

OBITUAKIES, AMERICAN. ' (HAMILTON HASKELL.) 



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in 1876 to enter the Marine-Hospital service,. In 

 1879 he became supervising surgeon general of that 

 service. During his administration he fought, with 

 success, two epidemics of yellow fever; brought 

 about the first visual examinations of fresh-water 

 pilots, and the first physical examinations of sea- 

 men preliminary to shipment, and drafted the na- 

 ' tioual quarantine acts. In 1891 he resigned his 

 office, because it was not equalized with the offices 

 of the surgeons general of the army and navy. He, 

 however, remained in the ranks till 1896, when he 

 resigned from the service altogether. He was Pro- 

 fessor of Surgery in two colleges of Chicago, and 

 possessed the largest surgical library in the West. 

 He was editor of "The Journal of the American 

 Medical Association." 



Hamilton, John M., military officer, born in 

 Canada, June 1, 1839 ; killed near Santiago, Cuba, 

 July 1, 1898. In early life he went to live with rela- 

 tives in Geneva, N. Y. He enlisted in the 33d New 

 Fork Infantry, May 1, 1801 ; was appointed a 3d 

 lieutenant in the 9th United States Colored Infan- 

 try, Dec. 24, 1863 ; was promoted 1st lieutenant, May 

 15', 1865 ; and leaving the volunteer service was ap- 

 jointed a captain in the 39th United States Infan- 

 cy. June 6, 1867. He was transferred to the 5th 

 Jnited States Cavalry, Dec. 30, 1870; promoted 

 najor 1st Cavalry, April 2, 1887, and lieutenant 

 jolonel 9th Cavalry, Dec. 8, 1896 ; and from the last 

 late till his death commanded the regiment, owing 



the continued illness of Col. Perry. In 1865 he 

 vas brevetted captain in the volunteer army for 

 neritorious services during the civil war, and in 

 890 major in the regular army for gallant services 



;n action against Tonto Apache Indians in Ai'izona 

 , an. 16, 1873. He commanded his regiment in 

 Cuba, and was killed at its head while leading the 

 charge against the fortified blockhouse on San Juan 

 Hill, near Santiago. 



Handy, Moses Pnrnell, journalist, born in War- 

 saw, Mo., April 14, 1847; died in Augusta, Ga., Jan. 

 3, 1898. He was educated at the Virginia Collegiate 

 Institute in Portsmouth ; served for some time in 

 [j'the Confederate army on the staff of Gen. Stevens, 

 fchief of engineers of Gen. Lee's army; and after 

 jphe war entered journalism in Richmond, first on 

 :he ' Christian Observer," and later on the " Dis- 

 I patch." He was the only newspaper correspondent 

 hat witnessed the surrender of the captured fili- 

 juster steamer " Virginius" to the United States 

 ij minorities by the Spanish Government in 1873, and 

 lis report led to his receiving a call to join the staff 

 I >f the ' New York Tribune." In 1875 he returned 

 I o Richmond as editor-in-chief of the "Enquirer." 

 A year later he was appointed commissioner from 

 I Virginia to the Centennial Exposition in Philadel- 

 phia, and soon after reaching that city he became 

 lj in assistant editor of the "Times," for which he 

 'eported the events in Louisiana growing out of 

 ("|| lie presidential electoral dispute. In 1880 he was 

 ^pointed managing editor of. the Philadelphia 



Press"; in 1884 established the "Daily News" in 



I hat city ; and in 1892 became chief of the Bureau 

 f\ ; Promotion and Publicity of the World's Colum- 



I I an Exposition. Soon after the close of the expo- 



tion he assumed charge of the editorial page of 

 ! ic "Chicago Times-Herald," and in July, 1897, 



1 resident McKinley appointed him special com- 

 ! issioner of the United States to arrange for the 



ception and display of American exhibits at the 

 i aris Exposition of 1900. This task he had but 



cently completed at the time of his death. 



Handy, Truman Parmelee, capitalist, born in 



iris, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1807; died in Cleveland, Ohio, 

 | arch 25, 1898. At the age of eighteen he removed 



' eneva, N. Y. ; and thence, in 1830, to Buffalo, 

 e he assisted in organizing the Bank of BuUalo. 



In 1832 he removed to Cleveland and became cashier 

 of the reorganized Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, 

 the charter of which had been purchased .by the 

 historian George Bancroft. The bank was so pros- 

 perous that the Legislature refused to renew its 

 charter in 1842. In 1843 he organized the private 

 banking house of T. P. Handy & Co. When the 

 State Bank of Ohio was established, in 1845, he or- 

 ganized the Commercial Branch Bank and he was 

 .either its cashier or president for the twenty years 

 of its existence. The financial panic of 1857 was 

 caused, in northern Ohio, by the failure of the Ohio 

 Life and Trust Company, and this left the Mer- 

 chants' Branch of the Ohio State Bank in bad finan- 

 cial condition. Mr. Handy accepted the presidency 

 in 1862, and within three years he had the institu- 

 tion on a solid basis. He was also president of its 

 successor, the Mercantile National Bank, for many 

 years. He was among the most efficient workers 

 for the completion of the Cleveland, Columbus and 

 Cincinnati Rail road, and was its treasurer and chief 

 financial officer till 1860. He was largely interested 

 in iron mining and in various forms of iron manu- 

 facture. He was a trustee of Western Reserve Col- 

 lege and of Lane Theological Seminary ; and, for 

 ten years in its early days, he was a member of the 

 Board of Education in Cleveland, and he did much 

 toward shaping the school system of that city. 



Harden, William Bearing 1 , lawyer, born in 

 Athens, Ga., Jan. 15, 1837; died in Savannah, Ga., 

 Jan. 11, 1898. He was graduated at Princeton in 

 1856; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 

 Savannah. At the outbreak of the civil war he 

 entered the Confederate army and rose to the rank 

 of chief of ordnance in an army corps. After the 

 war he resumed law practice in Savannah, and for 

 fourteen years was judge of the city court. Subse- 

 quently he became counsel for several railroad cor- 

 porations in Georgia and New York. He was vice- 

 president of the Georgia Historical Society. He 

 wrote much on historical subjects, and published a 

 treatise on dogmatic religion. 



Harris, Robert S., clergyman, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., in 1816; died in'Camden, N. J., March 

 22, 1898. He began preaching under the authority 

 of the Methodist Episcopal Conference of New 

 Jersey in 1846, and from that time till his retire- 

 ment from active work, in 1893, he held pastorates 

 in nearly every county in the State. He was known 

 as the founder of Children's Day, which is annually 

 observed in the Methodist Church on the second 

 Sunday in June. His purpose was originally to 

 have a day designated for special services and con- 

 tributions in behalf of the educational part of the 

 church work, in which the children should have a 

 conspicuous part. The General Conference adopted 

 his idea in 1872, and Children's Day soon became 

 an impressive summer festival, enlivened with floral 

 decorations and services especially adapted to chil- 

 dren. Thousands of Methodist Sunday-school chil- 

 dren have been educated with the funds collected 

 on these days. Money is loaned to deserving pupils 

 on their personal notes, and when they enter the 

 ministry of the Church the notes are destroyed. 



Haskell, Joseph T., soldier, born in Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, Nov. 19, 1838 ; died in Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 

 16, 1898. lie entered the volunteer army in the 

 civil war ; was appointed a captain and commissary 

 of subsistence Feb. 19, 1863 ; and was brevetted 

 major, March 13, 1866; lieutenant colonel, April 2, 

 1866 ; and colonel, Nov. 26, 1866. At the close of 

 the civil war he entered the regular army as captain 

 of the 23d Infantry, July 28, 1866 ; and was pro- 

 moted major of the 24th Infantry. June 28, 1892 ; 

 lieutenant colonel of the 17th Infantry, Aug. 27, 

 1896; and brigadier general, Sept. 7, 1898. He 

 was in command of the San Juan Islands from 



