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the vacancy caused by the death of Repre- sentative R. M. A. Hawk; was re-elected to the 4Sth and following congresses, including the 56th and 57th, 1882-1901, and was renominated for the 58th congress. He served continuously on the committee on foreign affairs, and was its chairman froin 1889. He was appointed by President IVIcKinley a member of the Hawaiian commission in 1898; declined the post of minister to Spain in 1898, and was prominently named as an available U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in 1899. He visited Honolulu in 1898 and reported to congress on the legislation necessary for the future government of these islands as a territory of the United States. He was elected a member of the National Geographic society, a director of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in 1884, and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from De Pauw university in 1894.

HITTELL, John Shertzer, author, was born in Jonestown. Pa., Dec. 25, 1825; son of Jacob and Cathei'ine (Shertzer) Hittell; grandson of Nicholas and Susanna (Wesco) Hittell, of Lehigh county, Pa., and of John and Barbara (Wein- land) Shertzer of Annville, Pa., and a descendant of Peter Hittell, who came to America about 1720 from Kusel, Germany, and settled in Lehigh county, Pa. He was graduated from Miami uni- versity in 1843, settled in California in 1849, en- gaged in journalism, and became a writer in the office of the daily Alta California in 1853. He was a member of the California state legislature in 1863. He is the autiior of: The Evidences against Christianity (2d ed., 1857); The Resources of California (7th ed.. 1874); A Brief Histonj of Culture (1876); History of San Francisco (1878); History of the Mental Groioth of Mankind in Ancient Times (1893); Spirit of the Papacy (1896). He died in San J^rancisco, March 8, 1901.

HITTELL, Theodore Henry, author, was born at Marietta, Lancaster county. Pa., April 5, 1830; son of Jacob and Catherine (Shertzer) Hittell. He was graduated from Yale in 1849, was admitted to the bar at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1852, and prac- tised in Hamilton, Ohio, 1852-55. He then re- moved to California, and was connected with the staffs of the San Francisco Bulletin and Times, 1855-61. He again took xip the practice of law in San Francisco in 1862, and was state senator in 1880-82. He is the author of: History of Cali- fornia {i vols., 1885 and 1897); Genercd Laics of California (Hittell's Digest, 1864); Hittell's Codes and Statutes of California (1876); Revieio of Goethe's Faust (1872); Adventures of James Capen Adams (1860), and contributions to period- ical literature.

HOADLEV, John Chipman, civil engineer, was born in Turin, N.Y., Dec. 10, 1818. He at- tended Utica academy in 1835-36, studying alge-

bra, geometry and surveying, and in May, 1836, became assistant engineer vipon the Erie canal enlargement. He studied privately mechanics, liydraulics, French, German, Latin and Greek. In 1844 he removed to Clinton, Mass., where he engaged in building and equipping cotton mills; and in 1848, with Donald McKay, he established locomotive and textile machinery works at Pitts- field, Mass. In 1852 he became superintendent of tiie Lawrence machine shops. He invented the Hoadley portable engine, which he manufactured until 1873. The legislature of Massachusetts em- ployed him to visit Europe in the interest of a proposed system of sea-coast defences. He helped to organize the Clinton Wire Cloth company, and was agent of the New Bedford Cojiper company and of the McKay Sewing-Machine association. He was one of the founders of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and contributed to its publications; was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature one term; served on the state boards of health, lunacy and charity from 1873 for nearly ten years; was an original trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, and a member of various scientific socie- ties. He received the degree of M.A. from "Wil- liams college in 1852. He is the author of: The Curve of Compression in the Steam Engine (1878); Tlie Combustion of Fuel for Generation, of Steam (1881); The Specific Heat of Platinum (1882); Warm-Blast Steam-Boiler Furnace (1886). He also edited: Memorial ofH. S. Gansevoort (1875). He died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 21, 1886.

HOADLY, Charles Jeremy, librarian, was born in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 1, 1828; son of William H. and Harriet Louisa (Hillyer) Hoad- ley; grandson of Jeremy and Harriott (Fairchild) Hoadley, and of Col. Andrew and Lucy (Tudor) Hillyer, and a descendant of William Hoadly, an early settler of Branford, Conn. He was graduated from Trinity college, Hartford. B.A., 1851; M.A., 1854, and was admitted to the bar in 1855, but never practised. He was appointed state librarian of Connecticut in 1855. He was elected president of the Connecticut Historical society in 1894; a member of the American Anti- quarian society, and a corresiwnding member of numerous historical societies. He received from Y'ale the honorary degree of A.M.in 1879, and from Trinity that of LL.D. in 1889. He is the author of: New Haven Colonial Records, 163S-G5 (2 vols., 1857); Connecticut Colonial Records, 1689-1776 (13 vols., 1868-90); Connecticut State Records, 1776-80 (3 vols., 1894-95), and magazine articles. He died in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 19, 1900.

HOADLY, George, governor of Ohio, was born in New Haven, Conn., July 31, 1826: son of George and Mary Anne (Woolsey) Hoadly, and grandson of Timothy Hoadl}', a captain in the 2d