OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HAMHRIUHT HATCH.) 



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the bar in Tr>y in !*">''>; mil WHS eitv clerk in Isr.s 

 '.'.:, and city chamberlain in Is74 '77 and i884-'6. 



II ntrihutcd tVi-(|iiciitly in pn.sc and verse to 



newspapers anil maiTa/incs, and was widely known 

 I'm- Ins historical researches uinl writings, llis pub- 

 lications include: -A ( 'i>lli-cti<>n n|' Collect! \\ords 



und Cuatoms w (Cambridge, iv>i : revised edition, 



1856); " Ilistorv of Fastern Vermont" (New York, 

 ' \.>1. edition, Albany, IM;."; ItiUioL'raphy 

 of the Tnilcd State.-: Vermont " i New fork, I860); 

 and contributions to the "Harvard Book" (Cam- 

 bridge, 1*75) IIIK! to the "History of Rcnssclaer 

 Countv. N. ^"(Philadelphia, 1880). 



Hambright, Henry A., military ollicer, born in Penn- 

 sylvania in Isl'.i; died in l.nneaster, I'u., Fob. 19, 

 He served in tbc Mexican Uar.and rcacbcd 

 the rank of 1st lieutenant in the -Jd Pennsylvania 

 Volunteers in 1846-'48 ; was oifercd and declined ap- 

 pointment as 2d lieutenant 6th United States Infantry, 

 March 23, 1861 ; commissioned captain llth Infantry, 

 May It following ; transferred to 29th Infantry, Sept. 

 21, 1866 ; promoted major :i:M Infantry, Jan. 27, 1869; 

 and was retired May 6,1879. In the" volunteer serv- 

 ice he was appointed captain 1st Pennsylvania In- 

 fantry, April 2!*, and eolonel 79th Infantry, Oct. 18, 

 1861,'and was brevettcd brigadier-general, June 7, 1865. 

 lie received brevets in the regular army of major, Dec. 

 81, 1862, for the battle of Murfreesborough ; lieuten- 

 ant-colonel, Sept. -jo, IM;:;, for Chickamauga; and 

 colonel, Sept. 1, 1SC.4, for the Atlanta eampaign. 



Hamilton, Morgan Calvin, pioneer, born near Hunts- 

 ville, Ala., Feb. 2.~>, IMI'.I; died in San Diego, Cal., 

 Nov. 21, Is'.i:;. He received a common-school educa- 

 tion, removed to the republic of Texas in 1837, and 

 soon became active in political attain*. In 1839-'45 

 he was a clerk in the War Department of the republic, 

 and during the three last years was Acting Secretary 

 of War. In September, 1867, he was appointed comp- 

 troller of the State treasury by the commander of the 

 5th Military District; in 1868 was a delegate to the 

 State Constitutional Convention ; on the readinission 

 of Texas into the Union he was elected United States 

 Senator as a Republican, taking his seat March 31, 

 1870 ; and on the expiration of the term was re-elect- 

 ed for that ending March 3, 1877. After leaving the 

 Senate lie retired to private life. 



Hancock. John, lawyer, born in Jackson County, 

 Ala.. Oct. 29, 1824; died in Austin, Texas, July 19, 

 1 *!';. Hi' was educated in Alabama and Tennessee; 

 was admitted to the bar in Winchester, Tenn., in 1846 ; 

 removed to Texas in 1847 ; was judge of the 2d 

 District Court ot the State in 1851-'55 ; and resumed 

 practice till 1861. Refusing to take the oath of alle- 

 giance to the Confederacy, he was expelled from the 

 Legislature and soon afterward removed to Mexico. 

 After the war he returned; was a member of the 

 State Constitutional Convention of 1866- was elected 

 to Congress from the loth District as a Democrat in 

 1870, 187'-'. 1S"4, and 1882. 



Harvey. Hayward Augustus, inventor, born in James- 

 town, N. V., .Ian. 17, 1824; died in Orange, N. J., 

 Aiii.'. -'N I*'.'-"'. He was a son of Gen. Thomas W. 

 Harvey, inventor of the gimlet-pointed screw; re- 

 ceived an academical education in Poughkcepsie, 

 N. Y.. and became a draughtsman in a manufactur- 

 ing establishment in New York city in 1844. In l>.">o 

 ho was appointed supcrintendvnt of a wire factory in 

 Somervillc, N. J.; in 1852 entered the Harvey Steel 

 and Iron ( 'oinpany, of Jersey City; in 1854, on the 

 death of his father, lie founded the Wanirum Steel 

 Company, of Connecticut ; and in l*i'i."> the Continen- 

 tal Screw Company, of Jersey City. For several 

 years his inventive skill was exercise'd in perfecting 

 methods of making wood screws, of hardening the 

 steel used iii the manufacture of mechanical tools, 

 and of promoting other mechanical labor. In 1888 

 he took out patents for his process of hardening steel 

 and of raising steel of a low irrade to a higher one. 

 At this time the United States Navy Department was 

 seeking for the new war vessels an armor-plate ma 

 terial superior to that in general use. Mr. Har\c\ 



believed his steel -hardening proceH*, at first applied 

 to tool r,tce| only, could be adapted to the manufac- 

 ture of armor plates lor war vessel*, and, organizing 

 the Harvey Sled Company, with works ut Brill Sta- 

 tion, near Newark, N. .)., he produced in l*h!i the fintt 

 " Harveyizcd" Hteel plate, :i inches thick. In a com- 

 parative test with the eom|x.und armor plate of Kng- 

 tand, the I'rciixot all-steel armor plate ot France, and 

 the hitherto superior nickel steel plate of the United 



States, at the Indian Head proving grounds, the Ilar- 

 \i \ i/ed plate was pronounced superior to all the oth- 

 ers. ( )n the strength of this test the United States Gov- 

 ernment adopted tin; Harvey plates, and their manu- 

 facture for the war vessels began in 1890. Since then 

 England, Russia, and other foreign Governments 

 ha\e subjected the Harvey system to the severest 

 test with uniformly favorable rest It**, and the United 

 States bought it outright. Mr. Harvey had taken out 

 nearly l.">o patents. 



Hastings. Sen-anus Clinton, jurist, born in Water- 

 town. N. Y., Nov. 22, 1814; died in San Francisco, 

 Cal., Feb. 18, 1893. He received an academical edu- 

 cation, became principal of an academy in Norwich, 

 N. Y., in 1834 ; and was admitted to the bar in Bur- 

 lington, then in Wisconsin Territory, in 1837. Soon 

 afterward he was commissioned a justice of the 

 peace, and in 1838, when the Territory of Iowa was 

 created from that of Wisconsin, he was elected to 

 the first Territorial Legislature of the former. He re 

 mained in the Legislature or the Council continuous- 

 ly till 1*46, when Iowa was admitted to Statehood ; 

 was one of the first Representatives in Congress from 

 the new State; and in 1848 was appointed Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court of Iowa. In the following 

 year he resigned, and removed to California, settling 

 in Benicia. Within a few months he was elected by 

 the Legislature the first Chief Justice of the Supreme 

 Court of California. He served one term of two 

 years, then served a similar term as Attorney-Gen- 

 eral of the State, and in 1853 retired to private life, 

 and busied himself thereafter with real-estate invest- 

 ments. Judge Hastings will long be warmly remem- 

 bered in San Francisco as the founder of the Hastings 

 College of Law. 



Hatch, Bufus, financier, born in Wells, York County, 

 Me., June 24, 1832; died in New York citv, Feb. 28, 

 1893. He spent his early years on his father's farm 

 and as a grocery clerk in Kennebunkport : removed 

 to Rockland, 111., and entered a grocery store in 1851 ; 

 and while working there joined the corps of engineers 

 who made the surveys for the Beloit and Madison 

 Railroad, the first one built in Wisconsin, and began 

 selling agricultural produce on commission. In the 

 last he was so successful that he removed to Chicago 

 in 1854, and became a heavy grain operator and a 

 founder of the Board of Trade. At the close of the 

 Crimean War the firm of which he was a member 

 failed with heavy liabilities; but he assumed the en- 

 tire indebtedness, and in 1862 paid it in full with in- 

 terest While in Chicago he became acquainted with 

 Henry Keep, then a large operator in railway proper- 

 ties, who induced him to remove to New \ ork city 

 in 1862, and started him in the stock-brokerage busi- 

 ness, lie became a member of the leading commer- 

 cial exchanges; was an organi/er of the Open 

 Board of Brokers, subsequently consolidated \\ith 

 the New Tork Stix'k ExMMDgQ : managed the fa- 

 mous ''deal" in the Chicago and Northwestern Rail- 

 way stocks, by which he and his associates made large 

 fortunes, in IMI^ : was elected managing director of 

 the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; lost heavily 

 in the .lay Cooko panic of 1873; and failed for a 

 lai'L.'!- amount in 1*7'''. He then engaged in the cattle 

 industry in the West; again paid his debts in full and 

 with interest : resumed operations in New York citv ; 

 met his last financial reverse in the failure of the 

 Northern Pacific Railroad Company in 1883, and 

 eventually paid the greater part of that indebtedness. 

 He was a man of lar^e humor, of bold and original 

 action ; deeply interested in religious and musical 

 matters ; and exceedingly benevolent 



