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Little Children; with Edwin Lasseter Bynner, 

 The Uncloseted Skeleton (1888); with her broth- 

 er, Edward Everett Hale, The New Harry and 

 Lucy (1892); and with Harriet Beecher Stowe 

 and others, Six of One by Half a Dozen of the 

 Other. 



Hall, Thomas Winthrop, author, born in Og- 

 densburg, N. Y., Nov. 13, 1802; died in Hannibal, 

 Mo., Aug. 21, 1900. He was graduated at West 

 Point, June 4, 1 887, and was assigned as second ad- 

 ditional lieutenant to the 4th Cavalry. He served 

 at Fort Huachucha and San Carlos Agency, Ari- 

 zona, for a time, and was promoted full second lieu- 

 tenant of the 10th Cavalry, Oct. 5, 1887; he re- 

 signed from the service, Jan. 1, 1889. During the 

 Spanish-American War he was quartermaster of 

 the '' Hough Riders," and served with them till 

 Aug. 1, 1898, when he resigned and came home 

 ill with a fever. Under his pen name, Tom 

 Hall, he was well known as a writer of short, 

 bright sketches, poems, and stories; his published 

 works include When Hearts are Trumps (Chicago, 

 1894); When Love Laughs (New York, 1897); 

 Experimental Wooing (1898); Little Lady, Some 

 Other People, and Myself (1898); When Cupid 

 Calls (1898); Fun and Fighting of the Rough 

 Riders (1899); Tales (1899); and When Love is 

 Lord (1899). 



Hamilton, Louise, actress, born in Havana, 

 Cuba, Nov. 23, 1875; died in London, England, 

 March 3, 1900. She was a daughter of a theatri- 

 cal family who at the time of her birth were en- 

 gaged with the Tamberlik Opera Company, then 

 making a tour of the West Indies, and the child 

 made her debut at the age of three months as 

 the baby Arline in The Bohemian Girl. She was 

 for several years a player of children's parts 

 in the Maplesdn Opera Company. Her first ap- 

 pearance in drama was in the company of Mr. 

 and Mrs. McKee Rankin when they were playing 

 The Danites. In the autumn of 1890 she began a 

 successful four years' tour of the United States 

 as a star in the dual role of Little Nell and the 

 Marchioness in Old Curiosity Shop. Her last ap- 

 pearance was at The Pavilion, London, in Febru- 

 ary, 1900. 



Hamlin, Cyrus, educator, born in Waterford, 

 Me., Jan. 5, 1811; died in Portland, Me., Aug. 8, 

 1900. He was graduated at Bowdoin College in 

 1834, and at Bangor Theological Seminary in 

 1837. He was a missionary of the American 

 Board in Turkey from 1837 till 1860, when he be- 

 came president of Robert College, Constantinople, 

 which he had organized after a seven years' con- 

 test with the Turkish authorities. In order to 

 give employment to indigent Armenians, he had 

 introduced the making of bread with hop yeast in 

 Constantinople. During the Crimean War this 

 bread was in great demand, and at its close he 

 had cleared $25,000, which he applied to the build- 

 ing of churches and schoolhouses. He resigned 

 the presidency of Robert College in 1876, and in 

 1877 became Professor of Dogmatic Theology in 

 Bangor Theological Seminary. He was Presi- 

 dent of Middlebury College, Vermont, from 1880 

 till 1885. In the latter year he retired to Lex- 

 ington, Mass., where, though superannuated, he 

 remained an agent of the American Board. While 

 at Howdoin, in 1832, he made the first steam en- 

 gine built in Maine. He had made a brass screw 

 for Prof. Smith's theodolite, and he asked the 

 professor if he thought he could sell an engine, 

 if he could make one, for as much as he could 

 earn by teaching in the vacation, and the pro- 

 fessor encouraged him. Hamlin never had seen 

 an engine, but went to work in a Portland clock- 

 making establishment. In ten weeks he had com- 



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pleted the engine, and he sold it to Bowdoin Col- 

 lege for $175. He could have earned $40 by teach- 

 ing. It was said of Dr. Hamlin that he had 16 

 professions, every one of which was subordinate 

 to the one great missionary and educational pur- 

 pose of founding Robert College in Constanti- 

 nople. He published, in the Armenian dialect, 

 Upham's Mental Philosophy; Arithmetic for Ar- 

 menians; and a Turkish translation and critique 

 on the writings of Archbishop Matteos. In Eng- 

 lish, Papists and Protestants; Cholera and its 

 Treatment; Among the Turks; and My Life and 

 Times. 



Hammond, William Alexander, surgeon, 

 born in Annapolis, Md., Aug. 28, 1828; died in 

 Washington, D. C., Jan. 5, 1900. He was gradu- 

 ated at the medical department of the University 

 of New York in 1848, 

 after which he attended 

 a course of clinics in the 

 Pennsvlvania Hospital in 

 Philadelphia. July 3, 

 1849, he entered the army 

 of the United States as 

 assistant surgeon general 

 with the rank of lieuten- 

 ant, which rank was 

 raised to captain, June 29, 

 1854. He did duty at 

 various forts and military 

 posts, and acted as med- 

 ical director of the Sioux 

 expedition and as surgeon to the troops engaged in 

 laying out a road through the Rocky mountains. 

 Oct. 31, 1860, he resigned from the army to become 

 Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of Maryland. At the beginning of the 

 civil war he resigned his chair and re-entered the 

 army. He was appointed assistant surgeon May 

 28, 1861, and promoted April 25, 1862, to surgeon 

 general with the rank of brigadier general. He 

 instituted many reforms, but became involved in 

 a controversy, was tried by court-martial, and 

 was dismissed from the service Aug. 18, 1864. In 

 1868 he was appointed Professor of Diseases of 

 the Mind and the Nervous System in the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City; 

 subsequently he filled similar chairs in Bellevue 

 Hospital Medical College and in the University 

 of the City of New York. In 1882 he was one of 

 the founders of the New York Post-Graduate 

 Medical School, in which he held the professor- 

 ship of Diseases of the Mind for years. In the 

 meantime the President and the Secretary of 

 War had been authorized to review the proceed- 

 ings of the court-martial that had removed him 

 from the army, and on Aug. 27, 1879, he was, 

 after fifteen years of suspension, restored to his 

 former place on the rolls of the army as sur- 

 geon general and brigadier general on the retired 

 list. In February, 1888, he abandoned his prac- 

 tice in New York and removed to Washington. 

 He wrote many books on nervous complaints and 

 other medical topics, as well as some novels. His 

 published works are Physiological Memoirs 

 (Philadelphia, 1863) ; Treatise on Hygiene 

 (1863); Lectures on Venereal Diseases (1864); 

 A Chapter on Sleep (1865); Insanity in its 

 Medico-Legal Relations (New York, 1866) ; Rob- 

 ert Severne: His Friends and his Enemies (Phila- 

 delphia, 1866) ; Medico-Legal Study of the Case 

 of Daniel McFarland (New York, 1867); Sleep 

 and its Derangements (Philadelphia, 1869) ; 

 Physics and Physiology of Spiritualism (New 

 York, 1870) ; Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the 

 Nervous System (1871); Treatise on Diseases of 

 the Nervous System {1871); Insanity in its Re- 



