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of the Atlanta campaign and resigned his com- mission after its fall. He returned to his home and was a banker at Galena, Ind., until 1890 when he removed to Chicago and entered largely into real estate business transactions, making his home at Oak Park, Cook county, 111.

HASELTINE, James Henry, sculptor, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 3, 1833; son of John and Elisabeth (Stanlej*) Haseltine, grandson of James Haseltine and a descendant of Robert Haseltine who arrived in Boston in 1637. He acquired his education in Paris and Rome and in 1861 returned to the United States and enlisted in the Union army, serving as major of the 6th Pennsylvania cavalry. In 1865 he returned to Eui'ope and studied art. His statues include: Happy Youth (1858) ; America Honoring Her Fallen Brave (1865) ; Love and Ingratitude (1866) ; Xew Wine (1867); Superstition (1860); Religion (1868); America Victorious {\>im) ; The Ball- Player {IdTtl) \ Ida (1875); Nissia (1876); Kissing Cherales (1818) ; Captivity (1879); Cleopatra (1883); TJie Morning Star (1883); Fortune (1884); Hero (1885); and numerous portrait busts.

HASELTINE, William Stanley, painter, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 11, 1835; son of John and Elisabeth (Stanley) Haseltine; grand- son of James and Abigail (Moores) Haseltine; and a descendant of Robert Haseltine who was born in Lincolnshire, England, and arrived in Boston in 1637 with the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, formerly rector of Rowlejs York, England. He was prepared for college at the scliools of Phila- delphia, attended the Universitj^ of Pennsylvania, 1850-53, and was graduated from Harvard, A. B. 1854, A.M., 1858. He studied art under Paul Weber of Philadelphia, 1854-55, and then went abroad, studying at Dusseldorf, 1855-57, and opening a studio in Rome in 1857. He returned to Philadelphia in 1858, and the following year settled in New York city. He was married in 1860 to Helen Lane, and after her death he was married in 1866 to Helen, daughter of Capt. Charles H. Marshall of New York. He spent the winter of 1866-67 in Paris and thereafter had his studio at the Palazzo Alteiri in Rome. He passed the summer of 1899 in making the tour of the western United States, including Alaska. He was elected an associate national academician in 1860, and an academician in 1861. Among his more notable paintings are: many pictures of Nahant and Narragansett, 1860-67; Capri (1866) ; Taormina (1866); Viexo of Venice (1867); Ostia; Venice; Sorrento; Gastel Fusano ; Eiveira near Bassallo ; Amalfi ; and Devil's Pulpit, Xahant. He died in Rome, Italy, Feb. 2, 1900.

HASKEL, Daniel, educator, was born in Pres- ton, Conn., in June, 1784. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1802; A.M., 1805; taught school.


1803-07 ; read theology under Dr. S. S. Smith a6 Princeton, N.J., was licensed to preach, and was pastor at Litchfield and Middletown, 1807-10 ; of the First Congregational church, St. Albans, Vt., 1810; and of the Calvinistic Congregational church, Burlington, Vt., 1810-31. He was presi- dent of University of Vermont, 1821-24, when ill health compelled him to resign. He edited with J. C. Smith Gazetteer of the United States (1843), and Chronology of the World (1845) ; assisted in editing McCidloch's Geographical Dictionary (2 vols., 1843-44); and published sevei'al sermons. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Aug. 9, 1848.

HASKELL, Daniel Noyes, journalist, was born in Newburyport, Mass., Jan. 1, 1818. He at- tended the public schools, entered the fancy- goods business and early began to contribute to the press. In 1853 he became editor of the Boston Transcript and remained as such till his death. Through the columns of his paper he took an active part in politics, first as a Whig, then in support of the liberal branch of that party and finally as a Republican, but refused all public offices, save that of city councilman, which he held three years. He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 13, 1874.

HASKELL, Edward Howard, soldier, was born at Gloucester, Mass., Oct. 5, 1845; son of William H. and Mary (Smith) Haskell. He was educated in the public schools of the city, and in the printing office of the Gloucester Telegraph, where he was employed, 1859-61. He enlisted in the 23d regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, Sept. 38, 1861, and was assigned to the signal corps of the Burnside expedition He was in the engagements at Roanoke Island, at Fort Macon, and at New Berne, N.C., where he was slightly wounded. In 1863 his regiment joined the army of the Potomac and he participated in the en- gagements at Cedar Mountain, Kelly's Ford, Rappahannock Station and Manassas Junction, He was at tlie side of General Kearny when he was killed at Chantilly following Pope's disaster at the second battle of Bull Run. He was an instructor in the signal service camp of instruc- tion at Georgetown, D.C., 1863-63, and was with Generals Custer, Kilpatrick and Buford in the operations of the cavalry in the rear of General Lee's army in Maryland. He commanded a detachment of the signal corps in General Burn- side's command in the East Tennessee campaign, 1863-64, and in June, 1864, reported to General Schofield and shared in the defence of AUatoona, where he narrowly escaped capture, and at Kenesaw Mountain, where he was almost contin- uously under the enemy's fire, as also at Lost Mountain, Marietta and in the investment of Atlanta. He left Georgia in September and reported at KnoxviUe, Tenn., and his term of