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Iuka, Sept. 12, 1862; and at Corinth, Oct. 3-4, 1862, 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 Wisconsin, 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 Iuka and Hamilton's Division at Corinth in Battles 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 York, and in the New Albany (later the McCormick) theological seminary in Chicago, 1854-55. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Nassau, Nov. 25, 1858; and was pastor at Oyster Bay, L.I., 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 Jersey veteran volunteer infantry in the civil war, serving 1863–65. He was pastor in Hamilton, Ohio, 1866-68; professor 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 college, 1883-91. He defined and reviewed for the Standard dictionary in New York, 1891-94; was professor of philosophy at Whitworth college, at Sumner, Wash., 1894-95, and professor of philosophy and oratory at the State university of Washington from 1895. He received the degree of D.D. from Wabash college, Indiana, and from Monmouth college, Illinois, in 1877. He advocated a system of metaphysical philosophy entitled "Perceptionalism." He is the author of: A New Analysis in Fundamental Morals (1874); The Human Mind (1883); Mental Science (1886); The Modalist (1889); and The Perceptionalist (being Mental Science revised) (1899).

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HAMILTON, Frank Hastings, surgeon, was born in Wilmington, Vt., Sept. 10, 1813. 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 surgery in his office in Auburn, 1835-39; and professor 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 professor of the principles and practice of surgery in the Long Island college hospital, 1858-68; professor of military surgery, fractures and dislocations and professor of clinical surgery in Bellevue hospital medical college, New York city, 1861–68, and succeeded Dr. James R. Wood as professor of the principles and practice of surgery with operations in the latter institution, serving 1868-75. He was surgeon of the 31st N. Y. volunteers; and had charge of the general field hospital, Centerville, Va., July 21-22, 1861. He was promoted brigade-surgeon in 1861 and became medical director of Franklin's division. General McClellan appointed him medical director of the 4th corps, army of the Potomac, and in September, 1862, he organized and took charge of the U.S. general hospital in Central Park, New York, and in February, 1863, was made medical inspector of the U.S. army with the rank of lieutenantcolonel. In September, 1863, he resigned his commission and returned to New York, and after 1875 was visiting surgeon to Bellevue hospital, 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 approving the treatment pursued early 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 York 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 York 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 College of physicians and surgeons in 1868, and received 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 оп Fractures and Dislocations (1860, 7th ed., 1884); Practical Treatise on Military Surgery (1861); and The Principles and Practice of Surgery (1872, 2d ed., 1873). He edited The Surgical Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion (1871). He died in New York city, Aug. 11, 1886.

HAMILTON, Hamilton, artist, was born in England, April 1, 1847. He removed to the United States with his parents and settled in Cowlesville, N. Y., where he was educated. He did not receive an art education but himself cultivated his natural talent. In 1872 he opened a studio in Buffalo, N. Y., as a portrait painter; later travelled in the west and in France, and in 1881 removed to New York city, where he became well known as a landscape and genre painter and as an etcher. He was elected an associate National academician in 1886, and an academician in 1889; and also became a member of the American water color society and the New York etching club. Among his notable paintings are: The Sisters (1882); Little Sunbeam; and The Messenger.

HAMILTON, James, governor of Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1710; son of Andrew Hamilton, attorney general of Pennsylvania, 1717-21. He succeeded his father as prothonotary of the supreme court; was a member of the assembly, 1735-40; mayor of Philadelphia,

1745-46; a member of the provincial council, 1746-47; visited London, England, in 1748; was lieutenantgovernor of the province and territories of Pennsylvania by appointment of the sons of William Penn, 1748-54; engaged in defending the state against the Indians, 1755; was again deputy-governor, 1759-63; governor of the province and president of the council, May 4 to Oct. 16, 1771; acting governor for the fourth time, July 19 to Aug. 30, 1773; and a prisoner on parole during the occupation of Philadelphia by the British.

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He was a trustee of Philadelphia college, 1755-83, and president of the board, 1764 and 1771-73; and president of the Philosophical society when it united with the Society for promoting useful knowledge. In the first election of the combined societies he was the unsuccessful candidate for president against Benjamin Franklin. He died in New York city, Aug. 14, 1783.

HAMILTON, James, statesman. was born in Charleston, S.C., May 8, 1786; son of Maj. James Hamilton, an aide of General Washington. He was educated as a lawyer and practised in Charleston. He was a major in the war of 1812 and saw service on the Canadian frontier. He was for several terms mayor of Charleston, and detected and put down the Denmark Vesey negro

conspiracy of 1822. He was a representative in the state legislature and in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th congresses, 1821-29. He advocated free trade, state-rights, and direct taxation in congress, actively supported Andrew Jackson, and declined the portfolio of war and the mission to Mexico. Upon the passage of the tariff act of 1828 he counselled armed resistance. He was governor of South Carolina, 1830-32, and in his message to the state legislature recommended the passage of the nullification act. In 1829 he was appointed by Governor Hayne to the command of the troops raised to sustain the nullification act. He removed to Texas, where he used his influence for the republic and secured its recognition by Great Britain and France and represented the new republic abroad as minister plenipotentiary in 1841. He then advocated its admission into the Union, was prominent in state councils, and was elected U.S. senator to succeed James Pinckney Henderson, who died June 4, 1857, and when en route to Washington to take his seat was lost at sea in a collision between the steamers Galveston and Opelousas, in the latter of which he was a passenger, he having surrendered his seat in the life boat to a lady. He was one of the founders of the Bank of Charleston, was interested in transportation enterprises and in extending southern commerce, and helped to found the Southern Quarterly Review. He died at sea near the coast of Texas, Nov. 15, 1857.

HAMILTON, John, governor of New Jersey, was born probably in East Jersey about 1692; son of Andrew Hamilton, governor of East and West Jersey, 1692-97, and again, 1699-1701, and deputy-governor of Pennsylvania, 1701-03, who is credited with the first organization of a postal service and received a patent from the crown for its establishment in 1694. John was a member of the council of Governor Hunter in 1713 and retained his seat under Governors Barnet, Montgomerie and Crosby, and on the death of Governor Crosby, March 31, 1736, Hamilton became acting governor and served till the appointment of Lewis Morris in 1738. After the death of Governor Morris in 1746 Hamilton was again acting governor up to the date of his death, which occurred in Perth Amboy, N.J., June 17, 1747.

HAMILTON, John B., surgeon, was born at Otter Creek, Jersey county, Ill., Dec. 1, 1847. He attended Hamilton grammar school and was graduated from the Rush medical college, M.D. in 1869. He was engaged in general practice, 1869-74; was married in 1871 to Mary L. Frost; was assistant surgeon with the rank of first lieutenant in the U.S. army, 1874-76, and served at St. Louis barracks in the department of the Columbia at Fort Colville. He resigned from the army in September, 1876, to enter the U.S.

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marine hospital service as assistant surgeon. He served in New York city and Boston, Mass., 187679. He was promoted surgeon in June, 1877, and in April, 1879, was appointed supervising surgeongeneral as successor to Gen John 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 incumbency of the office he succeeded in having the national quarantine acts passed, and managed the campaign against two

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lature of the state of Florida in 1889. In June, 1891, when congress refused to make the salary of his office the same as that of the surgeon-generals of the army and navy, he resigned his commission as surgeon-general of the marine hospital corps and resumed his place as surgeon in the corps. He was in charge of the U.S. marine hospital, Chicago, Ill., 1891-96, 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, Ill., 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; professor of surgery in the Chicago polyclinic and consulting surgeon to St. Joseph's hospital. In 1887 he was secretary-general of the Ninth international medical congress held in Washington, and in 1890 he was a delegate from the U.S. government to the International medical congress held in Berlin. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Georgetown in 1889, and was made an honorary member of the Société française d'hygiène of Paris in 1890. He died at Elgin, Ill., Dec. 24, 1898.

HAMILTON, John McLure, painter, was born in Philadelphia, 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 École des beaux arts in Paris and in 1875 returned to Philadelphia and opened a studio. He settled in London in 1878. He published in collaboration with Robert Arthur and Dewey Bates L'Academie pour Rire, a lithographic brochure (1878); and painted numerous noteworthy pictures including Le Rire (1877); and portraits, especially Gladstone, in the Luxemburg gallery (1888), Cardinal Manning (1888), Watts (1889), Leighton (1890), Tyndall (1890), Gladstone in Downing Street and The Hon. Richard Vaux, both in the Pennsylvania academy of the fine arts: E. Onslow Ford, R.A, Cosmo Monkhouse, Jean François Raffaelli, 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, Ohio, 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 Malden, 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 secretary of the Freedmen's aid and southern education society from 1896; and superintendent of educational work for the Methodist Episcopal church in the sixteen southern states. He published: Memorial of Jesse Lee (1875); Lives of the Methodist Bishops (1883); People's Church 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

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Knoxville, July 16, 1792, he was admitted to practice in the new territory south of the Ohio, the other lawyers admitted being Luke Bowyer, Alexander Outlaw, Archibald Roane, Hopkins Lacy, John Rhea and James Reese. He was made judge of the circuit court and attained high rank as a jurist. The Gammons cf Jonesboro and of Knoxville, the Blairs of North Carolina and the Van Dykes of Athens and Chattanooga, Tenn., are among his descendants. He was one of the incorporators of Blount college, Sept. 16, 1794. The date of his death did not appear on any record accessible to the writer of this sketch.

HAMILTON, Kate Waterman, author, was born in Schenectady, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1841; daughter of Farwell and Ruth (Cady) Hamilton, granddaughter of Peter and Anne Cady and of Joseph and Persis Hamilton, and a descendant of Hamilton, of Scotch ancestry, born (probably) in Ireland, who came to America in 1718, and settled in Worcester county, Mass. Her ancestors on both sides were patriots in the Revolu tionary war. She was educated in Steubenville, Ohio, and resided for some time in New Jersey and also in Massachusetts and settled in Bloomington, Ill., about 1870. Many of her articles and stories appeared under the pen-name "Fleeta." She is the author of Sunday-school books: Chinks of Clannyford; Greycliffe; Brave Heart; Blue Umbrella; Old Brown House; The Shadow of the Rock; Norah Weil; Frederick Gordon; Wood, Hay and Stubble; The Hand with the Keys; Thanksgiving Ann, and other missionary leaflets, all published before 1880; and novels: Rachel's Share of the Road (1882) and The Parson's Proxy (1896). She also contributed to magazines and newspapers.

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HAMILTON, Morgan Calvin, senator, was born near Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 25, 1809. removed to Texas in 1837 and was a clerk in the war department of the republic, 1839-45; acting secretary of war, 1842-45; comptroller of the state treasury, 1867-68, by appointment of the commander of the 5th military district; a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1868; and U.S. senator, 1870-77, drawing the short term at his first election and being re-elected in 1871. He was a prominent Republican and after the close of his second term returned to private life. He died at San Diego, Cal., Nov. 21, 1893.

HAMILTON, Morris Robeson, librarian, was born at Oxford Furnace, Sussex county, N.J., May 24, 1820; son of Gen. Samuel R. and Eliza (Robeson) Hamilton; grandson of John and Phoebe (Ross) Hamilton of Princeton, N.J.; great-grandson of John Hamilton, acting gov ernor of New Jersey, 1736-38 and 1746-47; and great grandson of Andrew Hamilton, who came

from Scotland to America in 1685, settled at Perth Amboy and was governor of New Jersey, 1692-1701. He was fitted for college at Trenton academy and the Lawrenceville high school and was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1839. He was admitted to the bar and practised in Camden, N.J., 1842-44, and at Philadelphia, Pa., 1844-49. He was also employed in the Philadelphia post-office, 1844-49, and in the latter year removed to Trenton to become editor of the True American. In 1853 he resigned to accept a position on the staff of the New York National Democrat and was subsequently connected with the Sussex, N.J., Herald, the Camden Democrat, the Newark Journal, the Sussex Record, the Kansas City News and the Philadelphia Record. He was a member of Governor Fort's staff with the rank of colonel, 1851-54, and in 1884 was appointed state librarian of New Jersey. He was married in 1844 to Harriet Pennington, daughter of John and Mary (Pennington) Halsted of Newark, N.J. They had seven children: their son Ellis was captain of Company F, 15th N.J. vols., and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness in May, 1864; and another son, Henry, published a much approved metrical translation of Virgil's Eneid, and at the time of his death (1893) was actuary of the Penn Mutual life insurance company of Philadelphia, Pa. Colonel Hamilton was in 1900 engaged in writing a history of New Jersey.

HAMILTON, Paul, governor of South Carolina, was born in St. Paul's parish, S.C., Oct. 16, 1762. As a youth he took an active part in the war of the American Revolution and at its close engaged in the banking business in Charleston, S.C. He was comptroller of the state, 1799-1804; governor, 1804-06, and secretary of the navy in the cabinet of President Madison, 1809-13. Under his direction four line-of-battle ships of seventyfour guns each were built, besides six frigates and six sloops of war. It was the plan of Secretary Hamilton to use the larger ships for the defence of the American harbors and coast and to meet the British warships with the smaller and faster sailing frigates and sloops. His caution in directing the Constitution to remain in Boston harbor was severely criticised, and when, despite his orders, that vessel captured the Guerriere, Aug. 18. 1812, the United States captured the Macedonian, October 25, and the Constitution captured the Java, December 30, the prowess of the American navy disproved the wisdom of the secretary's caution, and he was asked to resign, which he did in December, 1812. He retired to his estate at Beaufort, S.C., where he died, June 30, 1816.

HAMILTON, Robert, representative, was born at Hamburg, N.J., Dec. 9, 1809; son of Benjamin and Sarah (Edsall) Hamilton; grandson of James and Sarah (Price) Hamilton, and of James and

Mary (Simpson) Edsall, and descended from Samuel Edsall, who emigrated from England to America in 1650 and settled in New Amsterdam. Robert was educated in the public schools of New Jersey and was admitted to the bar in 1836. In the same year he was married to his cousin, Sarah A., daughter of Joseph E. Edsall of Hamburg, a representative in the 29th and 30th congresses, 1845-49. Mr. Hamilton became a prominent law. yer and was identified with politics, being a member of the New Jersey general assembly, a delegate to the Democratic national conventions at Charleston and Baltimore in 1861, and holding other positions, civil and political. He was a representative in the 43d and 44th congresses, 1873-77. He died at Newton, N.J., March 14, 1878. HAMILTON, Schuyler, soldier, was born in New York city, July 25, 1822; son of John Church and Maria Eliza (Van den Heuvel) Hamilton; grandson of Gen. Alexander and Elizabeth (Schuyler) Hamilton; and great-grandson of Gen. Philip Schuyler. He was graduated at the

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on the field for dead, but revived and fought the battle; and was brevetted captain for gallantry at Mil Flores, Aug. 13, 1847, where he was severely wounded by being run through with a lance, which passed entirely through his body and left lung, in a hand to hand combat with a Mexican lancer. He was promoted first lieutenant in March, 1848; was acting aide to Gen. Winfield Scott, 1847-54, and resigned from the army May 31, 1855, at San Francisco, Cal. When the civil war broke out he marched as a private in the 7th regiment, N.Y.S.M., went with that organization to the defence of Washington and offered to pledge himself for canteens and haversacks furnished the regiment, and paid for their transportation. He afterward served on the staff of Gen. B. F. Butler; was appointed military secretary with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, U.S.A., on the staff of Gen. Winfield Scott, serving from May 9, 1861, until he retired Nov. 1, 1861; and in

that capacity he was instrumental in preventing the murder of certain Confederate prisoners of war captured on the battle-field of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. He was thanked for this service by the President in the presence of General Scott and members of the cabinet, but no publicity could prudently be given to the service at the time. He was appointed additional aide-de-camp to General Scott with the rank of colonel and served from Aug. 7 to Nov. 12. 1861, when the aides-decamp were disbanded. He was then made assistant chief of staff to Gen. H. W. Halleck with rank of colonel, accompanied that officer from New York to St. Louis, and was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, Nov. 12, 1861. He was with Grant's army operating in western Kentucky and Tennessee and suggested to General Pope the canal to cut off the enemy's position at Island No. 10, and in the assault on that island and New Madrid he commanded a division. He was promoted majorgeneral of volunteers, Sept. 17, 1862, for "meritorious services" at New Madrid and Island No. 10, and had accepted his promotion in good faith, thus vacating his commission of brigadier-general of volunteers, which had been confirmed by the senate, when he was seized with swamp fever and incapacitated from active service. He soon after received a letter from General Halleck demanding his resignation, under the rule that no officer unable to take the field should be named to the senate for confirmation, and after consult

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ing with General Scott he resigned in February, 1863. He is credited with making possible the capture of Island No. 10, called by the Confederates the Thermopyla of America," and thus opening the Mississippi; with suggesting the name of W. T. Sherman to General Scott for a place on the list of the regular army in 1861; and with prevailing on General Halleck to appoint General Grant to the command of the army to operate against Forts Donelson and Henry. He was an executor of the last will and testament of Gen. Winfield Scott. In June, 1871, he memo. rialized the secretary of war with a view to being

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