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COLE, CHARLES CLEAVES, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, was born in Hiram, Oxford county, Maine, May 22, 1841, son of David Hammons and Ruth (Eastman) Cole. His paternal grandparents were Edward Cole of Cornish, Maine, and Mary Ham- mons, daughter of Captain Edmund Hammons, a Revolutionary soldier. His father, David Cole, was a lawyer, late of the Cumberland Bar, and was a cousin of the late David Hammons, formerly of York and later of Oxford county, Maine. His mother was the daughter of Ezekiel Eastman of Cornish, a soldier of the Revolution. The subject of this sketch received his early education in the common schools and at Fryeburg (Maine) Acad- emy, and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill. In August 1862 he enlisted as a private in Company I, Seventeenth Maine Infantry, and during the remainder of the war served in the Army of the Potomac, participating in all the battles and campaigns of that armny from the first Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862, to and including Appomattox, and serving in all the grades from private to Captain. After the war he took up the study of law in Portland, Maine, where he was admitted in October 1866 to the Cumberland Bar. He attended Harvard Law School, graduating therefrom in the class of 1867, and in January 1868 commenced the practice of
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his profession at West Union, Doddridge county, West Virginia. He practiced in that location until July 1870, and from that date until February IS;S at Parkersburg in the same state. During 1869-70 he was Prosecuting Attorney of Doddridge county. and for the years 1874-5-6 was City Solicitor ot Parkersburg and President of the School Board of that city. For the last three years of his practice in West Virginia he was considered one of the leading lawyers of that state. In January 1878 he ren ved to Washington, District of Columbia, and engaged in practice in the Supreme Court of the Unite ' States and the Courts of the District.
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From March 3 1891, to February 11, 1893. he served as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, under appointment by President Har- rison. On January 28, 1893, he was appointed by President Harrison an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District. and on February II following qualified and entered upon the duties of that office, which he at present fills. Mr. Cole's elevation to the Bench was an anpoint- ment that was received with widespread com- mendation and general satisfaction by the press and public, and especially by the Bar or de l' .. trict of Columbia. His thorough familiarity w .: the practices of the courts, his record as a2 atte
lawyer, and his high reputation won by vigorous and efficient management of the District Attorney's office, as well as by the ability with which he had tried important cases, combined to eminently qualify him for the position. Perhaps the case that won him most distinction was the Schneider mur- der trial, which next to the case of Guiteau for the murder of President Garfield, was more exciting, and attracted the attention of the profession and the public generally in a greater degree, than any other ever tried in the District of Columbia. It involved all the questions that arose in the Guiteau case, besides a number of others of great impor- tance. Schneider was prosecuted for the murder of his wife and her brother at the same time on the night of January 31, 1892. The trial before the jury continued thirty-three days, and resulted in a verdict of guilty ; it occurred in March and April 1892, and the verdict having been affirmed on appeal in December 1892, Schneider was executed in March 1893. Judge Cole is a Republican in politics, but never held any political office. He was first married January 13, 1869, to Fannie Chisler, of Fairmont, West Virginia, by whom he had two children : Emma and Fred Cole. His second marriage was January 11, 1887, to Elizabeth Settle, of Virginia; the fruit of this union is a daughter, Louise Cleaves Cole.
DWIGHT, REVEREND HENRY EDWIN, M. A., M. D., D. D , Philadelphia, was born in Portland, Maine, son of William Theodore and Eliza ( Brad- ford) Dwight. His father, the Rev. Dr. William T. Dwight, was a graduate of Yale in 1813, was a law- yer in Philadelphia for the ten years 1820-30, and afterwards was for thirty-five years one of the most distinguished Congregational clergymen of New England. The subject of this sketch was graduated at Yale College in 1852, in a class of ninety-two, with college honors. Soon after graduation he was appointed Professor of Latin and Greek in the Brooklyn, New York, Gymnasium (now Polytechnic Institute), following a competitive examination of over seventy applicants. In 1855 he entered Andover Theological Seminary, and after a three- years course of study was licensed by the Andover Association. During 1857-8 he preached with great success at Lowell, Cambridge, Medford and South Boston in Massachusetts, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Lenox, Massachusetts. He was eminently successful in establishing and strengthening these
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churches, being called as pastor to Lowell, Cam- bridge, Cincinnati and Lenox, but finally accepted a call to the pastorate of the historic First Congre- gational Church of Randolph, Massachusetts, where he built one of the finest church edifices in the neighborhood of Boston. His health becoming im- paired by overwork, he repaired to the mountains of Switzerland. Having recovered strength, he entered the universities of Halle and Berlin in Germany, and later became a member of the University of Paris, from whose faculties he received the highest testimonials of scholarship and worth. On returning to America, with the advice of the ablest physicians 1.
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that he should undertake a more active profession, Dr. Dwight se'ected that of medicine, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1867, as Doctor of Medicine. After a competitive examin- ation for the position, to which there were over thirty applicants, he was selected as Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, the oldest and largest in the city, with such comrades as the elder Gross, Pan- coast, D. Hayes Agnew and A. Stille, where he remained as interne and externe for twelve years. As a scholar he has been crowned with the highest honors and testimonials of Yale, Andover, Pennsyl- vania, and Washington and Lee universities in America, as well as of Berlin, Halle and Paris in
Europe. Though laid aside by ill health from the active duties of the pastorate, Dr. Dwight has rendered for thirty years the most useful services in the cause of Evangelical Christianity by establishing and upbuilding churches, over one hundred and twenty-five in number being started and nurtured as Sabbath schools, then organized as churches, by the Home Missionary Society of Philadelphia, of which he has been an honored member since 1863. " There are few men in Philadelphia," says the ed- itor of the Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, " who have had more worthily showered upon them steadfast friendships and earned honors than the Rev. Profes- sor Henry E. Dwight, A. M., M. D., D. D. Born of an illustrious family, which has left a permanent influence upon the educational history of the country, he has pursued a straight course toward that goal around which are gathered honors, respect, admira- tion, love and friendship. His life, if properly written, would fill a volume. The eldest son of Rev. Dr. William T. Dwight, the grandson of ex- President Dwight senior of Yale College and the great-grandson of President Edwards of Princeton, he belongs to the sixth generation of educators. He was properly fitted, through blood and brains, to fill the exalted groove which he has occupied in the eyes of the world. Starting early in life as a teacher, at nineteen he was holding the responsible position of Professor of Latin and Greek in the Gymnasium of Brooklyn. More than four hundred sons of New York and Brooklyn's most influential citizens were, during three years, trained by him, four of whom were valedictorians at our leading universities. From 1859 to 1863 he filled the pul- Dit of one of the prominent churches of Eastern Massachusetts, and built one of the finest churches at Randolph. From 1864 to 1874 he taught anat- omy and physiology in Philadelphia in six of our largest institutes, with twenty-five hundred pupils. While in Europe during the Civil War, he held the honorable position for his country as secret diplo- matic agent in Germany for the sale of $45,000,000 United States bonds, which partly furnished the sinews of war for his country's victories. For two years he was Interne at the Philadelphia Hospital, and from 1867 to 1877 Externe at the same institu- tion, and Medical Director of half of the old city of Philadelphia, all covering the best years of his life. The honors showered upon him by the different colleges of America and Europe began with his diploma (A. B.) from Yale University in 1852, quickly followed by his A. M. in 1855 from the
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same institution ; his divinity honors from Andover Theological Seminary in 1857 ; his diploma 'cum laude' from the University of Berlin in 1862 ; his diploma from the University of Paris 1863, and later his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1867, followed fifteen years later by Doctor of Sa- cred Theology from the University of Washington and Lee, which form an exceptionally brilliant career of a worthy and honored citizen." Dr. Dwight's charit'es are unostentatious but widespread, for in thirty years he has played an important part in the Home Missionary Society of Philadelphia, which has dispensed over three hundred thousand dollars for the spread of the Gospel and the relief of the poor in Philadelphia. A volume compiled and edited by him, describing the methods pursued by that society, took a prize of one thousand dollars, and is a monument to his brilliant authorship. Among other volumes from his pen are the life and writings of the Hon. Vincent L. Bradford, LL. D., D. C. L., an eminent lawyer, legislator and railroad president, which drew with it an annuity of twelve hundred dollars a year ; also the " Life and Character of the Hon. Edward Gillian Booth," of Virginia, an emi- nent lawyer and philanthropist, which received two thousand dollars as a reward ; besides other works, articles, discours es, lectures and addresses in maga- zines, encyclopedias and standard works. Dr. Dwight is still in active practice, a hale, hearty, healthy enthusiast in his profession, and as zealous as ever in the spread of the Gospel and relief of the poor ; as witness the magnificent building, 533 Arch street, for the Home Missionary Society, which he dedicated to God and the welfare of the poor, for which he labored and pleaded, and which is destined to last for a century to come. Dr. Dwight has been engaged in the regular practice of medicine for thirty-three years in one house, 336 South Fifteenth street, Philadelphia. He is a mem- ber by election from 1860 to 1880 of various Euro- pean and Americ: 1 societies. His wife was Emnia Laure Lèman, of Neuchatel, Switzerland. They have two children : Elizabeth Bradford Dwight and Mary Adele Dwight, and grandson, Dwight Garrison.
ESTABROOKE, HORACE MELVYN, Professor of English in the University of Maine, Orono, was born in Linneus, Aroostook county, Maine, January 20, 1849, son of Leverett Evans and Lucinda Home- stead (Young) Estabrooke. He is descended ou
the paternal side from the Estabrookes of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and the Monroes, an old Scotch family of Blackville, New Brunswick ; and on the mother's side from the Youngs of Oxford county, Maine, and the Le Moines, immigrants from France. His early education was received in the common schools, supplemented by four years of study in Houlton (Maine) Academy. In 1872 he entered the Maine State College, now the University of Maine, and graduated with honors in the class of 1876, the largest of the early classes to go forth from that institution. After graduation he pursued the study of French and German under native
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teachers, matriculated at Illinois Wesleyan Uni- versity for the non-resident post-graduate course in physics, and studied elocution under private teachers in Maine, and in Boston in the winter of 1892. His training for active life comprised hard work on the home farm, and a long service as a country teacher, " boarding round." He has always been a teacher, and has taught fifteen terms of com- mon school, one term of high school in Oakfield in the fall of 1875, one term in Maysville fall of 1876, one in Clinton winter of 1877, was Principal of Dennysville High School 1877-8, Principal Pen- broke High School 1878-83, First Assistant Master Maine Normal School at Gorham 1883-91, Professor
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of Rhetoric and Modern Languages in Maine State College 1891 to 1895, and since the latter date Pro- fessor of English at the same institution. Professor Estabrooke was a member of the Superintending School Committee in Linneus in 1872-3. He was Secretary and Treasurer of the Maine Pedagogical Society 1886-91, Vice President 1893-4, President . 1894-5 and has been General Chairman of Com- mittees on Instruction since 1895. He was Presi -. dent of the Maine State College Alumni Association 1891-5, and is a member of the Q. T. V. Fraternity, Maine Pedagogical Society, American College and Education Society, American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Odd Fellows and the Patrons of Industry. He has received from his alma mater the degrees of S. B. and M. S., and from Bowdoin College that of A. M. Professor Estabrooke has always been a Republican, but has never entered actively into politics. He was married in 1880 to Miss Kate A. Clark, of Tremont, Maine ; they have three children : Bessie Read, Carl Bertrand and Marion Corthell Estabrooke.
HALL, GOFF ALFRED, of Washington, District of Columbia, was born in Vassalboro, Kennebec county, Maine, September 19, 1831, son of George W. and Zeruah Wall (Sturgis) Hall, both natives of Maine. He attended the common schools of Vas- salboro and for a short time the Academy of his native town, then for two years or more the public schools of Boston and for one winter in Troy, New York, which much to his later regret ended his school days all too soon. From the age of fifteen, his father having moved from Troy to Washington, District of Columbia, in 1846, he was allowed to spend his time pretty much as it pleased him best - gunning, fishing and enjoying life as boys will who have fond and indulgent parents, having for his associate a twin-brother, who still keeps him close con panionship. About 1847-8 he started in to learn telegraphy, and not long after he became an operator with the Bain Chemical Telegraph Company, who had only two lines of wire, from Washington to Philadelphia. As soon as their lines were finished to New York, the Morse Company, by suit for infringement of some patent, obtained possession of the lines and the whole outfit - oper- ators and all being absorbed into the Morse or Magnetic Company. Young Hall remained with the latter company until April 1852, when he left to try his fortunes in California, going out by way of
Aspinwall and Panama, and arriving in San Fran- cisco in May. Having contracted a fever in Pan- ama, and not finding the climate of the coast suited to the recovery of his health, he returned to Wash- ington in the fall of the same year, and as soon as able to work he went back into the office of the telegraph company. In a week or two he was given the management of the Western Telegraph Office, where he remained until 1853, when he was appointed Cashier of the Washington Gaslight Company. This position he resigned in March 1861, to accept an appointment as Special Agent of the Postoffice Department, secured for him through
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the offices of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, whose friend- ship he has always highly prized. Virginia, Mary- land and Kentucky constituted his territory to look after in this connection, and about one year gave him all the excitement and experience he cared for in that line ; and on his own request he was trans- ferred to the Department in Washington, where he remained until 1863. He then resigned to engage in the auction and commission business at New Orleans, and was appointed by the Secretary of the Navy as United States Prize Auctioneer for the Department of the Gulf, which position he hekl until after the close of the Civil War. During this period the United States prizes and other govern-
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ment sales, including confiscated property, reached nearly six millions of dollars, all of which was duly and promptly paid over to the proper officials with never a hitch or an hour's delay in payment. Acting as the Auctioneer for the sale of confis- cated property rendered Mr. Hall very unpopular in New Orleans, virtually driving him out of busi- ness in that city. But about this time, much to his surprise and without having been consulted, he was tende ed an appointment as Cotton Agent of the United States Treasury for the city of Houston, Texas, to succeed Governor Warmouth of Louisi- ana. Without delay he departed for that city, where he remained for several months, and was then advanced to the position of Deputy Supervis- ing Special Treasury Agent for the Fourth Agency District, with headquarters at Galveston. The seri- ous illness of his wife in New Orleans making it imperative for him to return to that city, he ten- dered his resignation, which was accepted, General Dent becoming his successor. As soon as. the health of his wife permitted he returned to Wash- ington, where with a young friend he went into the grocery business. This proved uncongenial, and he withdrew at a loss. He could not however remain i-lle, and after spending several years in developing a patent, he was in 1872 persuaded to purchase a flouring mill in Pontiac, Michigan. This venture, after three years of the hardest work of his life, was a complete failure, and he lost his all. In IS75 he returned to Washington and com- menced the struggle of life anew, securing a posi- tion in the District Government, where he has since remained, having been advanced to his pres- ent responsible office, that of Assistant Assessor of the District of Columbia. Mr. Hall became a Mason in 1855, passed through most of the minor offices, and in 1861-2 was Worshipful Master of Federal Lodge of Washington, the oldest Lodge in the Capital City. He also filled several offices in the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, and in 1862-3 was Deputy Grand Master of that body, the greater part of the latter year being Acting Grand Master. In 1861 he received all the degrees up to the Thirty-second in the Scottish Rite, the degrees being conferred upon him by the late Eminent Grand Commander, Hon. Albert Pike. He still retains his membership and active interest in these bodies. Mr. Hall is a Republican in poli- tics and a Spiritualist in religious faith. He has been a member of the Republican organization since its first advent as a political party, and was
a Delegate to the National Convention held in Chicago in 1860 that nominated Lincoln and Handlin. He was married in 1856 to Sarah A. M. Miller, of Washington. Ten children have been born to thein, of whom four are living : Mrs. John Swinborne, of St. Paul, Minnesota ; Albert Bruce Hall, Attorney-at-Law, of Detroit, Michigan ; Mrs. Norval Lee Natwell, of Washington, and Mrs. Flavius T. Johnson, also of Washington.
HARVEY, FRANCIS LE ROY, Professor of Nat- nral History in the University of Maine, Orono, was born near Ithaca. in Tompkins county, New York, April 22, 1850, son of Daniel and Arminda (Wilkins) Harvey. His father was a mechanic in his younger days and moved in 1865 to Iowa, where he bought a farm and was one of the pioneers of Humboldt county in that state. His paternal grandfather was of English stock, and his grandmother on the same side came from Holland. His mother's par- ents were of Scotch and Celtic origin. Professor Harvey's love of nature comes from his mother. His early education was received in the public schools of Ithaca. He moved with his parents to Iowa in 1865, and taught fourteen terms in the pub- lic schools of that state from 1867 to 1874. Enter- ing the Iowa Agricultural College in 1868, he graduated from that institution in 1872 with the degree of B. S. In 1886 he received the degree of M. S. from his alma mater, his thesis being " The Forest Trees of Arkansas." He was Student As- sistant in Chemistry for two years and a half, this position being obtained by high standing in chem- istry, was Curator in Entomology for the Natural History Society of his alma mater three years, and President of the society for two years He took a post-graduate course in botany at his alma mater in 1874, and the Harvard summer course in mineral- ogy and geology in 1877. He was Principal of Graded Schools in Iowa in 1873, held the chair of Natural Sciences in Humboldt College (Iowa) 1874, from 1875 to 1881 filled the chair of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry in the Arkansas Industrial Uni- versity, and from 1881 to 1885 the Chair of Biology, Mineralogy and Geology in the same institution. In 1886 he assumed charge of Dr. A. E. Foote's Natural History and Mineral Establishment in Philadelphia. In 1887 he became Professor of Nat- ural History in the Maine State College, now the University of Maine, and still holds this responsible position. Since ISSS he has also been Botanist and
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Entomologist to the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. Professor Harvey has been connected either as a student or as a teacher with the land- grant colleges since 1868 and with Agricultural Ex- periment Stations work since they were organized. He received the degree of Ph. D. in 1890 from the Arkansas Industrial University. He is a corre- sponding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the Torrey Botanical Club of New York, Washington Entomological Society and Portland Natural History Society, and an active member of the American Association of Economic Botanists and Entomologists. He has had instruc-
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tion from such men of note as Professor C. E. Bessey of Lincoln, Nebraska, author of Bessey's Botany ; Professor Geo. A. Jones of Cornell Univer- sity ; Professor W. B. Anthony, formerly of Cornell ; Dr. A. E. Foote, Professor of Mineralogy ; Dr A. S. Welch, author of Welch's Psychology ; Dr. Detenes, formerly Veterinarian for the United States Department of Agriculture ; Professor M. E. Wads- worth, formerly of Colby University ; Professor N. S. Shaler of Harvard ; Professor William M. Davis of Harvard, and Professor J. S. Diller of the United States Geological Survey. He has discovered about fifty forms new to science. belonging to fossil plants, flowering plants, fungi, alga and insects; has de-
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scribed a number of new insects and algæ, and half a dozen plant forms have been named for him by Lesquereux, Peck, Boott and Gray. He began to write articles for the newspapers as early as 1869 upon popular science, education and temperance topics. When elected to a position in the Arkansas Industrial University his attention was called to the natural history of that region, and between 1879 and 1886 about forty articles were published in various science journals and periodicals pertaining to the natural history of Arkansas. While in Arkan- sas that state was explored gratuitously in the inter- ests of Forestry, and a timber map prepared which was published as a Special Bulletin by the United States Census of 1880. While in that state a col- lection of over one thousand species of the native flowering plants was made, three of which were new to science and a large number had never been before reported west of the Mississippi River, and fully seven hundred specimens of rare southwest plants distributed to the principal herbariums of the world. Investigations were made of the plant remains of the coal deposits of northwest Arkansas and about one hundred and fifty species discovered, some twenty of which were new. These collections are recorded in Coville's Catalogue of Arkansas Plants, and in Lesquereux's Coal Flora of the United States, published by the Pennsylvania Geological Survey. From 1886 to date over sixty articles by Professor Harvey have appeared, pertaining mostly to the natural history of Maine, published in various science periodicals, state documents and news- papers. Several papers have been read upon edu- cational topics before county and state teachers' organizations. Many lectures have been delivered upon popular science, geology, economic botany and entomology before granges and State Board of Agricultural Institutes. The following are the most important articles pertaining to the resources of Maine published since 1886 : -
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