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Rh ter " (1872) ; " The Whirlwind " (1878) ; a statue of Miles Morgan, erected at Springfield, Mass., in 1882, and bas-reliefs on the monument at Saratoga that commemorates the defeat of Burgoyne.

HARTLEY, Thomas, soldier, b. in Reading. Pa., 7 Sept., 1748 : d. in York. Pa., 21 Dec, 1800. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and prac- tised in York, Pa. He served in the Revolutionary war, and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of Irvine's regiment, 9 Jan., 1776, and was colonel of the 6th Pennsylvania in the same year. Col. Hartley commanded an expedition in October, 1778, against the savages who had been concerned in the Wyoming massacre, destroyed their settle- ment, killed many of them, and recovered part of the property that they had carried away. He was a member of the Pennsylvania house of repre- sentatives in 1778, and was elected a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, serving by con- tinuous re-elections from 4 March, 1789. to 21 Dec, 1800. He was one of the council of censors in 1783, and a delegate to the Pennsylvania con- vention that adopted the national constitution.

HARTMAN, William Dell, naturalist, b. in Chester county, Pa., 24 Dec, 1817. His grand- father and great-grandfather were Revolutionary soldiers. His father was George Hartman, who was an officer in the war of 1812, and afterward a major-general of Pennsylvania militia. The son was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1839, and has since practised this profession with success. When at school he showed a fondness for the natural sciences, and at the age of fifteen was mentioned by Dr. William Darling- ton in his " Flora Cestrica " as " a zealous and promising young botanist." He successively made himself acquainted with all the branches of natural history, but paid special attention to conchology. He has made a large collection of shells, which is especially rich in partulae and achatinella?. His collection of the latter excels those in the British museum and the Jardin des Plantes, and he has published bibliographic and synonymic catalogues of it. In connection with Dr. Ezra Michener, he issued an illustrated and descriptive catalogue of the fresh - water and land shells of Chester county, Pa. (1870). He has also contributed to scientific publications, and for years has corre- sponded with scientists in America and Europe.

HARTRANFT, John Frederick, soldier, b. in New Hanover, Montgomery co., Pa., 16 Dec, 1830 ; d. in Norristown, Pa., 17* Oct., 1889. He was graduated at Union college, Schenectady, in 1853, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. At the beginning of the civil war he raised the 4th Pennsylvania regiment, and commanded it during the three months of its enlistment, which expired the day before the first battle of Bull Run. As his regiment had been ordered to Harrisburg to be mustered out, he asked and obtained leave to serve as a volunteer on Gen. William B. Franklin's staff in that battle. He then organized the 51st Penn- sylvania regiment, was commissioned its colonel, 27 July, 1861, and with it accompanied Gen. Burn- side in his expedition to North Carolina in March, 1862. He took part in all the engagements of the 9th corps, led the charge that carried the stone bridge at Antietam, and commanded his regiment at Fredericksburg. He was then ordered to Ken- tucky, and was engaged in the battle of Campbell's Station and the successful defence of Knoxville. He was with the 9th corps in June, 1863, as cover- ing army to the troops besieging Vicksburg, and after the fall of that place with Gen. William T. Sherman in his advance to Jackson, Miss. He commanded a brigade in the battles of the Wilder- ness and Spottsylvania, was commissioned briga- dier-general of volunteers on 12 May. 1864, and took part in all the movements before' Petersburg. He was assigned to the command of a division in August, 1864, and brevetted major-general for his services in re-capturing Fort Steadman on 25 March. 1865. He was elected auditor-general of Pennsylvania in October, 1865, and on 29 Aug., 1866, the president offered him a colonelcy in the regular army, which he declined. Gen. Hartranft was re-elected auditor-general in 1868, and in 1872-'8 was governor of Pennsylvania. The mili- tia of Pennsylvania was entirely reorganized on a military basis during his two "terms as governor. The plan of municipal reform that was suggested by him in 1876 was adopted in 1885, the mayor of Philadelphia being elected under its provisions in 1887. Immediately after the close of his second term as governor he removed to Philadelphia. He was appointed postmaster of that city in June, 1879, and collector of the port in August, 1880. He was, in 1879, appointed to the command of the National guard of Pennsylvania, which post he still held at the time of his death.

HARTSHORNE, Joseph, physician, b. in Alexandria, Va., 12 Dec, 1779; d. near Wilming- ton, Del., 20 Aug., 1850. He was descended from Richard Hartshorne, a member of the Society of Friends, who emigrated from England in 1669 "and settled in New Jersey, and his father, William, was treasurer of the first internal improvement so- ciety in the country, of which George Washington was president. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1805, and after two voyages in 1806 to India as surgeon and su- percargo, and a three months' residence in Bata- via, Java, he began practice in Philadelphia. He was surgeon of the Pennsylvania hospital in 1815— '21, and prepared and published Boyer on " The Bones," with an appendix and notes (1806). — His son, Edward, physician, b. in Philadelphia, 14 May, 1818; d. 22 June, 1885, was graduated at Princeton in 1837, and in medicine at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1840. He began practice in Philadelphia in 1848, and was elected one of the surgeons in Will's eye hospital, and later in the Pennsylvania hospital. During the civil war he served as consulting surgeon in the U. S. army medical service ; also as member and secretary of the executive committee of the U. S. sanitary com- mission in Philadelphia. He was for a short pe- riod editor of the " Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy," and was a frequent contribu- tor to medical periodicals. He is the author of "Separate System" for criminals, translated into several languages in Europe ; notes to Taylor's "Medical Jurisprudence " (1854) ; and " Ophthal- mic Medicine and Surgery " (1856). — Another son, Henry, physician, b. in Philadelphia, 16 March, 1823, was graduated at Haverford college in 1839, and in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1845. He was elected professor of the institutes of medicine in the Philadelphia college of medi- cine in 1853, and in June, 1855, he was selected as one of the consulting physicians and lecturers on clinical medicine in Philadelphia hospital. He was elected professor of the practice of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania in 1859, became professor of hygiene in the same institution in 1866, and in 1867 was given the chair of organic science and philosophy in Haverford college. He has also held professorships in the Pennsylvania college of dental surgery, Girard college, and the Woman's medical college of Pennsylvania. He