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Rh he served in this capacity does not appear. He was an enterprising citizen of Richmond, and erected several buildings, that have been long fa- miliar to its citizens, among them the noted Gam- ble house, which was subsequently owned by the Revolutionary veteran, Maj. Robert Gamble, from which Gamble's Hill takes its name. Col. Harvie, in superintending the building of this mansion, met with his death by a fall from a ladder.

HARWOOD, John Edmund, actor, b. in Eng- land in 1771 ; d. in Germantown, Pa., 21 Sept., 1809. He received a liberal education, and studied law in England. In 1793 he came to this country, having joined a company of comedians that had been engaged for the theatre in Philadelphia. Later, Harwood married Miss Bache, a grand- daughter of Benjamin Franklin. He then retired from the stage, to begin business as bookseller and conductor of a circulating library, but after several years he was unsuccessful, and lost his capi- tal. In 1803 he went to New York city, under an engagement with the manager of the Park theatre. Dunlap says he was a man of wit and refinement, and highly endowed as an actor, but indolent and careless of study. At the close of his career he became too corpulent to continue some of his best early representations. Harwood published a vol- ume of " Poems " (New York, 1809). They display taste and scholarship, but have no especial merit. — His son, Andrew Allen, naval officer, b. in Settle, Bucks co., Pa., in 1802 ; d. in Marion, Mass., 28 Aug., 1884, was appointed midshipman, 1 Jan.. 1818, and from 1819 till 1821 served in the sloop- of-war " Hornet " in the suppression of the Afri- can slave-trade. He was commissioned lieutenant in 1827, and in the following year was appointed to the receiving-ship " Philadelphia." He was de- tached as special messenger to bring home the ratified treaty with Naples, and from 1835 till 1837 served in the Mediterranean squadron. He was assistant inspector of ordnance in 1843-'52. member of a commission to visit dock-yards and foundries in England and France in 1844. and in 1848 was promoted to commander. In 1851 he became member of a board appointed to prepare ordnance instructions for the navy, and to make investigations and experiments. He commanded the frigate " Cumberland," of the Mediterranean squadron, from 1853 till 1855, when he was ap- e)inted captain. He was inspector of ordnance om 1858 till 1861, and in the latter year was commissioned chief of the bureau of ordnance and hydrography. In the following year he became commodore, and was appointed commandant of the navy-yard at Washington, and of the Potomac flotilla. He was retired in 1864, but served as sec- retary of the light-house board, and a member of the examining board from 1864 till 1869, when he was made rear-admiral on the retired list. Dur- ing the civil war he prepared a work on " Summary Courts-Martial," and published the " Law and Practice of U. S. Navy Courts-Martial " (1867).

HASBROUCK, Abraham Brnyn, lawyer, b. in Kingston, N. Y., in November, 1791 ; d. there, 23 Feb., 1879. He was graduated at Yale in 1810, studied law at Hudson, N. Y., and Litchfield. Conn., and was admitted to the bar in 1813. He practised his profession in Kingston, and in 1825-'7 served one term in congress. Columbia gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1828, and in 1840-'50 he was president of Rutgers college, con- tributing much to its prosperity by his lectures on constitutional law. He also planted and cared for many of the fine trees that now adorn the college grounds. Mr. Hasbrouck was vice-president of the American Bible society in 1851, and president of the Ulster county historical society in 1856. He was dignified and scholarly, of genial manners and generous hospitality.

HASCALL, Daniel, clergyman, b. in Bennington, Vt., 24 Feb., 1782 ; d. in Hamilton. N. Y„ 28 June, 1852. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1806, and afterward studied theology while en- gaged in teaching in Pittsfield, Mass. He became pastor of the Baptist church in Elizabethtown, N. Y., in 1808, and in 1813 was called to Hamilton, N. Y. He received pupils in theology in 1815, and after he had established the Baptist education society of New York in 1817, his school was merged in 1820 in the Hamilton literary and theo- logical institution (now Madison university), which was opened under his charge. In 1828 he dis- solved his pastorate in order to devote his time to this institution, which he left in 1835 to give his attention to the interests of an academy in Flor- ence, Oneida eo., N. Y. He removed to West Rut- land, Vt., in 1837, and in 1848 became pastor of a church in Lebanon, N. Y„ but in 1849 returned to Hamilton. He published " Elements of Theolo- gy," designed for family reading and Bible-classes ; a smaller work for Sunday-schools: "Cautions against False Philosophy" (1817) ; and a pamphlet entitled " Definition of the Greek Baptizo " (1818).

HASCALL, Milo Smith, soldier, b. in Le Roy, Genesee co., N. Y., 5 Aug., 1829. He spent the early years of his life on his father's farm, and in 1846 went to Goshen, Ind. He was appointed from Indiana to the U.S. military academy, where he was graduated in 1852, and assigned to the artillery. He served in garrison at Fort Adams, R. I., from 1852 till 1853, when he resigned. He was a contractor for the Indiana and Michigan southern railroad in 1854, and practised law in Goshen, Ind., from 1855 till 1861. serving as prosecuting attorney of Elkhart and Lagrange counties from 1856 tiil 1858. and school-examiner and clerk of courts from 1859 till 1861, when he enlisted as a private in an Indiana regiment. He was subsequently appointed captain and aide-de-camp on Gen. Thomas A. Morris's staff, and organized and drilled six regiments in Camp Morton. He became colonel of the 17th Indiana regiment on 21 June, which was engaged in the West Virginia campaign, and at Philippi made the first capture of a Confederate flag. In December, 1861, he was ordered to Louisville, Ky., and placed in command of a brigade consisting of the 17th Indiana, 6th Ohio, 43d Ohio, and 15th Indiana regiments, assigned to the division commanded by Gen. William Nelson. He was transferred to a brigade in Gen. Thomas J. Wood's division, serving during the capture of Nashville and in the advance on Shiloh. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers. 25 April, 1862. and commanded a brigade in the Tennessee campaign from October, 1862, till March, 1863. At the battle of Stone River he commanded a division, and was wounded. He was then sent to Indianapolis to return deserters from Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, was transferred to the Army of the Ohio and placed in command of the district of Indiana. He also took part in the battles of Chickamauga and Mission Ridge, and was active in the defence of Knoxville. Pie was in command of the 2d division of the 23d corps. Army of the Ohio, in the invasion of Georgia in 1864, being engaged in numerous actions on the advance to Atlanta and taking an active part in the siege of that city. He resigned his commission on 27 Oct., 1864, and became a proprietor of Salem's bank, in Goshen, Ind., in which he is now (1887) engaged.