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land, Feb. 26, 1871. Their eldest daughter, Una, died in England in 1887, unmarried. Their daughter Rose was married to George Parsons Lathrop, and after her husband's death in 1898 devoted herself to charitable work under the direction of the Roman Catholic clmrch, whose faith she and her husband embraced in 1892. Hawthorne received a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, October, 1900. He died in Plvmonth. N.H.. May 18, 1864.

HAXTON, Milton, naval officer, was born in New York city, Oct. 5, 1826. He was educated in the public schools and at the University of the city of New York, leaving that institution in 1841 to join the U.S. navy. He was war- ranted midshipman, Oct. 19, 1841 ; was promoted passed midshipman, Aug. 10, 1847; master, Sept. 14, 1855; lieutenant, Sept. 15, 1855; lieutenant- commander, July 16, 1862; commander, Jan. 12, 1867; captain, Feb. 2, 1878, and was retired on his own application by operation of the law of Aug. 3, 1861, Sec. 21, Feb. 7, 1882. He was gradu- ated at the U.S. naval academy in 1846, having previously made a cruise to the Brazil station. He was with Perry's squadron in the Mexican war ; commanded the sloop Adams in the Pacific squadron; was in San Francisco, Cal., in 1849 when gold was discovered ; was with Commodore Perry's Pacific fleet at the time of the negotiation of the treaty of Japan with the United States; took part in the attack on the Barrier forts. Canton, China ; was in the Brooklyn navy j'ard, 1858, commanded the Xipsic on the African coast ; was with the North Atlantic blockading squad ron, 1861; was executive officer on the State of Georgia ; took part in the bombardment of Fort Macon and was with Farragut in the operations in the gulf squadron. After the close of the war he was in command of the store-ship Onward on a two years' cruise; was navigation and equip- ment officer at the Brooklyn navy yard, 1871-76 ; cruised on the Vandalia, 1876-77; commanded the Despatch sent to Constantinople in 1877 at the time of the Turkey-Russo war ; commanded the Charlestown navy yard, 1878-81; and was sta- tioned at the Brooklyn navy 3'ard, 1881-82. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 26, 1898.

HAY, Charles Augustus, theologian, was born m York, Pa., Feb. 11, 1821. He was gradu- ated at Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, in 1839, and from the Evangelical Lutheran theological seminary in the same town in 1841. He studied theology in Berlin and Halle, Germany, and trav- elled in Europe, 1841-43 ; and was pastor at Mid- dletown, Md., 1844-45, at Hanover, Pa., 1848-49, and at Harrisburg, Pa., 1850-65. He was pro- fessor of Hebrew-, German, biblical criticism and pastoral theologj" at the theological seminary, Gettysburg, Pa., 1865-68, and professor of Hebrew

there, 1868-93. He received the degree of D.D. from Pennsylvania college in 1859. He contrib- uted to the religious press; wrote the Life of Captain Lees (1867) ; and in collaboration with the Rev. Dr. H. E. Jacobs, translated from the German Schmid's Dogmatik (1875). He died in Gettysburg, Pa., June 26, 1893.

HAY, James, representative, was born in Millwood, Va., Jan. 9, 1856; son of William and Emily (Lewis) Hay; grandson of James and Eliza (Burwell) Hay, and of James Smith and Rebecca Shoemaker (Rawle) Lewns; and great-grandson of William Hay, who came to America from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1745, and landed at Nor- folk, Ya., where he married first Elizabeth Gary, daughter of Miles and niece of Archibald Cary, and secondly, Elizabeth Thompkins, cousin of his first wife. James Hay was educated at private schools in Maryland and Virginia, at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and at the Washington and Lee university, Ya., and was graduated in law from the last named institution in J une, 1877. He practised law in Harrisonburg, Va., 1877-79, and in Madison, Ya., from 1879. He was elected attorney for the commonwealth in 1883, and re-elected in 1887, 1891 and 1895. He was elected to the house of delegates of Virginia in 1885, was re-elected in 1887 and 1889, and was elected a state senator in 1893. He was a member of the Democratic state committee for four j-ears, was a member of the Democratic national convention of 1888, and was a representative from Virginia in the 55tli-58th congresses, 1897-1905.

HAY, John, statesman, was born in Salem, Ind., Oct. 8, 1838; the third son of Dr Charles and Helen (Leonard) Hay and grandson of John and Jemima (Coulter) Hay of Springfield, 111., and of David and Mary (Pierce) Leonard of Providence, R.I. His first ancestor in America,

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John Hay, was the son of a Scottish soldier, who left his native land at the beginning of the eighteenth century and served in the army of the Elector palatine of the old Germanic em- pire. This John, with his family, emigrated to