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periodicals. He was married in 1835 to Mary A. Hugh of Bainbridge, Pa. In 1836 he was an as- sistant on the state geological survey of New Jersey, and occupied a similar position on the Pennsylvania survej', 1837-42. He was elected professor of zoology in the Franklin institute of Philadelphia in 1841 ; became chemist and zoolo- gist of the Pennsylvania agricultural society in 1852, and was professor of natural history in Dela- ware college, 1851-55. He was professor of geol- ogj' and chemistry in the Agricultural college of Pennsylvania, 1855-69, and professor of compara- tive philology in the University of Pennsjdvania, 1869-80. He was founder and president of the Philological society; a member of the National academy of sciences; editor of the Pennsylvania Farmer's Journal, 1851-52, and a member of the American philosophical society and the Boston society of natural history. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1876. In 1860 he was awarded tlie prize offered by Sir Walter Trevelyan of England for his " Analj'tical Orthography," sixteen prominent European philologists having competed. The essay contains specimens of about seventy lan- guages and dialects. He is the author of about thirty works on philologj' and about 120 on nat- ural science, chiefly zoology, entomology and geology. Among the more notable are: Mono- graph of the Fresh-Water Univalve MoUusca of the United States (1840-451 ; Zoological Contributions (1842-43) ; Elements of Latin Pronunciation (1851) ; Tours of a Chess Knight (1864); Affixes in Their Origin and Application (1865); Rhymes of the PoeCs (1868); Pennsylvania Dutch (1872); Outlines of Etymology (1877) ; and Word Building (1881). He died at Chickies, Pa., Sept. 10, 1880.

HALE, Albert Cable, educator and chemist, "was born in Adams, N.Y., Sept. 2, 1845; son of Abner Cable and Sally Ann (Barton) Hale; grandson of David and Sally (Cable) Hale, and of Ozias and Sally (Lamson) Barton, and a descend- ant of Thomas Hale, who with his wife Thomas- ine and son Thomas came to Newbury, Jlass., from the parish of Watton-at-Stone, Hertford- shire, England, in 1635, and removed to Haver- hill, Mass., in 1645, where he was a land owner, a selectman in 1646, and in 1647 was chosen by the oov.-n ' ' to try small causes. " In 1 648 he was Cjppoiiited to keep a ferry and in 1649 was elected coastablo, the first chosen in Haverhill. He re- turned to Newbury in 1652 and in 1657 removed to Salem, Mass. , wliere he remained until shortly before his death. In 1659 his name appears among the glovers in the " Annals of Salem. " He died in Newbury, Dec. 21, 1682. David Hale was senior member of the first mercantile firm in Adams. N.Y., and captain of a troop of cavalry in the war of 1812. Albert C. Hale was

graduated from the University of Rochester, N.Y., in 1869; was teacher of Latin and Greek in Holbrook's military school. Sing Sing, N.Y., 1869-70 ; teacher of the sciences in Peddie insti- tute, Hightstown, N.J., 1870-73; and at the same time did special work in mineral analysis at Rut- gers college, and field work in geology and miner- alogy in New Jersey, and was vice-principal of the high school, Jersey City, N.J., 1873-77. In 1876 he pursued a summer course in analytical chemistry at Harvard. On resigning his position as vice-principal of the Jersey City high school he spent a year and a half as a student at the Colum-. bia school of mines, New York city, and studied at the vmiversities of Paris, Berlin and Heidelberg, 1878-80, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 1880. He was presi- dent of the State school of mines of Colorado, 1880-83, and made a report upon the mining in- terests of the state. He also had charge of im- portant gold mining property in Gilpin county, and made an examination and report upon the water supply of the city of Denver. In 1883 he became head teacher of the phj-sical science de- partment in the Central school (now the Boys' High school), Brooklyn, N.Y. He was elected a member of the American association for the ad- vancement of science in 1880, and a fellow of that association in 1886 ; vice-president of the Ameri- can chemical society in 1889, and secretarj- of that society in 1890 ; also a member of various other scientific societies at home and abroad. He was married, Dec. 23, 1889, to Carrie Helen An- gell of Brooklyn, N.Y. He received the honor- ary degree of E.M. from the Universitj' of Roch- ester in 1881.

HALE, Benjamin, educator, was born in New- bury, Mass., Nov. 23, 1797: son of Thomas and Alice (Little) Hale, and grandson of Benjamin and Lj-dia (White) Hale. He was grad- uated from Bowdoin in 1818, studied at the Andover theo- logical seminary one year, and in 1822 was licensed to preach as a Congregational clergyman. He was ordained deacon in the P.E. church Sept. 28, 1828, and priest, Jan. 6, 1831.* He was a tutor at Bowdoin, 1820-22 ; principal of the Lycemn, Gardiner, Maine, 1822-27, and professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Dartmouth, 1827- 35. He was married, April 9, 1823, to Mary Caro-

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