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a member of the state legislature. He was grad- uated from Harvard law school in lb67, was ad- mitted to the Boston bar in the .same year and practised law until June, 1868, when he was ap- pointed first associate justice of the supreme court of the Hawaiian islands. In 1874 he was elected attorney-general, and in 1899 the unofficial terri- torial delegate from Hawaii to the 56th congress. HARTWICK, John Christopher, pioneer mis- sionary, was born in Saxe, Germany, Jan. 6, 1714. He was a missionary among the Jews in 1739 and is supposed to have been educated at Halle. The Lutheran synod sent him to Amer- ica in 1745 to take charge of churches among the Palatinate Germans who had settled on the Hud- son river and he was ordained Nov. 24, 1745. In the spring of 1746 he took charge of the congre- gation of St. Peter's church at Rhinebeck, Duchess county, N.Y., where he was pastor, 1746-58. He attended the first Lutheran .synod held in America at Philadelphia in 1748. He declined pastorates in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New York, Massachusetts and Maine, but appears to have preached periodically in these states, 1758-96. He was chaplain in the American army during the Revolution, and being in New York in 1783 when the British evacuated that city he prevailed upon the Dutch Lutherans not to follow their royalist pastor Hansilil to Nova Scotia. He pur- chased a large tract of land from the Mohawk Indians, between Schoharie and Cherry Valle}', described as " nine miles in length and four miles in breadth " which he failed to have patented by royal consent through the governor of New York. He then purchased a second Indian deed to an- other tract on the west side of the Susquehanna, six miles square, and had the purcha.se duly recorded. This purchase was made May 25, 1754, and on Sept. 15, 1797, the executors of his will met in New York city and arranged to establish the college and theological seminary. The income

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from the estate was used to instruct young men in theology privately, until 1815 when the Hart- wick seminary was opened and expanded into

an educational institution of considerable note, located at Hai'twick, in Otsego county, N. Y. Dr. Hartwick died at the home of J. R. Livingston in Livingston Manor, Clermont. N.Y., July 17, 1796.

HART20Q, Henry Simms, educator, was born in Barnwell county, S.C, July 17, 1860; son of Samuel J. and Mary E. (Owens) Hartzog ; grandson of Henry Hartzog, and great-grandson of James Overstreet of King Creek, S.C; repre- sentative in the 16th and 17th congre,sses, 1819-22. He attended the public schools and in a comijeti- tive examination was awarded a state beneficiary- ship in the South Carolina militarj- academy in 1882 and was graduated from there in 1886 and from the Southern Baptist theological seminary, Louisville, Ky., in 1892. He was superintendent of the Johnston institute, 1895-97, and was elected president of the Clemson agricultural college in 1897. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Mercer university in 1899.

HARVARD, John, clergyman, was born in High street, Southwalk, London, England, in November, 1607; son of Robert and Katherine (Rogei-s) Harvard. His father was a well-to-do butcher and John was entered at Emmanuel college, University of Cambridge, in 1627, received the degree A.B. in 1631 and A.M. in 1635 and was ordained as a dissenting minister. He was married in 1637, to Ann, daughter of the Rev. John Sadler, a clergyman of Sussex and emi- grated to Massachusetts colony where he settled Aug. 1, 1637, and was made a freeman and awarded a grant of land, Nov. 2, 1637. He per- formed the duties of minister to what afterward became known as the First Parish church, Charles town, being its third pastor. In April, 1638, he was chosen one of a committee to " consider of some things tending toward a body of laws." At his death he left a bequest of " the one moiety or halfe parte of his estate, the said moiety amounting to tlie sum of seven hundred seventy- nine pounds, seven- teene shillings and two pence,*' for the I'rection of a pro- l)osed school at Cambridge. He also left his library of ., /""". Y

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held at Boston, '^ ' March 13, 1639, it

was ordered " that the colledge agreed upon for- merly to bee built at Cambridg shalbee called Harvard colledge " in honor of its first donor.

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