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Scientific Society, Sigma Xi, in his senior year. The following four years were spent in studying and teaching at Har- vard University. From that institution he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts (cum laude), Master of Arts. and Doctor of Philosophy. In 1899 he re- turned to Yale and taught in the Biologi- cal department for three years; was then called to take charge of the newly- organized Department of Biology at Le- high University. Address, Lehigli Uni- versity, South Bethlehem, Pa.
HALLMARK, Harry-dele:
Editor; daughter of Harrison P. and Adele McAllister Hallmark; born Aug. 30, 1867, at Pensacola, Florida; received early education at Pensacola; was assistant ed- itor of MeClure's Syndicate; has written short stories and various articles under name of "Anne Rittenhouse," also num- erous articles on "The Well-Dressed Woman," and contributions to the Ladies' Home Journal and Saturday Evening Post. Since 1895 she has been on the editorial staff of The Press. Address, The Press, Philadelphia, Pa.
HALLOWELL, John Rakestraw:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Private Fourth Iowa Cavalry Nov. 2, 1861; Corporal Jan. 15, 1862; Com- pany Quartermaster Sergeant Sept. 1. 1862; First Sergeant May 1, 1864; dis- charged for promotion Jan. 16, 1865. Second Lieutenant Fourth Iowa Cavalry Jan. 16, 1865; honorably mustered out Aug: S, 1865. Elected Oct. 16, 1SS9. Ad- dress, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
HALLSTEAD, William F .:
Railroad official; born March 22. 1836, at Benton, Pa .; received a public school education. In 1852 engaged in railroad business. His complete service has been with the Delaware, Lackawanna & West- ern Railroad; from 1852 to 1872 he served as conductor, dispatcher and assistant superintendent; afterward he became su- perintendent of the main line-Buffalo to New Hampton Junction-and Utica and Bloomsburg Division on the same road. From June. 1966 to July, 1599, he was General Manager, afterward became Sec- ond Vice President, and later President. of the Lackawanna & Montrose Railroad. Address, Seranton, Pa.
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HALSEY, Gains L .:
Jurist; born at Nesquehoning, Carbon County, July 12, 1845; was educated at the Wilkesbarre Academy, the Liberal In- stitute, Clinton, N. Y., and Tufts College, Medford, Mass., where he graduated in 1867. He taught school for a time while at college and for a year after his gradu- ation was a teacher at White Haven, Pa .; went to Washigton, D. C .. in 1868, where he was engaged as a stenographer, and in 1869 and 1870 was stenographer for the Legislative Record at Harrisburg; served as assistant sergeant-at-arms
in the House during 1870-1871, and as a trans- mitting clerk in the House 1871-1872. During this period he was engaged in the study of law and in September, 1872, was admitted to the Luzerne County bar and actively engaged in the practice of law until 1900, when he was elected to the bench of the Court of Common Pleas. Address, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
HALSTEAD, Alexander S .:
Lieutenant United States Navy; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Engineer Oct. 1, 1879; Assistant Engineer July 1. 1885; Passed Assistant Engineer, Sept. 11, 1895; rank changed to Lieuten- ant. March 3, 1839; qualified for general duties of line by examination, 1901; repre- sented Engincer Corps of United States Navy at the Congress of the International Society for Testing Technical Materials at Stockholm, Sweden, in August, 1897. During Spanish-American War served on U. S. S. Raleigh on Asiatic Station, and participated in battle of Manila Bay. May 1, 1898; surrender of Corregidor Island. Manila Bay, May 4, 1895; capture of Grande Island, Subig Bay, and assault on Manila. Aug. 13, 1808. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
HAMAAKER, Winters D .:
Physician; born Sept. 21, 1859, at Schellsburg. Bedford County, Pa .; was graduated from Washington and Jeffer- son College in iss0; was graduated from the Medical Department of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1SS4; resident physician to Presbyterian Hospital, Phil- adelphia, 1884-1885; resident physician
to University Hospital. Philadelphia, 1SS5-1886; practiced medicine and surgery in Meadville, Pa., since 196. Surgeon of Erie Railroad; member of Pennsylvania Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association: member, since 1895. of the Pennsylvania State Board of Med-
ical Examiners, being appointed by Gov- ernors Hastings, Stone and Pennypacker. Married, in 1887, to Lizzie G. Townsend. Address. 8$3 Water St., Meadville, Pa.
HAMAN, C. S .:
Congregational minister; born March 14, 1882, at Nazareth, Pa .; educated at Nazarech Hall, Northampton County, Pa. Pastor of local congregations for six- teen years; Presiding Elder for thirty years, and Bishop of the United Evan- gelical Church for three years. Married Catharine A. Reinoehl March 18, 1958. Prohibitionist in politics. Address, 714 Washington St., Reading, Pa.
HAMER, James Henry:
Physician; son of Dr. James and Caro- line A. Hamer; born Oct. 1, 1847, at Skip- packville, Pa. In 1875 he was graduated from Hahnemann Medical College, Phila - delphia. From 1859 to 1892 he was dem- onstrator of Chemistry. At Hahnemann Medical College he was Professor of Chemistry; is a member of the leading homeopathic medical societies. Since 1901 has been President of Collegeville Board of Health. Address, Collegeville, Pa.
HAMERSLY, Lewis Randolph :
Editor and publisher; born in Wash- ington, D. C., Jan. 17, 1847; received his education in the private schools of Wash- ington. On the maternal side he is the grandson of Commodore T. H. Stevens (who. at the age of eighteen, command- ed one of Perry's ships, the Trippe, at the battle of Lake Erie) and nephew of the late Rear-Admiral T. H. Stevens. U. S. N., who greatly distinguished him- self during the Civil War. On the patern- al side, Mr. Hamersly is a grandnephew of the late Chief Justice Ellis Lewis, of Pennsylvania. for whom he is named. He was appointed an acting master's mate in the navy March 6, 1861, and this probably was the first appointment in the volunteer navy. In December, 1563, he was pro- moted to the grade of Acting Ensign, he being at that time less than seventeen years of age. On July 23, 1866, he was honorably discharged from the volunteer naval service and the same day commiss- ioned as Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. In September, 1869. he resigned his commission. Several years ago a bill was before Congress, which had boon reported favorably by the Committee on Naval Affairs, to place Mr. Hamersly on
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the retired list as Captain in the Marine Corps, to which the then Secretary of the Navy attached the following remarks: "With reference to the request of the committee for an expression of the views of this department on the merits of the bill under consideration, I have the honor to state that, in view of the fact that the information contained in the inclosures of this communication show an enviable record of active service on the part of this gentleman during the late war in the volunteer navy. a commendable record subsequent thereto as a commissioned of- ficer in the Marine Corps, until he was stricken down in the line of duty on board the ship to which he was attached, in a foreign port, condemned by a duly organized board of survey, consisting of medical officers of the navy, and trans- ferred to the Naval Hospital at Norfolk, Va., for treatment for the disease with which he was suffering, and which he contracted in the line of duty, as before stated, it would seem to be unnecessary for an expression by this department of its views as to the merits of the bill further than to suggest that had Mr. Hamersly been retired at a time when he could have been retired justly and law- fully under the existing law, he would have been placed upon the retired list of the Marine Corps, with the rank of Second Lieutenant, which rank he then held. (Signed) B. F. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy." In 1870. a few months after his resignation from the Marine Corps, Mr. Hamersly compiled the first edition of his "Records of Living Officers of the United States Navy." a work which met with such success that in 1871 a sec- ond edition was . called for, and since that date five other editions, the last in 1902. have been published. In 1851 Mr. Hamersly published "Hamersly's Naval Encyclopedia." In 1879 he started the United Service Magazine, of which he has continued to be the editor and pub- lisher for twenty years, the magazine be- ing now conducted by his son. While a Lieutenant in the Marine Corps stationed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, he married, in 1865, Miss Mary Palmer, of Portsmouth, Va. They have four children-one son, L. R. Hamersly. Jr., and three daughters. one the wife of Lieutenant Roland Curtin, of the Navy; one married to R. R. Roose- velt. Jr., of New York City, and the youngest the wife of Paymaster II. E. Biscoe, United States Navy. Mr. Han-
ersly is a member of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Loyal Legion, and of the Army and Navy Club, of New York. Office, 49 Wall St., New York.
HAMERSLY, Lewis Randolph, Jr .:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Eldest son of Companion Lieu- tenant Lewis Randolph Hamersly. Elect- ed Feb. 3, 1892. Educated at Penn Chart- er School. Philadelphia, and Georgetown College. Was graduated from the Law School of Georgetown College. Is editor and publisher of the United Service Mag- azine. Address, 156 Fifth Ave., New York City.
HAMILTON, John:
Member of the Pennsyvania House of Representatives from Philadelphia; was born in County Derry, Ireland, in 1545; emigrated to the United States and lo- cated in Philadelphia in 1865, where he learned carpet weaving; started in the carpet business for himself in 1870; was a member of Council from 1895 to 1897; is a member of the Union League, Trades League and Philadelphia Bourse, and a Director of the National Security Bank; was elected to the House of Representa- tives in 1900; re-elected in November, 1902. Address, 1521 E. Palmer St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
HAMILTON, John Taylor:
Moravian minister; son of Rev. Allan and Jane (Taylor) Hamilton: born April 30. 1859. in Antigua, West Indies: received his preparative education at Moravian Boarding School, Fulneck, England. In 1875 was graduated from Moravian Col- lege, Pa., and afterward, in 1877, from Moravian Theological Seminary. In 1901 received degree of D. D. at the Lafayette College. Married Cecelia Elizabeth Beck, June 7. 1886, at Philadelphia. From 1877 to 1SS1 he taught at Nazareth Hall. He was pastor of the Second Moravian Church, Philadelphia, from 1881 to 1896. Frrom 1586 to 1903 was Professor in Moravian College and Theological Som- inary. He has been associate editor from 18$3 to 1893 of The Moravian: after- ward he became the sole editor from 1883 to 1St, and again from 1897 to 1999. He was a member, from 1998 to 1903, of the Administrative Board of the Mora- vian Church North; also Secretary for Propagating the Gospel, from 1886 to 1899:
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also since 1902. Since 1899 he has been Vice President; is a member of the Mo- ravian Foreign Mission Board Address, Bethlehem, Pa.
HAMILTON, Joseph E .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Bradford County; born in Windham Township, Bradford County, Pa., Feb. 7, 1848; educated in the common schools, Marathon Academy, Marathon, N. Y., and the State Normal School, at Mansfield, Pa .; is engaged in farming. stock raising and the nursery business; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1900 and re-elected in November, 1902. Address, North Orwell, Pa.
HAMILTON, Samuel, A. M., Ph. D .:
Educator; Supt. of Public Schools of Ai- legheny County, Pa .; born in Washington County, Pa., June 30, 1856; his father, Samuel Hamilton, was born in Washing- ton County, Pa., in 1807. and being a man of fine literary tastes, he traveled extensively in Europe, where he married Mary. daughter of Kairns Patterson, of Donegal, Ireland; on his return to Amer- :a he settled on a farm in Washington County, where eight children were born to them, the fourth son being Samuel. After the death of his father he worked for the farmers of the neighborhood in the summer and attended the district school in the winter; at the age of sev- enteen years he taught in the same school where he had been a pupil: while engaged in teaching he studied under a tutor, and during vacation attended the academy at New Texas; later he com- pleted a course at the Laird Institute, a classical school located at Murraysville, Pa .; in this school he assisted as a teacher while carrying on his studies as a student; he also spent some time at the Oakdale Academy. In 1578 he was elected principal of the schools of Char- tiers Borough, in Allegheny County, now known as Carnegie, which position he filled for three years, when he accepted the principalship of the Braddock schools, where he now resides. While teaching he read law with James McF. Carpenter of Pittsburg, but before he was ready for admission to the bar he was ap- pointed, in September, 1856, to the office of County Superintendent of Public Schools of Allegheny County, Pa., to which office he was elected the next spring: he has since been re-elected five
times, and is now serving his sixth term. His written reports to the State Super- intendent of Public Instruction, and the more elaborate report which he annually publishes in book form, are critically studied by the leading educators. Il 1886 he organized the Allegheny County Directors' Association, which is now one of the branches of the Pennsylvania Ed- ucational Association, the successor of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Asso- ciation. of which Superintendent Hamil- ton was the President in 1893-1694. In connection with his editorial work he pursued a course of study under the direction of the faculty of Grove City College and received the degree of Ph. D. from that institution. In 1883 the great steel manufacturer, Andrew Carnegie, gave Principal Hamilton the sum of $500 for the library of the public schools at Braddock; this is said to be the initial act of that phase of philan- thropy to which Mr. Carnegie has since given many millions; for many years he was a Director of the Masonic Hall As- sociation and a member of the Board of Managers of the Carnegie Library; he is a Director of the State Bank at Brad- dock; he served in the City Council six years, and was for three years its Pres- ident. Member of the Calvary Presby- terian Church, of which he is an elder; member of Braddock's Field Lodge No. 510: Shiloh Chapter, No. 257; Gorgas Lodge of Perfection; Pittsburg Chapter Rose Croix; Pittsburg Council Princes of Jerusalem: Tancred Commandery No. 48, Knights Templar; Pennsylvania Consis- tery, S. P. R. S. In 1902 he was crowned an honorary member of the Supreme Council of the thirty-third and last de- gree of the Northern Masonic Jurisdic- tion of the United States. June 2. 1886, he married Minnie M., the only child of John and Sarah E. McCune of Braddock; of this union one son, Paul Holland Hamilton. was born. Mrs. Hamilton died May 9, 1887, and Mr. Hamilton married again June 1, 1898; his second wife was Mary R., the daughter of John and Mary Kennedy of New Brighton, Pa .; to them has been born one daughter, Elizabeth Hamilton. Address, Braddock, Pa.
HAMILTON. Samuel Todd:
Captain United States Army; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania. Pri- vate. Corporal and Sergeant Cos. I and B. and Commissary Sergeant and Quarter- master Sergeant B Fifteenth Pennsyl-
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vania Cavalry Aug. 22, 1862 to June 21, 1865; Second Lieutenant Second Cavalry June 18, 1867; First Lieutenant Nov. 27, 1868; Captain June 14, 1879; retired Aug. 15, 1892. Address, Athenaeum Club, Charles and Franklin Sts., Baltimore, Md.
HAMILTON, Thomas J .:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Le- gion; private Twenty-eighth Infantry July 11, 1861; Corporal July 12, 1861; Ser- geant Jan. 1. 1863; First Sergeant July 1, 1863; discharged for promotion June 12, 1863; First Lieutenant Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry June 13, 1863; Cap- tain Nov. 25, 1864; honorably mustered out July 18, 1865. Elected May 4, 1892. Address, 4931 Parrish St., Philadelphia.
HAMILTON, William T., M. D .:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, Oct. 23, 1864; educated in the public and pri- vate schools of Philadelphia; was gradu- ated at Jefferson Medical College in 1837, served twenty months as resident surgeon at State Hospital, at Ashland, Pa. Prac- ticed medicine at Ashland. Pa .. for three years, returned to Philadelphia in 1892. Member of the Philadelphia County Medi- . cal Society, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and the American Medical Asso- ciation. Address, 933 Huntingdon St., Philadelphia, Pa.
HAMLIN, Byron D .:
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Lawyer and Senator; born in Sheshe- quim, Bradford County, Pa., May 7. 1824. His father. Dr. Asa Hamlin, dying when Byron was but eleven years old, he had to go actively to work to aid in the fam- ily support, beginning by peeling bark from fallen hemlock trees and selling it as fuel. At thirteen he became mail car- rier between Smethport, Pa., and Olean, N. Y., a distance of fifty-six miles, which he made twice a week on a mule. Gain- ing some little education by home study, he began to teach a district school at the age of sixteen, afterward spent a year and a half in Allegheny College, and then be- gan the study of law under his elder brother. Orlo J. Hamlin, who was twenty years his senior, and had won eminence in the law. Becoming a partner of his brother after admission to practice. he made a diligent study of land law and land titles, and in time became the owner of some large tracts of timber and oil lands. which eventually proved very valuable to him. An energetic Democrat, he was
nominated for the Legislature in 1848. but declined. In 1852 he was elected to the State Senate, and, though one of the youngest member, was elected its pre- siding officer in 1854. He was defeated in the succeeding election. In 1868 de- clined a nomination for President Judge. and in 1882 was induced to accept a nomination for the Legislature, but was defeated, his party being then largely in the minority. Address, Smethport, Pa.
HAMIAN. Henry:
President of the Hamlin Bank and Trust Company. Address, Smethport, Mc- Kean County, Pa.
HAMLIN, Henry:
Banker; born in Smethport, Pa., April 9, 1830; educated at Smethport Academy; President Hamlin Bank and Trust Co .: Trustee Fidelity Trust Company, Bur- falo; Director First National Bank of Braddock. Pa .; Empire Coke Company. Geneva, N. Y .; Conklin Wagon Company. Olean, N. Y .; Port Allegany and Cou- dersport Railroad; President of Smeth- port Water Company, Smethport Gas Company, and Great Southern Lumber Company, New Orleans. La. Married Hannah S. McCoy. Republican in poli- tics. Address, Smethport, Mckean Coun- ty, Pa.
HAMMETT, Frederick W .:
President and constructor of street railways: born in Phiadelphia, July 14. 1859; his father, Barnabas Hammett, was a pioneer in the Pennsylvania coal busi- ness, his firm. Noble, Hammett & Co., being the largest coal shipping concern of its day; Asa Parker was its junior member, and was aided by it to con- struct the Lehigh Valley Railroad from Mauch Chunk to Bethlehem. After a preliminary education in academies, Mr. Hammett entered the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania and practiced law in Philadelphia for two years after his graduation in 1981. At the same time he engaged in inining en- teiprises, and was Treasurer from 1981 to 1885 of the Coloba Coal and Coke Company, the first coal mining company in Alabama; he founded the oil mining firm of L. McDonald & Co. in 1983, and after its absorption by the Aetna Oil Company in 1885 became President of the latter: in 1890 this was consolidated with several other oil companies, Mr. Ham- mott becoming Treasurer of the com-
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bination, a position which he still holds; in 1899-1900 he constructed the Philadel- phia, Morton and Swarthmore Street Railway and became its President, and in 1901 was elected President of the Media, Middleton, Aston and Chester Electric Railway Company, which he likewise constructed. He is officially connected with a number of other cor- porations, and is a member of the Union League and the Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia. He married Martha Q. Lane in 1SS3 and has three children, two sons and a daughter. Address, 2106 Tioga St., Philadelphia, Pa.
HAMIMOND, E. R .:
President of the Bolivar National Bank. Address, Bolivar, Westmoreland County,
HAMMOND, Jas. H .:
President of the Superior Steel Com- pany; is the son of Wm. J. Hammond, long connected with the iron business in Pittsburg. He was born March 13. 1368, in the Iron City, and received his early rolling-mill experience in the old Penn- sylvania Iron & Steel Company, operated by W. J. Hammond & Sons. Sheet iron and sheet steel composed the principal product of the old "Pennsylvania Forge," and the knowledge of this industry has been of great assistance to Mr. Ham- mond in the business he is now connected with. Married in 1831 to the only daugh- ter of Jos. S. Seaman, of the Seaman- Sleeth Company, Pittsburg, Pa. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
HANAUER, Simon W .:
Deputy Consul General; born in Bava- ria in 1838; emigrated to the United States when thirteen years of age; nat' uralized in Philadelphia in 1$67; returned to Germany several years later and en- gaged in journalism as a pastime; ap- pointed Vice and Deputy Consul Gen- eral to Frankfort, Germany, March S. 1899: appointed Deputy Consul General, Dec. 1. 1900. Address. Frankfort. Ger- many.
BANCOCK, Albert Elmer:
Professor of English in Haverford Col- lege. Pa .: born in Philadelphia, Aug. 30. 18TO: educated at Philadelphia High School and Wesleyan University. Middle- town. Conn .: traveled abroad for two years (1892-1894): took degree of Ph. D. from Harvard University. 1997: Instructor In Romance Languages in Williams Col-
lege 1838, and since then on the faculty at Haverford. Is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Author of "The French Revolution and
the English Poets," a study in historical criticism; "Henry Bourland, the Passing of the Cavalier, a Novel of the Reconstruc- tion in Virginia." Literary critic for the Outlook. Contributor of fiction and es- says to the magazines. Address, Haver- ford College, Pa.
HANCOCK, Elisha A .:
Soldier and merchant; born near Wilkesbarre, Pa., in 1839; spent his early years at farm work, attending school dur- ing the winter; entered a Wilkesbarre machine shop as an apprentice at fifteen. and worked at his trade of machinist until 1861, when he enlisted in a company at Wilkesbarre to take part in the war. The services of this company, when first offered, were declined, but were accepted in the new call for troops after the bat- tle of Bull Run, Mr. Hancock becoming First Lieutenant of Company H, Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He served in the army until the end of the war, rising to the rank of Major, and taking part in more than fifty engagements. He was with Sherman in his march to the sea. and through the Carolinas, and lost his left leg as the result of a wound re- ceived near the end of the war. Major Hancock was many times highly com- mended for gallantry and for the able and efficient discharge of his duties. Unable. on account of his wound, to return to his trade. he opened a mining supply store in 1866, at Plains, Pa., and in 1875 engaged with his brother in the grain shipping trade at Wilkesbarre. The busi- ness of the firm grew gradually and steadily until it became one of the largest in its line in the United States, being re- moved to Philadelphia as a better cen- tre of receipt and distribution. Four years after moving to Philadelphia. Mr. Hancock was elected President of the Commercial Exchange, and when Govern- or Hoyt took his chair he appointed him Quartermaster General of the State, with the rank of Colonel. While in Wilkes- barre Major Hancock was a Director of the People's Bank, and in Philadelphia he aided in founding and became a Di- rector of the Fourth Street National Bank. He was also for several years a Director of the Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Railroad Company. He is a member of the Loyal Legion. Rit-
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tenhouse and Country Clubs, the Grand Army of the Republic, and several clubs, and has served as Director and Vice Pres- ident of the Union League Address, 2107 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa.
HANCOCK, James D .:
Lawyer; born in the Wyoming Valley, Pa., June 9, 1$37; spent his boyhood on a farm until sixteen. when his family re- moved to Wilkesbarre. There his educa- tion was continued, and was completed at Kenyon College, Ohio. where he grad- uated in 1859; in 1900 the degree of LL .. D. was conferred upon him by Kenyon Col- lege, his alma mater. After two years of teaching in the Western University of Pennsylvania, he began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar of Pitts- burg in 1861. Here he practiced for four years, and then removed to Franklin, Pa., where he built up a large practice, be- coming in 1877 solicitor of the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company, and of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad Company in 1879. being made general solicitor of the latter in 1887. He resigned in 1990. He was nominated by the Democratic Party for Congress in 1892, and for Congressman-at-large in 1894. In 1871 Gov. Hoyt appointed him Trustee of the Insane Hospital at War- ren, which position he held for thirteen years. He was nominated for Elector-at- large in 1896, but declined on account of objections to the party platform. In 1879 the Seneca Indians of the Allegheny River adopted him as a member of their nation, giving him the name of "Nya- Gua-Hai," or "Grizzly Bear." Mr. Han- cock is a member of several reform and other societies. Address, Franklin, Pa.
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