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largest in the state of Michigan. Mr. Hackley became vice-president of the Muskegon sliingle and lumber company ; president of tlie Muskegon national bank; vice-president of the Lumber- man's national bank of Muskegon; and a director of various other financial institutions. He was a member of the board of education of Muskegon and placed in the hands of the board the sum of §100,000 for the erection and maintenance of a public library and reading room in the city of Muskegon, and on the completion of the building he made an additional donation of $25,000 to furnish the building and purchase books. The institution became known as the Hackley public library and it was opened and dedicated on Oct. 16, 1890.

HACKLEY, Charles William, educator, was born in Herkimer county, X.Y., March 9, 1809. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1829, was bre vetted and promoted 2d lieu- tenant, 3d artillery, and remained there as an assistant professor from Aug. 30, 1829, to Aug. 28, 1831, and from Jan. 8, 1832, to Sept. 30, 1833, when he resigned. He was an assistant in math- ematics at the University of the city of New York, 1833-34, and professor of the same, 1834-38. He was president of Jeflferson college, Washing- ton, Miss, in 1839. Meanwhile he studied law and then theology, was admitted to orders in the P.E. church in 183o, and officiated occasion- ally till 1843. He was professor of mathematics and astronomy in Columbia coUege, 1843-47, and of astronomy, 1847-61. He was a frequent con- tributor to various periodicals and is the author of: A Treatise on Alr/ebm (1846); Elementary Course in Geometnj (1847) ; and Elements of Trig- onometry, icith Their Practical Appiicatinn to Xar- igation and Nautical Astronomy (1850). He died in New York city, Jan. 10. 1861.

HADDOCK, Charles Bricket, educator, was born in Fraiiklia, X.H., June 20, 1796; son of William and Abigail Eastman (Webster) Had- dock. His mother was a sister of Daniel Web- ster. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1816 and studied two years at Andover theological seminary. He was married in 1819 to Susan Saunders, daughter of Richard and Susan Lang of Hanover, N.H., and in 1841 to Mrs. Caroline (Kimball) Young, daughter of Richard and Mary Kimball of Lebanon, N.H. In November, 1824. he was ordained to the ministry at Windsor, Vt. He was professor of rhetoric in Dartmouth, 1819- 38; librarian of the college, 1826-51 ; and professor of intellectual philosophy and political economy, 1838-54, when he resigned. During his connec- tion with Dartmouth college he served, 1844-46, as a representative in the New Hampshire legis- lature, where he interested himself in the public school system and secured the adoption of a

modernized school system. He was appointed state commissioner of conunon schools and alsp originated the railroad system of New Hamp- shire. He was appointed charge d'affaires at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1850, by President Fillmore, and returned to the United States in 1856, after which he resided in West Lebanon, N.H., occa- sionally supplying the pulpits of neighboring churches until his death. Bowdoin gave him the honorary degree of D.D. ui 1843. He was for several years secretary of the New Hampshire education society, to which he contributed valuable reports. He also published a volume oi addresses, essays and occasional sermons (1846j. He died in West Lebanon, X IL, Jan. 15, 1861.

HADLEY, Arthur Twining, educator, wa? born at New Haven, Conn., April 23, 1856; son of Prof. James and Annie (Twining) Hadley: and grandson of Dr. James and "Maria (Hamilton; Hadley. He was prepared for college at the Hopkins grammar school and was graduated at Yale with the highest honors in 1876. He /^^"""TTT^iv

studied history and '

political science at Yale, 1876-77; at the

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1878-79 ; was tutor at Yale, 1879-83 ; uni- versity lecturer on railroad administra- tion, 1883-86 : and professor of political science, 1886-91, and of political economy, 1891-99. On May 25, 1899, he was elected president of Yale university to succeed Timothy Dwight, re- signed. He was the thirteenth president, the first laj^man to hold the position, and the yoimgest man so elected. He was commission^er of labor statistics in Connecticut, 1885-87 ; associate edi- tor of the New York Bailroad Gazette, 1887-89. having charge of the foreign railroad depart- ment ; and a frequent contributor on railroad economics and allied topics to the popular and scientific magazines. He was president of the American economic association in 1899 and 1900, and a member of the International institute of statistics, of the American historical association, and of the American academy of arts and sciences. He was married. June 30, 1891, to Helen' Harrison Morris, a Vassar graduate, and daughter of Gov. Luzon B. Morris of New Haven, Conn. In 1900 he made an extended tovir of the United States, meeting in the various cities visited the alumn? of Yale and paving the way for a liberal en- dowment fund for the university. Yale con-

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