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54 Princeton, was licensed in 1840, and preached in Dallas county, Ala. He was pastor of the Pres- byterian church in Jackson, Miss., from 1843 till 1848, when he removed to Louisville, Ky., and for ten years was pastor of the Chestnut street Pres- byterian church. In 1859 he was elected to the chair of pastoral theology, horailetics, and church government in the Theological seminary of the northwest, Chicago, 111. His published works are "The Literary Attractions of the Bible" (New York, 1859); "The Life and Pictures of the Bible" (Philadelphia, 1860); "The Beauty of Em- manuel" (1861): "The Life and Works of Philip Lindley" (3 vols., 1866); "Memoir of the Rev. Lewis W. Green, D. D." (New York, 1871) ; " Liv- ing Christianity " (Philadelphia, 1881) ; and " Scot- land's Place in Civilization " (1885).

HALSEY, Lather, clergyman, b. in Schenec- tady, N. Y., 1 Jan., 1794; d. in Norristown, Pa., 29 Oct., 1880. From 1829 till 1837 he was profes- sor of theology in the Western theological seminary, Alleghany, Pa., after which he held the chair of ecclesiastical history and church polity in Auburn, N. Y., theological seminary, resigning in 1844. From 1847 till 1850 he- was professor of church history in Union theological seminary, New York city. For several years previous to his death he lived in retirement. — His brother, Job Foster, clergyman, b. in Schenectady, N. Y., 12 July, 1800 ; d. in Norristown, Pa., 7 March, 1881, was gradu- ated at Union in 1819, studied theology with his brother, and spent the years from 1823 till 1826 at Princeton seminary. From 1826 till 1828 he held charge of the Old Tennent church in Freehold, N. J. He was agent for the American Bible society in New Jersey in 1828-'9, for the American tract society in Albany, N. Y., in 1829-'30, and for the Sunday-school union in Pittsburg in 1830-'l. From 1831 till 1836 he was pastor of the First church in Alleghany City, Pa., and in 1835-'6 a professor in Marion manual-labor college, Mis- souri. He was principal of Raritan seminary for young ladies in Perth Amboy, N. J., from 1836 till 1848, pastor at West Bloomfield (now Montclair), N. J., from 1852 till 1856, and pastor of the 1st Presbyterian church in Norristown, Pa., from 1856 till he resigned in 1881.

HALSTEAD, Murat, journalist, b. in Paddy's Run, Butler co., Ohio, 2 Sept., 1829. He spent the summers on his father's farm and the winters in school until he was nineteen years old, and, after teaching for a few months, entered Farmer's college, near Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1851. He had already contributed to the press, and after leaving college became connected with the Cincinnati &ldquo;Atlas,&rdquo; and then with the &ldquo;Enquirer.&rdquo; He afterward established a Sunday newspaper in that city, and in 1852-'3 worked on the &ldquo;Columbian and Great West,&rdquo; a weekly. He began work on the &ldquo;Commercial&rdquo; on 8 March, 1853, as a local reporter, and soon became news editor. In 1854 the &ldquo;Commercial&rdquo; was reorganized, and Halstead purchased an interest in the paper. In 1867 its control passed into his hands. After pursuing for a time a course of independent journalism, he allied himself with the Republican party, which he has since supported. The Cincinnati &ldquo;Gazette&rdquo; was consolidated with his paper in 1883, and he became president of the company that publishes the combined journal under the name of the &ldquo;Commercial Gazette.&rdquo;

HALSTEAD, Schureman, philanthropist, b. in 1805 ; d. in Mamaroneck, N. Y., 5 Oct., 1868. He entered a dry-goods house at the age of fifteen, and by the time he had reached manhood had ac- quired a competence. Through all his life he de- voted himseli to the promotion of religious and benevolent enterprises. It was due to his personal efforts that the legislature passed the act creating the board of " ten governors," and, having been ap- pointed one of the original governors, he devoted much time to securing the successful working of the system. He was vice-president of the Ameri- can Bible society, president of the Westchester county Bible society, manager of the Parent mis- sionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church, founder, and for many years president, of the Broadway insurance company, and held many other responsible offices.

HALSTED, Byron David, agriculturist, b. in Venice, N. Y., 7 June, 1852. He was graduated at the Michigan agricultural college in 1871, and subsequently studied at Harvard, where in 1878 he received the degree of D. Sc. In 1873-4 he was instructor in ' history and algebra at the Agricul- tural college, and in 1874-'5 instructor in botany in Harvard. In 1875-'9 he taught in the Chigaco high-school, and then became editor of the " Ameri- can Agriculturist," which office he held until 1884. He was then called to fill the chair of botany in the Iowa agricultural college. Dr. Halsted is a fellow of the American association for the ad- vancement of science, and a member of other so- cieties. He has contributed largely to all the agri- cultural and botanical journals in the United States, and published " The Vegetable Garden " (Chicago, 1882) ; " Farm Conveniences" (New York, 1883) ; and " Household Conveniences " (1883).

HALSTED, Nathaniel Norris, merchant, b. in Elizabeth, N. J., 13 Aug., 1816 ; d. in Newark, N. J., 6 May, 1884. At a very early age he was adopt- ed by his uncle, Caleb O. Halsted, a merchant of New York, who educated him in the schools of that city and in the Boys' seminary at Woodbridge, N. J. Entering the dry-goods establishment of his uncle, he became at the age of twenty-nine years a partner in the house, and so continued until 1855, when he retired with a fortune. Soon after- ward he removed to Newark, N. J., having pur- chased stock in the New Jersey rubber company, of which he became a director and finally president. In the early part of the civil war he received an appointment on the staff of Gov. Olden, of New Jersey, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and when recruiting camps were established at Trenton he was bre vetted brigadier-general and placed in command. Princeton is indebted to him for the astronomical observatory which bears his name, and in the erection of which he expended $55,000. He had been a trustee of this institution for many years at the time of his death. He also gave largely for the establishment and successful conduct of the New Jersey state agricultural society, of which he was the first president. The New Jersey his- torical society, in its " Proceedings," makes mention of him not only as one of its benefactors, but as an earnest laborer in every worthy cause.

HALSTED, Oliver Spencer, jurist, b. in Elizabeth, N. J., 22 Sept., 1792; d. in Lyons Farms, N. J., 29 Aug., 1877. He was graduated at Princeton in 1810, studied law in the Litchfield law-school and in his native town, was admitted to the bar in 1814, and settled in Newark, N. J. In 1820 he removed to Huntsville, Ala., and devoted two years and a half to the practice of law. He returned to Elizabeth in 1823, and in 1827 was elected to the legislature. He was appointed surrogate of Essex county in 1828, was again elected to the legislature in 1834, and in 1840 became mayor of Newark. In 1844 he was a member of the conven-