

 the State; in IM'.T was a delc^ati -at-large to the New 

 York Constitutional Convention; and in 1879, 1880, 

 and 1>M.' he was elected to Congress as a Democrat 

 from the l-_'th (now 14th) New York District, the tirst 

 election being to fill a vacancy. While in CongnM 

 la- was a member of the committees on Expendi- 

 tures in the Treasury Department, on Claims, on the 

 Intel-oceanic ship ( 'anal (select), and on Appropria- 

 tions. and was active in debates. In 1887 he was ap- 

 pointed a member of the present park commission, 

 of which he was president in isv-'lio, and remained 

 a commissioner till his death, giving in all fourteen 

 years to the pai ks. Of all his law ea>cs he took the 

 most pride in his successful management of the Man- 

 hattan Savings Institution of New York city, after it 



hud boon robl..d of f. '1,000,000 in Mcuriti<* in 187*. 

 Through hi* cllort* < 'oiicrc-- Legislature, 



and tin- 'it \ _: i n i men t aiithori/.ed I In :--.,, . .; duj.h 

 ; tin- stolen hnd, and the inntituli'/n and 17. 



000 debitors were protected. 



Ingraham, Duncan Nathaniel, naval officer, l.rn in 

 Charleston, !; died there Oct. !;. 



IV I. lie was a son of Nathaniel Ingruhum, who 

 served with John 1'aul Jones in the action with the 

 British brig Serapis," and a nephew of 'apt. .1 

 lognhun, who wa* lost ut sen in the United 

 steamship Picketing." He was apjKiinted u mid 

 shipman in the United States navy when to 

 old, was in active service in the war" with Knglaiid in 

 M-j '!.">, wits ]>roniote.l lieutenant in 1-1*. u.-com 

 panied Com. David I'orter on his expedition I 



the pirates in the < 'iiribbeaii Sea, and be<-iim. 

 mandcr in ls:;s. After serving through the Mexii-an 

 War he was sent in command of the St. Louis" to 

 join the American squadron in th Mediterranean, 

 and dropped anchor in the harbor ol Smyrna on June 

 -'-'. Is.-,:;. The day previous Martin Kos/ta. a Hun- 

 garian and follower of Louis Kossuth in the revo- 

 lution against Austria, who had lived two years in 

 the United States and declared his intention ot be- 

 coming a citizen, had been seized in Smyrna by u 

 party of armed Greeks in the employ of the Austrian 

 consul-general, and placed on board the Austrian 

 man-of-war " Hussar." Commander Ingraham learned 

 of the kidnaping directlv after his arrival, and, visit- 

 ing the " Hussar," satisfied himself of the truth of 

 Koszta's declarations, and then formally demanded 

 his release. While Commander Ingraham was await- 

 ing official instructions from the United States charge 

 d'affaires in Constantinople, the Austrian man-of-war 

 was re-enforced by six more war vessels, and when the 

 "Hussar" attempted to leave the harbor With Koszta 

 on board the American commander threatened to 

 prevent departure by force and prepared his ship for 

 action. On July 1 Ingraham received a commenda- 

 tory reply from Constantinople, and at once made a 

 demand for the surrender of Koszta by a specified 

 hour, under penalty of extreme measures. After 

 much parleying, it was agreed that the Austrian con- 

 sul-general should deliver Koszta to the French con- 

 sul to be held subject to legal determination of his 

 case. The atfair was made the subject of diplomatic 

 correspondence between the Unitcu States and Aus- 

 tria, and was settled by Austria's acknowledging the 

 rights of the United Suites in the premises and apolo- 

 gizing for the actions of her officials at Smvrna. Com- 

 mander Ingraham received a gold medal and a letter 

 of thanks from Congress, and numerous testimonials 

 from private citizens. He was promoted captain in 

 1855, and appointed chief of the Bureau of Ordnance 

 and Hydrography of the Navy Department in 1856. 

 At the beginning of the civil war he resigned his 

 commission, entered the Confederate naval service, 

 and, as chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, Construc- 

 tion, and Repair, gained the rank of commodore. 



Jay, John Clarkson, physician, horn in New York 

 city, Sept. 11, lN>s; died' in live, N. Y.. Nov. 15, 1891. 

 He' was a son of Peter Autrust'us Jay and a L p rand.-.-n 

 of 'John Jay, and was graduated at Columbia Col- 

 lege in l*i'7 and at the Colleire of Physicians and 

 Surgeons in 1831. He practiced till his marriage, and 

 then retired from business and professional pursuits 

 to take eharire of his estate at live. He was a founder 

 of the Lyceum of Natural History (now tin- x 

 York Academy of Sciences) and of the New York 

 Yacht Club, and was a trustee of Columbia College 

 from 1859 till 1880. Dr. Jay was best known tor his 

 work in connection with concholi>L r y. His costly 

 library on the subject and his collection of shells, 

 eolisiilered the most complete and valuable in the 

 I'nitcd States, were purchased by Catharine S. Wnlfc 

 and presented to the American Museum of Natural 

 History as a memorial to her father, lie examined. 

 classified, and made an elaborate report on the shells 

 trathered bv Commodore Perrv on his Japan expedi- 

 tion, and was author of u Catalogue of Recent Shell* n 



