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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HowE ISHAM.) 



Howe, William F., lawyer, born in Boston, 

 Mass., about 1828; died in Bronx Borough, New 

 York city, Aug. 2, 1902. He was taken to Eng- 

 land when three years old, and was educated at 

 King's College, London. Returning to the United 

 States in 1857, he was admitted to the bar in 

 1859, and passed his life in practise in New York 

 city. In 1869 he formed the partnership of Howe 

 & Hummel; and in 1882, with Daniel G. Rollins, 

 codified the State laws as they now appear in 

 the Penal Code. During his professional career 

 he had charge of the defense in nearly 600 homi- 

 cide cases. He was a skilful orator, and obtained 

 many favorable verdicts by his eloquence. 



Huesmann, George, pomologist, born about 

 1827; died in Napa, Cal., Nov. 6, 1902. He was 

 a promoter of horticultural and viticultural in- 

 terests, and for three years was Professor of 

 Pomology and Forestry in the University of Mis- 

 souri. He founded, with Parker Erie, the Amer- 

 ican Pomological Society. Prof. Huesmann was 

 author of several books on viticulture and horti- 

 culture; publisher of The Viticultural Journal; 

 and a contributor to many magazines. 



Hull, Harmon D., financier, born in Fulton, 

 N. Y.; died in New York city, June 6, 1902. He 

 entered the National army in April, 1861; with 

 Col. Abram Duryea organized the 5th New York 

 Volunteers, known as the Duryea Zouaves, in 

 which he was made captain, and later major and 

 lieutenant-colonel; and served with this regiment 

 till October, 1862, when he was appointed colonel 

 of the 165th New York Volunteers. Near the 

 close of the war he raised and commanded a regi- 

 ment recruited from the veterans of the 5th and 

 165th Volunteers. In 1866 he was appointed by 

 Gov. Fenton one of three commissioners to con- 

 fer with representatives of the State of New Jer- 

 sey as to quarantine jurisdiction, and in 1889, 

 by Secretary Windom, a special agent of the 

 Treasury Department in Europe. 



Humphreys, Willard, educator, born in New 

 York in 1867; died in Princeton, N. J., Sept 26, 

 1902. He was educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic 

 Institute and at Berlin and Heidelberg; and was 

 graduated at Columbia University in 1888. In 

 1892 he was admitted to the New York bar, and 

 in the same year he removed to Princeton. He 

 was Professor of Latin at Princeton University 

 in 1892-'94, when he was transferred to the Ger- 

 man department, of which, in 1902, he became 

 head. He was secretary of the New York Medico- 

 Legal Society; editor of the Columbia Law Times, 

 of Selections from Quintus Curtius (1896), and 

 Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans (1899); and as- 

 sociate editor of the Medico-Legal Journal. 



Hunnewell, Horatio Hollis, philanthropist, 

 born in Watertown, Mass., July 27, 1810; died in 

 Wellesley, Mass., May 20, 1902. He was edu- 

 cated in Watertown, and in Paris, France. In 

 1835 he entered the Paris banking-house of 

 Welles & Co., and on his return to the United 

 States, in 1860, established the firm of H. H. 

 Hunnewell & Sons in Boston. He was interested 

 in the construction of Western railroads, and was 

 a director in financial institutions in Boston. Mr. 

 Hunnewell's summer home was in the town of 

 Wellesley, which took its name from Mrs. Hunne- 

 well's family. He gave Wellesley its town hall, 

 its library, and about 20 acres of wooded park. 



Hyatt, Alpheus, naturalist, born in Washing- 

 ton, D. C., April 5, 1838; died in Cambridge, 

 Mass., Jan. 15, 1902. He was graduated at Law- 

 rence Scientific School, Harvard, in 1862. During 

 the civil war he served in the 47th Massachusetts 

 Regiment, becoming a captain, after which he re- 

 newed his studies under Agassiz, and then passed 



a year in Germany. In 1867, in association with 

 Edward S. Morse, Alpheus S. Packard, and 

 Frederick W. Putnam, he settled in Salem, Mass., 

 where he became one of the curators of the Essex 

 Institute and a founder of the Peabody Academy 

 of Sciences. In 1870 he was 

 elected to the chair of Zool- 

 ogy and Paleontology in 

 the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, which he 

 held for many years, and he 

 also taught in the Boston 

 University, and in connec- 

 tion with the Society of 

 Natural History was man- 

 ager of the Teachers' School 

 of Science, founded in 1870. 

 Prof. Hyatt had charge of 

 the laboratory of Natural 

 History founded at Annisquam, Mass., by the 

 Woman's Educational Society of Boston during 

 its existence. In 1870 he was elected custodian of 

 the collections of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, where in 1881 he became a curator. During 

 recent years he had charge of invertebrate fossils 

 in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cam- 

 bridge, and was one of the collaborators of the 

 United States Geological Survey in its field-work 

 and paleontological researches. With Morse, 

 Packard, Putnam, Scudder, and others, he 

 founded the American Naturalist, and was one 

 of its editors. He was one of the originators of 

 the American Society of Naturalists, of which he 

 became president at its first meeting, held in 

 Springfield, Mass., in 1883. The American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences elected him to fellow- 

 ship in 1869, and he was chosen a member of the 

 National Academy of Sciences in 1876. In 1898 

 Brown University gave him the degree of LL. D. 

 His scientific researches were largely devoted to 

 the lower forms of animal life, and the more im- 

 portant of his publications were: r Observations 

 on Polyzoa (1866); Fossil Cephalopoda of the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology (1872) ; Revision 

 of North American Poriferae (1875-'77), which is 

 the only work on North American commercial 

 sponges; Genesis of Tertiary Species of Planorbis 

 at Steinheim (1880), giving the details of bis 

 study at Steinheim of fossils that were regarded 

 in Europe as affording the only positive demon- 

 stration of the theory of evolution; and Genera 

 of Fossil Cephalopoda (1883), containing im- 

 portant contributions to the theory of evolution. 

 Larval Theory of the Origin of Cellular Ti-Mic 

 (1884) contains his theory of the origin of sex: 

 and of later date were his monographs on Gein'-i- 

 of the Arietidae (Washington, 1889) ; Bioplas- 

 tology and the Related Branches of Biologic Re- 

 search (1893); Phylogeny of an Acquired Char- 

 acteristic (1894); 'Cephalopoda (1900). Besides 

 the foregoing, Prof. Hyatt edited a series of 

 Guides for Science Teaching, and was himself the 

 author of several of the series, including About 

 Pebbles; Commercial and Other Sponges; Com- 

 mon Hydroids, Corals, and Echinoderms; The 

 Oyster, Clam, and Other Common Mollusks; and 

 Worms and Crustaceans. 



Isham, Edward S., lawyer, born in Benning- 

 ton, Vt., Jan. 15, 1836; died in New York city, 

 Feb. 17, 1902. He was graduated at Williams 

 College in 1857, and later at Harvard Law 

 School; and was admitted to the bar in Rutland. 

 In 1858 he removed to Chicago, and in 1859 be- 

 came associated with James L. Stark, under the 

 firm name of Isham & Stark, and in 1872 with 

 Robert T. Lincoln, under the firm name of Isham 

 & Lincoln, which subsequently was changed, by 



