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Croton Aqueduct Department in 1807-71, and 

 chief engineer of public works in Washington, 

 D. C., where he designed the elaborate plans for 

 sewering the city in 1871-73. Gen. Greene had 

 been president of the American Society of Civil 

 Engineers and of the New York Genealogical and 

 Biographical Society. He was the father of 

 George Sears Greene, Jr., who became engineer 

 in chief of the Department of Docks of New York 

 city; Samuel Dana Greene, U. S. N., who fired 

 all the shots of the Monitor in its fight with the 

 Merrimac till he succeeded Lieut. Worden in com- 

 mand; and Francis Vinton Greene, major general 

 of United States volunteers in the war against 

 Spain. 



Gronlund, Laurence, socialist, born in Copen- 

 hagen, Denmark, July 13, 1840; died in New York 

 city, Oct. 15, 1899. He was graduated at the 

 University of Copenhagen in 1805, was imbued 

 with the doctrines of socialism, and became a 

 lecturer on that subject, first in his native city 

 and later in London. About 1874 he went to 

 New York city and identified himself with the 

 Socialist-Labor party, soon becoming a member 

 of its National Executive Board. Ten years later 

 he withdrew from the active work of the party 

 and lectured on the Pacific coast. He accepted 

 an appointment in the office of Carroll D. Wright, 

 Commissioner of Labor Statistics, in Washington, 

 D. C. Here he performed valuable public service, 

 but incurred the enmity of his former associates 

 by having accepted a public office. For more 

 than a year prior to his death he was engaged in 

 journalism in Chicago and New York. Besides 

 many magazine articles and an unfinished book 

 treating of government, he was author of The 

 Co-operative Commonwealth; Qa Ira: or, Danton 

 in the French Revolution; Our Destiny; Social- 

 ism and the Single Tax; and The New Economy 

 (1898). 



Guillon, Charles F., physician, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., July 20, 1813; died in New York 

 city, Jan. 1, 1899\ He was appointed an assist- 

 ant surgeon in the navy when twenty years old, 

 and after short cruises was assigned as surgeon 

 to the sloop of war Peacock, commanded by Capt. 

 William L. Hudson, in the Wilkes exploring ex- 

 pedition to arctic seas. The sloop was wrecked 

 on the bar at the mouth of Columbia river. Dr. 

 Guillon served through the Mexican War, and at 

 its close made an extended cruise in Asiatic 

 waters as surgeon of the Columbus. He was 

 afterward assigned to the frigate Constitution, 

 cf the Mediterranean squadron. Returning from 

 this cruise, Surgeon Guillon was assigned to the 

 Brooklyn Navy Yard, where he remained till 

 1854, when he resigned his commission to take 

 the superintendence of a large hospital in Hono- 

 lulu. He remained in Hawaii till 1807, acting 

 for some time 'as Italian consul at Honolulu and 

 as court physician. 



Hale, Edwin Moses, physician, born in New- 

 port, N. H., Feb. 2, 1829; 'died in Chicago, 111., 

 Jan. 15, 1899. He was a nephew of Sarah Josepha 

 Hale, the author. After following the printer's 

 trade several years, he was graduated at the 

 Homoeopathic Medical College, Cleveland, in 1859. 

 For twelve years he was in practice in Jones- 

 ville, Mich. In 1803 he became Professor of Ma- 

 teria Medica and Therapeutics in Hahnemann 

 Medical College, Chicago, and in 1880-84 he held 

 the same chair in Chicago Homoeopathic College, 

 in the last year becoming professor emeritus. 

 Dr. Hale edited the North American Homoeo- 

 pathic Journal in 1808, and, besides many mono- 

 f'aphs. published New Remedies (2 vols., New 

 ork, 1807); Pocket Manual of Domestic Prac- 



tice (1870); Lectures on Diseases of the Heart 

 (1871); and Diseases of Women (1875). 



Halm, George B., artist, bom in Ogdensburg, 

 N. Y., Sept. 1, 1850; died in New York city, May 

 2, 1899. He first became an engraver on wood, 

 and after working in Boston both as engraver 

 and artist he joined the sta<!' of Frank Leslie's 

 publishing house in 1873. Subsequently he was 

 for several years in charge of the art department 

 of the Orange Judd Company. In later years he 

 made a specialty of decorative work, allegorical il- 

 lustration, and'cover designing. He founded the 

 artistic publication Art and Decoration, and de- 

 signed the peculiar style of letter bearing his 

 name that was adopted by De Vinhe. 



Hardcastle, Edmund La Fayette, military 

 officer, born in Denton, Md., Oct. 18, 1824; died 

 near Towson, Md., Aug. 11, 1899. He was gradu- 

 ated in 1840 at West Point, entered the arrny as 

 a brevet second lieutenant of engineers, was first 

 ordered on coast-survey duty, and was sent to 

 Mexico at the beginning of the war there. He 

 took part in the siege of Vera Cruz, the battle of 

 Cerro Gordo, the capture of San Antonio, the 

 battles of Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec, 

 and Molino del Rey, and the assault and capture 

 of the city of Mexico. For gallantry at Con- 

 treras and Churubusco he was brevetted first lieu- 

 tenant, Aug. 20, 1847, and for signal courage at 

 Molino del Rey he was brevetted captain, Sept. 

 8. In 1849-'52 he served on the commission to 

 run the new boundary line between the United 

 States and Mexico, and from 1852 till his resigna- 

 tion, April 30, 1850, he was engineer secretary 

 to the Lighthouse Board. After leaving the army 

 he retired to a farm in Talbot County, Maryland, 

 where he passed the remainder of his life. He 

 served in the Maryland Legislature in 1870-78, 

 was a delegate to. several national Democratic 

 conventions, and at one time was president of 

 the Maryland and Delaware Railroad Company. 



Harding, Benjamin F., lawyer, born in Wy- 

 oming County, Pennsylvania, Jan. 4, 1823; died 

 in Cottage Grove, Ore., June 18, 1899. He re- 

 ceived a public-school education, was admitted to 

 the bar in 1847, and settled in Oregon in 1849. 

 In 1850, 1851, and 1852 he was elected to the 

 Territorial Legislature, of which he was Speaker 

 in his last term, and in 1853 he was appointed 

 United States district attorney for the Territory. 

 From 1854 till 1859 he was secretary of the Ter- 

 ritory. From 1859 till 1802 he was a member 

 of the State House of Representatives, and in 

 the two last years was its Speaker. In 1802 he 

 was elected United States Senator, and he served 

 as such till March 3, 1805. 



Harlan, James, jurist, born in Clarke County, 

 Illinois, Aug. 25, 1820; died in Mount Pleasant, 

 Iowa, Oct. 5, 1899. He was graduated at Indiana 

 Asbury University in 1845, having paid his way 

 through the course by working on a farm, and 

 studied law. In 1847 he was elected State Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction as a Whig; in 

 1850 was nominated by that party for Governor, 

 but was too young to accept; and in 1853 was 

 elected president of Iowa Wesleyan University. 

 Two years later he was elected United States 

 Senator, and after he had served till January, 

 1857, his seat was declared vacant on a techni- 

 cality. Five days after the declaration the Legis- 

 lature re-elected him for the term ending in 1801, 

 and at its *close returned him. In 1805 he re- 

 signed his seat in the Senate to become Secre- 

 tary of the Interior. In 1800 he resigned this 

 office and again entered the Senate. At the end 

 of this term he was defeated for re-election by 

 William B. Allison. On the expiration of his last 



