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and a relative of Nathaniel Bowditch, the mathematician. The family 

 lived in Salem for three or four generations. 



When Arnold was twelve years of age the family moved to Albany, 

 where his father was pastor of the North Pearl Street Baptist Church. 

 In Albany Arnold attended the Albany Boys^ Academy, from which he 

 graduated in 1854. He often attended the meetings of the State legis- 

 lature after school hours, and with a number of boy friends indulged in 

 a senate of their own, where they debated questions of interest to them- 

 selves. In 1856 his father took the family to New York City, where he 

 was pastor of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church. 



In the autumn of 1861, when the Civil AYar was in its early stages, 

 Arnold, at the age of twenty, having been unable to enlist in the army 

 for physical reasons, entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Col- 

 lege with advanced standing, taking up the studies of Junior year in 

 what was known as the Chemical Course, there being at that time only 

 two others — the Engineering and the General. Chemistry was taught by 

 John Porter and Samuel AY. Johnson, with 0. D. Allen and Peter Collier 

 as assistants. Metallurgy and mineralogy were taught by George J. 

 Brush; geology by James D. Dana, and modern languages by William D. 

 Whitney. Theodore Woolsey was the President of Yale. As the attend- 

 ance in college was affected by the war, Hague's class, which graduated 

 in 1863, contained only four students; so that each student undoubtedly 

 received very direct personal attention from his instructor, and one may 

 imagine the inspiration which the student, Hague, must have received 

 from such men as Dana, Brush, and Johnson. 



When Arnold Hague entered the Scientific School, Clarence King was 

 in the Senior class and 0. C. Marsh was a graduate student, having 

 graduated from the Academic Department in 1860 with the degree of 

 A. B. Other students with whom Hague was associated, who were in the 

 graduate school at that time, were J. Willard Gibbs and Ellsworth Dag- 

 gett, who afterward became a mining engineer. The acquaintances which 

 began in this way with King and Marsh were destined to play a great 

 role in the future life of Arnold Hague, especially the friendship with 

 Clarence King; for while we have no record of Hague's experiences and 

 aspirations during his college life, it is evident from subsequent events 

 that the friendship for these two men influenced very much of his life's 

 work. 



After graduation in 1863 with the degree of Ph. B. he went to Ger- 

 many, spending a year in Gottingen, improving his knowledge of the 

 language, and the next year in Heidelberg in Bunsen's laboratory, where 

 most of his time was devoted to chemistry and mineralogy. It is to be 



