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HARWOOD, Andrew Allen, naval officer,

was boru iii Settle, Pa., iu 1802; son of John Edmund and Elizabeth Franklin (Bache) Har- wood. His father was an actor and theatrical manager, also something of a poet ; and his mother was a granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin. The son was appointed a midshipman in the U.S. navy, Jan. 1, 1818; was promoted lieutenant, March 3, 1827 ; commander, Oct. 2, 1848 ; captain, Sept. 14, 1855; and commodore, July 16, 1863. He was attached to the sloop-of-war Hornet, in the suppression of the African slave trade and piracy in the West Indies, 1819-21 ; on board the Sea fiull under Commodove Porter, 1823; served on the receiving ship PhiladeJphia ; and was detached as special messenger to bring to the United States the ratified treaty with Naples. Heserved in the Mediterranean squadron, 1835-37; was assistant inspector of ordnance, 1843-52 ; and a member of a commission to inspect dock-yards and foundries in Great Britain and France in 1844. In 1851-52 he was member of a board of inves- tigations and experiments to prepare ord- nance instruc- tions for the navj' ; was in command of the Cumherland, of the Mediter- ranean squad - U.S. SLOOP CUMBERLAND. j.^j^ 1853-55;

was inspector of ordnance, 1858-61 ; was com- missioned chief of the bureau of ordnance and hydrography Aug. 6, 1861 ; and in July, 1862, was appointed commandant of the Washington navy- yard and of the Potomac flotilla. In 1864 he was retired but served as secretary of the lighthouse board and on the examining board until Feb. 16, 1869, when he was made rear-admiral on the re- tired list. He published Summary Courts-Martial; and Law and Practice of U.S. Xavy Courts-Martial (1867). He died iu Marion. Mass., Aug. 28, 1884. HASBROUCK, Abraham Bruyn, educator, was born in Kingston, N.Y., Nov. 29, 1791; son of Jonathan and Catharine (Wynkoop) Has- brouck, grandson of Abraham Hasbrouck of Kingston, N.Y., who served as colonel of the 1st regiment Ulster county, N.Y., militia in the Revolutionary war; and great^ grandson of Abraham Hasbroucq, one of the patentees of New Paltz in 1677. He was graduated from Yale in 1810; studied law with Elisha Williams, Hudson, N.Y., and at the school of Judge Reeve, Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to practice in 1813, settling in his native town. He was a representative in the 19th congress, 1825-27, and while in Washington became friendly with

Edward Everett. He was president of Rutgers college, 1840-50, and not only contributed to the prosperity of that institution but also did much

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to beautify the grounds and buildings, one of his acts being the planting of the trees on the campus. Upon resigning the presidency of Rut- gers he returned to his law practice in Kingston and subsequently became president of the Kings- ton bank. He was vice-president of the Ameri- can Bible society in 1851 and founder andpresident of the Ulster County historical society in 1856. He received his A.M. degree from Yale in 1819 and the honorary degree of LL.D. from Columbia in 1840 and from Union in 1841. He died in Kingston. N.Y., Feb. 23. 1879.

HASBROUCK, Henry Cornelius, soldier, was born in Newburgh, N.Y., Oct. 26, 1839; son of William Cornelius and Mary Elizabeth (Roe) Hasbrouck ; grandson of Cornelius Benjamin and Jane (Kelso) Hasbrouck, and of William and Maria (Hazard) Roe; and a descendant of Abra- ham Hasbroucq, a Huguenot, who was born near Calais, France; arrived at Boston, Mass., 1675; sailed thence to New Y'ork and thence to Esopus, Ulster count}', N.Y., at which place he arrived in July, 1675. In 1677 Abraham Hasbroucq and eleven other Huguenots obtained from Governor Andros of New York a patent to land near Esopus which the Patentees called New Paltz. He settled there in 1678 and lived there until his death March 17, 1717. Henry Cornelius Hasbrouck was grad- uated from the U.S. military academy in 1861. He was commissioned 2d lieutenant and assigned to the 4th artillery, May 6, 1861 ; was promoted 1st lieutenant, 4th artillery, May 14, 1861; captain, 4th artillery, July 26, 1866; major, 4th artillery, March 5, 1887; lieutenant-colonel, 4th artillery Oct. 29, 1896; and colonel, 7th artillery, March 13, 1899. He served throughout the civil war and was in active service against the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Indians in western Kansas in 1870; against the Modoc Indians in California and Oregon in 1873; against the Nez Perce Indi- ans in Idaho in 1877; against the Bannock Indians in Nevada in 1878; was commandant of cadets at