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HALE, Edward Everett, author and clergy- man, was born in Boston, Mass., April 3, 1832; son of Nathan and Sarah Preston (Everett) Hale; grandson of the Rev. Enoch and Octavia (Throop) Hale; great-grandson of Deacon Richard and Elizabeth (Strong) Hale; and a descendant (in the seventh generation) of Deacon Robert Hale, who came to Massachusetts from Hertfordshire, England, in 1632. He was prepared for college at the Boston Latin school and was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1839, A.M., 1842. He was an usher in the Boston Latin school, 1839- 41; read theology and church history, worked in his father's printing office, in the editorial rooms, and as secretaiy to his father in his rail- road work. In 1842 he was licensed to preach by the Boston association of Unita- rian Congregational ministers and had no permanent charge till 1846, when he was settled over the Church of the Unity, Worcester, Mass., where he remained for ten years. In 1856 he accepted the pastorate of the South Congregational church, Boston, Mass. , and remained in charge of that congrega- tion until Oct. 1, 1899, when he resigned and became pastor emeritus. He originated the " Harry Wards worth Clubs " through an incident in " Ten Times One is Ten," and these organiza- tions, devoted to charity, extended with the world's civilization and had a membership of over 50,000. Their motto is: " Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; lend a hand." He also assisted in the organiza- tion of the " Look-up Legion " in the Sunday schools and it extended as did the " Lend a Hand " clubs and finally became the Epworth League. He was elected a counsellor of the Chautauqua literary and scientific circle. He was president of the National conference of Unitarian and other Christian churches, 1894-95, and a member of its coimcil from its organiza- tion; overseer of Harvard, 1866-75, and 1876-87; was elected a member of the American philosoph- ical society and the Massachusetts historical society; a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences and an honorary me^^ber of the Geographical society of the Republic of Mex- ico. He helped to foimd the Worcester public library, was a member of the executive commit- tee of the New England Emigrant Aid company, organized to secure a free-state government for

Kansas; was an officer of Salignac's drill corps, 1861-62; edited the Monthly Chronicle, the Boston Miscellany, the Christian Examiner, the Sunday- School Gazette, Old and New, Lend a Hand and the Lend a Hand Record, and assisted in editing the New England Magazine and Cominonwealth He received from Harvard the degree of S.T. D. in 1879. His books include: TJie Rosary (1848); Mar- garet Percival in America (1850); Sketches of Chris- tian History (1850); Letters on Irish Emigration (1852); Kansas and Nebraska (1854); Ninety Days' Worth of Europe (1861); A Man Without a Country (1864); If, Yes and Perhaps (1868); The Ingham Papers (1869); How To Do It (1870); Ten Times One is Ten ( 1870); His Level Best and Other Stories (1870); Daily Bread and Other Stories (1870); Ups and Downs: an Every Day Novel (1871); Sybaris and Other Homes (1871); Christmas Eve and Christ- mas Day (1874); In His Name (1874); A Summer Vacation: Four Sermons (1874); Working Men''s Homes: Essays and Stories (1874); TJie Good Time Coming, or Our New Crusade (1875); One Hundred Years (1875); Philip Nolan's Friends (1876); Gone to Texas, or the Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman (1877); What Career? (1878); Mrs. Merriam's Scholars (1878); The Life in Common (1879); The Bible and its Revision (1879); TTie Kingdom of God (1880); Crusoe in New York (1880); Stories of War (1880); June to May (1881); Stories of the Sea (1881); Stories of Adventure (1881); Stories of Discovery (1883); Seven Spanish Cities (1883); Fortunes of Rachel (1884); Christmas in a Palace (1884); Christmas in Narragansett (1884); Stories of Invention (1885); Easter (1886); Back to Back (1887); Franklin in France (1887); The Life of Washington (1887); The History of the United States (1888); How They Lived in Hampton (1888); My Friend the Boss (1888); James Freeman Clarke (1891); Story of Massachusetts (1891); Sybil Knox (1892); East and West, or the New O/iiO (1892); For Fifty Years (poems, 1893); A New England Boy- hood (1893); Sermons of the Winter (1893); If Jesus Came to Boston (1894); Susan's Escort, and Others (1897); Historic Boston and Its Neighborhood (1898); James Russell Lowell and His Friends (1899). A uniform edition of his works was published in 1898.

HALE, Edwin Moses, educator, was born at Newport, N.H., Feb. 2, 1829; son of Syene and Betsy (Dow) Hale; and grandson of David and Hannah (Emerson) Hale, and of Moses and Sarah Dow. His paternal grandfather fpught at Bunker Hill. He was married. Oct. 13, 1852, to Abba Ann Wilson, daughter of Austin and Roxanna (Smith) George. He was graduated from the Cleveland Homoeopathic medical college in 1859 and practised in Jonesville, Mich., until 1863. He was professor of materia medica in the Hahnemann medical college, Chicago, 1863-70;