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succeeded Burnside. For his active service and conduct he was promoted brigadier-general of vohmteers, Xov. 29, 1862, and assistant adjutant- general with the rank of major in 18(58, and was on special duty in the war department, 1863-66. He was assistant secretary to the secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton during the remainder of his term of service and thereafter to acting secre- taries Grant, Schofield and Rawlins. He was further promoted inspector-general with the rank of colonel, March 24, 1864, and in 1865 he was brevetted brigadier and major general in the regular establislunent for his services during the war. He died in Washington, D.C., May 5, 1876. HARDIE, Robert Gordon, painter, Avas born iu Brattleboro,Vt., March 29, 18.j4; son of Robert Gordon and Frances (Hyde) Hardie. His pater- nal grandfather was a Virginia planter and his grandmother was born in London. He received his early education in the schools of Brattleboro and Rutland and in 1874 began his art studies at the Na- tional academy of ' ^ «•*. 1 design and the Art

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V'^^^ where he studied for

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£!cole des beaux arts under Gerome and ^ "' ^ I Cabanel, being grad-

uated with full Jp -U ' / honors in 1883. He

ffsif'ijlrdlni ^iilA-du._ exhibited in the Paris salon in 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1882. He then returned to the United States and in 1884 opened a studio in New York city with a summer studio at Brattleboro, Vt., devoting his time entirely to portrait paint- ing. He afterward opened a studio in Boston, Mass., but continued to make his headquarters in New York. In 1888 he was married to Cath- arine, daughter of Senator Shelby M. CuUom of Illinois. She died a few years later and he was married, Oct. 26, 1899, to Amy Sigourney, young- est daughter of Dr. Robert Stone of New York city. Among his more notable works are por- traits of the Hon. David Dudley Field ; Justice Marcus Morton and Justice Brigham of the Massachusetts supreme and superior courts, re- spectively; the Hon. Robert M. Morse; the Hon. Eustace C. Fitz; Gen. Henry Abbot, U.S.A. : Dr. James Page ; Mr. Horace White, editor of the New York Evening Post; S. P. Langley of the Smith- sonian institution; the Hon. Redfield Proctor; Prof. Simon Newcomb ; Prof. Bradbury L. Cilley of Phillips Exeter academy, and President Eliot

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of Harvard. Mr. Hardie was elected a member of the Society of American artists, the Artists' Fund society, the Players" club of New York, the Uniou club ot Bt)ston, and several other organizations.

HARDIN, Benjamin, representative, was born in Westmoreland county. Pa., in 1784. His father was a brother of Lieut. John Hardin and removed with the Hardin families to Kentucky in 1786. Benjamin was admitted to the bar in 1806 and practised in Bardstown, Ky. He was a rep- resentative in tlie state legislature, 1810-11, and again 1824-25; in the 14th congress, 1815-17, and in the 23d and 24th congresses, 1833-37 ; secretary of the state of Kentucky, 1844-47; and a member of the state constitutional convention of 1849, He died in Bardstown, Ky., Sept. 24, 1852.

HARDIN, Charles Henry, governor of Mis- souri, was born in Trimble county, Ky., July 15, 1820; son of Charles and Hannah (Jewell) Hardin. His father, a native of Virginia, settled in Columbia, Mo., in 1821. His mother was a sister of Dr. William Jewell. Charles Henry was a student at Columbia, Mo., at the Indiana state university, and at Miami university, Miami, Ohio, where he was graduated A.B..1&41, A.M., 1844. He was admitted to the bar at Fulton, Mo., in 1843. He was state attorney for the 3d judicial circuit, 1848-52; a represen- tative in the state legislature, 1852-60; a commissioner to revise and codify

the laws of the state in 1855; voted against secession in 1861 ; was a state senator, 1860-63 and 1872-74; and a farmer near Mexico, Mo., 1861-65. He practised law in Mexico after 1865, and was elected as a Democrat, governor of Missouri, serving, 1875-77. He founded Hardin female college, Mexico, Mo., in 1873, giving to the institution property valued at over 860,000, and was the first president of its board of di- rectors. He was a trustee of William Jewell college, 1873-89; and of Lincoln institute, 1875- 76. He received the honorary degiee of LL. D. from William Jewell college in 1890. He died in Mexico, Mo., July 29, 1892.

HARDIN, George Anson, jurist, was born in Winfield, Herkimer county. N.Y., Aug. 17, 1832; son of CoL Joseph and Amanda (Backus) Hardin, and grandson of Nathan and Philena (Clark) Hardin of Connecticut. He was educated at Union college, 1853-54; admitted to the bar in

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