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professor of medical botany and pharmacology, 1870-71; lecturer on diseases of the lieart, 1871- 80; professor of materia inedica and therapeutics in the Chicago Honiceoiiathic college, 1880-84, and professor emeritus there, 1884-99. He is the author of many contributions to medical jour- nals; of numerous monographs, and of several volumes, including: Xew Jiemrdies (1862; 3d ed., 18G7); On Sterility (18G8): Ij-ctures o)i Diseases of the III art (1871); Treatise on Ccrehro Spinal Meninijitis (187.1); and The Practiee of Medicine (18!)4)". He died in Chicago. 111., Jan. 15, 1899.

HALE, Ellen Day, painter, was born in "Worcester, Mass., Feb. 11, 1855; daughter of Edward Everett and Emily (Perkins) Hale. She was educated under the direction of her aimt, Susan Hale, early evinced a taste for art and was instructed by Dr. William Rimmer. by Wil- liam M. Hunt, b}- Helen M. Knowlton, and in Julian's art school, Paris. She travelled exten- sively in company with her aunt and was for some time a resident of Paris and London, where she studied in the art galleries. She established her studio in Boston and had the honor of a place for Paris Salon, and " A New England Girl,'' a por- trait, in the Royal academj-, London.
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HALE, Eugene, senator, was born in Turner, Maine, June 9, 1886; son of James Sullivan and Betsey (Staples) Hale; and grand.son of David and Sarah (Kingsbury) Hale. He attended an academy and was admitted to the bar in 1857, practising in Ellsworth, Maine, and for nine consecutive years was attorney for Hancock county. He was a member of the state legislature of Maine in 1867, 1868 and 1880; was a Republican representative in the 41st, 42d, 48d, 44th and 45th congresses, 1869-79; declined the

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Grant in 1874; and in 1876 declined the portfolio of the navy, offered by President Hayes. He was a delegate to the Republican national con- ventions at Cincinnati in 1876 and Chicago in 1868 and 1880. In 1881 he was elected to the U.S. senate as a Republican to succeed Hannibal Hamlin, and was re-elected in 1887, 1893 and 1899. In the senate he served as chairman of the com- mittees on cen.sus, private land claims and naval affairs and continuously as a member of the

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committee on appropriations. He was xnarried, Dec. 20, 1871, to Mary Douglas, only daughter of Zachariah Chandler of Michigan, and their oldest son, Chandler, became in 1897 secretary of the American embassy at Rome. Senator Hale received the honorary degree of A.M. fromBow- doin in 1869 and that of LL.D. from Bates in 1882, and from Colby in 1886.

HALE, Qeorge Ellery, astronomer, was born in Cliicago, 111., June 29, 1868; son of William Ellery and Mary Scranton (Browne) Hale; and grandson of the Rev. Benjamin Ellery Hale and of Dr. Gardiner S. Browne. He studied at Harvard College observatory, 1889-90, and was graduated at the Massachusetts institute of tech- nology, S.B., in 1890. He was director of the Kenwood Astrophysical ob-servatory, 1890-96, professor of astronomical physics at Beloit col- lege, 1891-93; lecturer, 1893; lecturer in astrophys- ics at Northwestern university, 1891-93; studied at the University of Berlin, 1893-94; was associate professor of astrophysics at the University of Chi- cago, 1893-97; became director of the Yerkes

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in 1897. He was jomt editor of Astronomy and Astro-Physics, 1892-95, and became editor of the Astrophysical Journal in 1895. He was awarded the Janssen medal of the Paris academy of sci^ ences in 1893, and was made foreign associate of the Royal astronomical society and vice-presi- dent of tiie Astronomical and Astrophysical society of America in 1899. He received the honorary degree of Sc.D. from the Western uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1897.

HALE, Qeorge Silsbee, lawyer, was born in Keene, N.H., Sept. 24, 1825; son of Salma (1787- 1866) and Sarah Kellogg (King) Hale. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1844, A.M., 1847; taught in Richmond. Va., 184.5-46; studied law in Boston, Mass., was admitted to the bar in 1850 and practised in Boston, 1850-97. He was a rep- resentative in the state legislature for t%vo terms, was prominent in charitable, municipal, literary and church organizations and served as trustee