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 274 HALE. HALE. Sunday-schools, includes upwards of five thousand members. He also has taken great interest in the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, of which he is one of the councilors, and is a frequent contributor to " The Chau- tauquan." Mr. Hale has served his col- lege as a member of the board of over- seers for successive terms, and as preacher to the university, and has been very active in advancing the interests of Harvard. He has also held the office of president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and in 1879 re- ceived the degree of S. T. D. from his alma mater. As a boy he learned to set type in his father's printing office, and he has served on the " Daily Advertiser " in every capac- ity, from reporter to editor-in-chief. Be- fore he was of age he wrote his full share in the monthly issues of the " Monthly Chronicle" and the " Boston Miscellany." In later years he edited the " Christian Examiner " and also the " Sunday-school Cazette." In 1869 he founded, with the American Unitarian Association, "Old and New," for the purpose of giving wider currency to liberal Christian ideas through the medi- um of a literary magazine. Six years after- wards this journal was merged into " Scrib- ner's Monthly." In 1886 he again returned to journalism, and began the publication of " Lend a Hand : a Record of Progress and Journal of Organized Charity." As a writer of short stories, Mr. Hale has achieved signal distinction. His " My Dou- ble, and How He Undid Me," published in the " Atlantic Monthly " in 1859, at once caught the popular fancy. " The Man Without a Country " had a large circulation. Among the best known of Mr. Hale's numerous literary productions may be named the following : " Letters on Irish Emigration" (1852), "Kansas and Ne- braska" (1854), "Ninety Days' Worth of Europe" (1861), "The Man Without a Country " (1868), "The Ingham Papers" (1869), " His Level Best, and other Stones " (1870), " In His Name " (1874), "Philip Nolan's Friends" (New York, 1875), "What Career?" (1878), "The Life of George Washington " (New York, 1887), " Ups and Downs," " Franklin in France" (2 vols., Boston, 1888), "How they lived in Hampton " (Boston, 1888). October 13, 1S52, at Hartford, Conn., Mr. Hale married Emily Baldwin, daugh- ter of Thomas C. and Mary Foote (Beecher) Perkins. Their children are : Ellen Day, Arthur, Charles (deceased), Edward Everett, Philip Lesley, Herbert Dudley, Harry Kidder (deceased) and Robert Beverly Hale. HALE, Jeremiah Ballou, son of Gardner and Ann S. (Ballou) Hale, was born in what was Smithfield, Providence county, R. I., February 22, 1830. He obtained his education in public and private schools of Taunton, Mass., and at Adelphi Academy, North Bridgewater, now Brockton. His father needing him in his cotton factory, his schooling was stopped for a more convenient time to finish — which never came. At sixteen years of age he was put in charge of the carding and spinning department ; at eighteen went to Prattville, Alabama, to take a much larger charge in the same business, staying there three and a half years. In 1852 he re- turned, and entered the employ of the Union Straw Works, Foxborough, for six years. Next we find him superintendent JEREMIAH B HALE. of the Bay State Straw Works, Middle- borough, remaining there four years, then four years again at Foxborough with his old employers. In 1 866' he moved to Medfield, entering into partnership with Warren Chenery, in the straw and palm-leaf hood business. After one year he leased the factory for
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