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author and clergyman. Mr. Hale was a member of the American academy of arts and sciences SJid of the Massachusetts historical society. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1853. He published a Map of Xeio EiKjland (1825) ; Journal of Debates and Proceed- ings in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1821) ; besides pamphlets relating to transporta- tion and the practicability of railroads as com- pared with canals and means of supplying transiKirtation to internal inter-commerce. He was at the time of Iiis death the oldest editor in Massachusetts and except the Hon. John Prentiss of Keene, N.H., the oldest in New England. He died in Boston. Ma.ss.. Feb. 9, 1863.

HALE, Nathan, journalist, was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 12. 1818; son of Nathan and Sarah Preston (Everett) Hale. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1838, LL.B.. 1840. and A.M., 1842. "While an under-graduate he was one of the editors of Marrardiana. He was admitted to the bar and began to practise, but preferred litera- ture and was editor of the Boston MisceUa7iy of Literature in 1841. He became associated with his father in conducting the Bo.ston Daily Adrei-- tiser. In 1853 he retired from daily journalism and was subsequently associated with his brother, the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, in conducting the Old and Xeic. He was acting professor of mental and moral philosophy in Marion college, 1869-71. He died in Boston, Mass., Jan. 9, 1871.

HALE, Philip, musical critic, was born in Norwich, Vt., March 5, 1854; son of William Bainbridge and Harriet Amelia (Porter) Hale; grandson of Harry Hale (born at Rindge, N.H., 1780, died at Chelsea. Vt., 1861); and a descend- ant in the eighth generation of Thomas Hale, who was born in Watton, England, in 1606 and .settled in Newbury, Mass., about 1635. He was graduated from Yale college in 1876 and was admitted to the bar in Albany, N.Y., in 1880. He went to Europe in 1882 and studied music in Berlin under Haupt and Bargiel, 1882-84, at Munich, Stuttgart, and in Paris under Guilmant, 1885-87. He returned to America in 1887. He was organist at St. Peter's church, Albany, N.Y., 1879-82; at St. John's church, Troy, N.Y., 1887- 89; and at Dr. James de Normandie's church, Roxbury district, Boston, Mass., after 1889. In December, 1891, he became one of the editorial staff of the Boston Journal, and its musical critic. He became editor of the Musical liecord, Boston, in 1897.

HALE, Robert Safford, representative, was born in Chelsea, Vt.. Sept. 24, 1822: .son of Harry and Lucinda (Eddy) Hale. He was a brother of Matthew Hale. He was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1842 and after an interval of teaching he settled at Elizabethtown.

N.Y., in January, 1844, and began the study of law. He was admitted to practice in January, 1847, and formed a partnership with the Hon. Orlando Kellogg, which continued until the fall of 1856, when he was elected surrogate of Essex county, N.Y. He served as such until Januarj-, 1865, when lie resumed practice. He was a Lincoln presidential elector in 1861 and in 1865 was elected a representative in the 39th congress to till the vacancy caused by the death of his law partner, Orlando Kellogg. At the close of the session he was retained by Secretarj- Stanton as counsel in the controversy with President Johnson, occasioned by the removal of Secretary Stanton and the appointment of Gen. Lorenzo Thomas as secretary' of war. He was employed by the U.S. treasury department in the claims for abandoned and captured cotton before the U.S. court of claims, 1868-70; and was Repub- lican candidate for judge of the N.Y. court of appeals. In 1871 he was retained by the state department as counsel for the L^nited States before the British and American claims commis- sion under the treaty of "Washington, which occupied liim till December, 1873. He was a representative from New York in the 43d con- gress, 1873-75, and was a commissioner of the state survey in 1876. He was a regent of the University of the state of New York from March 29, 1859, till his death. He was married to Lovina Sibley, daughter of Jeremiah Stone of Eliza- bethtown, N.Y., and their son Harry became a practising lawyer. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Vermont in 1870. He died at Elizabethtown, N.Y., Dec. 14, 1881.

HALE, Salma, historian, was born in Alstead, N.H., March 7, 1787; son of David and Hannah (Emerson) Hale; grandson of Josepli and Abigail (Smith) Hale, and of Josiah and Sarah Emerson ; and a descendant of Thomas Hale who came from Hertfordshire, England, to Newbury, Mass., fn 1635. Salma was the third of fourteen chil- dren. He learned the trade of printer and pre- pared an English grammar which was published in "Worcester, Mass., in 1804. He revised this work and republished it in New York city in 1831 as " A New Grammar of the English Lan- guage." He was married, Jan. 4, 1820. to Sarah Kellogg, daughter of Seth and Susan King of SufReld, Conn. He was editor of the Political Ohservatory, "Walpole, N.H. ; served as clerk of the court of common pleas. 1805-13; removed to Keene, N.H., and was clerk of the supreme judicial court. 1817-34. He was a Representative from New Ilampsliire in the 15th congress. 1817- 19, where he ojiposed the Mi.ssouri compromise. He declined a re-election. He was admitted to the bar in 1834. He was a member of the general court of New Ilampsliire in 1828 and 1844; of the