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82 len's son, William Hobart, P. E. bishop, b. in Princeton, N. J., 17 May. 1838, was educated in part at the University of Pennsylvania, but, on ac- count of trouble with his eyes, he left before gradu- ation. He was ordained deacon, 19 June, 1859, by Bishop Bowman, and priest, 25 May, 1862, by Bish- op Alonzo Potter. During his deaconate he was assistant minister in St. Luke's church, Philadel- phia. In May, 1861, he became rector of St. Paul's, Chestnut Hill, where he remained for two years. In 1863 he was in charge of St. Luke's, Philadel- phia, during the absence of the rector, and in 1864 was elected rector of the Church of the Ascension in the same city. He next became secretary and general agent of the foreign committee of the board of missions, which office he filled for several years. In 1871 Dr. Hare was elected by the house of bishops missionary bishop of Cape Palmas and parts adjacent, in West Africa, but declined the appointment. In October, 1872, he was elected missionary bishop of Niobrara, and was consecrated in St. Luke's, Philadelphia, 9 Jan., 1873. He re- ceived the degree of D. D. from three colleges in 1873. At the general convention of 1883 the Indian missionary jurisdiction of Niobrara was changed and extended. It now embraces the southern part of Dakota, and, by vote of the house of bishops, he was placed in charge, with the title of " Missionary Bishop of South Dakota." Bishop Hare deposed a missionary, Rev. S. D. Hinman, on charges of immorality, and, to vindicate his action, sent a communication to the board of missions. For this, Hinman sued him for libel in the New York courts, and obtained a verdict for $10,000, but after appeals the judgment was reversed.

HARGIS, Thomas F., jurist, b. in Breathitt county, Ky., 24 June, 1842. He removed with his parents to Rowan county in 1856, and received a scanty education. In 1861 he entered the Confed- erate service as a private in the 5th Kentucky in- fantry. He was promoted captain in 1863, and in November, 1864, was captured in Luray valley and held a prisoner until the termination of the war. Returning home penniless at the age of twenty- three, he devoted himself to the study and mastery of the English branches, and to the law. He was licensed to practise in 1866, and in 1868 removed to Carlisle, Ky. The year following he was elected judge of Nicholas county, and he was re-elected in 1870. He was chosen to the state senate in 1871, elected judge of the criminal court in 1878, and raised to the appellate bench of Kentucky in 1879. After serving as chief justice during the vacancy caused by the death of an associate judge, he served two years longer by his own succession. Declining a re-election, he retired from the supreme bench in 1884, and removed to Louisville, Ky., where he is now (1887) engaged in practice.

HARGROVE, Robert Kennon, M. E. bishop, b. in Pickens county, Ala., 17 Sept., 1829. He was graduated at the University of Alabama in 1852, and was professor of pure mathematics there in 1853-7. He entered the ministry of the Meth- odist Episcopal church in the latter year, was presi- dent or the Centenary institute in Alabama in 1805-7. and of Tennessee female college in 1868-73. In 1882 he was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was the first to urge the bond-scheme that saved the publishing-house of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, originated the woman's department of church-extension for the securing of parsonages in the same church, and was a member of the commission that in 1878 es- tablished fraternal relations between the northern and southern branches of the Methodist church. HARING, John, patriot, b. in Tappan, Orange (now Rockland) co., N. Y., 28 Sept., 1739; d. in Blauveltville, N. Y., 1 April, 1809. His ancestors came from Holland. He served in the first four provincial congresses, and sat in the Continental congress in 1774-'5 and 1785-7. He was elected in 1776 to the New York general assembly, which never organized, sat on the judicial bench of the county in 1778-'88, and in 1781-90 was state senator. He was a commissioner for settling the dispute be- tween New York and Massachusetts about western lands, and in 1788 was a member of the state con- vention that ratified the U.S. constitution, but voted against it. See his life by Franklin Burdge (1878).

HARKER, Charles G., soldier, b. in Swedes- borough, N. J., 2 Dec, 1837: killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, 27 June, 1864. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1858, entered the 2d infantry, and became 1st lieuten- ant of the 15th infantry, 14 May, 1861. He was promoted captain, 24 Oct., 1861, became lieuten- ant-colonel of the 65th Ohio volunteers, and colo- nel on 11 Nov., 1861. He was engaged in the bat- tle of Shiloh and the siege of Corinth and the battle of Stone River, and was recommended for promotion, but did not receive it until he had still further distinguished himself at Chicka- mauga and Chattanooga. He was made brigadier- general of volunteers, to date from 20 Sept., 1863, commanded a brigade under Gen. Howard in the campaign in Georgia, and held the peak of Rocky Face Ridge, 7 May, 1864, against deter- mined efforts of the enemy to dislodge him.

HARKER, Samuel, clergyman. He became pastor of a church at Black River, N. J., 31 Oct., 1752. He published " Predestination Consistent with General Liberty " (1761), for which he was excluded, and disqualified to preach by the synods of New York and Philadelphia. He subsequently published an " Appeal from the Synod to the Christian World " (1763).

HARKEY, Simeon Walcher, clergyman, b. in Iredell county, N. C, 3 Dec. 1811. He was graduated at the Gettysburg Lutheran seminary in 1834, and from 1850 till 1866 was professor of theology in the University of Illinois. He was president of the general synod of his church in 1857. In 1865 he served as chaplain at Camp Butler, near Springfield, 111. He has been success- ful as an organizer and pastor of congregations, preaching both in English and German. Witten- berg college gave him the degree of D. D. in 1852. His publications in book -form are "Lutheran Sunday-School Question-Book " (1838) ; " Church's Best State " (1843) ; "Daily Prayer-Book " (1844); "Value of an Evangelical Ministry" (1853): and " Justification by Faith " (1875). Among his ad- dresses are " True Greatness," " Andrew Jack- son's Funeral," " Prisons for Women," and " Mis- sion of Lutheran Church." He is now (1887) writing a series of articles on his personal remi- niscences of Lutheranism in Illinois.

HARKINS, Mathew, R. C. bishop, b. in Boston, Mass., 17 Nov., 1845. He attended the Latin-school of his native city, and was graduated with a Franklin medal in 1862. He studied a year at the College of the Holy Cross at Worcester, Mass., and on leaving was sent by Bishop Fitzpatrick to pursue a course of theology at the English college of Douay and in the seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris. After six years' study he was ordained, and visited Rome before returning home. After serving as curate of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Salem, Mass., he was appointed in 1876 rector of St. Malachi's church at Arling-