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Amerii-a, ami two of liissons served with distinc- tiou in the American Revolution. John Hay (born 1838) was graduated at Brown university. A.B.. 1858, A.M.. 18C1; studied law in Spring- field, 111., in the office of Hay c<l CuUoni and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He had won the friendship of Mr. Lincoln, who maile him assistant to Joiin C. Nicolay, his private secre- tary, in 18G1. He served in the army in 1804 as vt)lunteer aide-de-camp to Gen. David Hunter, and with Gen. Q. A. Gillmore in the department of the South with the rank of major and assist- ant adjutant-general, ISIU; and as adjutant and aide-tie camp to Presiilent Lincoln, 1864-r). In March, 1805, he was brevetted lieutenant coIo nel and colonel " for faithful and meritorious services during the war." He was mustered out of the army, April 22. 1807. He was secretary of legation at Paris, France, 1865-67; and at Madrid, Spain, 1869-70; churae iV affaires at Vienna, Austria. 1867-69; editorial writer on the New York Trihune, 1870-75; editor in-chief of the Tribune, 1881, during the absence of Whitelaw Reid in Europe; first assistant secretary of state in the Hayes administration, 1879-81; presi- dent of the luternationiil sanitary congress at Washington, 1881; and United States amba.ssador to Great Britain, 1897-98. Following Lowell, Phelps and Bayard, who had in turn been severely criticised in America because of their evident popularity at the court of St. James, Hay by his social amenities fully sustained the favor there wliich his predecessors had received. In the trA-ing business of international diplomacy in which the honor and safety of the nation he rep- resented were at stake, he did much through his tact and experience, gained at the courts of Paris, Madrid, Vienna and Washington, to quicken and strengthen the good vinderstanding already existing betsveen Great Britain and the United States, especially in the exclianges of opinion between London, Wasliington and the capitals of the continent, pending the European discussion of the expediency of intervention in the war between the United States and Spain in 1898. His appointment as secretary of state in the cabinet of President McKinley was made Aug. 13, 1898, and on the resignation of Secretary Day, Sept. 16. 1898, he accepted the office, and lie was sworn in Sept. 30, 1898, his api)ointment being confirmed by the U.S. senate. Dec. 7, 1898. Here he found full scope for his thorough diplomatic training, and his success proved him a worthy successor to Webster, Seward, Fish and Olney. In his treatment of the ques- tions arising out of the war with Spain, the paternal care of Cuba, the government of Porto Rico, the purcha.se of the Philippine Islands, the subjugation of the natives and the governing of

the new pos.sessions, the international complica- tions incident to the proposed Nicaragua canal, and the war in South Africa between Great Britain and the Boers, he met each question as itaro.se, and while preserving the cherished tra- ditions of the Republic, he paved the way for a

broader comprehension of the duties of America, now first called upon to deal with the questions of a larger nationality. He was elected a member of the American historical association. He was married in 1874 to Clara, daughter of .Vmasa Stone of Cleveland, Ohio, and their son, Adelbert Stone Hay, was appointed in December, 1899. U.S. consul to Pretoria, South African Republic, in place of Charles Macrum, recalled. Mr. Hay received the degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve college in 1894, and from Brown univer- sity in 1897. He is the author of: Pike Countij BaUails which include Jim Bludso and Little Breeches (1S71); Castilian Daijs (1871); History of the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, in collab- oration with John C. Nicolay (10 vols., 1890); Poems (1890^; Lincoln's Complete Works (edited, 3 vols., 1894); and a translation of Emilio Castelar's Dnnocracy in Europe (1874-75); besides a- large number of political speeches and pamphlets. He also pul)lished a speech on the unveiling of the bust of Sir Walter Scott in Westmin.ster Abbey (1897), and a si)eecli on Omar Kliayyam.

HAY, Lawrence Gano, educator, was born in Charlestown. Ind., Oct 7, 1823; son of Andrew Paxton and Sarah Stiles Fanny Bainbridge (Gano) Hay; grandson of Isaac Eaton and Kesia (Bain- bridge) Gano; gi'eat-grandson of the Rev. John and Sarah (Stiles) Gano, and a descendant of Fi-ancis Ganeaux, a French Huguenot, who emi- grated from Guernsey and settknl at New Rochelle, N.Y. He was graduated at ^liami uni- versity in 1847 and from the Princeton theological seminary in 1850. He was ordained by the pres- bytery of New Brunswick, May 8, 1850, and went as missionary to India and was superintendent of the ^Mi.ssouri press at AUaliabad. India, 1850-58. He was also agent for the Board of Foreign Mis- sions, 1857-58. Upon his return to the United