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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HAMPTON HARRISON.) 



Hampton, Wade, military officer, bora in 

 Charleston, S. C., March 28, 1818; died in Co- 

 lumbia, S. C., April 11, 1902. He came of a fam- 

 ily of military men bearing the Christian name 

 of Wade. His father was a lieutenant of United 



States dragoons 

 in 1813 and an 

 aid to Gen. 

 Jackson in 1815. 

 His grandfather 

 was an officer in 

 the Revolution- 

 ary War and 

 major-general in 

 1813, and one of 

 his sons was a 

 Confederate offi- 

 cer, killed in 

 battle near City 

 Point, Va., in 

 1864. He was 



graduated at the University of South Caro- 

 lina, and studied law, but never practised. His 

 early life was devoted almost exclusively to 

 the management of his large plantations in 

 South Carolina and Mississippi. He served in 

 both branches of the State Legislature, where he 

 gave expression to political views of a national 

 Democratic rather than a secession tendency, and 

 such were not then popular in his State. At the 

 outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a private 

 in the Confederate army, but soon raised a com- 

 mand of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, which 

 became widely known as the Hampton Legion, 

 and won distinction in the early part of the war, 

 a record repeated in the Peninsular campaign, 

 and especially at Seven Pines, where the com- 

 mand lost half of its number and its leader was 

 wounded. Soon afterward Hampton was com- 

 missioned a brigadier-general of cavalry. He was 

 actively engaged in the Maryland and Pennsyl- 

 vania campaigns in 1862-'63; distinguished him- 

 self at Gettysburg; was promoted major-general, 

 Aug. 3, 1863; and in 1864, after several days' 

 fighting, checked Sheridan at Trevillian's Station. 

 In September following he was made commander 

 of Lee's cavalry, with the rank of lieutenant-gen- 

 eral; and later of Gen. Johnston's. After the 

 war he engaged in cotton-planting. He was Gov- 

 ernor of South Carolina in 1877-79; United 

 States Senator in 1879-'91; and United States 

 Commissioner of Pacific Railroads in 1893-'97, 

 when he was succeeded by Gen. James Longstreet. 

 Hanchett, David, actor, born in Montgom- 

 ery County, New York, in 1823; died in Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., April 20, 1902. As a youth he showed 

 decided preference and talent for the stage, and 

 in 1845 he founded the old Shakespearian Asso- 

 ciation, giving many performances in Gothic 

 Hall, Broadway, New York. After playing a 

 variety of rGles with this company of amateurs 

 for one year, he joined a professional company 

 in 1846, traveling with it in the South. He 

 kept on the road eight seasons, gradually ad- 

 vancing in his art, and winning friends and ad- 

 mirers wherever he appeared. In 1854 he re- 

 turned to New York as leading man in the old 

 Broadway Theater, on the site where Daly's 

 Theater now stands. He played there one year, 

 and in 1855 he went to Boston, where he made 

 some of the most distinguished successes of his 

 career. For one season he played leading rflles 

 at Howard Athenaeum, then under the manage- 

 ment of Edward L. Davenport. The next sea- 

 son he appeared at the National Theater, with 

 William B. English as manager. Here he acted 

 with the popular Western Sisters Lucille and 



Helen in their whole repertoire, and became as 

 great a favorite in Boston as he had been in New 

 York. In the height of his popularity Mr. Han- 

 chett played very often with Charlotte Cushman, 

 making several tours of the United States with 

 her. He also acted frequently in support of Julia 

 Dean and of Edwin Booth. In earlier years he 

 had been associated with Junius Brutus Booth, 

 a fact of which he was very proud. He married 

 Emma Warren, sister of William Warren, the 

 leading actor of the old Boston Museum com- 

 pany. In his later years Mr. Hanchett retired 

 from the stage, and devoted much of his time 

 to teaching elocution and dramatic art. 



Hackins, Daniel H., actor, born in Boston, 

 April 27, 1836; died in New York, Dec. 7, 1902. 

 He made his first appearance at Rice's Theater, 

 Chicago, in 1853. In 1854 he played in the stock 

 company at the Walnut Street Theater, Phila- 

 delphia, where he supported Edwin Forrest and 

 many other celebrated actors. He went to New 

 York in the following year, and became a member 

 of Laura Keene's company. At the outbreak of 

 the civil war he was playing at Niblo's Garden. 

 N. Y., but he organized a company of cavalry 

 and served through the war, being at different 

 times on the staffs of Gens. Slocum, Hunter, and 

 Sullivan, and receiving after a time an appoint- 

 ment as major of a New York regiment. After 

 the war he returned to the stage, and in 1866 

 he appeared in the support of James K. Hackett, 

 after which he joined Augustin Daly's company, 

 in which he played leading roles for many 

 seasons. After leaving Daly's Theater Mr. 

 Harkins organized a dramatic company of his 

 own, and with it made a tour of the world, play- 

 ing Shakespearian and modern dramas in nearly 

 every English-speaking country. When this tour 

 ended he settled in San Francisco, and for several 

 years appeared in classic roles at the California 

 Theater. In 1887 he joined Richard Mansfield's 

 company, remaining with that organization nine 

 seasons. During his later years he was interested 

 in fruit-farming and owned a fine farm at White 

 Plains, N. Y. He made his last appearance, 

 April 14, 1902, at Wallack's Theater, New York 

 city, on the first night of the' production of The 

 Last Appeal, when he became ill and was unable 

 to continue playing. Mr. Harkins had a fine 

 presence and a melodious voice, and a genial 

 nature that won him many friends. 



Harrison, Gabriel, actor, artist, and author, 

 bora in Philadelphia, March 25, 1818; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1902. When he va- 

 six years old his family removed to New York. 

 and their house was often visited by well-knowr. 

 literary, theatrical, and other notable people. 

 Aaron Burr was among these, and young Hani 

 son became a favorite with the former Vice-Presi- 

 dent, who taught him to read. When he reaclic. 

 early manhood he desired ardently to become an 

 actor, and after some stage experience in amatein' 

 societies he joined, in 1838, the National Thcat. 

 Company, in New York, under the maiia-.'eineir; 

 of James W. Wallack, playing Othello to Mr. 

 Wallack's lago. Later he appeared in the sup- 

 port of Edwin Forrest and of Charles Kean. In 

 1851 he organized the Academy of Art. in Brook 

 lyn, and in 1863 he opened the Park Theater in 

 that city. He became a member of the Brooklyn 

 Academy of Design in 1877, and for several y.-ar* 

 was its secretary. When the Long Island Histor- 

 ical Society was organized (in 1864), Mr. Harri- 

 son presented to it a library of dramatic work-. 

 comprising nearly 1,000 volumes, several valu- 

 able manuscripts, and the wedding-ring of Edgar 

 Allan Poe, which had been given to him by 



