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artist. On his return he eutereil the Union service as surgeon. April 4, lyO"^,;nul serveil as brigaile surgeon. He built the U.S. army hospital at West Philadelpliia to accouunodate 4000 patients and was its commanding surgeon with the rank of major receiving the br«vet of lieutenant-colonel in 18C5. He resigned his commission in the vol- unteer army July 3, 1865, and made his home in New York city where he was a member of the state assembly, 1870-80, and served on important committees, being chairman of those on canals, cities and expeditions. For liis explorations he received numerous gold medals and decorations from societies an<l rulers. He lectured extensively, and published: ^l;i Arctic Boat Journey (1860, }iew ed., 1897); Ttie Open Polar Sea (1867); Cast Aicay in the Cold (1868); and The Land of Desolation (1871). He died in New Y'ork city, Dec. 17, 1881. HAYES, John Lord, naturalist, was born in South Berwirk, Maine, April 13, 1812. He was graduated at Dartmouth, A.B., 1831, and A.M., 1834. He studied law at Har\-ard, was admitted to the bar in 1835, and practised his profession in Portsmouth, N.H., serving as clerk of the U.S. district court for New Hampshire. He organized the Katahdin iron works, was council for the Cana- dian government at Washington, D.C., in 1846, in the reciprocity treaty, 1851, organized and was secretary of the Mexican, Rio Grande & Pacific railway company; and in 1854 obtained a charter from the Mexican goverment authorizing the building of a railroad across that country. He was chief clerk in the U.S. patent office, 1861-65; and secretary of the National association of wool man- ufactures, 1865-87. He collected and mounted a complete cabinet of birds, made a large herbarium and was a student of geology. He presented before the American association of geologists and naturalists a paper on glaciers in 1843, regarded as the mo.st important contribution to the his- tory of glacial plienomena in relation to geol- og}' then advanced. He was elected a member of the Boston so- ciety of Natural history in 1845, and held mem- ber.sliips in

various other scientific asso- = ciations in Eu- ^ — ^— rope and the

8oSTo/>.so<rcTYof/«Ti;RALHisT6Fcr United States. He received the degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1878. He puljlished: licjiort on Xorth American Indians; Iron Jlines of A'r^ra Scotia; Jackson's Vin- dication as the Discoverer of Anaesthetics; Sketch of Maryland Geology; The Hudson Bay Question; The Protection Question Abroad and at Home; Sheep Industry in the South; Xotes Upon Indifjo (1873);

Corolla Ilymnornm Sacrorum, a selection of Latint hymns translated and edited (1887); and numer- ous pami)hlets, jjolitical, industrial and scientific. He died in Cambridge, Ma.ss., April 18, 1887.

HAYES, Joseph, soldier, was born m South Berwick, Maine, Sept. 14, 1835; son of William Allen and Susan (Lord) Hayes; grandson of David and Lucy (Allen) Hayes, and of John and Mehit- abel (Perkins) Lord, and a descendant of John Hayes who settled in Dover, N.H., in 1680. He entered Harvard college with the class of 1855 and received his A.B. degree in 1862. He was a civil and mining engineer and an early volunteer in the Union service in the civil war. He helped to recruit the 18th Massachusetts volunteers and was commissioned major of the regiment. July 26, 1861; lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 25, 1862, ccloneL Nov. 30, 1862, and brigadier-general. May 12, 1864. He was taken prisoner and confined in Libby prison, Richmond, Va., for six months. In Jan- uary, 1805, he was appointed U.S. commissioner of supplies for the southern states while a pris- oner of war, Richmond, Va., for six months. He rejoined the army, April 2, 1865, and commanded the advance brigade, army of the Potomac, at thfr Appomattox surrender, April 9, 1865. At the close of hostilities he was brevetted ma joi'-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, and was mustered out of the service, Aug. 24, 1865. at his own re- quest, having been offered by the war department, the commission as field officer in the regular army. He then went to South America where he intro- duced the hydraulic system in the mines of Colom- bia. On his return he engaged in business in New- Y'ork city as a broker and as president of a coal company.

HAYES, Lucy Ware Webb, wife of Ruther- ford B. Hayes, nineteentli President of the United States, was born in Chillicothe, Oliio, Aug. 28. 1831; daughter of Dr. James and Maria (Cook> Webb. Her father, a prominent physician of Chil- licothe, was a native of North Carolina where with his father he owned a number of slaves whom they liberated and sent to Liberia in 1833. Her mother was a daughter of Judge Isaac Cook of Connecticut. She was graduated at Wes- leyan female college, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1852, and was married to Rutherford B. Hajes, Dei'. 30, 1852. When her husband was in the L^nion army in West Virginia, she was with him in camp in the care of the sick and wounded. As wife of the governor of Ohio, of a U.S. repre- sentative in congress at Wasliington, and as mis- tress of the White House, she entertained with mucli grace, and her success as hostess was marked by the fact that she would not allow wine to be served at the table even on state occasions. This, while it caused some adverse comment, was applauded by advocates of temperance, and ibe^