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HAWTHORNE

at Riclimond till October, 1865, when he returned to Connecticut. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers and mustered out of the service, Jan. 15, 1800. He was elected governor of Con- necticut in 1860 and was ilefeated for re-election in 1867. He consolidateil the Press with the Conrant and edited the L'ouraitt in the interest of the Repulilican party. He was president of the Republican national convention of 1808; secretary of the committee on resolutions in 1872; and chairman of the committee on resolutions in 1876. He was a representative in the 42d con- gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Julius L. Strong and was re-elected to the 43d congress, serving 1872-75. He was defeated as a candidate for representative in the 44tli and 45th congresses, but was elected to the 46th congress, serving 1879-81. He was president of the U.S. centennial commission, 1873-77, and gave tw^o years' service in promoting the exposition at Philadelphia, 1875-76. He was elected a U.S. senator in 1881 by a unanimous vote of his party and was re-elected in 1887, 1893 and 1899. In the senate he was chairman of the committee on militarj' affairs and a member of the commit- tees on coast defences, iuteroceanic canals, coast and insular survey railroads, and the select com- mittee on indu-strial e.xpositions. In the Repub- lican national convention of 1884 'he was a candi- date for the nomination for President of the United States and received tiie unanimous vote of the delegates from Connecticut on every ballot. He was elected a member of the American histor- ical society and of other learned societies. He became a trustee of Hamilton college in 1876, and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Hamilton in 1876, from Yale in 1886 and from Trinity in 1894. He is the author of The Brittle of Olnstee in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (1884-88).

HAWLEY, Willis Chatman, educator, was born iitMi- Monroe, Ore., -May 5, 1864; son of Sewel liansom and Emma Amelia (Noble) Haw- ley; grandson of Cliatman and Keturah (Belknap) Hawley, and a descendant of Jonas Belknap, who served in the war of the American Revolution from Bunker Hill to the close of the war. He was graduated from Williamette university, Oregon, in 1884, and took a post-graduate course in 1887. He was principal of Umptjua academy, Wilbur, Ore., 1884-86: of the Oregon state normal school at Drain, 18,88-91; professor of mathematics at Williamette university, 1891-9.'}, and Itecame pres- ident and professor of American lnst(»ry and economics there, 1893. He was admitted to the bar in 1894; was head manager of the Pacific jurisdiction of Woodmen of the World, 1896-1900; and a lecturer on American hi.story, political topics and the Nir-aragua canal. He received the degrees

of LL.B. and A.B. in 1888 and A.M. in 1891, from Williamette university. He was married to Anna M., daughter of John Geisendorfer of All)any, Ore., a native of Bavaria.

HA WORTH, Joseph, actor, was born in Provi- denci'. IM.. Ajiiil 7. 1S55; .son of Benjamin and Martha Haworlli, hutli born in Lancashire. Eng- land; and grandson of John O'Leary of Dublin, Ireland, and of Martha Mofiit of France. He removed with his parents to Cleveland, Ohio, in infancy and was educated in the public schools of that city. He entered a newspaper office, where he remained until 1873, when he attracted the attention of Charlotte Crampton, leading American tragedienne at the Academy of Music stock company, Cleveland. She gave him a chance to play Buckingham to her Richard HI., and he was tlien engaged bj- Jolui Ellsler to play utility parts at the Academy of music, where he received instruction in a great variety of classic roles. He played a short engagement at Daly's Fifth Avenue theatre, and at the Eagle theatre in support of Anna Dickinson and in 1878 returned to the Euclid oi)era liouse. He was a member of the Boston Museum stock companj-, 1879-81; played Romeo with Mary Anderson in 1881; sup- ported Edwin Booth as Laertes and Cassio, and also played with Laurence Barrett. He was leading man to John McCullough, playing with him in lago, Cassius and other classic roles. He took the principal roles in "Robert Emmet," " Hoodman Blind," "Paul Kauvar," " The Mer- chant of Venice,"' and "The Crust of Society,'' and starred in " Rosedale," " Hamlet," " Riche- lieu," "The Bells," "Richard IIL," " Ruy Bias," " The Leavenworth Case," and " St. Marc." He was leading man with Modjeska, 1894-97; played two nights with Margaret Mather as Romeo and Claude ]Melnotte, and was at the head of his own company from 1893-94. He created Rafael in " Children of the Ghetto," August, 1899, and Vinicius in " Quo Vadis " at McVicker's theatre. Ciiicago. Dec. 12, 1899; and appeared as Jolin Storm in '• The Cliristiau '"in New York city, 1899. He died in Willougliby. Ohio, Aug. 28, 1903.

HAWTHORNE, Julian, author, was born in Boston, Ma.'^s. , .June 22, 1846; only son of Nathan- iel and Sopliia (Peabody) Hawthorne; and grand- son of Capt. Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Manning) Hathorne of Salem. Mass. He was in Eurojie with his parents. 1853-60; and pre|iared for college at Frank Sanborn's school. Concord, Mass., 1860- 63. He matriculated at Harvard in 1863, and was connected with the college four years but did not take his degree; he was better known in athletics than in the clas.sroom. He took a year's course in engineering in the Lawrence scientific school, 1868, and in the same year went to Dresden, Sax- ony, where he continued his engineering studies.