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tam. He was made inspector-general of the left division, Army of the Potomac, and was with General Sedgwick as aide-de-camp at Marye's Heights ; with his regiment at Salem Church ; with General Sedgwick as aide-de- camp and provost-marshal at Gettysburg and Spottsylvania, and by the side of his chief when he was killed at Spottsylvania. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel, continuing on the staff of the 6th corps, and soon after was pro- moted to the rank of colonel and assigned to the command of the 1st Maine veteran volunteers. He commanded the 3d brigade, 2d division, 6tli army corps, after the death at Cedar Creek of General Bidvvell, and he led the famous " wedge " which was formed out of the 6th corps and broke the Confederate lines around Petersburg. He was present at the surrender of Lee ,• was mili- tary go^'ernor of Danville, Va., for two months, when he was mustered out of the volunteer serv- ice with the brevet rank of brigadier-general. He was selected to command a brigade of the proposed provisional corps for duty in the south ; but the purpose was not carried out. In the fall of 1865 he leased the Bath iron foundry, and later purchased the plant, and in 1884 it was incorpo- rated as the Bath Iron Works. In 1882 he also purchased the Goss Marine Iron Works. He built the ram Katahdin and the battle ship Oregon, launched in 1893. He was a state senator, 1873- 75, and president of the senate, 1874 and 1875 ; mayor of Bath, 1876-77 ; a member of the board of visitors to the U.S. Military academy, 1877, and in 1883 congress appointed him a member of the board of managers of the Soldiers' Home. He died at Ohl Point Comfort, Va.. Nov. 14, 1899.

HYDE, William De Witt, educator, was born in Winchenden, Mass., Sept. 23, 1858 ; son of Joel and Eliza (De Witt) Hyde ; grandson of Job and Elizabeth (Tolman) Hyde, and a descendant of Jona- than Hyde, born in London, 1626, settled in Newton, Mass., in 1647. He was gradu- ated at Harvard in 1879, studied at Union Theological semin- ary, 1879-80, and at Andover, 1880-82,

graduating with the class of 1883 and then taking a post-gradu- ate course in philosophy at Cambridge and Andover, 1882-83. He was ordained a Congre- gational minister, Sept. 26. 1883. and was pas- tor at Paterson, N.J., 1883-85. He was elected

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Stone professor of mental and moral philos- ophy, and president of Bowdoin college in 1885. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Bowdoin and Harvard in 1886, and that of LL.D.'from Syracuse university in 1-897. He was one of the ninety-seven judges serving as a board of electors in October, 1900, in determining the names for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York university. He is the author of : Practical Ethics (1892) ; Social TJie- ology (1895); Practical Idealism (1897); The Evolution of the College Student (1898): God's Education of Man (1899), and contributions to periodical literature.

HYER, George, pioneer journalist, was born in Fort Covington, N.Y., July 16, 1819 ; son of Frederick and Eliza Hyer, who settled in Frank- lin county, N.Y., in 1812. He received a com- mon-school education and in 1833 entered as apprentice, the office of the St. Laicrence Ga- zette, Ogdensburg, N.Y. He removed to Mil- waukee, Wis., in 1836, where he was a govern- ment surveyor. He wrote for the Advertiser, the first newspaper published in Milwaukee, and in 1837 was mail agent, carrying the first mail sent west of that point. He established and conducted two nevvsiJapei's in Milwaukee and two in Madi- son, Wis., 1838-43, and was a member of the first convention that framed a constitution for the state in 1846, which was rejected. He was mar- ried, about 1847, to Catharine, daughter of Capt. Joseph Keyes, and sister of the Hon. E. W. Keyes, of Madison, Wis. He was state senator in 1851, and a member of the assembly in 1863. He published the Waukesha Democrat, 1848-54 ; the Milwaukee Advertiser, 1854-59 ; was register of the land office at Superior, Wis., in 1855, and edited the Madison Patriot, 1859-65 ; the Madison Democrat, 1865-69, and the Oshkosh Times, 1867- 73. His son, Joseph Keyes Hyer, was graduated from the U.S. Military academy. George Hyer died in Oshkosh, Wis., April 20, 1873. .

HYSLOP, James Hervey, educator, was born at Xenia, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1854 ; sou of Robert and Martha Ann (Boyle) Hyslop, and grandson of George Hyslop and of James Boyle. He was graduated from the University of Wooster, Ohio, in 1877 ; taught at Lake Forest university. 111., 1880-83 ; at Smith college, Massachusetts, 1885- 86 ; at Bucknell university, Pennsylvania, 18SS- 89 ; was tutor of pliilosophy. ethics and psychol- ogj' in Columbia college, 1889-91 : instructor in ethics, 1891-94, and was elected professor of logic and ethics in 1894. He received tlie degree of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins university in 1887. He is the author of: Elements of Logic (\892); Humes Ethics (1893); Sijllabus of Psychology (1894 and 1899); Elements of Ethics {189-i); A Study of Government (1899).