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line, daughter of the Hon. Cynis and Hannah (Storer) King of Saco. ^fjune. He spent the win- ter of 1835-36 at St. Croix, W.I., and returned to the United States to take the presidency of Hobart college, Geneva, N.Y., which he resigned in 18.")8, on account of ill health. The remainder of his life he resided at Newburyport, Mass. He was president of the standing committee of the diocese of western New York, 1848-58, and a trustee of Hobart college. 18:36-60. He received the degrees of A.M. and M.D. from Dartmouth in 1827. and that of S.T.D. from Columbia in 1836. Besides contributions to periodicals lie is the author of: Introduction to the Mechanical Principles of Carpentry (1827); Scriptnral Illustrations of the Littmiy ri83.")); and Sermons, 1 83 6-5 S (1883). He died in Newburyport, Mass., July 15, 1863.

HALE, Charles, editor and diplomatist, was born in Boston, Mass., June 7, 1831; son of Nathan and Sarah Preston (Everett) Hale. He was grad- uated at Harvard, A.B., 1850, A.M., 1853. He engaged in journalism, first as a reporter on the Boston Advertiser, of which his father was pro- prietor and chief editor. He subse- quently established To-day. a Boston lit- erary journal, which had a short life, and then became junior editor of the Adver- tiser and a contributor to the Xantical Ahna- nac and to the North American lievieic. He was a representative ,^ in the Massachusetts

'a..'' state legislature,

speaker durmg his last term. In 1864 he was appointed by Presi- dent Lincoln U.S. agent and consul-general to Egypt, and in 1871 he returned to the United States and served one term as state sena- tor where as chairman of the railroad committee he drew up the general railroad act that became a law that year. He was assistant secretary of state under Hamilton Fish, 1872-73; was admitted to the bar in 1874; was a representative in the state legislature, 1875-79 and was elected a member of the American philosophical society. He died in Boston, Mass., Marrh 1. 1«82.

HALE, Charles Reuben, ))i.shop coadjutor of Springfield, 111., and 161st in succession in the American Episcopate, was born in Lewistown. Pa., March 14, 1837; son of Reuben Charles and Sarah Jane (Mills) Hale. He entered the sopho- more class of the University of Pennsylvania in 1855, and was graduated in 1858 receiving his A.M.

degree in 1861. He was ordained a deacon in the P. E. church in 1860, and priest in 1861; was as- sistant minister of Christ clmrch, Germantown, Philadelphia, 18^0; of All Saints', Lower Dublin. Pa., 1861-63; chaplain in the U.S. navy, 1363-70^ rector of St. John's. Auburn, N.Y., 1870-75; recto* of the church of St. Mary the Virgin, Baltimore county, Md., 1875-77; assist- ant minister of St. Paul's church, Balti- more, 1877-86; dean of Grace cathedral, Davenport, Iowa,

1886-92; and was consecrated assistant bishop of Springfield, III., with the official title of Bishop of Cairo. July 26, 1892. He was secretary to the Italian church ' reformation commission, 1869; secretary of the Russo-Greek committee, 1871; clerk of the com- mission of the house of bishops on correspondence with the hierarchs of the Eastern churches, 1874, and with the Old Catholics, 1874; A merican sec- retary of the Anglo-Continental society of Eng- land, 1874, and secretary to the commission of the general convention on ecclesiastical relations, 1877. He received the honorary degree of S.T.D. from Hobart college in 1876, and that of LL.D from Griswold college, Iowa, in 1889. He was elected a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; and of the So- ciety of the Sons of the Revolution. He married, Jan. 12. 1871, Anna McKnight, daugliter of Maj. Levi Twiggs, U.S.M.C. While at college together with the late Henry Morton and another student, forming a committee of the Piiilomathean society of the University of Pennsj'lvania, he wrote a treatise on the Rosetta stone, giving original translations of its various liieroglyphicand demo- tic inscriptions. This attracted wide attention and was published (1858-1859). His other works include: The Russian Clmrch (1880); Mozarabic Collects, translated and arranged from the ancient Liturgy of the Spanish Clmrch (1881); The Uni- versal Episcopate; A List of the Sees and Bishops of the Hob/ Catholic Church Throughout the World (1882); The Book Auuexed and the Bishops (1882); A Visit to the Eastern Churches in the Interest of Clmrch Uniti/ (IHHC): An Office for the Centennial Anniversary of the Inauguration of George Uash- ' ington (1889); An Order of Series for Days of National Observance {\SHd); The American Clmrch and Methodism (1889). He died in Cairo, 111., Dec. 25. 1900.