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and made assistant adjutant-general in December, 1863, and was assigned to duty as assistant com- missioner of exchange under the cartel of March, 1863, which position he held until the close of the war. He was a Democratic representative from the 1st and 13th districts of Missouri in the 46tli- 53d congresses, 1879-95. He was identified with all legislation in the interest of agriculture; was the author of the pleuro- pneumonia bill; of the bill establishing agricultural experiment stations; of the oleomargarine law, and the law making the head of the department of agriculture a cabinet officer, as well as many minor laws of value to the agriculturist. He was married in 1855 to Jennie T. Smith of Boyle count}', Ky., and in 1861 to Thetis Clay Hawkins of Marion county. Mo. He died at his home farm, " Straw- berry Hill," Hannibal, Mo., Dec. 33, 1896.

HATCHER, Robert A., representative, was born in Buckingham county, Va., Feb. 34, 1819; son of Archibald Hatcher, a merchant of Lynch- burg, Va.; and grandson of the Rev. Jeremiah Hatcher, a Baptist clergyman. He was educated at the schools of Lynchburg, studied law and was admitted to practice in Kentucky, his father having settled in Lafayette, Ind. After prac- tising in tke courts of Kentucky, 1840-47, he removed to New Madrid, Mo., where he was for six years circuit attorney of the 10th judicial district. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army as captain and served on the staff of Maj.-Gen. Leonidas Polk; as aide-de-camp to Gen. A. P. Stewart, and as major and assistant adjutant- general on his staff. He was a member of tiie Missouri state convention of 1863 and a represent- ative in the 3d Confederate congress, 1863-65. He was a representative in the 43d, 44th and 45th U.S. congresses, 1873-79. He died in Charleston, Mo., Dec. 18, 1886.

HATFIELD, Edwin Francis, clergyman, was born in Elizabethtown, N.J., Jan. 9, i807. He w^as graduated from Middlebury college in 1839, studied two years at Andover theological semi- nary, and was ordained to the Presbyterian min- istry. May 14, 1833. He was pastor of the Second church, St. Louis, Mo., 1833-35; of the Seventh church. New York city, 1835-56; and of the North Presbyterian church. New York city, 1856- 63. He engaged in literary work, 1866-68, and was secretary of the Presbyterian home mission committee, 1868-70. He was connected with Union theological seminary as a director, 1846-83, was recorder of the board of directors, 1864-74, and financial agent of the seminary, 1864-65, and 1870-73. Upon his death he left his library of about 6000 volumes to that institution. He was stated clerk of the Presbyterian general assembly from 1846 and in 1883 w^as chosen moderator. Marietta college conferred on him the degree of

D.D. in 1850. He is the author of: Universalism as it Is (1841); Memoir of Elihu W. Baldwin (1843); St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope (1852); History of Elizabeth, N.J. (1868); The New Yorlc Observer Year- Book (1871-73); and Poets of the Church, edited by his son, J. B. Taylor Hatfield (1884). He died in Summit, N.J., Sept. 22, 1883. HATFIELD, James Taft, educator, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 15, 1863; son of the Rev. Robert Miller and Elizabeth Ann (Taft) Hatfield; grandson of Elisha and Elizabeth (Miller) Hat- field, and of Jonathan and Rebecca Ann (Horton) Taft; and a descendant of Thomas Hatfield, who settled in Westches- ter county, N.Y., about 1665; and of Robert Taft w^ho set- tled in Uxbridge, Mass., in 1680. He was graduated from Northwestern univer- sity, Evanston, 111., in 1883; studied Sans- krit at Canning col- lege, Lucknow, India, in 1884; was a pro- fessor of classic lan- guages at Rust uni- versity. Holly Springs, Miss., 1884-85; prin- cipal of McCormick school, De Funiak, Fla., in 1886; a graduate student and fellow of Johns Hopkins university, 1887-90. receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1890; and in 1890 became professor of the German language and literature at North- western university, Evanston, 111. From June, 1896, to August, 1897, he studied at Berlin. Weimar, Giessen, Tubingen, and Oxford; June to August, 1898, served in Spanish-American war as captain of a 5-inch gim on the U.S. cruiser Yale, entering as ordinary seaman and discharged as chief yeoman. He was appointed in August, 1898, one of an international committee of one hundred, being one of three Americans chosen, to arrange for the erection of a monument to Goethe in Strassburg. He was elected a member of the American oriental society, of the Ameri- can society for the extension of university teach- ing, of the auxiliary covmcil of the World's Columbian exposition (1893), and secretary of the pedagogical section of the Modern Language asso- ciation of America. He was appointed one of the editors of Americana Germanica, published at the University of Pennsylvania. He published: The Elements of Sanskrit Grammar (1884); An In- dex to Gothic Forms in Kluge's Etymological Diction- ary (1889); A Study of Juvencus (1890); On the Numbering of the Atharvan Paricistas (1889); The Aucanasadbhutani (1891); The Poetry of Wilhelm