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 HADLKY

HAGEN

ferred upon liiin tlie degree of A.M. in Ins? ; and lie receivetl from Harvaitl and We^leyan the lionoraiy dfgiee of LI.. D. in 1S99. He publislied Biiilroail Tratisportation : Its History avd Its Iaiu-s (1SS5): litjiort ou the I.alior Qiwstioii {\ii^ii); Report on the Sijsteni of M'eekli/ Poijinents (1886); Tlie Ediieationofthe Americdn Citizen (IQO'2} ; and nmtriliuted to the ninth edition of the Eney- clojKv.h'ii Rritatiuiea articles on railroads, and to L;»lor's ( 'yelojHVilid of Politieal Seieiice a series of articles on transportation. In ISlC.) lie a(*cei)ted the .\ineric-an editorship of the sui)plenient to the Eiteyeloj iwdia Brita n n iea.

HADLEY, Henry Hamilton, educator, was born in Fairfield, X.Y.. July 19, 182C; son of James and Maria (Hamilton) Hadley, and grand- son of Capt. George Hadley of "\Veare, X.H. He was gra luated from Yale in 1847. He studied theology at Antlover, and afterward at New Haven, and in 1858 was appointed instructor in sacre 1 literature at Union tlieological seminary, being advanced to the chair of Hebrew in 1862. He was profe.ssor of Hebrew at Yale in 1861. In 1884 he volunteered to join the U.S. sanitary commission and was sent to City Point, Va., wliere he was taken ill with a fever. He died in W.isliington. D.C., Aug. 1, 1864.

HADLEY, James, educator, was born at Fair- fiell, Herkimer county, N.Y., March 30,1821; son of Dr. James and Maria (Hamilton) Hadlej', and grandson of Capt. George Hadley of Weare, N.H. His father was graduated from Dartmouth in 1809; was professor of chemistry in the Col- lege of physicians and surgeons at Fairfield, 1813- 36, and at the General medical college, 1840-69, and died in 18139. The son was prepared for col- lege by the principal of Fairfield academy, and was graduated at Yale in 1842. He remained in the college as a graduate student one year, at- tended the theological seminary two j^ears, and vrzz tutor at Yale, 1845-48. He was assistant pro- fessor ^f Greek language and literature, 1848-51, and in the latter year succeeded the Rev. Dr. Theo- dore Dwight \V(Xjl.sey to the full chair. He was appijintel a meinl>er of the American committee for the revLsion of the New Testament. He was one of the original niemlxjrs of the American oriental society, a member of the National acad- emy of sciences and of the American philological society. He received the degree of LL.D. from Wesleyan university in 1866. Among his works are: A Gripk Grnmmnr for Schools and CoJUfjes (1860) ; A Briff History of the EnrjJixh Lnnyuarje (186 1); Elnnmts of the Grpek Lnnfjnane (1869); and two posthumous works: Tirplre Lertitres on Itomnn lAi>r. edited by President Theodore D. AVool.sey (1873). and twenty Phdolor/iral and Criti- cal Essays, edited by William D. Whitney (1873). He rlied in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 14. 1872.

HADLEY, William Flavius Leicester, repre- .sentative. was born near CoUinsville, III.. June 15, 1847; son of Willianiand Diadama (McKinney) Hadley, and grandson of John and Priscilla (Guthrie) Hadley. He was graduated from Mc- Kendree college, A.B., 1867, and from the Uni- versity of Michigan, LL.B., 1871, and practised law in Edwa/dsville, 111. In 1874 he formed a law partnership with Judge W. H. Krome, which continued until 1890. In 1886 he was elected as a Republican to the state senate and was renomi- nated for a second term, but declined to stand. He was a delegate-at-large from Illinois to the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1888; was a representative in the 54th congress, 1895-97, and in 1896 was defeated for the 55th congress by his Fusion op])onent.

HAGAR, George Jotham, editor, was born in Newark, N.J., Sept. 12, 1847; .son of Jotham Meeker and Harriet Denman (Ross) Hagar; grandson of Jesse Hagar and of Samuel Ross, and a descendant of Annetje Jansen, born in Holland, and of John Ross a native of Scotland. He at- tended the public schools and became a stenog- rapher. He was in the U.S. hospital service and the auxiliary field relief corps of the U.S. sanitary commission during the civil war, 1861- 65; was news editor for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Xeicspaper, 1867-82, and contributed to various cyclopaedias after 1882. He collected a library- of reference books and a collection of clippings cov- ering the periods from 1867 to 1900 and including over 500,000 subjects. He was one of the revisers of the Columbian, of Johnson's and of the Inter- national cyclopaedias. He compiled (with B. J. Lossing) Our Great Continent (1886); and alone the greater part of The History of the United States in Chronological Order (1886). He edited What the World Belieres (1886); The Columbian Annual for 1892 and the Appendix to the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1898); wrote the American obituaries in the successive annual cyclopaedias supplemental to Appleton's American Cyclopccdia from 1886, also compiled for the same work the department of Gifts and Bequests from 1*^93; and revised the American Supplement to the Encyelopa'dia Britannica (ISO!)).

HAGEN, Hermann August, entomologist, was born in Kiinigsberg, Prussia, 3Iay 30, 1817. He was graduated from the gymnasimn of his na- tive town in 1836, and from the medical depart- ment of the Universit}' of Kcinigsberg in 1840. Suljsequently he studied at other European uni- versities, making a specialty of entomology. In 1843 he took up his residence in Konigsberg, where he practised his profession, acted as first assistunt at the surgical hospital for several years, and was vice-president of the city council and a member of the school board, 1863-67. In 1867 he