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at Dojdestovvn and took a special course in chem- istry with Prof. Thomas M. Drown in Philadel- phia and as a fellow of Johns Hopkins university, 1876-78. He was an assistant in laboratories at Lafayette under Professor Drown, 1874-75 ; tutor in chemistry, 187o-76; adjunct professor of gen- eral chemistry there, 1878-81; adjunct professor of chemistrj', 1881-82, and was elected to the William Adamson chair of anahtical chemistry in 1882. He was made a member of the American chemical society and served as editor of its Journal after 1893, as a member of the council and on important committees; was elected a member of the American institvite of mining engineers in 1881 ; a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, 1885, and vice-president of section C in 1893 and editor of the Journal of AnaJytiml Chemistry. He became president of the Baker & Adamson Chemical Co., for which company he invented a hj^drofluoric acid bot- tle, awarded the John Scott Legacy medal and premium by the Franklin institvite, a nitric acid condenser, and numerous improvements in man- ufacturing processes. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1879. He is the author of Handbook of Volumetric Analysis, Lab- oratory Exercises for Begin^iers in Chemistry, and articles in scientific journals.

HART, Emanuel Bernard, representative, was born in New York city, Oct. 27, 1809; son of Ber- nard Hart, a merchant. He prepared for Colum- bia college in the public schools, but went into business life as clerk in a shipping house in 1823 and was also supercargo in a sailing vessel. He engaged as a stock and bond broker and was a volunteer fireman, alderman of the city, 1845, 1846 and 1871; and chairman of the Tammany general committee in 1849. He was a representa- tive in the 32d congress, 1851-53, surveyor of the port of New York, 1857-62. by appointment of President Buchanan; and special treasury com- missioner in Europe to investigate undervaluation by merchants, 1860. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1868; was a presidential elector and a commissioner of emigration the same year ; was excise commissioner, 1880-83; disbursing agent at the New York custom house, 1885-89 and cashier in the sheriff's office, 1889-93. He served as president of Mt. Sinai hospital, and an officer of the internal revenue department, 1893- 97; was lieutenant-colonel in the N.Y. state mili- tia, and was a prominent director and officer in various Hebrew charitable organizations. He died in New York city, Aug. 29, 1897.

HART, James McDougall, painter, was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, May 10, 1828; brother of William Hart, painter. He was taken to the United States in 1831, settled in Albany. N.Y., attended the public schools and served an appren-

ticeship to a carriage maker. II3 first studied painting in Albany, N. Y., and later studied under Schirmer at Dusseldorf, 1851-53. He first exhib- ited at the National academy of design in 1853. He had a studio in Albany, 1853-57, and in the latter year removed to New York citj'. He was elected an associate National academician in 1858 and an acadomician in 1859, and served as vice- president of the academy, 1897-1900. He received a medal at the Centennial at Philadelphia in 1876; silver and gold medals from the Mechanics' in- stitute, Boston; and a bronze medal at Paris in 1889. His paintings include: Cattle Going Home (1871); Moonrise on the Adirondacks (1871); A Breezy Day on the Boad (1874) ; Landscape, Boad and Cattle (1875) ; A Misty 3Iorning (1876) ; In the Basture (1877) ; Indian Summer (1878) ; Brincess Lily (1882) ; Boughs for Christmas (1884) ; At the Watering Trough (1885) ; On the North Shore (1886); The Meadoio Boad; On the Bluffs, North- X>ort, L.I. ; Trout Brook in the Adirondacks ; On the Croton : View at Fannington ; Winter in the Adi- ro)idacks. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 22, 1901.

HART, James Morgan, educator, was born in Princeton, N.J., Nov. 2, 1839; only child of John Seely and Amelia Caroline (Morford) Hart; and grandson of Isaac Hart and of Edmund Mor- ford. He resided in Philadelphia, Pa., 1841-57, was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1860, and was a student at Gottin- gen, Germany, 1861-64, receiving the degree of J.U.D. in 1864. He was assistant professor of modern languages at Coi-nell university, 1868-72 ; professor of modern languages and English litera- ture at the Universitj^ of Cincinnati, 1876-90, and became professor of rhetoric and English philol- ogy at Cornell in 1890. He was elected a member of the American philosophical society, Feb. 2, 1877. He translated and edited a number of works from the French and German, and is the author of: German Universities (1874); Syllabus of Anglo-Saxon Literature (1881); Handbook of Eng- lish Composition (1895) ; and contributions to the magazines.

HART, Joel T., sculptor, was born in Clark county, Ky., in 1810. He learned the trade of mason and stone cutter, working in Lexington in a marble yard, 1830-50. In 1850 he took iip mod- elling in clay, in which he gained a reputation, and to aid him in his art he took a course in anatomy at the Lexington medical college. He went to Italy in 1849 to have executed in marble the statue of Henry Clay for the Ladies' Clay asso- ciation of Richmond. Va. The model of the statue, which he made in Lexington, was on board a vessel bound for Italy, which was shipwrecked, and he was obliged to send to America for a du- plicate of the model, and the completed work did not leave Italy for Richmond till Aug. 29, 1859.