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"The Higher Kducation of Kuropc and Amcricu" 

 iiinl " America, Past, Pri-M-nt, ami Prospective" 

 :illil " Mil him I of Political Kcoiioiny " I 1866). 



Hyatt. James William, financier. ln.rn in Norwulk, 

 Conn.. Sept. l-.i. lNT,7;dicd tli.Tf, March la, 1898. 

 ived a common school education; went to 

 work in a lumber yard ; was a clerk in the banking 

 boOM Of Lograad fa. l.ockwood ,V Company in New 

 York city from l^tmtill 1*72; returned to \\orwalk, 

 and was chosen \'ict- President of the Danbury and 

 Norwalk Kail road Company in \ *"''; ami became 



prudent of the corporation in ISM. In l*7. r > '7>'> lie 



was a member of the ( 'onneetieiit Legislature ; in the 

 latter year was appointed liy the Governor State hank 



oommuaioner ; in 1888 waa elected State Senator; in 

 the following year was reappointed hank comims- 

 sioner ; and in January, l^sT, was appointed 1'nitcd 

 States bank examiner for the States of ('.nilieetieut 

 and Rhode Island. In May following he was ap- 

 pointcd Treasurer of the United States, and held the 

 otliee till the close of that Administration in 1889. In 

 IS'.MI he hrcame President of the F airfield County Na- 

 tional Hank in Norwalk. 



Ingalla. Bufus, military officer, born in Denmark, 

 Me.. An _'. -''!, 1820: diea in New York city, Jan. 16, 

 is;.:;, n,. tru graduated at the United States Mili- 

 tary Academy and appointed a brevet 2d lieutenant 

 in the Unitea States Kittes in 1H4'!; was promoted 2d 

 lieutenant 1st dragoons in 1845, 1st lieutenant 1847, 

 eapiain and assistant quartermaster 1848, captain 1st 

 Dragoons 1854, major and quartermaster 1862, lieu- 

 tenant-colonel and deputy quartermaster-general 

 .la's 28, 1866, colonel and assistant quartermaster- 

 general the day following, and brigadier-general and 

 quartermastar-geueral Feb. 23, 1882; and was retired 

 July 1, 1883. In the volunteer service he was ap- 

 pointed colonel and aid-de-camp on the staff of Gen. 

 McClellan, Sept. 28, 1801 ; was promoted brigadier- 

 ircncral. May 23, 1863; and was mustered out. Sept 1, 

 1866. He won the brevets of 1st lieutenant, Feo. 4, 

 1847, for gallant conduct in the conflicts of Ernbudo 

 and Taos, New Mexico; lieutenant-colonel, colonel, 

 ami brigadier-general, July 6, 1864, for distinguished 

 services during the war; and of major-general, U. S. 

 A. and U. S. V., March 13, 1865, for meritorious serv- 

 ices diirinir the war. Gen. Ingalls served with Col. 

 Steptoe in his expedition across the continent after 

 tin- Mexican War ; was on the staff of Gen. Ilarney at 

 Fort Vancouver during the San Juan excitement; 

 and, after being sent to re-enforce the garrison in 

 Fort Pickens in April, 1861, served to the close of the 

 war with the Army of the Potomac. 



Itzel. Adam, Jr., t-omposer, born about 1864 ; died in 

 Baltimore. Md., Sept. 5, 1893. He displayed unusual 

 musical ability in early childhood, learned to play 

 every orchestral instrument, was for several years 

 leader of the orchestra in Harris's Academy of Music 

 and in Albaugh's Lyceum Theater in Baltimore, re- 

 ceived the diploma of distinction on finishing the 

 course in the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1882, 

 and was Professor of Theory, Harmony, and Score 

 Writing in that institution from 1890. lie was a com- 

 poser of much merit, and -will be remembered best by 

 his successful opera, The Tar and the Tartar. 



Jardine. Edward, military officer, hoi n in Brookhn, 

 N. Y., Nov. 2, 1828- died in New York city, July'l6, 

 1898. He entered tne military service of the State as 

 a private in 1849, and at the outbreak of the civil war 

 raised and equipped a company of volunteers, with 

 which he joined the 8th New York Volunteers, which 

 afterward became famous as the Hawkins /ouavcs. 

 Attached to the command of Gen. Burnside. he was 

 put in charge of the landing force which attacked 

 Fort Clark and Fort Hatteras, in the Koanoke cam- 

 paign, and subsequently he took part in the battles 

 of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Camdcn, Klizabeth 

 City, and Suffolk, and was several times wounded. 

 In IM;.; he returned to New Y'ork city, and was en- 

 ga-rcd in reorganizing his old command for re-enlist- 

 ment when the draft riots broke out. Though unat- 

 tached to any command, he speedily mustered about 



200 of his former comrade.-, placed himself at their 

 hi-ad, alid on Julv l. r > attempted to dis|>enw t; 

 that had trathcrcd at First Avenue and I'.Uh Street, 

 about lo.ooo t,trong. Failing to recci\e Hiip|*,rt, his 

 little band was soon put to rout. Many wen- killed, 

 nearly all the others wore wounded, and the com 

 iiiandYr received wounds in the head and thigh which 

 ultimately caused his death. For hits service* in the. 

 field and during the draft riots Congress puh*cd a 

 special act rceo;.Mii/int: his bravery and granting him a 

 pension of $100 a month for life, and he was retired 

 with the brevet rank of brigadier-general. After the 

 war he was clerk of the New Jersey Assembly, edi- 

 tor and publisher of the Jersey City "Times, and a 

 weigher in the New York customhouse. 



Jenkins. Thornton Alexander, naval officer, born in 

 Orange County, Ya.. Dec. 11.1^11 died in Washing- 

 ton,!). C., Aug. 9, 1893. He was appointed a mid- 

 shipman in the United States navy, Nov. 1,1828; 

 was promoted passed 

 midshipman, June 

 14, 1834; lieutenant, 

 Dec. 9, 1839; com- 

 mander, Sept 14, 

 1855; captain, July 

 16, 1862 ; commodore, 

 July 25, 1866; and 

 rear - ad m i ral , Aug. 

 15, 1870 ; and was re- 

 tired, Dec. 11, 1878. 

 During his active ca- 

 reer he was on sea 

 service sixteen years 

 and eleven months, 

 on shore or other 

 duty twenty - five 

 years and seven 

 months, and was un- 

 employed twenty-one years and eight months. It 

 fell to his lot to perform a large amount of duty of 

 historical interest. As a midshipman he took part in 

 the suppression of the Nat Turner insurrection in 

 1831, and, soon afterward, in the search for pirates off 

 the coast of Cuba. From 1834 till 1842 he was em- 

 ployed in hydrographic, topographic, and geodetic 

 work on the coast survey, and in 1845 began his 

 great work in connection with the United States 

 lighthouse system. He was sent to Europe to ex- 

 amine and report on the lighthouse systems of Great 

 Britain and the Continent, and in the following year 

 made a most comprehensive report, which covered 

 the entire system of illuminunts, towers, lightships, 

 beacons, buoys, and lighthouses abroad. In the Mexi- 

 can War he was executive otlicer of the sloop of 

 war u Germantown " and commander of the storeship 

 "Relief," and commanded part of the forces em- 

 ployed in the capture of Tuspan and Tabasco. In 

 1848-'62 he was assistant to Prof. Bache, then en- 

 gaged in meteorological and hydrographic observa- 

 tions, and in taking deep-sea temperatures in the Gulf 

 Stream, and using in tne work a vessel designed by 

 Lieut Jenkins. A part of this time he also acted as 

 secretary of the temporary lighthouse board. In 

 1852, on the creation of the 'permanent board, he was 

 appointed its secretary, in recognition of his invalu- 

 at>le report on the lighthouse systems of Europe. 

 Though strongly inclined to the scientific pursuits of 

 peace, his .-cr.ice in behalf of the lighthouse system, 

 of which the London " Times" said u he may be re- 

 garded as the chief orirani/.er," was constantly being 

 interrupted by other sea dutv. In 1868-'60 he com- 

 manded the sloop of war"Preble" in the Paraguay 

 expedition, on the Brazil station, on the coast of Cen- 

 tral America, and in the Gulf of Mexico. He \vas 

 present at the capture of the armed vessels " Mira- 

 mon " and "Marquis of Havana '' during the siege 

 and bombardment of Vera Cru/. by the insurgent 

 forces of (Jen. Miramon, and took both vessels as 

 prizes to New Orleans. He was also instrumental in 

 saving the forts at Key West and Dry Tortuiras from 

 being captured by an expedition sent thither from 



