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=Hale, Edward Everett.= _Ms._, 1822- ----. A prominent Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, widely known as a writer, whose literary activity
covers a wide field. Since 1856 he has been pastor of the South
Congregational Church, and his influence in civic life has been
extensive. As a writer of short stories he will, perhaps, be longest
remembered, his work in this direction including The Man Without a
Country; Ten Times One is Ten; In His Name; Mrs. Merriam’s Scholars;
His Level Best; The Ingham Papers; Four and Five; Crusoe in New York;
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Christmas in Narragansett; Our
Christmas in a Palace. Longer essays in fiction are, Margaret Percival
in America; Mr. Tangier’s Vacations; Ups and Downs; Philip Nolan’s
Friends; The Fortunes of Rachel. Other works of his are, Sketches in
Christian History; Kansas and Nebraska; How To Do It; What Career?;
Gone to Texas; Seven Spanish Cities; June to May, a collection of
sermons; Boys’ Heroes; The Story of Massachusetts; Sybaris and Other
Homes; Sunday-School Stories on the Golden Texts of 1889; For Fifty
Years, a collection of poems; A New England Boyhood, an autobiographic
work; Chautauquan History of the United States; If Jesus Came to
Boston. _See Vedder’s American Writers. See, also, Hale, Susan._ _A. U.
A. Cas. Fu. Lam. Rob. Scr._
=Hale, Edwin Moses.= _N. H._, 1826-1899. Nephew of Mrs. Sarah Hale,
_infra_. A Chicago physician, professor in the Homœopathic College.
Pocket Manual of Domestic Practice; Homœopathic Materia Medica;
Treatment of Diseases of Women; Treatise on Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
=Hale, Enoch.= _Ms._, 1790-1848. A physician in Boston, and a nephew
of the patriot Nathan Hale. History of the Spotted Fever at Gardiner,
Maine, in 1814; Typhoid Fever.
=Hale, Horatio.= _R. I._, 1817-1896. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hale, _infra_.
A lawyer and ethnologist of prominence who lived in Clinton, Ontario,
from 1856. Ethnology and Philology; Indian Migrations as Evidenced by
Language; Report on the Blackfeet Tribes. He has edited the Iroquois
Book of Rites.
=Hale, Lucretia Peabody.= _Ms._, 1820-1900. Sister of E. E. Hale,
_supra_. A writer who is best known by her humourous juvenile books.
The Peterkin Papers; The Last of the Peterkins. Her other works
comprise The Lord’s Supper and its Observance; The Service of Sorrow;
Sunday-School Stories for Little Children; Fagots for the Fireside, a
collection of games; The Struggle for Life, a Story of Home; Art Needle
Work; An Uncloseted Skeleton (with E. L. Bynner, _supra_); The New
Harry and Lucy (with E. E. Hale). _Hou. Rob._
=Hale, Robert Beverly.= _Ms._, 1869-1895. Son of E. E. Hale, _supra_.
Elsie and Other Poems; Six Stories and Some Verses.
=Hale, Salma.= _N. H._, 1787-1866. Brother-in-law of Mrs. Sarah Hale,
_infra_. A New Hampshire jurist who represented his State in Congress
in 1816. History of the United States; Annals of the Town of Keene.
_Har._
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