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Moriarty. He was educated at the schools of Boston, Mass., and Newark, N.J., at the Law- rence scientitic school, Harvard, at the Univer- sity of Gottingen, and the Royal school of mines, Freiberg, Saxony. He was sent by W. H. Webb of New York city in 1859 to explore coral islands in the Pacific ocean for phosphatic deposits and included in his exploration tour of three years many of the South Sea islands rarely visited. Returning to New York he went in 1862 to Poi't Royal, S.C., in the U.S. naval service, and by ap- pointment of Admiral Dupont served as judge advocate of courts martial ia the South Atlantic squadron. He was in the copper region of Lake Superior, 1863-66, in the interest of eastern capi- talists, in the meantime being elected professor of mining in the Massachusetts institute of tech- nology, Boston, which chair he temporarily ac- cepted witliout service, but ultimately declined. He visited the West Indies and explored for phos- phatic deposits in 1866-67, and was first assistant geologist to the U.S. geological exploration of the Fortieth parallel, 1837-70. He was professional adviser in mining operations on the Pacific coast and in Mexico, and was a U.S. commissioner to the Paris exposition, 1878, where he served as an international juror on mining industries. He made his residence in New York city in 1879. directing mining enterprises in the west and con- tributing to scientific literature mainly on the subject of mining.

HAGUE, William, clergyman, was "born in Pelham, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1803; son of Capt. James and Ann (Bay ley) Hague; grandson of William Hague, a celebrated Baptist clergyman of Scar- borough, Yorkshire, England, and of Capt. Wil- liam and Sarah (Pell) Bayley; great-grandson of Josepli Pell, fourth and last lord of Pel- ham Manor, West- chester, N.Y., and a descendant of Sir John Pell (born in London, 1643; died in 1702), who came to America as second lord of Pelham Man- or. Through the Pell family he descended from a long line of English ancestry, and by the marriage of the third lord of Pel- ham Manor with Anna, daughter of the reigning chief of the West- chester Indians, he had a notable strain of native American blood. William Hague was graduated at Hamilton college in 1826; was a theological student at Princeton, N. J., 1836-37, and Newton,

Mass., 1827-29, and was graduated at the Newton theological institution in 1829. He was ordained pastor of the Second Baptist church, Utica, N.Y., Oct. 20, 1829, and served, 1829-30; was professor of Latin and Greek in Georgetown college, Ky., 1830; was pastor of the First Baptist church, Bos- ton, Mass., 1831-37; of the First Baptist church, Providence, R.I., 1837-40; of the Federal Street and the Rowe Street churches, Boston, 1840-48; at Jamaica Plain, 1848-50; at Newark, N J., 1850- 53; of the Pearl Street church, Albany, N.Y., 1853-58; of the Madison Avenue church. New York city, 1858-62; of the Charles Street church, Boston, 1862-64, and of tiie Shawmut Avenue church, Boston, 1865-69. He was jjrofessor of homiletics in the Chicago theological seminary and pastor of the University Place church, Chi- cago, 1869-70; was pastor of the I'irst Baptist church. Orange, N.J., 1870-74; travelled in Eu- rope, 1874-76, and was pastor at Wollaston Heights, Mass., 1877-87. He was a trustee of Brown university, 1837-87; of Vassar college, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1861-87, and an overseer of Columbian imi versify, Wa.shington, D.C., 1874- 87. He received the degree of D.D. from Brown in 1849 and from Harvard in 1863. He is the au- thor of: Conversational Commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew (1835); Guide to Conversation on the Gospel of John (1840); Eight Vieios of Baptism (1841); Conversational Commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles (1845); The Baptist Church Trans- planted from the Old World to the New (1846); Be- view of Drs. Fuller and Wayland on Slavery (1855); Home Life (1855); 27ie Authority and Perpetuity of the Christian Sabbath (1863); TJie Self- Witnessing Character of New Testament Christianity (1871); Christian Greatness in the Ilinister (1880); Balph Waldo Emerson (1884); and Life Notes (1888). He died in Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1887.

HAHN, Michael, governor of Louisiana, was born in Bavaria, Nov. 24, 1830. His widowed mother removed to America when he was a child, landing in New York, and after a few years there and in Texas settled in New Orleans. He was graduated at the New Orleans high school, and at the University of Louisiana LL.B. in 1851, his diploma admitting him to practice in all the courts of the state. He was elected school di- rector in 1852, serving several years, and was president of the board for a time. He advocated the candidacy of Stephen A. Douglas for jjresi- dent in 1860, and canvassed the state, 1860-61, against secession. He acted under the Confeder- ate government as a notary and when General Butler took military possession of New Orleans, he took the oath of allegiance to the United States and was elected a representative in the 37th con- gress, taking his seat in that body Feb. 17, 1863. On his return to New Orleans after March 3, 1863,