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 HASTINGS

HATCH

Melodies Harmonized (1845) ; The New York Choral- ist (with William B. Bradbury, 1847); The Men- delssohn Collection (with William B. Bradbury, 1849) ; Devotional Hymns and Poems (1850) ; llie Psalmista (with William B. Bradbmy, 1851) ; The Presbyterian Psalmodist (1853); Tlie History of Forty Choirs (1858) ; A'eZa/i ( 1856) ; Hastings's Church 3lHsic (]860); and Introits (1865). He died in New York city, May 15, 1873.

HASTINGS, Thomas Samuel, educator, was born in Utica, N.Y., Aug. 2^, 1837; son of Dr. Thomas and Mary (Seymour) Hastings. He was graduated from Hamilton college, A.B., 1848, A.M., 1851, and froni the Union theological sem- inary in 1851. He was married in July, 1853, to ITanny De Groot of Brooklyn, N.Y. He was i-esi- ■dent licentiate, 1851-53 ; was ordained by the 4th N.Y. presbytery, July 7, 1852, and was pastor at Mendham, N.J., 1853-56, and New York city, 1856- 83. He served on the board of directors of the Union theological seminary, 1864-81 ; was made professor of sacred rhetoric in 1883, and was pres- ident of the faculty, 1887-97. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of the city of New York in 1865, that of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1888 and that of L.H.D. from Hamilton in 1897. He assisted his father in preparing Church Melodies (1857), and ijublished numerous essays and addresses.

HASWELL, Charles Haynes, engineer, was born in New York city, May 23, 1809, of English parents. He was educate 1 at the high school, Jamaica, L.I., and took a classical course in New York city. He was a student and workman in Allaire's steam engine works, 1825-36; chief ■engineer in the U.S. navy, 1836-45; engineer- in-chief of the newly organized corps, 1845-51, and senior-chief-engineer in 1851-65. He was a member of the board that designed four U.S. «team frigates, the Powhatan being one. He con- structed a steam launch in 1837, the first prac- ticable launch ever built, and introduced the use of zinc in marine steam boilers and in the holds of iron vessels to exhaust the galvanic effect of salt water, thus preventing its action on the iron. In 1862 he was chief engineer of the Burnside expedition and he commanded a steamboat at the bombardment of Roanoke Island. He was chief engineer of the state quarantine commission and designed and directed the construction of Hoffman Island hospital buildings. He also de- signed and constructed the crib bulkhead at Hart's Island. He was a trustee of the New York and Brooklyn bridge, 1877-78, and was elected to a membership in all the engineering societies in the United States and the chief ones in Europe. He published: Mechanics and Engineers' Pocket-Book (1843, 63d ed., 1898) ; Mechanics Table {im&); Book- keeping (1871) ; Beminiscences of an Octogenarian

of the City of New York (1816-1860) (1896), and History of the Steam Boiler and Its Append- ages (MS.).

HATCH, Abram, Mormon bishop, was born at Lincoln, Vt., Jan. 3, 1830; son of Hezekiah and Aldura (Sumner) Hatch; grandson of Capt. Jeremiah Hatch, who served under Washington in the Continental army, and of John Sumner; and a great-grandson of Nathaniel Hatch of Connecticut, whose ancestors were among the early colonists to emigrate from England. He was educated in the district schools of Lincoln and Bristol, Vt., and in 1840 accompanied his father, who had joined the Mormon church, to Nauvoo, 111. His father died in 1841, and from that time until 1847 Abram was eir ployed in various ways at Greencastle and Pittsburg, Pa. He then joined his brother Jeremiah at Sugar Creek, Iowa, and proceeded to Florence. Iowa, then the headquarters of the Mormon church. He foimd employment on boats plying the Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas and Mississippi rivers and at St. Joseijh, Mo., and earned money suffi- cient to purchase a home and outfit in the valley of Great Salt Lake, Utah. He reached that place with his brother and sisters on Sept. 15, 1850. He was a Mormon missionary to Europe, 1864-67, and in August of the latter year, was appointed bishop by President Young, to preside over the Wasatch countJ^ state of Zion, and made his home at Heber City from that year. In addition to his duties as bishop he conducted a co-operative store in Heber City ; was county probate judge for six years, and a member of the Utah state legislature for twenty years, serving as chairman of the judiciary committee of that body for two sessions. He introduced the meas- ure of giving the elective franchise to women, and also that of setting apart a portion of the pub- lic revenue for the benefit of the public schools, and distinguished himself in recommending other reforms. He was married in December, 1852, to Pennelia Jane Lott of Lehi Citj', who died in 1880; and in April, 1882, to Ruth, daughter of Bishop Edwin D. Wooley of Salt Lake Citj'.

HATCH, Edward, soldier, was born in Bangor, Maine, Dec. 22, 1832. He was educated at the Norwich, Vt., military academy, was with the first troops organized to defend the National capital in the spring of 1861, and was on duty in the Wliite House. He was sent to Davenport, Iowa, to take charge of a camp of instruction- and while there was commissioned captain in the 3d Iowa cavalry, August 12, major, Septem- ber 5, and lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 11, 1861. He led the regiment at New Madrid, Island No. 10, Corinth, Booneville and luka, and was promoted colonel of volunteers, June 13, 1862. He com- manded the 2d Iowa cavalry in Grant's western