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izine." The University of the city of New York gave him the degree of doctor of music in 1858. His publications number nearly fifty sepa- rate volumes, and include " The Musical Reader " (Utica, 1818); "Dissertation on Musical Taste" rAlbanv, 1822 ; 2d ed., rewritten, New York, 1853) ; •'Spiritual Songs "(New York, 1831) ; "The Moth- er's Nursery Songs " (1834) ; " Anthems, Motets, and Set Pieces " (1836) ; " The Manhattan Collec- tion " (183?) ; " Elements of Vocal Music " (1839) ; "Sacred Songs "(1842); "Indian Melodies Harmonized " (1845) ; " Devotional Hvmns and Poems " (1850) ; " The Presbyterian Psalmodist " (Philadel- phia, 1852) : " The History of Forty Choirs " (New York. 1853); "Selah" (1856): " Hastings's Church Music " (1860) ; and "Introits" (1865).— His son, Thomas Samuel, clergyman, b. in Utica, N. Y., 28 Aug., 1827, was graduated at Hamilton in 1848, and at the Union theological seminary. New York city, in 1851. He was pastor of Presbyterian churches in Mendham, N. J., in 1852-6, and in New York city in 1856-'82. He then became pro- fessor of sacred rhetoric in Union theological sem- inary, 6f which he was chosen president in 1888. He received the degree of D. D. from the Univer- sity of the city of New York in 1865. He edited "Church Melodies" with his father in 1857.


HASWELL, Charles Haynes, civil engineer, b. in New York city, 22 May, 1809. He was edu- cated at the high-school of Jamaica, L. I., and in a classical school in New York city. From his boyhood he showed great in- terest in mechan- ics, and he entered in 1825 the steam- engine factory of James P. Allaire, where he remained for several years. In 1836 he was ap- pointed chief engi- neer in the U. S. navy, and was then the only one of that grade. He was a member of the board that designed

the steam frigates

"Missouri " and " Mississippi." An engineer corps having been organized in 1839, he was promoted to the rank of engineer-in-chief in 1844, and held that office until 1850, when, in consequence of failing health, he left the service. Subsequently he trav- elled in Europe, and on his return settled in New York, and resumed the practice of his profession. He designed and constructed the first practicable steam launch in 1837, and was the first to put zinc into a marine steam boiler or the hold of an iron steam vessel in order that the galvanic action of the salt water and copper might be exhausted on the zinc, in preference to the iron. As engineer of the state quarantine commission he designed and di- rected the completion of Hoffman island and its buildings in the lower bay of New York, and while in the employ of the New York department of public charities and corrections designed and built the crib bulkhead at Hart's island. He was a trustee of the New York and Brooklyn bridge in 1877-'8, and, in addition to membership in all of the principal engineering societies in the United States, he is a member of the institutes of civil engineers and of naval architects in Great Britain. Mr. Haswell has published " Mechanic's and Engineer's Pocket-Book" (New York, 1844; 51st ed. 1887) ; " Mechanic's Tables " (1856) ; " Mensuration and Practical Geometry " (1858) ; " Book-keeping " (1871) ; and has in manuscript (1887) a " History of the Steam Boiler and its Appendages" and " Remi- niscences of New York from 1816 to 1835."


HATCH, Edward, soldier, b. in Bangor, Me., 22 Dec, 1832; d. in Fort Robinson, Neb., 11 April, 1890. In April, 1861, he joined the troops enlisted to defend the national capital, and subse- quently had charge of the camp of instruction at Davenport, Iowa. He was commissioned captain in the 2d Iowa cavalry, 12 Aug., 1861, major, 5 Sept., and lieutenant-colonel, 11 Dec, the same year. He commanded his regiment at New Mad- rid, Island No. 10, the battle of Corinth, the raid on Booneville, and the battle of Iuka. He was promoted colonel, 13 June, 1862, and commanded a brigade of cavalry in Gen. Grant's Mississippi campaign. He was afterward placed at the head of the cavalry division of the Army of the Tennes- see, and was present at the various engagements in which it took part. He was disabled by wounds in December, 1863, and on 27 April, 1864, was made brigadier-general. Under Gen. A. J. Smith, and still in command of a cavalry division, he was engaged in the battles of Franklin (for bravery in which he was brevetted brigadier-general in* the regular service) and Nashville, and in the pursuit of Hood's Confederate army. For gallantry at Nashville he was, in 1864, brevetted major-general of volunteers, and three years later promoted to the same rank by brevet in the U. S. army. On 15 Jan., 1866, he was honorably mustered out of the volunteer service, and on 6 July following he was promoted colonel of the 9th U. S. cavalry, which commission he held twenty-three years. After the war he served in Colorado, Indian and Wyoming territories, and Nebraska.


HATCH, Frederick Winslow, physician, b. in Charlottesville, Ya., 2 March. 1822 ; d. in Sac- ramento, Cal., 10 Oct., 1885. He was gradu- ated at Union college in 1841, and in medicine at the University of New York in 1843. He re- moved to Kenosha, Wis., in 1846, and in 1851 to Sacramento, Cal., where he was professor of ma- teria medica, and afterward of the principles and practice of medicine, in the University of Califor- nia. Dr. Hatch was a trustee, and from 1868 un- til his death president, of the Medical association of California, permanent secretary of the State board of health, and in 1862-'6 president of the board of health of Sacramento. He wrote numer- ous papers on the climate of California, and the medical springs of that state.


HATCH, Israel Thompson, congressman, b. in Owasco, Cayuga co., N. Y.. in 1808 ; d. in Buffalo, N. Y., 24* Sept., 1875. He was graduated at Union in 1829, settled in Buffalo, N Y., and practised law. In 1830 he was assistant secretary of state, was in the state senate in 1852 and in 1856, was elected to congress as a Democrat, serving from 1857 till 1859, when he was appointed postmaster at Buffalo. During his congressional service he was appointed by President Buchanan to report on the reciprocity treaty between the United States and Canada that was ratified in 1854 for a period of ten years. Mr. Hatch was a member of the Constitutional convention of 1867-'8, and for many years previous to his death was engaged in banking and other enterprises in Buffalo.


HATCH, John Porter, soldier, b. in Oswego, N. Y., 9 Jan., 1822. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1845, and assigned to the 3d infantry. Subsequently he was transferred