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marine hospital service as assistant surgeon. He served in New York city and Boston, Mass., 1876- 79. He was promoted sursreon in June, 1877, and in April, 1879, was appointed supervising surgeon- general as successor to Gen Jolm M. Woodworth. He then began the reorganization of the service, and congress finally passed a law placing the marine corps upon practically the same footing as the medical corps of the army and navy. During his incum- bency of the office he succeeded in having the national quaran- tine acts passed, and managed the cam- paign against two _ epidemics of yellow fever, receiving the thanks of the legis- lature of the state of Florida in 1889. In June, 1891, when congress refused to make the salary of liis office the same as that of the surgeon-gen- erals of the army and navy, he resigned his com- mission as surgeon-general of the marine hospital corps and resumed his jslace as surgeon in the corps. He was in charge of the LT.S. marine hospital, Chicago, 111., 1891-9G, when He resigned rather than be transferred to San Francisco, on which the secretary of the treasury insisted. He was superintendent of the state asylum for the insane at Elgin, III., 1897-98. Outside his official life he was professor of surgery in the University of Georgetown; surgeon to Providence hospital; professor of the principles of surgery and clinical surgery in Rush medical college; surgeon to the Presbyterian hospital; profe.ssor of surgery in the Ciiicago polyclinic and consulting surgeon to St. Joseph's hospital. In 1887 he was secretary-gen- eral of the Ninth international medical congress held in Washington, and in 1890 he was a dele- gate from the U.S. government to the Interna- tional medical congress held in Berlin. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Georgetown in 1889, and was made an lionorary member of the Societe fran^aise d'hygiene of Paris in 1890. He died at Elgin, 111., Dec. 24. 1898. HAMILTON, John McLure, painter, Avas born in Pliiladelphia. Pa., Jan. 31, 1853; son of Dr. George and Caroline (Delaplaine) Hamilton; and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Hall) Hamilton, of Ballymena, county Antrim, Ireland, and of James and Mary (Hendrikson) Delaplaine of Newcastle county, Delaware. He attended the schools of Philadelphia and later went abroad. After studying a year at Antwerp under Van

Lerins he entered the Ecole des beaux arts in Paris and in 1875 returned to Pliiladelphia and opened a studio. He settled in London in 1878. He published in collaboration with Robert Arthur and Dewey Bates L' Academie pour Hire, a lith- ographic brochure (1878); and painted numerous noteworthy pictures including Le Sire (1877); and portraits, especially Gladstone, in the Luxem- burg gallery (1888), Cardinal Mannimi (1888), Watts (1889), Leiyhton (1890), TyiulaU (1890), Gladstone in Doicning Street and The Hon. Bichard Vanx, both in the Pennsylvania academy of the fine arts; E. Onsloiv Ford, B.A, Cosmo Monk- JiOHse, Jean Franrois Baffaelli, and many others of note.

HAMILTON, John William, clergyman, was born in Weston, Va., March 18, 1845; son of the Rev. William C. Patrick and Henrietta M. (Dean) Hamilton: and grandson of Patrick and Jane (Graham^ Hamilton, and of Daniel and Elizabeth (Breckenridge) Dean. He was graduated from Mount Union college, Oliio, in 1865; was licensed to preach in June, 1865; was admitted to the Pittsburg Methodist Episcopal conference in April, 1866: was transferred to the New England conference in April, 1868, and was stationed at Maiden, Mass. He was graduated S.T.B. from Boston university in 1871. He was married Dec. 24, 1873, to Julia Elizabeth Battelle, who died Jan. 31, 1883, and secondly to Emma Lydia Bat telle of Buffalo, N.Y. He founded and was for nine years pastor of the People's church, Boston, Mass.; was a member of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1884, 1888, 1892 and 1896: fraternal delegate to the churches in Ireland and England, 1898; corresponding sec- retary of the Freednien's aid and soutliern educa- tion society from 1896; and superintendent of educational work for the Methodist Episcopal church in the sixteen southern states. He pub- lished: Memorial of Jesse Lee (1875); Lives of the Methodist Bishops (1883); People's Chnrch Pulpit (1884); and American Fraternal Greetings (1893); and was editor of the Christian Educator from 1892.

HAMILTON, Joseph, jurist, was born at Carr's Creek, Va., in 1763: son of Robert Hamilton, who emigrated from Scotland and settled at Carr's Creek, Rockbridge county. Va. Joseph was graduated at Liberty Hall and was admitted to the bar of Virginia in 1784. He removed to Kentucky the same year and was associated in practice with David Campbell, Archibald Roane, and Joseph Anderson. He was married to a daughter of Alexander Outlaw of Jefferson county, Tenn., one of the commissioners of the state of Franklin to negotiate with the Cherokee Indians. At the first session of the court of pleas and quarter sessions for Knox county, held at