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luka, Sept. 12, 1862; and at Corinth, Oct. 3-4, 1863, and commanded the left wing of the army of the Tennessee from October, 1862, till January, 1863. He resigned from the army in April, 1863, and returned to Wisconsin. He was a member of the board of regents of the University of Wis- consin, 1866-75, and president of the board 1869- 75. He was U.S. marshal for the district of Wisconsin, 1869-75. He is the author of : Battle of luka and Hamilton'' s Division at Corinth in Bat- tles and Leaders of the Civil War (1884). He died in Milwaukee. Wis., April 17, 1891.

HAMILTON, Edward John, educator, was born in Belfast, Ireland, Nov. 29, 1834; son of the Rev. Dr. William and Anna (Patterson) Hamilton, grandson of Archibald Hamilton of Garvagh, great grandson of William Patterson of the Cranogh, and great^ grandson of the Rev. John Adams of the Scriegan Presbyterian church, county Derry. He was graduated from Hanover college, Ind., in 1853, and from the Princeton theological seminary in 1858, and was a student in the Union theological seminary, New Y)rk, and in the New Albany (later the McCormick) theological seminary in Chicago, 1854-55. He was ordained by the Presbj'tery of Nassau, Nov. 25, 1858; and was pastor at Oyster Bay, LI., N.Y., 1858-61. He was an evangelist in Dromore. Ireland, in 1862, and on his return to America became chaplain in the 7th New Jer- sey veteran volunteer infantry in the civil war, serving 1863-65. He was pastor in Hamilton, Ohio, 1866-68; profe.ssor of mental philosophy in Hanover college, 1868-79; acting professor of mental science, logic, ethics and politics in the College of New Jersey, 1882-83, and professor of mental science and Hebrew at Hamilton col- lege, 1883-91. He defined and reviewed for the Standard dictionary in New York, 1891-94; was professor of philosophy at W^hitworth college, at Sumner, Wash., 1894-95, and professor of phil- osophy and oratory at the State university of Washington from 1895. He received the de- gree of D.D. from Wabash college, Indiana, and from Monmouth college, Illinois, in 1877. He ad- vocated a sj-stem of metaphysical philosophy entitle:! " Perceptionalism. " He is the author of: A Xew Analysis in Fundamental Morals (1874) ; The Human Mind (1883) ; Mental Science (1886) : The Miidalist (1889) ; and TJie PerceptiunaUst (being Mental Science revised) (1899).

HAMILTON, Frank Hastings, surgeon, was born in W^ilmington, Vt., Sept. 10, 1813. His parents removed to Schenectady, N.Y., and he was graduated at Union college in 1830. He studied medicine under Dr. John G. Morgan of Auburn, N.Y^., and at the College of physicians and surgeons, Fairfield, N.Y^., 1831-32; practised his profession in Auburn, N.Y''., 1833-34; attended

lectures at the medical department, University of Pennsylvania and was graduated M.D. in 1835. He conducted a class in anatomy and sur- gery in his office in Auburn, 1835-39 ; and profes- sor of surgery at Fairfield, 1839, and at Geneva medical college, 1840-43; studied in Europe, 1843-44; and removed to Buffalo, N.Y\, in 1844. With Drs. James P. White and Austin Flint he organized the Buffalo medical college in 1846 and was professor of surgery there, 1846-58. He then removed to Brooklyn, N.Y"., and was profes- sor of the principles and practice of surgery in the Long Island college hospital, 1858-68; profes- sor of military surgery, fractures and disloca- tions and professor of clinical siirgery in Bellevue hospital medical college. New Y'ork city, 1861-68, and succeeded Dr. James R. Wood as professor of the principles and practice of surgery with opera- tions in the latter institution, serving 1868-75. He was &urgeon of the 31st N.Y'. volunteers; and had charge of the general field hospital, Center- ville, Va., July 21-22, 1861. He was promoted brigade-surgeon in 1861 and became medical director of Franklin's division. General McClel- lan appointed him medical director of the 4th corps, arm\- of the Potomac, and in September, 1862, he organized and took charge of the U.S. general hospital in Central Park, New Y'ork, and in February, 1863, was made medical inspec- tor of the U.S. army with the rank of lieutenant- colonel. In September, 1863, he resigned his commission and returned to New York, and after 1875 was visiting surgeon to Bellevue hosi:)ital, consulting surgeon to St. Elizabeth hospital, to the hospital for ruptured and crippled and to various city dispensaries. He was consulting surgeon to President Garfield and after approv- ing the treatment pursued earlj^ in the case was retained to the end. He was elected president of the New York state medical college in 1855; of the Erie County medical college in 1857; of the New Y^ork pathological society in 1866; of the New York medico-legal society in 1875 and 1876; of the American academy of medicine in 1878. and president of that organization in 1877, of the New Y^ork society of medical jurisprudence in 1878 and 1885, and was vice president of the New York academy of medicine 1880-84. He was made an honorary associate member of the Col- lege of physicians and surgeons in 1868, and re- ceived the honorary degree of M.D. and LL.D. from Union college in 1869. His more important medical works are: Treatise on Strabismus (1844); Treatise on Fractures and Dislocations (1860, 7th ed., 1884); Practical Treatise on Military Surr/ery (1861) : and Tlie Principles and Practice of Surgery (1872, 2d ed., 1873). He edited The Surgi- cal Memoirs of the War of the Eehellion (1871). He died in New Y^ork city, Aug. 11, 1886.