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of various institutions. He was president of the board of trustees of Phillips Exeter academy, president of the Massachusetts reform club, a member of the Masachusetts and New Hampshire historical societies and of the New England historic, genealogical society, and president of the Children's aid society and of the American Unitarian association. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth in 1885. He assisted in editing the Boston Law Reporter; edited the 16th, ITth and 18th volumes of the "United States Digest," and assisted in editing other volumes. He published memoirs of Joe Parker (1876), and Theron Jletcalf (1876); and contributed to the " Memorial HLstory of Boston" an historical sketch of the charities of that city. He died at Schooner Head, near Bar Harbor, Maine, July 27, 1897.

HALE, Horace Morrison, educator, was born at Hollis, N.H., March 6, 1833; son of John and Jane (Morrison) Hale; grandson of David and Elizabeth (Holden) Hale of Hollis, and of John Morrison of Petersborough, N.H. ; great-grand- sou of Col. John Hale, a surgeon on the staff of Colonel Prescott in the Revolutionary war; and a descend- ant in the eiglith gen- eration of Thomas and Thomas ine Hale, who settled in New- bury, Mass., in 1635. His father was an inventor and me- chanic and the son was employed in the machine shops xmtil his father's death in 1852. He at-

school about three months each year and by teaching school winters he was enabled to pay his way through college, graduating from Union, A.B., in 1856. He taught school at West Bloomfield, N.Y., 1856-57. and at Nashville, Tenn., 1857-61. In 1859 he was married to Martha Eliza, daughter of Leonard and Hannah (Reed) Huntington. Tlieir onlj^ son, Irving, was graduated from the U.S. mili- tary academy in 1884 with the highest honors that had ever been gained at that institution. In 1861 they removed to Detroit, Mich., where Mr. Hale taught English in a German school and read law. In 1863 he was admitted to the bar and removed to Colorado. He was principal of the Central City, Col., public schools, 1868-73; territorial superintendent of public instruction, 1873-76. and again principal at Central City, 1877-87. In 1878 lie was elected regent of the

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State university of Colorado for a term of six years. He was mayor of Central City in 1883 and 1883; and in 1887 became president of the University of Colorado. He resigned the presi- dency of the university in 1892 and retired from the professional world. He received the degree of LL.D. from Iowa Wesleyan university. He died in Denver, Col., Oct. 24, 1901.

HALE, Horatio, ethnologist, was born at Newport, N.H., May 3, 1817; son of David and Sarali Josepha (Buell) Hale. In his boyhood he made himself acquainted with several Oriental tongues, as well as with some Indian and Poly- nesian dialects. In 1834 he published a pamphlet entitled " Remarks on the Language of the St. Johns Indians, with a Penob.scot vocabulary." He was graduated from Harvard in 1837 and was appointed a member of the scientific corps attached to the U.S. exploring expedition under Captain Wilkes. This expedition occupied the years 1838-42, and gave Mr. Hale an opportunity of studying many languages and dialects. He published a report of his department in 1846 under the title "Ethnology and Philology," which contains, according to the English philol- ogist. Dr. R. G. Latham, " the greatest mass of philological data ever accumulated by a single inquirer." It contains among other information vocabularies and grammatical notices of more than thirty American aboriginal languages, of nearly twenty Oceanic languages, of several Australian tongues, and of some African dia- lects. He studied in Europe, 1846-55, and in the latter year was admitted to the bar in Chicago. In 1856 he removed to Canada West, making his home in Clinton, Ontario, where he practised law and pursued his ethnological researches. In 1884, at the meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, he was elected a member of a committee appointed to investigate the physical characters, languages and industrial and social condition of the northwestern tribes of Canada, and at the request of his colleagues he undertook the direction of the investigations. In 1886 he was elected a vice-president of the American association for the advancement of science and chairman of the section of anthro- pology. He was subsequently elected a member of many scientific and liistorical societies in America and Europe. He is the author of: The Iroquois Book of Bites (1883) ; Indian Migrations as evidenced by Language {\SSZ) : The Development of Language ( 1888) ; and many essay's, reports and contributions to scientific periodicals. He died at Clinton. Ontario, Dec. 28, 1896.

HALE, Irving, soldier and .scientist, was born in North Bloomfield, N.Y., Aug. 28, 1861; son of Horace Morrison and Eliza (Himtington) Hale; and grandson of John and Jane (Morrison) Hale,