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and the succeeding battles of the Wilderness. He resigned his commission, September, 1865, and resumed the practice of law in Bangor, Maine, where he served as city solicitor, register in bankruptcy, U.S. commissioner and reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the state. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1883-85, and speaker in 1885 He served as chairman of the executive committee of the Maine Gettysburg commission and assisted in the preparation of the report of the commissioners of the state in 1898. He is the author of Insolvent Laws of Maine and of the biographical sketches of the justices of the supreme court of Maine in the nreen Bag (1895-96).

HAMLIN, Charles Edward, educator, was born in Augusta, Maine, P'eb. 4, 1825. He was graduated from Water vi lie college, Maine, in 1847, and was principal of the Vermont literary and scientific institute at Brandon, 1847-48; principal of the high school at Bath, Maine, 1848-49; asso- ciate principal of the Connecticut literary insti- tute, Suffield, 1849-53; and Merrill professor of chemistry and natural history at Waterville college, 1853-73. He spent several vacations in the chemical and zoological departments at Har- vard, under Profs. J. P. Cooke and Louis Agassiz, and was assistant in conchology and palaeontology at the Museum of comparative zoology at Har- vard, 1873-86; and was an instructor in geography and geology at Harvard, 1875-77. He was a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences, 1876-86, and a trustee of Colby uni- versity, 1880-86. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Lewisburg, Pa., in 1873. He is the author of the following papers: Observations on the Physical Geography and Geology of Mt. Katahdin, Maine (1881); Syrian Molliiscan Fossils (1884); The Attitude of the Christian Teacher in Respect to Science, and compiled the obituary record of graduates of Waterville college, 1822- 84. He died at Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 3, 1886.

HAMLIN, Charles Sumner, diplomatist, was born in Boston, Mass.. Aug. 30, 1861; son of Ed- ward Sumner and Anna Gertrude (Conroy) Ham- lin; grandson of Nathan Sumner and Harriet (Fletcher) Hamlin, and a direct descendant from James Hamlin, who emigrated from Cornwall, England, and settled in Barnstable. Massachusetts colony, in 1639. Charles was fitted for college at the Roxbury Latin school and was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1883, LL.B. and A.M., 1886. He practised law in Boston and was an unsuccess- ful Democratic candidate for state senator in 1886 and 1887, and for secretary of state in 1892. In April, 1893, he was appointed by President Cleve- land assistant secretary of the U.S. treasury and served through the administration. He was appointed to represent the secretary of the treas-

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ury to confer with and assist a commission appointed by congress to arrange a new system of accounting, which was enacted into law. In order to furnish better protection to the seal herd in the Bering sea he went to Alaska in 1894 and after visiting the entire coast line made an exhaustive report on conditions as he found them. He re- signed the office of assistant secretary in April, 1897, and was at once appointed by President McKinley commissioner of the United States to serve with ex-Sec- retary John W. Foster in negotiating for a settlement of the fur seal contro- versy then pending between the United States, Great Britain, Japan and Russia. He went to Japan, where he conferred with the government upon the matter and on his return in the fall of 1897, he was appointed with John W. Foster and David Starr Jordan, a delegate wnth full powers to the convention between the United States, Russia and Japan, held at Washington in Novem- ber, 1897, where a treaty was concluded. He was then appointed with Mr. Jordan, a delegate to a convention between the United States and Great Britain, wdiich was attended by the Hon. John W. Foster, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Louis Davies, Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson and Sir Julian Pauncefote. He was made presiding officer of this convention and signed the agree- ment there drawn up and accepted. At the close of his diplomatic service he returned to the practice of law in Boston. He was for several years secretary of the New England tariff reform league, president of the Anti-Double Taxation league of Massachusetts; vice-president of the Massachusetts reform club, the New England free trade league, and the Young Men's Demo- cratic club of Massachusetts; member of the Civil Service league; of the New York reform club; of the executive committee of the Indian- apolis sound money league; of the committee of five appointed by the American economic asso- ciation to devise a fiscal system for the new dependencies; and of the leading clubs and liter- ary associations of Boston, New York and Wash- ington. He received the degree of LL. D. from Washington and Lee university, Va., in 1896. He was married, Jime 4, 1898, to Huybertie Lansing, daughter of Chancellor J. V. L. Pruyn of Albany, N.Y.