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until obliged by illness to resign from the com- 

 pany, in London, in 1898. A short period of il- 

 lusive health allowed her to return to the stage 

 in September, 1898, when she appeared for the 

 last time as Tony Tostevin in The Marquis of 

 Michigan, in Washington, D. C. 



Hastings, Horace L., editor, born in Water- 

 town, Mass., Nov. 2(3, 1831 ; died in Goshen, Mass., 

 "Oct. 21, 1899. For more than thirty years he 

 was editor of The Christian, and he was also 

 the author of a large number of papers, tracts, 

 pamphlets, and books published under the gen- 

 eral title of the Anti-infidel Library. Of this 

 series his best-known work was The Inspiration 

 of the Bible; or, Will the Old Books Stand? of 

 which an exceedingly large number w r as distrib- 

 uted in all parts of the world. He was also the 

 author of the familiar hymn beginning, " Shall 

 we meet beyond the river?" In 1888 he created 

 considerable commotion by preaching on Boston 

 Common in violation of a city ordinance, which 

 required him to procure a license. For so doing 

 he was fined and imprisoned. The incident caused 

 an agitation which resulted in an overturning of 

 the city government. 



Hawkins, Alexander Leroy, soldier, born in 

 East Bethlehem, Pa., Sept. 6, 1843; died at sea, 

 near Yokohama, Japan, July 18, 1899. He worked 

 on a farm till fifteen years old, and was a stu- 

 dent at Waynesburg College from 1860 till Aug. 

 7, 1862, when he enlisted in the 15th Pennsyl- 

 vania Cavalry. He participated in the battle of 

 Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, after which his com- 

 mand was transferred to the Army of the Cum- 

 berland. In September, 1864, he was promoted 

 to captain, and in December he won high praise 

 for his conduct in the battle of Nashville. In 

 June, 1865, he was appointed an aid on the staff 

 of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, and as an agent of the 

 Freedmen's Bureau he remained in the service 

 till Jan. 21, 1866. He then returned to Pitts- 

 burg and engaged in the drug business two years, 

 after which he bought a farm in Beallsville, Pa., 

 and became a dealer in wool and live stock. In 

 1875 he was elected treasurer of Washington 

 County, serving till 1878. He entered the 10th 

 Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, Jan. 

 1, 1877, as captain, and served during the Pitts- 

 burg riots of July and August of that year. On 

 Feb. 27, 1879, he was commissioned colonel of 

 that regiment, and he served as such till he was 

 mustered into the United States service, May 

 12, 1898. His command in the National Guard 

 constituted part of the State forces sent to quell 

 the riots at Morewood, Pa., in 1891, and at Home- 

 stead in 1892. The 10th Pennsylvania Volun- 

 teers took part in some of the most important 

 engagements in the Philippines. On July 31 and 

 Aug. 1, 1898, they were engaged in the night 

 attack on Malate; on Feb. 4, 1899, participated 

 in the repulse of the Filipino attack on the Ameri- 

 can defenses at Manila; and on March 29 they 

 were led into a trap at Guiguinto Bridge and 

 sustained a raking fire forty minutes. Gen. 

 Hawkins left Manila Bay with his regiment, July 

 1, 1899, on its return to the United States, and 

 died at sea as the result of cancer. 



Hayden, Edward Simeon, inventor, born in 

 Waterbury, Conn., in 1852; died in New York 

 city, Feb. 14, 1899. For several years he was 

 secretary and assistant treasurer of the Holmes, 

 Booth & Hayden Brothers Co., of Waterbury and 

 New York, and after resigning from that com- 

 pany he settled in Bridgeport. There he invented 

 and perfected the system of separating precious 

 metals from copper that now bears his name 

 and is in use in many refining works. 



Hayden, Henry Rogers, journalist, born in 

 Seneca Falls, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1836; died in East 

 Hartford, Conn., March 2, 18JM). In early life 

 he removed to Wisconsin, when; IK; learned the 

 printer's trade. He was successively local and 

 city editor of the Sparta Democrat, the Sparta 

 Herald, and the Daily Sentinel of Milwaukee. 

 In 1868 he became editor of the American Church- 

 man, published under the supervision of the 

 Protestant Episcopal diocese of Mississippi, in 

 1873 founded the Insurance Journal in Hartford, 

 and in 1880 became part owner and editor of the 

 Weekly Underwriter in New York city. Besides 

 editorial writings on insurance topics, he pub- 

 lished The Cyclopaedia of Insurance, Fire and 

 Marine Insurance Statistics, and Statutory Re- 

 quirements : An Abstract of Insurance Laws' Mr. 

 Hayden was president of the Connecticut Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



Hayley, Herman Wadsworth, educator, born 

 in West Concord, N. H., in 1864; died in Boston, 

 Mass., Sept. 24-25, 1899. He was graduated at 

 Amherst College in 1887, continued his studies 

 abroad, and, after a post-graduate course at Har- 

 vard, received the degree of Ph. D. His unusual 

 brilliancy as a scholar, his success as an instruct- 

 or, and his great popularity with the students 

 led to his retention at Harvard as an instructor 

 in Latin. About two and a half years ago he 

 became a member of the faculty of Wesleyan 

 University. His published works include Alcestis, 

 a Greek play. 



Haynes, Lorenza, preacher, born in Waltham, 

 Mass., April 15, 1820; died there, June 6, 1899. 

 She was a teacher in Lonsdale, R. I., and in Leices- 

 ter and Lowell, Mass., and in 1854 she opened a 

 private school in Rochester, N. Y., and in 1856-'60 

 was principal of a young ladies' seminary there. 

 Impaired health forced a retirement of four years, 

 after which she served six years as librarian of 

 Waltham (Mass.) Public Library. During this 

 period she became intimate with the Rev. Olympia 

 Brown and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, and in 1872, 

 after retiring from the library, she entered St. 

 Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y., and before 

 completing the course there was called to the 

 pastorate of the Universalist Church in Hallowell, 

 Me. She delivered her first sermon as pastor 

 on July 26, 1874. While occupying this place 

 she officiated as chaplain in both houses of the 

 Legislature and also in the Soldiers' Home in 

 Togus. In 1876 she went to the Marlboro (Mass.) 

 Church, and afterward she held pastorates in 

 Fairfield and Skowhegan, Me., and Rockport and 

 Pigeon Cove, Mass. 



Hayward, Monroe Leland, lawyer, born in 

 Sillsboro, N. Y., Dec. 22, 1840; died in Nebraska 

 City, Neb., Dec. 5, 1899. At the outbreak of the 

 civil war he enlisted in the 22d New York In- 

 fantry; he was transferred to the 5th Cavalry, 

 and in December, 1862, was discharged on ac- 

 count of disability. He then entered the Col- 

 legiate Institute at Fort Edward, where he was 

 graduated in 1866. He went to Whitewater, Wis., 

 studied law, and was admitted to the bar. In 

 1867 he settled in Nebraska City. In 1873 he was 

 a member of the State Constitutional Convention. 

 In 1886 he was appointed to fill an unexpired 

 term on the district court bench. He was the 

 Republican candidate for Governor in 1898, but 

 was defeated, although he succeeded in reducing 

 a fusion majority of 18,000 to 3,000. On March 

 8, 1899, he was elected to the Senate of the United 

 States after a long struggle in the caucus of his 

 party, and on Aug. 15 following he was stricken 

 with apoplexy as he was about to address the 

 Modern Woodmen at Brownville, Neb. 



