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and performed gallant service at Jackson Cross Roads, and in the grand assault on Port Hudson, June 14, 1863, and in the subsequent siege operations resulting in the surrender of that important confederate stronghold, he bore a conspicuous part and distinguished himself by his coolness, judg- ment and bravery. At the expiration of his term of military service, Colonel Greenleaf was offered and accepted the command of the government steamer, Colonel Benedict, on the lower Mississippi.
Soon after the close of the war he took charge of the extensive salt works of Petite Anse Island, St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana. In June, 1867, he removed to Rochester, N. Y., and on the ist of July following, the firm of Sargent & Greenleaf, of which he is the junior member, was organized. The firm of Sargent & Greenleaf manufacture, under patents held by them, magnetic, auto- matic, chronometer and other burglar locks ; combination safe locks, padlocks, drawer, trunk, house, chest, store, door and other locks, night latches, etc., and so successful has the firm been, that to-day their locks of every description have made their way to every part of the civilized world.
In the presidential campaign of 1880 Colonel Greenleaf devoted himself with energy to the support of General Hancock, the Democratic candidate, and organized and commanded the " Hancock brigade " a political-military organization opposed to the Republican organization of similar char- acter, known as the "Boys in Blue." In the early part of February, 1882, he was elected commander of the First New York veteran brigade, with the rank of brigadier- general, and unanimously re-elected to that position in January, 1883. Although he did not seek the honor, in the fall of 1882 the Democratic congressional convention, for the Thirtieth District, at Rochester, nomi- nated General Greenleaf for Congress as a Democrat, and he was elected, receiving 18,042 votes, against 12,038 for John Van Voorhis, Republican, and 1,419 for Gordon, Prohibitionist. He was also elected to the Fifty-second Congress from the same Repub- lican district, and is at present a member of the board of trustees of the Rochester Sav- ings Bank ; of the Rochester park commis- sion ; of the St. Lawrence University at Can- ton, N. Y., and of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Bath, N. Y.
GRINNELL, JOSIAH B., was born in New Haven, Dec. 22, 1821 ; received a col- legiate and theological education ; went to Iowa in 1855, and turned his attention to farming ; was a member of the state Senate for four years ; a special agent for the gen- eral post office for two years, and was elected
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a representative from Iowa to the Thirty- eighth Congress.
GRISWOLD, WILLIAM D., of St. Louis, was born Nov. 6, 1815, in Benson. His father and mother were Isaac and Huldah Griswold.
The son William received his early educa- tion in the common schools and afterwards took a course in Middlebury College. In his preparatory studies he was tutored by the late Rev. Dr. Post, of St. Louis. Soon after leaving college, at the age of twenty years, Mr. Griswold went to the West and began the study of law at Indianapolis. After his admission to the bar he located in the town of Terre Haute and began the practice of law in partnership with John P. Usher, who in after years was made Secretary of the Inte- rior in President Lincoln's cabinet. ~ The law firm of Griswold & Usher became well
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and widely known in the states of Indiana and Illinois, and many important cases were committed to its charge. In the practice in Illinois Mr. Griswold became intimate with Abraham Lincoln and Judge David Davis, and a very sincere regard marked the friend- ship as long as their lives lasted. Having located at Terre Haute in 1838 Mr. Gris- wold continued his residence there for thirty- five years.
In the year 1842 he married Miss Maria Lancaster, of Kentucky, who is still living. They had two children : A son, who is the
well known hotel man, owner and proprietor of the Laclede, of St. Louis ; and a daughter, wife of Mr. Huntington Smith of St. Louis.
After the expiration of the partnership with Mr. Usher, Mr. Griswold gradually re- tired from the practice of law. In 1858 he was placed by a state convention on the Republican ticket with three others, consti- tuting the bench, for judge of the Supreme Court. The ticket was defeated at the polls, whereupon Mr. Griswold took a great inter- est in the railroad development of his section of the country. He built the original Evans- ville & Crawfordsville R. R., and operated it for a period of three years, and was then called to take charge of the Terre Haute, Alton & St. Louis line, which at that time was much involved, badly managed, and fast approaching a state of total wreck. As pres- ident and manager of this road he demon- strated his superior organizing and adminis- trative ability. Later, in the year 1864, Mr. Griswold took hold of the Ohio & Mississippi R. R., and as president and manager brought order out of chaos, and put that important line into the prominent place which it has ever since occupied. It was during Mr. Griswold's administration of seven years that the change of the gauge of the road was reduced from the six foot to the standard width. The work was all accomplished in one day, and without any injury to the trans- portation of the line, and at that date was considered one of the marvels of railroad building.
Mr. Griswold removed to St. Louis in the year 1872, and has proceeded to invest within it and near the borders. He was an excellent judge of real estate values, and has unbounded confidence in the growth and extension of the city. It was this good judgment which directed him to the pur- chase of a large body of land lying on the north side of Forest Park between Kings Highway and Union avenue. The tract was purchased at the price of $1,000 per acre, and lay for years idle, and in the judgment of many business men, a dead piece of prop- erty. Time worked wonders with it, how- ever, and justified all of Mr. Griswold's most sanguine expectations. Three years ago it was purchased by a syndicate of well-known citizens at the handsome figure of $5,000 per acre. It is to-day one of the most attractive residence portions of the city, where all the improvements are made upon a scale of costly elegance. A home in Westmoreland Place or Portland Place implies wealth and taste, fulfilling Mr. Griswold's early concep- tion of the ultimate value of that portion of the city. Mr. Griswold is at present con- siderably interested in property across the river in East St. Louis. He is owner of the gas works of that city. Quite recently he
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bought a thousand acte tract of land in the American Bottom, lying on both sides of the Vandalia Railroad, about six miles east of East St. Louis. He has divided this body of tich arable land into four farms of 250 acres each, upon which he has put many im
portant improvements. In this particular enterprise he has indulged the desire of his heart to provide for each one of his young grandchildren a comfortable and complete farm home, which is to pass absolutely to each one when the youngest reaches his ma- jority. The deed of trust conveying these lands is to their father, Mr. Huntington Smith, who at present manages the property.
Mr. Griswold passes his winters and the cool seasons in St. Louis. In the summer time he takes his family and repairs to his native state, Vermont, where at the hand- some town of Castleton he has provided another home, which lies one and one-half hours railroad distance north and cast of Saratoga, near Lake Champlain, where the winds are cool and refreshing under the morning shadows of the beautiful Green Mountains. Here he finds recreation and pleasure among family and friends and in the atmosphere of a life nearly spent.
HALL, ALFRED STEVENS, of Boston, Mass., son of Edward and Frances A. (Tut- tle) Hall, was born in West Westminster, April 14, 1850.
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The people of his native parish, in his boyhood years, were generally of an intel- lectual cast, and highly appreciated educa- tional advantages and attainments. It is not strange that a naturally good scholar, growing up in such surroundings, should have early possessed good ambitions. After some preparation for college in the home schools, in West Westminster, and at the Williston Seminary and Kimball Union Academy, Mr. Hall entered Dartmouth Col- lege in 1869 and was there graduated in 1873.
It was necessary for him to earn the pe- cuniary means of his education in the main, and to do this he taught school some por- tion of each year for several years. He also taught an entire year, after his graduation at Dartmouth, in Manchester, N. H., where also he began the study of law in the office of Cross & Burnham.
: In the fall of 1874 he went to Boston to enjoy the advantages of a law school. In 1875 he received the degree of LL. B. from Boston University, graduating from its law school. A few months afterwards he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and the first of January, 1876, he began the practice of law in Boston. He has an excellent clientage and practice, and has steadfastly continued at Boston in the pursuit and exercise of his profession, with the exception of about one year, since he there began his life work. Upon him are also devolved many corpor- ate and personal trusts in the line of his professional work and practice.
Mr. Hall was married, Oct. 18, 1876, to Miss Annette M., daughter of Josiah H. and Martha A. (Chamberlain) Hitchcock, of Putney, a lady of exceptional graces and personal worth. She died Sept. 26, 1887, but is survived by a son, Francis C., and a daughter, Helen A.
Ever since his marriage, Mr. Hall has had his home in Winchester, a suburb eight miles out from Boston, and he is identified with the public measures and responsibili- ties of his town and community.
HALL, CHRISTOPHER W., of Minne- eapolis, Minn., son of Lewis and Louisa (Wilder) Hall, was born Feb. 28, 1845, at Wardsboro.
The Leland and Gray Seminary at Towns- hend, Chester Academy and Middlebury College were the sources of Dean Hall's earlier educational acquirements, and occu- pied the years from 1864 to 1871. He was
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principal of the Glens Falls, N. Y., Academy in 1871-'72, and the Mankato, Minn., high school the two following years and superin- tendent of city schools at Owatonna, Minn., from 1873 to '75. From 1875 to 1877 he at- tended the famous University of Leipzig, Germany, and in 1878 he was called to the chair of geology and mineralogy in the University of Minnesota, and has recently received further distinction from that institu- tion, in becoming the dean of the College of Engineering, Metallurgy and the Mechanic Arts.
Dean Hall has long occupied a prominent and active position in his chosen field and is the author of many valuable papers on geological and educational subjects. During the winter term of 1878 he lectured on zoology at Middlebury College and was later, that year, and up to 1879, an instructor in the University of Minnesota. From 1879 to 1891 he was a professor of geology, mineral- ogy and biology, and in 1891 became the professor of geology and mineralogy. From 1878 to 1881 he was assistant geologist of the geological survey of Minnesota and be- came assistant geologist of the United States geological survey in 1883. The Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences at Minneapolis made him its secretary in 1882 and in 1883 the editor of its bulletins, which positions he held uninterruptedly to the present time.
Such a busy life has left no time for polit- ical work. While at college he was active in fraternity life, and was elected on graduation to the Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the American Association for Advancement of Science, and was made a fellow of that association in 1883, and also of the Geological Society of America, of which he is one of the charter members.
Dean Hall's first wife was Ellen A., daugh- ter of Hon. Mark H. and Sarah B. Dunnell of Owatonna, Minn., whom he married July 27, 1875, and lost while in Leipzig, Germany, on the 2 1st of February, 1876. He married again, Dec. 26, 1883, Mrs. Sophia L. Haight, daughter of Eli and Sophia Seely of Osh- kosh, Wis. Mrs. Hall died July 12, 1891, leaving an infant daughter : Sophia.
HATCH, EGBERT BENSON, of Salinas City, Cal., son of Charles P. and Lydia M. (Taylor) Hatch, was born in East Hard- wick, Feb. 8, 1831.
The Hatch family is one of the oldest in the state of Vermont. The great-grand- father of the subject of this subject married Sarah Richards and moved from Preston, Ct., to Norwich, in 1768 ; being a surveyor he made the first survey of that town. He raised a large family. The youngest son, John, Jr., was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and with his wife, Waity Ens-
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worth, moved to Hardwick in 1809. Feb- ruary, 20, 1815 he was commissioned ist Lieut. in the 31st Regt. of the Inft., and the commission is in the possession of the sub- ject of this sketch and bears the signatures of President James Madison and Secretary of War James Monroe.
Mr. Hatch prepared himself for the minis- try, and his early education was received at the academies of Williston and Johnson, and in the Academical and Theological Institu- tion at Fairfax, Vt., while dependent upon his own resources, teaching school winters and working summers in the hayfield, to provide means which the moderate circum- stances of his parents compelled them to deny him.
EGBERT BENSON HATCH.
Mr. Hatch was ordained to the ministry, in the Baptist denomination, Jan. 3, 1856, at Lowell, and his whole life has been devoted to his chosen profession. During these years of faithful work he has had pastorates in Clinton, Wis., Marcellus, N. Y., Reno, Nev., Vallejo and Salinas City, Cal., having been pastor at the latter place for nine years. His manner of preaching with the greatest fluency without the use of manuscript has always been very attractive to his hearers. He left Vermont in 1857 going thence to Wisconsin and from there to New York state in 1865, taking up his present residence in California in 1870. Mr. Hatch has always been honored by his denomination. In 1802
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he preached the anniversary sermon before the Cahfornia Baptist State Convention at Santa Cruz.
Among the social organizations, the Good Templars have no more active faithful worker than Mr. Hatch. The Ancient Order of United Workmen is another body in which he has done nich good work.
Mr. Hlatch was married in Johnson, to Laura W. Butterfield, whose parents were old settlers of the town of Lowell, having moved there when there were only seven families in the township. Mrs. Hatch died in Septem- ber, 1884, at San Francisco, leaving two daughters : Mrs. I .. H. Cooke of San Fran- cisco, and Mrs. A. F. Bellene of Salinas.
HAWLEY, DAVID, of Yonkers, N. Y., son of David and Bethiah ( Buck ) Hawley, was born at Arlington, April 14, 1820.
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He remained on his father's farm attend- ing the district school, until nearly twenty years of age. He then commenced his prepa- ration for college at Burr Seminary, Man- chester, and after about eighteen months study, entered Yale College in 1841. At the end of the freshman year, sickness compelled him to leave college, and he spent a year reading law with Harmon Canfield, Esq., in his native town. He returned to New Haven again the following summer, joining the sophomore class of 1846, and graduated with that class. He was an editor of the Yale Literary Magazine, and a member of the Psi
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U'psion and the Skull and Bones societies. In the spring before his graduation he com- menced the study of law in the office of Orsannis Bushnell, Esq., in New York City, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. In May, 1850, he formed a partnership in New York with John H. Glover, a classmate at Vale. This partnership continued about twelve years, the firm doing a successful busi- ness and having charge of some important trust estates. After the dissolution of the firm of Hawley & Glover, Mr. Hawley con- tinued the practice of law, and having become counsel for Isaac M. Singer, the sewing ma- chine inventor, went to Paris, in 1870, at his request, to draw his will. In 1873 he relin- quished the general practice of law to take charge of Mr. Singer's large business inter- ests in this country, representing him as a director in the Singer Manufacturing Co. After Mr. Singer's death in 1875, Mr. Hawley as sole surviving executor of his will in this country, administered on his estate, and though many complications arose therein, he successfully arranged them all, and had the estate settled and ready for distribution in the shortest time allowed by law for that pur- pose. He was testamentary guardian and trustee of the minor children and devoted a large share of his time to the management of their estates, and when released from that trust as they attained their majority he retired from active business.
In politics he is a Democrat, but has always declined public office, except the positions of water commissioner and school trustee in the city where he resides.
In August, 1851, Mr. Hawley married Miss Maria Louisa Whiteside of Cambridge, N. Y., who died in 1860. In October, 1861, he married Miss Catharine Ann, daughter of Samuel and Maria Crosby Brown of New York. He has two children living : Cath- erine S., and Samuel Brown.
He has made his home at Yonkers on the Hudson since 1863.
HAYWARD, LEWIS A., of San Fran- cisco, Cal., son of Lewis and Margaret (Smith) Hayward, was born in Dalton, N. H., Sept. 22, 1847, but claims to be a son of Vermont, because his parents moved with him to St. Johnsbury before he was a month old, and all his love centers in the Green Mountain state.
He received his education in the common schools of Vermont, having attended school in St. Johnsbury, St. Albans and Bristol and at intervals worked on his father's farm dur- ing the years of his minority, and continued farming in partnership with his father in Kirby until he was thirty years of age.
Mr. Hayward removed to San Francisco in March, 1877, where he engaged in the
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milk business, which he has followed to the present time. He became the junior partner of the firm of J. A. Roy & Co. in 1884. He is now one of the members and directors of the firm known as the Guadaloupe Dairy Co., a stock company formed and incorpor- ated in 1889, and holds the office of treasurer and is also manager of the city department. of their extensive business.
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He became a Free Mason in 1876, having joined Moose River Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 82, in West Concord, and is still a member of the same lodge in good standing. He is also a member of the Pacific Coast Associa- tion Native Sons of Vermont.
Mr. Hayward was married in San Fran- cisco July 19, 1882, to Margaret S. Hender- son, daughter of John and Jean (Knowles) Henderson.
HAZELTINE, IRA S., was born in An- dover July 13, 1821 ; removed to Wisconsin at an early age ; studied law and lectured for ten years upon scientific and reformatory subjects ; in 1851 laid out the town of Rich- mond Centre, now county seat of Richland county ; received a colonel's commission in 1852 at the hands of Governor Farwell ; was a delegate to the first Republican state convention in 1854 ; member of the Wiscon- sin Legislature in 1867, and established a newspaper called the Live Republican at Richmond Centre; in 1868 removed to Springfield, Mo., and engaged in farming ; was district lecturer of the grange several
years ; was member of state grange execu- tive committee ; was delegate to the first Greenback state convention in 1876; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a National Greenback Labor candidate. He still resides at Springfield.
HAZEN, ARTHUR HERBERT, of Sioux City, Iowa, son of Addison and Jane (Hyde) Hazen, was born at North Hero, March 9, 1855.
Mr. Hazen was educated at the Vermont Methodist Seminary at Montpelier, and the Barre Academy, entering the University of Vermont in 1876, and prepared himself for the practice of the law at Montpelier. At Fargo, North Dakota, he organized the law firm of Hazen & Clement and was its senior member from 1881 to 1885. Mr. Hazen's business has been largely in banking as well
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as in the law, and he has held high positions of trust in successful Western institutions. From 1883 to 1885 he was the treasurer of the Northwestern Trust Co., of Fargo, and from the time of the original organization of the Farmers Trust Co., of Sioux City, Iowa, he was its vice-president and Western manager which position he now holds. He is also president of the Red River Valley Banking Co., which has its office at Fargo, and a director of the Moorhead National Bank, of Moorhead, Minn. Mr. Hazen re- sided in Fargo from 1879 to 1889, and while there received political honors as a
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member of the board of aldermen for three years. lu 1889 he removed to Sioux City, lowa.
Mr. Hazen was married at Fargo, October, 1880, to Ida A., daughter of Willard and Sophrouia S. Marsh, of Plainfield, and has one child : Ray M.
HIBBARD, GEORGE LOVICTOR, of Portland, Ore., son of Joel Tyler and Lucy Elnette (Cleveland) Hibbard, was born in Troy, July 18, 1835.
He received his early education in the dis- triet schools of his native village until the age of sixteen years. In 1851 or 1852 he went to Boston, Mass., where he learned the
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trade of carpenter, joiner, and ship-builder. This accomplished, he became a contractor in the city of Boston for about a year. When the vast western country, with her great pos- sibilities, was opened to the world the spirit of research possessed him, and in June, 1857, he turned westward, spending about three months in prospecting. Satisfied that he did not like well enough to make this new country his home, he returned to Wellsville, N. Y., and became interested in building until the spring of 1859.
The Pacific coast at this time allured him to her shores, so embarking in an Aspinwall steamer, he sailed for San Francisco via the Isthmus of Panama, and after a long and tempestuous voyage, cast anchor in San Francisco Bay. Mr. Hibbard spent a month or more among friends in San Francisco, and
set sail for Portland, Ore. The upper Col- umbia promised good results in the building business, consequently he engaged in the lumber trade, with sash and door manufact- ory at The Dalles, Orc., during the years 1860 and 1861.
In January, 1862, he sold out, and taking a stock of merchandise went to the Florence gold mines in Idaho, sold out, prospected awhile then returned to The Dalles in the autumn of the same year ; bought out the hotel "What Cheer House," ran it four months and sold out. He became again in- terested in building enterprises until the spring of 1863, when, with Mr. Lurchin, he founded and built up the town of Umatilla on the Columbia River in Umatilla county, Oregon. He sold out in 1863, took a stock of goods to Bannock City, Idaho, engaged in merchandise a year, sold out and in Jan- uary, 1865, settled permanently in Portland, Ore. In 1866 he went into the produce, gro- ceries, and general commission business until 1872, when in the great fire of that year he lost everything, and was in debt to the extent of $15,000, which he afterwards paid in full with interest. In 1873 he started in the wholesale produce commission business, also consignments of boots and shoes from his brother, C. A. Hibbard of Burlington, and C. M. Hibbard of Newport, now deceased. In 1877 J. W. Brazee be- came his partner as manufacturers, import- ers, and wholesale dealers in boots and shoes, the firm naine being G. L. Hibbard & Co., until Feb. 14, 1885, when he sold out to Mr. Brazee. The following month he went to Boston, bought a stock of goods in conjunction with his brother, C. J. of New- port Vt., returned in eight weeks and en- tered into the importing of boots and shoes, the firm name being Hibbard Brothers. After a run of two or three years, he as- sumed the entire business and still continues in the importing, wholesale and retail, of boots and shoes.
Mr. Hibbard is a " pioneer " in its strict- est sense, having seen Portland grow from an infant village to the full grown, prosperous city of to-day ; and by his untiring zeal in every honorable enterprise has contributed in no small degree to the upbuilding of the metropolis of Oregon.
Mr. Hibbard, in 1874, was one of the original charter members of the Portland Board of Trade which was subsequently sub- merged into the chamber of commerce, in which he has continuously been a member and stockholder, being at present (1894) a member of the manufacturers committee. Mr. Hibbard has been many times called upon to accept public positions, but being of rather a retiring disposition he has as often declined overtures.
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In 1892 he built the Tremont House, one of the most elegant, complete, and commo- dious hotel properties on the coast.
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