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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HARVEY HEMENWAY.) 



17, 1894. He accompanied his parents to the United 

 States when a child, and was apprenticed to a coach- 

 maker in Albany, who taught him to decorate car- 

 riage panels. His health compelled him to give up 

 this work when seventeen years old, and, having de- 

 veloped a taste for an artistic career, he went to Troy 

 and began painting portraits and studying landscape 

 painting. In 1850-'53 he made a sketching tour of 

 Scotland. Returning, he opened a studio in New 

 York city in 1853, and was elected an associate of the 

 National Academy in 1855 and an academician in 

 1858. He was the first President of the Brooklyn 

 Academy of Design and an original member, and for 

 three years President of the American Society of 

 Water Colorists. He made his first exhibition at the 

 National Academy in 1848, with " Coming from the 

 Mill." Among the paintings subsequently exhibited 

 were "Autumn in the Woods of Maine" (1867); 

 "Scene on the Peabody River," water color (1868); 

 "Twilight on the Brook" (1869); "Goshen, N. II.," 

 and "A Brook Study " (1870) ; "The Golden Hour" 

 (1872); "Morning in the Clouds" (1874); " Keene 

 Valley" (1875); "Landscape with Jersey Cattle" 

 (1877); "Napanock Creek" (1884); "A Modern Cin- 

 derella" (1885); and "After a Shower" (1886). 



Harvey, James Madison, agriculturist, born in Monroe 

 County, Va., Sept. 21, 1833 ; died near Junction City, 

 Kan., April 15, 1894. He received a public-school 

 education, and practiced surveying and civil engi- 

 neering till 1859, when he removed to Kansas and en- 

 gaged in farming. In 1861-'64 he served in the Na- 

 tional army with the 4th and 10th Kansas Infantry ; 

 in 1865-'66 was a member of the State Legislature, 

 and in 1867- ? 68 of the State Senate ; and in~1869-'70 

 and 1870-'71 was Governor ot the State. He was 

 elected to the United States Senate as a Republican 

 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alex- 

 ander Caldwell, taking his seat Feb. 12, 1874, and 

 serving till March 3, 1877. 



Hatton, Frank, journalist, born in Cambridge, Ohio, 

 April 28, 1846 ; died in Washington, D. C., April 30, 

 1894. He learned the printer's trade in the office of 

 the " Cadiz Republican," Ohio, and became succes- 

 sively foreman and local editor. At the beginning of 

 the civil war he enlisted in the 98th Ohio Infantry, 

 which was attached to the Army of the Cumberland, 

 was commissioned first lieutenant in 1864, and served 

 till the close of the war. From 1869 till 1874 he edited 

 the "Journal," of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and then 

 purchased a controlling interest in the " Hawkey e," 

 of Burlington, Iowa. While in Burlington he was 

 postmaster for several years. In 1881 President Ar- 

 thur appointed him Assistant United States Postmas- 

 ter-General, and in 1884, on the retirement of Judge 

 Gresham from the office of Postmaster-General, Mr. 

 Hatton succeeded to the office which he held till the 

 close of President Arthur's administration. In Wash- 

 ington he was connected with the " National Repub- 

 lican " till the close of his official term, and then re- 

 moved to Chicago to become editor in chief of the 

 " Mail." In 1888 he returned to Washington as edi- 

 tor in chief and part proprietor of the " Post," and re- 

 mained there till his death. 



Hayward, Almira Leach, librarian, born in Kaston, 

 Mass., Aug. 25, 1838 ; died in Cambridge, Oct. 11, 

 1894. She was educated at Wheaton Seminary, Nor- 

 ton, Mass., under the care of Miss Lucy Larcom, and 

 afterward she taught in Cambridge and at Lookout 

 Mountain, Tenn. Later she taught in the Providence 

 Normal School, and in June, 1874, became librarian 

 of the Cambridge Public Library, which office she 

 continued to fill until the time o her death. In her 

 profession she was known as a zealous, able worker, 

 of progressive views and desirous of keeping in touch 

 with the developments of library science. Under her 

 management the library became a valuable adjunct 

 to the public school, and her services to the com- 

 munity in which she lived were warmly appreciated. 

 She wrote stories and essays, none of which were col- 

 lected in book form, and was editor of "Illustrated 

 Birthday Book of American Poets" (Boston, 1880), 



and " Chimes and Rhymes for Holiday Times" (1882). 

 The first of these was the earliest of the author 

 birthday books issued on this side of the Atlantic. 

 Her death resulted almost instantly from a tall re- 

 ceived in the library while she was engaged in her 

 duties as librarian. The funeral was public, and was 

 attended by many members of the city government, 

 and of the literary profession as well as by a great 

 many other citizens of Cambridge. 



Healy, George Peter Alexander, painter, born in Bos- 

 ton, Mass., July 15, IbOS ; died in Chicago, 111., .June 

 24, 1894. He began painting in Boston in 1831 ; went 

 to Paris, France, to continue his studies and to paint 

 in 1836 ; was called to Chicago, 111., for three weeks 

 in 1855, and remained there till 1867 ; resided in 

 Europe, principally in Rome, Italy, from 18G9 till 

 189L; and passed the remainder of 1 his life in Chi- 

 cago. During his long career he confined himself to 

 portraiture, and, with two notable exceptions, to in- 

 dividual canvases. In 1851 he completed a study on 

 " Webster's Reply to Hayne," in which he introduced 

 150 portraits, which is now in Fanueil Hall, Boston ; 

 and in 1855 he exhibited at the Paris Exposition a 

 second large painting, representing Franklin urging 

 the claims of the American colonies before Louis 

 XVI, besides a series of 13 portraits. During his 

 first residence in Chicago he painted 575 portraits. 

 Between 100 and 150 of his portraits, many very rare, 

 were placed for safety in the supposed fireproof 

 building of the Chicago Historical Society before he 

 went abroad, and were destroyed in the great fire. 

 v lle exhibited at the Paris Salon, the National Aca- 

 demy of Design, of which he was an honorary mem- 

 ber, and at the World's Columbian Exhibition, and 

 received medals in Paris in 1840 and 1855. Among 

 his 'most notable pointings "taking off heads," ho 

 facetiously called his work, are portraits of Marshal 

 Soult, now belonging to Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren ; 

 Guizot, in the Smithsonian Institution ; George Pea- 

 body, in South Danvers, Mass.; William II. Seward, 

 in the State Library at Albany, N. Y. ; Presidents 

 Tyler, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren. 

 Taylor, Fillmore, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, 

 and Grant ; United States Senators Webster, Clay, 

 and Calhoun ; several of the ex-Presidents; William 

 B. Ogden, of Chicago; Cardinal McCloskey ; Prof. 

 Guyot ; Jules Simon ; Whitelaw Reid ; the Due d'Au- 

 male, painted for the Crerar Library, and William F. 

 Poole, for the Newberry Library, 'both in Chicago. 

 His "Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter" was pub- 

 lished after his death. 



Hemenway, Mary, philanthropist, born in New York 

 city in 1819: died in Boston, Mass., March 6,1894. 

 She was a daughter of Thomas Tileston, a wealthy 

 merchant, and the widow of Augustus Hemenway, of 

 Boston, who owned extensive silver mines in South 

 America, acquired a large fortune, and left to his 

 widow an estate of about $15,000,000. She thus be- 

 came the wealthiest woman in Boston. From early 

 life she was active in promoting benevolent and edu- 

 cational enterprises, and did so with great liberality. 

 In 1876 she gave half of the $200,000 necessary to save 

 the Old South Church from being torn down. Two 

 years afterward, at her request, Miss C. Alice Baker 

 gathered an audience of the school children of Boston 

 in the Old South Church, on Saturday mornings, and 

 began a series of talks on tonics connected with early 

 Ne'w England history. This was the beginning '>f 

 the Old South Work. In the next year a course of 

 lectures on " The Discovery and Colonization ot 

 America" was given by John Fisko, who has since 

 delivered courses on other historical topics. The total 

 expense of the Old South Work and of the Children's 

 Hour was borne by Mrs. Hemenway. It was she who 

 furnished Frank H. Cushing the means for making 

 his first archfpological and ethnological expedition to 

 the Zuhi Indians. She also contributed largely to 

 other similar expeditions in archaeological fields in 

 the United States, to the funds of the American Ar- 

 chaeological Institute, and to the publication of the 

 " Journal of American Ethnology and Archaeology." 



