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 IJ A. MILTON

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restored on the army list us lieutenant colonel, and colonel U.S.A., by vii-tue of his commission as military secretary and additional aide de-camp with these ranks, and he continued his petition, Dec. 11, IStm. to the secretary of state and to the congress of tlie United States to have his record as an army otlicer corrected, but even the urgent request of the commanding oliicers under whom he had served and the inliuenceof friends outside army circles, faileil to move the government. What appears on its face to be an act of simple justice to a brave officer, who asked to be placed on the retired list of the U.S. army with his rank confirmed, was denied him, and in 1900 the gallant soldier still lived unrewarded by the government to whicii he had given sixteen years of acknowl- edged valuable service and suffered thirty-seven years of continuous pain from wounds and illness resulting from sucli service. He was hydro- grapiiic engineer for the department of docks, New York city, 1871-75. He publislied : History of the American Flag (1853) ; and Our National Flag the Stars and SfrijJes, its Hintory in a Century (1877j . He died in New York city, March 18, 1903.

HAMILTON, William Tiiomas, governor of Marylanil, was born in Boousboro, Washington county, Md., Sept. 8. 1820; son of Henry and Anna Mary Magdalen (Hess) Hamilton. He at- tended Jefferson college, 1836-40, was admitted to the bar in 1843 and practised law at Hagers- town, Md. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1846, a Democratic representative from Maryland in the 31st, 82d and 33d con- gre.sses, 1849-55; U.S. senator, 1869-75, and g(jvernor of Maryland, 1880-84. He died in Hagerstown, :Md., Oct. 16, 1888.

HAMLIN, Alfred Dwight Foster, architect, was born at Constantinople, Turkey, Sept. 5, 1855; son of the Rev. Dr. Cyrus and Martha (Lovell) Hamlin. He was graduated from Amherst in 1875, and afterward attended the Massachusetts institute of technology and the Ecole des beaux arts, Paris. He was instructor in architecture at Columbia college school of mines (later the schools of applied science), 1887-89; was assistant profes.sor, 1889-90, and became adjunct professor of arcliitecture in 1890. He received the degree of A.M. from Amherst in 1885. He is the author of series of papers on Architectural Shadea and Shadows and The Emlntion nf Decorative Motives ; and of a volume entitled History of Architecture (1896).

HAMLIN, Augrustus Choate, physician, was born in Columbia, Maine, Aug. 28, 1829; .son of Elijali Livermore and Eliza Bradley (Choate) Hamlin; grand.son of Cyrus and Anna (Liver- more) Hamlin, and a descendant ot James Hamlin, who settled at Barnstable, Cape Cod, Mass., in 1639, He was prepared for college at the Bangor

schools and Yarmouth academy, 1846-47, was graduated from Bowdoin college in 1851, studied medicine in Paris, and was graduated from the Harvard medical school in 1855. At the out- break of the civil war he raised and fitted out a company at his own expense and joined the 2d Maine infantry as as- sistant surgeon in May, 1816. He served in several battles and became brigade sur- geon, April, 1862; was medical director of the 11th corps, 1862-63, and was made medical in- spector of the U.S. army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, February, 1863. He served in the army of the Potomac, army .^^^•^. ^..^^ ^,^„^ of Western Virginia, /

army of the South, at the siege of Fort Wagner, and in the army of the Southeast during the Nasliville campaign on the staff of Gen. George H. Tliomas. until mustered out in November, 1865. He returned to Bangor, Maine, and there engaged in general practice. He was commis- sioner from Maine to the Yorktown centennial in 1881, surgeon-general of Maine, 1882-86, and mayor of Bangor in 1877 and 1878. He was a fel- low of the American as.sociation for the advance- ment of science, a member of various scientific societies, and was made chevalier in the order of St. Anne by the Czar of Russia in 1878. He is the author of: Martyria, or Andersonville Prison (Boston, 1866) ; Tourmaline (1873) ; Leisure Hours among the Gems (1884) ; History of JSlt. Mica, Maine (1895) ; The Battle of Chancellorsville (1896) ; and articles on Alimentation, Transfusion, Transmission of Diseasps and Tetanus contributed to the med- ical journals.

HAMLIN, Charles, soldier, was born in Hampden, Maine, Sept. 13. 1837; .son of Hannibal and Sarah J. (Emery) Hamlin. His father was A'ice-president of the L'nited States, 1861-65. Charles was graduated at Bowdoin, A.B., in 1857, A.M., 1860. He was admitted to the V>ar in 1858 and in 1861 engaged in recruiting service and in forwarding volunteers to the Federal army. He was ma<le major of the 18th Maine infantry (afterward 1st Maine heavy artillery) in 1862, serving in the defences of Washington, D.C. He was assigned to the army of the Potomac as act- ing adjutant general of the 2d division, 3d corps, and took part in the battles of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863; Kelly's Ford, Nov. 7, 1*863; Locust Grove, Nov. 29, 1863; Mine Run, May 5, 1864;