HART8HORXE
HAETSTEXE
lector of the port of Philadelphia from A.ugust,
1880. He was major-general in command of the
Pennsylvania national guard, 1879-89. An eques-
trian statue in bronze, one and one-half life size,
executed by F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, was placed
in front of the capitol building, Harrisburg, in
1899. On the front of the monument is tlie
inscription: "John Frederick Hartranft. The
hero of Fort Stedman. Born December 16, 1830.
Died October 17, 1889." On the northern side:
"Colonel 4th Pennsylvania Infantry, April 20,
1861-July 27, 1861. Colonel 51st Pennsylvania
Infantry, Nov. 16, 1861-July 2, 1864. Brigadier-
General United States Volunteers, May 12, 1864-
January, 15, 1866. Brevetted 3Iajor-General,
March 25, 1865." On the southern side: "Com-
mander 3d Division, 9tli Corps, Army of the Poto-
mac, 1864-1865." On the rear: " Auditor-General,
May 1, 1866-November 8, 1872. Governor, Janu-
ary 21, 1873-January 18, 1879." He died in Nor-
ri.stown, Pa., Oct. 17, 1SS9.
HARTSHORNE, Charles, capitalist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 2, 1829; .son of Dr. Joseph and Anna (Bonsall) Hartshorne, and a descendant in the fifth generation from Richard Hartshorne, born in Leicestershire, England, in 1641, who came to America in 1669. He was a student at Haverford college, 1843-45, entered the junior class of the University of Pennsylvania in 1845 and was graduated A.B., 1847, A.M., 1850. He engaged in railroad enterprises and was elected president of the Quakake railroad companj- in 1857; president of the Lehigh & Mahanoy rail- road company in 1862; vice-president of the Lehigh Valley railroad company in 1868, its presi- dent in 1880, and again its vice-president in 1888. He was elected a trustee of Lehigh imiversity and of Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges; a member of the board of managers of the Pennsyl- vania hospital ; and a member of the American academy of political and social science. He was married June 8. 1859, to Caroline C, daughter of Edward Yarnall of Philadelphia, and grand- daughter of Thomas Pym Cope.
HARTSHORNE, Edward, physician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 14, 1818; son of Dr. Joseph and Anna (Bonsall) Hartshorne; grandson of William and Susannah (Saunders) Hartshorne, and a descendant of Ricliard Hartshorne, a mem- ber of the Society of Friends from England, who settled in New Jersey in 1669. William Hartshorne was treasurer of tlie first internal improvement society of America, of which George Washington was president. Dr. Joseph (born 1779, died 1850), M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1805, was a celebrated physician, the inventor of "Harts- horne's splint," and attending surgeon at the Pennsylvania hospital. Edward was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1837, A.M.,
1840; and at the University of Pennsylvania,
M.D., 1840. He was a surgeon of the Wills eye
hospital, of the Pennsylvania hospital and of
the Eastern state penitentiary of Pennsylvania.
He was consulting surgeon in the U.S. army,
1861-65, secretary of the executive committee of
the U.S. sanitarj^ commission, Philadelphia;
editor of the Journal of Prison Discipline and Phi-
lanthropy, and wrote Separate System of Prison
Discipline ; notes to Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence
(1854) ; and Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery (1856).
He died in Phrladelphia. Pa., June 22, 1885.
HARTSHORNE, Henry, physician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 16, 1823; son of Dr. Joseph and Anna (Bonsall) Hartshorne; and grandson of William Hartshorne. He was gradu- ated at Haverford college, A.B., 1839, A.M., 1842, and in medicine from the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1845. He was professor of the institutes of medicine at the Philadelphia college of medi- cine, 1853-55; of the pi'actice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1859-66; of hygiene, 1866-67; and of organic science and philo.sophy in Haverford college, 1867-71; and of physiology and hygiene, 1871-76. He also held medical chairs in the Pennsylvania college of dental surgery, in the Woman's medical college of Pennsylvania, and in Girard college. He experimented on himself and others in 1848 to prove the effects and ascer- tain the safety of the internal use of chloroform. He received the honorary' degree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1884. He edited The Friends Pevieic, and is the author of: Monograph on Glycerin; Essay on Cholera; Guide to the Medicine-chest ; Conspectos of the Medical Scien- ces (1869) ; Essentials of the Principles and Practice of Medicine (4th ed , 1874) ; and Summer Songs (1865). He died in Tokio, Japan, Feb. 10, 1897.
HARTSTENE, Henry J., naval officer, was warranted a midshipman in the U.S. navj- from North Carolina in 1828; was a lieutenant in 1840, a commander in 1855, and resigned from the U.S. navy in 1861. He was with the Wilkes explor- ing expedition in 1838 ; was subsequently attached to the coast survey, and in command of the 77- linois. He i-escued Dr. Kane and his i^arty at Upernavik, Aug. 6, 1855, and brought them to New York; conveyed to England the British exploring bark Besolute rescued by Captain Bud- dington and purchased by congress as a present to the British government in 1856. He after- ward engaged in taking soundings for the Atlantic cable. After his resignation from the U.S. navy in December, 1860, he joined the South Carolina forces and had command of the few guard boats that took part in the investment of Fort Sumter in April, 1861, and he was present at the evacua- tion of the fort. He then joined the Confederate States navy and when the Isaac Smith, carrying
