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=Hackett, Horatio Balch.= _Ms._, 1808-1875. A Baptist clergyman,
professor at Newton Seminary, Massachusetts, 1839-70, and from 1870
till his death professor in Rochester Seminary, New York. He was one
of the American Revisers of the Bible, and editor of Smith’s Bible
Dictionary. A Commentary on the Original Text of the Acts of the
Apostles is his chief work. Others are, Memorials of Christian Men in
the War; Illustrations of Scripture by a Tour in the Holy Land. _See
Memorials of, 1876._
=Hackett, James Henry.= _N. Y._, 1800-1871. A popular actor, noted for
his impersonation of Falstaff. Notes and Comments on Shakespeare.
=Hackley, Charles William.= 1808-1861. An Episcopal clergyman who
was professor of mathematics at Columbia College from 1843 until his
death. Treatise on Algebra; Elementary Course in Geometry; Elements of
Trigonometry.
=Haddock, Charles Brickett.= _N. H._, 1796-1861. Nephew of D. Webster,
_infra_. A professor of rhetoric at Dartmouth College, 1819-50, and
chargé d’affaires in Portugal, 1850-54. He originated the railway
system of New Hampshire, and also the system of common schools in that
State. His Addresses and Miscellaneous Writings appeared in 1840.
=Hadley, Arthur Twining.= _Ct._, 1856- ----. Son of J. Hadley, _infra_.
President of Yale University from 1899; previously a professor of
political science there. Private Property and Public Welfare; Railroad
Transportation, its History and Laws; Report on the System of Weekly
Payments. _Put._
=Hadley, James.= _N. Y._, 1821-1872. A philologist who was Greek
professor at Yale University, 1848-72. Lectures on Roman Law; A
Greek Grammar; Elements of the Greek Language; Essays, Philological
and Critical; Brief History of the English Language. _See The New
Englander, January, 1873._ _Ap._
=Hageman, Samuel Miller.= _N. J._, 1848- ----. Grandson of S. Miller,
_infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman who has published Once, a novel; and
several volumes of poems, including Vesper Voices; Greenwood, and Other
Poems; Silence; Saint Paul.
=Hagen, Hermann August.= _P._, 1817-1893. An entomologist of prominence
who came to Cambridge from Königsberg in 1870, and was professor of
comparative zoölogy at Harvard University. Catalogue of Neuropterous
Insects in the British Museum; Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North
America; North American Astacidæ; Some Insect Deformities.
=Hagen, Theodor von.= _G._, 1823-1871. A musician who came to New
York city from Germany in 1854. Civilisation und Musik; Musikalische
Novellen.
=Hager, Albert David.= _Vt._, 1817-1888. A geologist, from 1877
librarian of the Chicago Historical Society. Geology of Vermont (with
C. H. Hitchcock, _infra_); Economic Geology of Vermont.
=Hager, Mrs. Lucie Caroline [Gilson].= _Ms._, 1853- ----. A
Massachusetts writer who has published Boxborough, a New England Town
and its People.
=Hagert, Henry Schell.= _Pa._, 1826-1885. A noted _nisi prius_ lawyer
of Philadelphia. Poems, with Memoir by C. A. Lagen (1886).
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