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Rh "Dancing as an Amusement" (1877); "Beauties of the Rev. George Herbert" (1877); "A Plea for the Intemperate" (1879); "Culture and Christianity" (1880); "Prominent Doctrines and Peculiar Usages of the Methodist Episcopal Church Stated and Defended" (1879); "The Gospel and Scepticism" (1880); "The Shield of Faith" (Cincinnati, 1880); and "The Lenten Season (1882).

HAWLEY, Charles, author, b. in Catskill, N. Y., 19 Aug., 1819; d. in Auburn, N. Y., 26 Nov., 1885. He was graduated at Williams in 1840, and after reading law one year studied at the Union theological seminary, New York city, where he was graduated in 1844. He was then licensed to preach, and was pastor of Presbyterian churches in New Rochelle, Lyons, and Auburn, N. Y., where he remained from 1858 until his death. In 1867 he was sent on a special mission to Denmark by the U. S. government. He was president of the Cayuga county historical association from its foundation till his death. He received the degree of D. D. from Hamilton in 1861, and published "History of the First Presbyterian Church of Auburn" (Auburn, 1876); "Early Chapters of Cavuga History" (1879); "Sanitary Reforms" (1880); "Early Chapters of Seneca History" (1881); and "Memorial Discourses" (1884). His "Mohewok History" is now in press (1887).

HAWLEY, Gideon, missionary, b. in Bridgeport, Conn., 11 Nov., 1727; d. in Marshpee, Mass., 3 Oct., 1807. He was graduated at Yale in 1749, and in 1752, under the supervision of Jonathan Edwards, at Stockbridge, Mass., taught the Mohawk, Oneida, and Tuscarora Indians. In 1753 the commissioners of Indian affairs sent him to establish a mission in the Iroquois country, on the Susquehanna river. He remained there teaching and preaching until 1756, when the French war obliged him to return to civilization. He then went to Boston and joined the army as chaplain of Col. Richard Gridley's regiment, and attempted after this campaign to return to the Iroquois mission, but the enterprise proved too hazardous. In 1757 the commissioners of the Society for propagating the gospel appointed him pastor of the Indian tribes at Marshpee, Mass. He was installed, 10 April, 1758, and passed the residue of his life, nearly half a century, in missionary work there.

HAWLEY, Gideon, scholar, b. in Huntington, Conn., 26 Sept., 1785; d. in Albany, N. Y., 16 July, 1870. He was graduated at Union college in 1809, and admitted to the bar at Albany, N. Y., in 1813. In 1814 he was appointed secretary of the regents of the University of New York, and performed the duties of that office, without a salary, for twenty-seven years. From the organization of the Smithsonian institution, in 1846, until his death, he was one of its four regents-at-large. Mr. Hawley was a scholar of fine attainments, and familiar with the literature of many countries. He printed for private distribution "Essays in Truth and Knowledge" (Albany, 1850), which are characterized by metaphysical discrimination and acuteness.

HAWLEY, Joseph, statesman, b. in Northampton, Mass., 8 Oct., 1723; d. in Hampshire county, Mass., 10 March, 1788. He was graduated at Yale in 1742, and studied theology, but abandoned it for law, and practised many years in Hampshire county. He was frequently a member of the Massachusetts legislature, and served on most of its important committees. He was a member of the committee of correspondence in 1790, chairman of the Massachusetts committee to the Provincial congress of October, 1774, and served in that body in 1775. When his health failed in 1776, he retired from public life. Throughout his official career he was one of the ablest and most eloquent advocates of American liberty.

HAWLEY, Joseph Roswell, statesman, b. in Stewartsville, N. C., 31 Oct., 1826. He is of English-Scotch ancestry. His father, Rev. Francis Hawley (descended from Samuel, who settled in Stratford, Conn., in 1639), was b. in Farmington, Conn. He went south early and engaged in business, but afterward entered the Baptist ministry. He married Mary McLeod, a native of North Carolina, of Scotch parentage, and the family went to Connecticut in 1837, where the father was an active anti-slavery man. The son prepared for college at the Hartford grammar-school and

the seminary in Cazenovia, N. Y., whither the family removed about 1842. He was graduated at Hamilton in 1847, with a high reputation as a speaker and debater. He taught in the winters, studied law at Cazenovia and Hartford, and began practice in 1850. He immediately became chairman of the Free-soil state committee, wrote for the Free-soil press, and spoke in every canvass. He stoutly opposed the Know-Nothings, and devoted his energies to the union of all opponents of slavery. The first meeting for the organization of the Republican party in Connecticut was held in his office, at his call, 4 Feb., 1856. Among those present were Gideon Welles and John M. Niles. Mr. Hawley gave three months to speaking in the Frémont canvass of 1856. In February, 1857, he abandoned law practice, and became editor of the Hartford "Evening Press," the new distinctively Republican paper. His partner was William Faxon, afterward assistant secretary of the navy. He responded to the first call for troops in 1861 by drawing up a form of enlistment, and, assisted by Drake, afterward colonel of the 10th regiment, raising rifle company A, 1st Connecticut volunteers, which was organized and accepted in twenty-four hours, Hawley having personally engaged rifles at Sharp's factory. He became the captain, and is said to have been the first volunteer in the state. He received special praise for good conduct at Bull Run from Gen. Erastus D. Keves, brigade commander. He directly united with Col. Alfred H. Terry in raising the 7th Connecticut volunteers, a three years' regiment, of which he was lieutenant-colonel. It went south in the Port Royal expedition, and on the capture of the forts was the first sent ashore as a garrison. It was engaged four months in the siege of Fort Pulaski, and upon the surrender was selected as the garrison. Hawley succeeded Terry, and commanded the regiment in the battles of James Island and Pocotaligo, and in Brannan's expedition to Florida. He went with his regiment to Florida, in January, 1863, and commanded the post of Fernandina, whence in April he undertook an unsuccessful expedition against Charleston. He also commanded a brigade on Morris Island in the siege of Charleston and the capture of Fort Wagner. In February, 1864, he had a brigade under Gen. Truman Seymour in