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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HALL HITCHCOCK.) 



Hall, Louisa Jane Park, poet, born in Newburyport, 

 Mass., Feb. 7, 1802; died in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 

 8, 1892. She was the daughter of James Park, a 

 physician of Newburyport, who removed to Boston 

 in 1804 to edit a Federalist journal called the " Reper- 

 tory." In 1811 he opened a school for young ladies, 

 at which his daughter was educated. In 1831 the 

 family removed to Worcester. For some years she 

 was nearly blind, at which time her father read to 

 her and helped her in writing her books. In 1840 

 she became the wife of the Rev. Edward B. Hall, a 

 Unitarian clergyman of Providence, E. I. " Miriam, a 

 Dramatic Poem'," her most noted work, was written in 

 1825, but was not published until 1837. It describes 

 the struggles of the early Christian Church, and was 

 highly commended in its day. Other works of hers 

 are a " Life of Elizabeth Carter " and " Joanna of 

 Naples" (Boston, 1828), a historical prose romance. 

 At the time of her death she was the oldest American 

 author. Her son, the Kev. Edward H. Hall, is pastor 

 of the Unitarian Church at Cambridge, Mass. 



Hardin, Charles Henry, lawyer, born in Boone County, 

 Ky., in 1820 ; died in Mexico, Mo., July 29, 1892. His 

 parents removed while he was an infant to Missouri, 

 where he was educated at the State University, sub- 

 sequently being graduated at Miami University, Ohio. 

 He was admitted to the bar, and began practice at 

 Fulton, Mo., in 1843 ; was elected circuit attorney of 

 the 3d Judicial Circuit of Missouri in 1848; was a 

 member of the Legislature for 2 terms ; appointed 

 member of the commission to revise the laws of the 

 State in 1855 ; again elected to the Legislature in 

 1858, and to the Senate in 1860; re-elected State 

 Senator in 1872 ; and was Governor in 1872-'74. He 

 was an active promoter of educational movements, 

 and founded the college named after him with a gift 

 of $37,000 in money and lands. 



Hare, George Emlen, clergyman, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Sept. 4, 1808 ; died there, Feb. 15, 1892. He was 

 graduated at Union College in 1826, was ordained to 

 the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 

 Dec. 20, 1829, and became rector of St. Jonn's Church 

 in Carlisle, Pa., in 1830, of Trinity Church, Prince- 

 ton, N. J., in 1834, and of St. Matthew's Church, 

 Philadelphia, in 1845. He was head master of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia 

 from 1845 till 1857; opened a training school for 

 young men for holy orders in 1857, which was merged 

 in the Divinity School in 1862; and was Professor of 

 Biblical Learning and Exegesis there from 1862 till 

 1889, when he was made professor emeritus. He was 

 a member of the American Committee on Old Testa- 

 ment Revision. 



Harnett, William H., painter, born in Ireland in 

 1850; died in New York city, Oct. 29, 1892. He was 

 brought to the United States when an infant; was 

 educated in Philadelphia, where he studied in the 

 Academy of Fine Arts, became a skilled designer and 

 engraver on silver, and continued his art studies in 

 the National Academy of Design, where he aban- 

 doned the antique for life studies. His designs and 

 engravings on silver for Tiffany and other houses 

 yielded him ample means with which to study abroad. 

 He studied painting in Munich and other art centers, 

 and returning to New York city established himself 

 as a still-life painter. He was a member of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Design, and of the Philadelphia 

 Society of Artists. Among his paintings are : " Con- 

 fusion," for which he received $5,000 ; " The Old 

 Cupboard," which was sold for $5,000 ; " After the 

 Hunt," which was exhibited in the Paris Salon in 

 1855, and sold in New York city for $4,000 ; " The 

 Old Violin " ; " The Bachelor's Friend," exhibited in 

 the National Academy in 1891 ; "For Sunday's Din- 

 ner " ; " Recreation " ; " Still Life " ; and a remarkable 

 reproduction in oil of the face of a $5 bill, which was 

 once seized by United States Secret Service officers as 

 a dangerous counterfeit. 



Harrington, George, financier, born in Boston, Mass., 

 in 1815; died at sea, Dec. 5. 1892. He was appointed 

 a clerk in the United States Treasury Department 



during President Folk's administration, and had con- 

 tinued in that department through all changes of ad- 

 ministration till 1865, holding at that time the office 

 of assistant secretary under Secretary Chase. In the 

 latter year he was appointed United States minister 

 to Switzerland, where he remained till 1869. After 

 his retirement from office he engaged in literary work, 

 and published a treatise on the financial policy ol the 

 United States during the civil war. 



Hayes, Augustus Allen, author, born in Boston, Mass., 

 about 1842; died in Paris, France, April 18, 1892. 

 He was a son of the Boston chemist and scientist of 

 the same name, was graduated at Harvard, and spent 

 many years in China. On his return to the United 

 States lie became secretary and acting vice-president 

 of an electric lighting company ; subsequently he 

 was one of the founders of the comic weekly "Life," 

 to which he contributed frequently, and he also 

 wrote short stories, including the " Denver Express," 

 " The Jesuit's Ring," and " The Ranch of the Holy 

 Cross," for periodicals. His last publication was an 

 article on " British Opinion of America," in the April 

 number of the " Westminster Review." 



Henrici, Jacob, reformer, born in Gross Karlenbach, 

 Bavaria, Jan. 1, 1803 ; died in Economy, Pa., Dec. 25, 

 1892. He came to the United States in 1823, and 

 shortly afterward united with the Harmonist Society, 

 founded by George Rapp, then established in the 

 village of Harmony, near Zelionople, Butler County, 

 Pa. In 1824 the society sold its property there and 

 removed to Beaver County, where it founded the vil- 

 lage of Economy. On the death of Father Raj)]), in 

 1868, Father Ilenrici succeeded him as head of the 

 society under the title of first trustee, and he was its 

 director till his death. 



Hilliard, Henry Washington, lawyer, born in Fayctte- 

 ville, N. C., Aug. 4, 1808; died in Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 

 17, 1892. He was graduated at South Carolina College 

 in 1826, studied law in Athens, Ga., and was admitted 

 to the bar in 1829 ; was a professor in the University 

 of Alabama in 1831-'34 ; and then settled in Mont- 

 gomery to practice. In 1838 he was elected to the 

 Legislature ; in 1840 was a Whig presidential elector; 

 in 1842 was appointed United States minister to Bel- 

 gium, where lie served two years ; in 1845, 1847, and 

 1849 was elected to Congress ; in 1856 was a Fillmore 

 candidate for presidential elector, and in 1860 a Bell 

 and Everett elector. He was appointed by Jefferson 

 Davis the Confederate commissioner to Tennessee, 

 and in the provisional army of the Confederacy he 

 held the rank of brigadier-general and raised 3,000 

 troops. Soon after the war he resumed practice in 

 Augusta, Ga., subsequently removing to Atlanta. In 

 1876 he was defeated for Congress ; in 1877 was ap- 

 pointed by President Hayes United States minister to 

 Brazil, where he served till 1881. He had since lived 

 in retirement in Atlanta. He was author of " Roman 

 Nights" (1848) ; " Speeches and Addresses " (1855) ; 

 " De Vane," a novel (1865 ; republished 1886) ; and 

 "Politics and Pen Pictures" (1892). 



Hitchcock, Eoswell Dwight, naval officer, born in 

 Massachusetts in 1845 ; died in New York city, Dec. 

 3, 1892. He was a son of the late Rev. Roswell 

 Dwight Hitchcock, D. D., President of Union Theo- 

 logical Seminary ; was graduated at the United States 

 Naval Academy in 1865 ; was promoted ensign Dec. 1, 

 1866; master, March 12,1868; lieutenant, March 26, 

 1869 ; lieutenant-commander, March 26, 1880 ; and 

 commander, Oct. 15, 1890. During his naval career 

 he was on sea service seventeen years and seven 

 months, on shore or other duty ten years and four 

 months, and was unemployed two years and one 

 month. He had served on the European and the 

 West India stations ; was flag lieutenant to Admiral 

 S. H. Stringham at New York ; was navigator on 

 Commodore Selfridge's first Darien expedition ; twice 

 commanded parties in cutting lines and running lev- 

 els for a ship-canal route across the Isthmus of Pan- 

 ama ; was executive officer of the United _ States 

 steamship sent to open diplomatic relations with Co- 

 rea, and of the " Guard " at the Vienna Exposition ; 



