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1802 he has been a writer for Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas. He is the author of Treasurer of Muslirooin Hook; and The Boys of Crawford's Hasin. Hampton, Charles S., educator, lawyer, legi»h»tor. statesiimn, was born Sept. 10, 1850, in Medina, Mich. He was educated at Adrian eolU'ge of Michigan. He has attained success in the practice of law in Detroit, Mich. He has been a justice of the peace; county superintendent of schools; a member of the Michigan state legislature; and Htate game and fish warden for Michigan. In 1S5)H-HM>4 he was secretary of the demo, cratic state committw, in I'.MIO was chief reading clerk of the democratic national conunittee; and in 1!>0 he was a representative from New Jersey to the twenty-ninth and thirtieth congresses, lie died lic

in

New

.Tcrsey.

Hampton, Moses, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was l)orn Oct. 28, 1808, in Heaver county, I'a. In 1847-51 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtieth and thirty-first congresses. In ]H.y,i hv was elected president judge of the district court for Allegheny county. He died in AHegheny county. Vii.

Hampton,

Wade,

gressman, was born

He

served

soldier,

planter,

in 1754, in

con-

South Caro-

the revolution under Marion and Sumter. In 1705-97 and ISO,']0.') he was a representative to the fourtli and eighth congresses. He was presidential td»'ctur in ISOI. He was maorn

governor, congressman. I'nited States senator, was born March 28, 1818. in Charleston, S.C. At different tim«'s he served in both branches of the legislature. In-ing a state senator at the time the state seceded. He resigned from the state senate and entered the confeilerate arujy; and rose to the rank of major-genHe was the forty-thinl governor of eral. South Carolina in 187r>"-70: and in 1870-01 he was I'nited States s«>nat(>r. He was United States railroad commissioner in lS0l-n7.

He died April 11. 1U02. iti Columbia, S.C. Hamtramck, John Francis, soldier, was in 1757 in Canada. He held command

of the left wing of Ceneral Wayne's army, Hn«l was distinguished in his victory on the .Miami in 1704. In 18IV2 he received the commission of colonel. He died April 11, 180.3,

Mich.

1829, in

(J,

Nan-

Hanback, Lewis, soldier, lawyer, jurist. congr«-ssman, was born March 27, 1839, in Winchester, 111. He served three and a half years in the union army during the civil war. For four years he was probate ju<lge of Shawnee county, Kan.; was assistant I nitetl States attorney for the district of Kansas for two years; and in 1879 was appointed receiver of public moneys at Salina, Kan. In 1883-87 he was a representative from Kansas to the forty-eighth and fortyninth congresses as a republican. He died Sept. 0, 1807, in Armourdale, Kan. Hanbury, Harry A., merchant, manufacturer, congressnum. was born Jan. 1, 18(»3, in Kngland. In 1884 he established an iron works in Brooklyn, N.Y. In l!»0l-03 he was York a republican representative from to tiie fifty-seventh congress.

New

Hancher, John William, educator, clergyman, c«dlege president, was born April 9, lH5ri, in Noble county. Ohio. During six years ate's

of

his

pastor-

Kansas and

in

l(»wa he pursueil his studies; antI in 1SS8

soldier,

born

May

tucket, Mass. She is the lirst woman to enter the ministry in the universalist denomination; and since 1887 has U'en in i'harge of a church at New Haven. She is the author of Lite of Abrahanj Lincoln; Life of (Jeorge Peabody; Lucretia the Quakeress Leonette, or Truth Sought and Found; The Best of Hooks and Its History; Frank Nelson, the Runaway Boy; The Soldier's Daughter; Field, (Junboat, and Hospital; Women of the C« ntury; The Captive Boy of Tierra «lel F'uego; Life of Dickens; and From Shore to Shore, and Other Poems.

Columbia, S.C.

Hampton, Wade,

in r)«'troit,

Hamtramck, John Francis, soldier, states1708 in Fort jurist, was born in In 1835-38 he was captain ot the 'irginia militia. He served in the Mexican war as colonel of the lir^t regiment of In 1853 •.'>8 he was jusV irginia volunteers. man,

from

graduated

Dakota Mines. eled

of travI'xtensively in

and America;

IjirojK'

and stron;;

the

School

He has

man

of

will-power

anil

is

a

untiring persev«>rance. He is the founder of Black Hills college of lint Springs. S.D. and was its president lron« its organization in 1880. He has lec(iiri'd exten-ively tlirough the west; has i)e«'n a cleryyinan <if the iiietliodist episcopal liiireh sinee Is.sii. |n 1807-00 he wnn pastor of the Crand avenue church of KansHs City, M...; and in ISOO-l'.lOl filled a jiastorate in Herkimer. N.Y. Sinee 1001 b(. has been prea;

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