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Hastings, Frank W., farmer, author, was born J>c, 31, 1856, in Wuttrlord. Vt. Ikeducated in the public schooh uf

wM

native-

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in

giailuatc fii

]>i il

oininontly identiwith the hnxinc-'

and public affairs ut Vermont; resides In rtlnvvr, 't.; and lia> filled

honor.

Ht-

is

varions

tionM of the antlior of

[mini-

tn a

natic: 'i"lu> I'ntamrd PliiloKojihiT: and IMugolian^.

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With

Hastings, Henry, aoldicr. nn-rchant. was Sept. 2. 1818. in TownM nd. .Mass. He in tin- civil war: and wan the iincle of Admiral Porter and CommodorcH illiam

bom

Si-rvf.I

and Henry

Porter. He died Aug. !), 1887, Wi '.t M. dford, Mans. Hastings, Horace Lorenzo, evangelist, author, port, was borQ Nov. 26. 1&13, In Blandin

Mass. He was

a great anti-inTnitd I.t-

turor; 1840:

preached from

tinlili-licd

He

tiiui.

IMM

and from

hnndredf* cnnipih'd

the

Chria-

INIW; and in IS7.1 Ix oanie its proprietor. He died Sept. 12. 1S,S3, in Monmouth Beach. N..T.

Hastings, John, conf^'eoHinnn. In I8.3!i-4.i he was a representative from Ohio to the t wenty-sixtli an

He

1.

•

Krjinci>< n.

died Feb. 19, 1803.

i

hiwv.r. jurist. conyress«

Hastings, Seth, limn, wan Ixirn In lH<ll-t»7 he

ITtil in Mcndon. Mass. in was a representjitive from MsMHsehnMetts to the seventh, eighth and .11 iiiiitli after his service in congrcf.s w as elected A state Senator in 1810 and 1814. He was appointed chief justice int of seHsions. He died in 1831 of till,
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.

I

ill Men. ion. M^is-. Hastings, Thomas, Isun Oct. I.'). 17x4.

In tor

IS.'i*

he

to

we!it viiiiH

.

ouiposer. author,

in

was

Washington. Conn. City; and

New York

choir director in Dr. many MatMin's church iu Blecckcr street. His publications comprise nearly fifty separate volumes; and he left over six hundred hymns in

liad

Hastings, Russell, soldier,

---

Kew York

ecture on the Tn«piration »)f the Bible, a circulation of over three million copies and has been published in a doxen lan^^ia^xes. Hi.x other works are Si^jris of the Times; Reasons for My Hope; Thessalonica: and Atheism and Arithmetic. He died Nov. 21. ]m<), in Coslierr, Mass. Hastings, Hugh J., journalist, was born Au^. 20. 1820, in Ireland. He was appointe«i by Pr<'Hi,|,.rit Taylor eolleefor of the |)ort of Alltiuiy. He assumed the editorship of the Xew York Commercial Advertiser In

He

<ini,'n

hymns;

of .Shall We .Meet Bejrond the River; and a

Uas

(

supreme court

of a

Iniok and ifs.Hui'd scries* n lij^fioiis boolcH and pamphlets. He is best known an the author

Iowa to the twenty-ninth was chief justice of the Iowa; and then moved to He subsequently practiced law

sentative from

written

(ii

uiiiili

conf;rei«Hman, was born Nov. 14, 1814, in Xew York City, lie riwived a liberal education; studied law: and be^'an practicing; his profcHHion in Iowa, in 184o-47 he wii« a repre-

ha.s

hymn

91

the Ohio state legislature in 1SG.'»; and while there was appointinl I'nited States marshal for the northern district of Ohio, serving until IH74. He died in 1904 in Willoughby, Ohio. HutiBgt» StRtnus Clinton, lawyer, juriitt.

and

tru.Ht

The

ford,

OF AMKUICAN UIOGRAPHV.

He

manuscript.

died

May

1872, in

15,

City.

Hastings, Thomas, doi^Micr. an liitect. was born March 11, iHiRi, in New York City. lie in an architect of New York City; and one of the div-it,'nefs of the New <'onsS. in Cambridjfe, MasM. In IS!i7 itS he was a nu'ml>er of the New Hampshire state wnate from Wiilpole; and in 18flfl-llHM» «as president of the state senate.

Thomas Samuel, clergyman,

Hastings,

ed-

nentor. eoUetje president, was born Auj;. 2S. ISJT. in Ctica. N.Y. In ISSl he became pr«)ffs.sor of HMcreil rhetoric in the Union theological seminary: of which institution he

was

pii'siili

•

t

ill

1

^'^7-!'7.

Hastings, William Granger, lawyer, state was born April !). 1858. in Woodstock. 111. Since 1S77 he his jiractiied law

aenat<ir.

Nebraska;

in

in

1SS."»-H7

was a member

of

the Nebraska state senate; and in IOIM) was •h-niocratic candidate for congress. In ISOll!MtO he was district aftortiey; in l!)01 04

was supreme court conunissinner and in 1!MI4 was democratic candidate for judge of the Nebraska state supremo court.

Hastings,

WiUiam Soden,

state

senator,

was born

in Mendon. Mass. menilMT of the legislature of Massachusetts; and was in the state Semite in lS2{»-34. In 1H:)7-43 be was a representative to the twenty-fifth, twenty-

cntiirresstnan.

He

w.is frequently a