HAYDEN
HAYDEN
States he lectured in all the principal cities. He
was principal of a school, organized the 9th
Presbyterian church, and was stated supply in
various churches in Indianapolis, Ind., 1859-85.
He was president of Coates college, Terre Haute,
Ind., 1885-88, and removed in 1888 to Minneapolis,
Minn., where he engaged in educational work
and supplied the pulpits of various churches. He
received the honorary degree of D.D. from Olivet
college, Mich., in 1876. He was stricken with
paralysis of the brain in November, 1896, and died
in Minneapolis, Minn., July 27, 1897.
HAYDEN, Edward Everett, meteorologist, was born in Boston, Mass., April 14, 1858; son of William and Louise Annie (Dorr) Hayden; grandson of William and Maria (Baxter) Hay- den, and of Alfred and Anne (Lodge) Dorr, and a descendant of John Vassal and Thomas Oliver. He grail uated from the Boston Latin school in 1875, and from the U.S. naval academy in 1879, and stool third in his class at the final examinations in 1881. He served on special scientific duty at the Smithsonian institution and in the U.S. geological survey in the west, and while thus employed was injured in a land slide, which resulted in the lo.ss of a leg and his retirement from active ser- vice. He was stationed at the Harvard college observatory in 1884, in the U.S. geological survey as assistant geologist in 1885-86, and in the United States hydrograpliic office, where he was chief of the division of marine meteorology and after- ward marine meteorologist, 1887-93. He was a member of the American association for the advancement of science and of the Philosophical society, vice-president of the National geographic society, 1890-93, and secretary of the latter, 1894- 97. He was an associate editor of the Ami'i-iran Metporohigical Journal and editor of the MunthJy Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic ocean, 1887-93. At the outbreak of war with Spain he volun- teered for active duty and served in the office of naval intelligence at Washington, and in charge of the observatory at the Mare Island navy yard, California, subsequently visiting Honolulu, Guam, Manila, Iloilo, Cebii and Japan, in connection with his meteorologic and chronometric work. He became an authority on the subject of ocean storms and is the author of numerous papers relating to that and kindred subjects, among which are: The Charleston Earthquake ; A Loop in the Track nf an Ocean Storm ; The Great Storm off the Atlantic Coast of the United States, March 11- 14, 18SS ; West Indian Hurricanes and the Ilarch Blizzard, ISSS ; Tropical Cyclones ; Hurricanes in the Bay of Xorth America ; The Modern Laic of Storms; The Lau- of Storms; The Samoan Hurri- cane of March. 18S9 ; Hydrography ; Storms of the Xorth Atlantic ; and Clock Bates and Barometric rrrssHr,'.
HAYDEN, Ferdinand Vandeveer, geologist,
was born in Westfield, Mass., Sept. 7, 1829. He
was graduated at Oberliu college, Ohio, A.B.,
1850, A.M., 1853, and at Albany medical college in
1853. He explored the "Bad Lands " of Dakota
for Prof. James Hall, state geologist of New
York in 1853, and the basin of the upper Mis-
souri, 1854-55. His collections deposited in the
St. Louis academy of science and in the Phila-
delphia academy of natural sciences, led to his
appointment as geologist on the staff of Lieut.
Gr. K. Warren of the topographical engineers in
the surveying expedition of Captain Humphreys
in Dakota and Nebraska for routes for a Pacific
railroad, 1856-59. He was connected with the
expedition of Capt. W. F. Raynolds in exploring
the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, 18o9-62, as
naturalist and surgeon. He entered the US.
volunteer army in 1862 as assistant surgeon to the
Satterlee hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. , and was pro-
moted surgeon, Feb. 19, 1863, and made chief
medical officer at Beaufort, S.C. He was made
assistant medical inspector of the department of
Washington, February, 1864, and chief medical
officer of the army of the Shenandoah at W^inches-
ter, Va., in September, 1864. He resigned in May,
1865, and was bre vetted lieutenant colonel for
services. He was professor of mineralogy and
geology in the University of Pennsylvania. 1865-
72, maintaining in the meantime his position in
the U.S. geological survey, being U.S. geologist,
1867-79. The Philadelphia acadeni}- of sciences
in the summer of 1866 engaged him in gather-
ing vertebrate fossils in the valley of the upper
Missouri, and in 1867 congress appointed him to
make the geological survey of Nebraska. This
employed his time, 1867-69, and in April, 1869, it
was organized as the geological survej' of the
territories of the United States. He explored
Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, 1869-72,
in the interest of geology, natural history, clima-
tology, resources and ethnology. His report led to
congress setting apart the Yellowstone national
park as a perpetual reservation. Dr. Hayden con-
tinued his geological and geographical survey of
the territories, 1873-79, when the entii'e work was
consolidated as the U.S. geological survey and he
was made geologist -in-chief of the Montana di-
vision. He resigned at the close of 1886 on ac-
count of failing health. He was elected a member
of the National academy of sciences in L856; and
of the American philosophical society in 1860.
He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from
the University of Rochester in 1876 and from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1887. His reports
to the government including " Report of the U.S.
Geological Survej^ of the Territories " which he
edited, embrace a large number of volumes
besides his *' Miscellaneous Publications " and
