coadjutor bishop of Springfield, Illinois, with the title of Bishop of
Cairo. The Mozarabic Liturgy; The Universal Episcopate; Speeches and
Addresses.
=Hale, Edward Everett.= _Ms._, 1822- ----. A prominent Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, widely known as a writer, whose literary activity
covers a wide field. Since 1856 he has been pastor of the South
Congregational Church, and his influence in civic life has been
extensive. As a writer of short stories he will, perhaps, be longest
remembered, his work in this direction including The Man Without a
Country; Ten Times One is Ten; In His Name; Mrs. Merriam’s Scholars;
His Level Best; The Ingham Papers; Four and Five; Crusoe in New York;
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Christmas in Narragansett; Our
Christmas in a Palace. Longer essays in fiction are, Margaret Percival
in America; Mr. Tangier’s Vacations; Ups and Downs; Philip Nolan’s
Friends; The Fortunes of Rachel. Other works of his are, Sketches in
Christian History; Kansas and Nebraska; How To Do It; What Career?;
Gone to Texas; Seven Spanish Cities; June to May, a collection of
sermons; Boys’ Heroes; The Story of Massachusetts; Sybaris and Other
Homes; Sunday-School Stories on the Golden Texts of 1889; For Fifty
Years, a collection of poems; A New England Boyhood, an autobiographic
work; Chautauquan History of the United States; If Jesus Came to
Boston. _See Vedder’s American Writers. See, also, Hale, Susan._ _A. U.
A. Cas. Fu. Lam. Rob. Scr._
=Hale, Edwin Moses.= _N. H._, 1826-1899. Nephew of Mrs. Sarah Hale,
_infra_. A Chicago physician, professor in the Homœopathic College.
Pocket Manual of Domestic Practice; Homœopathic Materia Medica;
Treatment of Diseases of Women; Treatise on Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
=Hale, Enoch.= _Ms._, 1790-1848. A physician in Boston, and a nephew
of the patriot Nathan Hale. History of the Spotted Fever at Gardiner,
Maine, in 1814; Typhoid Fever.
=Hale, Horatio.= _R. I._, 1817-1896. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hale, _infra_.
A lawyer and ethnologist of prominence who lived in Clinton, Ontario,
from 1856. Ethnology and Philology; Indian Migrations as Evidenced by
Language; Report on the Blackfeet Tribes. He has edited the Iroquois
Book of Rites.
=Hale, Lucretia Peabody.= _Ms._, 1820-1900. Sister of E. E. Hale,
_supra_. A writer who is best known by her humourous juvenile books.
The Peterkin Papers; The Last of the Peterkins. Her other works
comprise The Lord’s Supper and its Observance; The Service of Sorrow;
Sunday-School Stories for Little Children; Fagots for the Fireside, a
collection of games; The Struggle for Life, a Story of Home; Art Needle
Work; An Uncloseted Skeleton (with E. L. Bynner, _supra_); The New
Harry and Lucy (with E. E. Hale). _Hou. Rob._
=Hale, Robert Beverly.= _Ms._, 1869-1895. Son of E. E. Hale, _supra_.
Elsie and Other Poems; Six Stories and Some Verses.
=Hale, Salma.= _N. H._, 1787-1866. Brother-in-law of Mrs. Sarah Hale,
_infra_. A New Hampshire jurist who represented his State in Congress
in 1816. History of the United States; Annals of the Town of Keene.
_Har._
=Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha [Buell].= _N. H._, 1788-1879. A once
well-known writer of Philadelphia who was editor of The Lady’s Book for
forty years. It was largely through her influence that Thanksgiving
became a national festival. Among her numerous books Woman’s Record,
a large biographical and critical work, is the most important. Others
are, The Genius of Oblivion, and Other Poems; Northwood, a novel;
Sketches of American Character; Traits of American Life; Flora’s
Interpreter; The Way to Live Well; Grosvenor, a Tragedy; Manners, or
Happy Homes; Love, or Woman’s Destiny, with Other Poems; The White
Veil; The Judge, a drama; Three Hours, or the Vigil of Love; Harry
Gray, a Sea Story; Alice Ray, a Romance in Rhyme. She also edited
cookery books, compilations, annuals, and the letters of Madame de
Sévigné and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._
_Har._
=Hale, Susan.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. Sister of E. E. Hale, _supra_, and
co-author with him of the Family Flight series of travels for young
people. She has also published The Life and Letters of Thomas Gold
Appleton, _supra_. _Ap. Lo. Rob._
=Hall, Abraham Oakey.= _N. Y._, 1826-1898. A once prominent Tammany
politician of New York city, of which he was at one time mayor. He was
subsequently on the staff of The World, but for many years lived in
Europe. The Manhattaner in New Orleans; The Congressman’s Christmas
Dream; Ballads; Old Whitey’s Christmas Trot, a story for the holidays.
_Har._
=Hall, Arethusa.= _Ms._, 1802-1891. An educator in New England, and
subsequently in the Packer Institute, Brooklyn. The poet Whittier was
one of her early pupils. Manual of Morals; Life of Sylvester Judd;
Memorials of S. Judd, Senior; Thoughts of Pascal, a translation. _See
Memorial of, edited by F. E. Abbot, 1892._
=Hall, Arthur Crawshay Alliston.= _E._, 1847- ----. The third
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. He was for many years in
charge of the mission of the Cowley Fathers in Boston. Confession and
the Lambeth Conference; Meditations on the Creed; Meditations on the
Collects; The Example of the Passion.
=Hall, Baynard Rush.= _Pa._, 1798-1863. An educator of New Jersey and
New York. A Latin Grammar; The New Purchase of Life in the Far West,
long a very popular book; Something for Everybody; Teaching a Science;
The Teacher an Artist; Frank Freeman’s Barber’s Shop.
=Hall, Benjamin Franklin.= _N. Y._, 1814-1891. A New York jurist, chief
justice of Colorado, 1861-64. The Land Owner’s Manual; The Republican
Party; Methodism, its Source and Power.
=Hall, Benjamin Homer.= _N. Y._, 1830-1891. Brother of Fitzedward Hall,
_infra_. A lawyer of Troy, New York. College Words and Customs; History
of Eastern Vermont; Bibliography of the United States: Vermont.
=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman
of New York city, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn,
1877-97; from 1897 president of Union Theological Seminary. Does God
Send Trouble?; Into His Marvellous Light; The Children, the Church,
and the Communion; Qualifications for Ministerial Power; The Gospel of
the Divine Sacrifice. _Do. Hou._
=Hall, Charles Francis.= _N. H._, 1821-1871. An Arctic explorer. The
Arctic Regions; Life Among the Esquimaux; Narrative of the Second
Arctic Expedition. _Har._
=Hall, Charles Henry.= _Ga._, 1820-1895. An Episcopal clergyman of
Brooklyn, rector of Holy Trinity Church, 1869-95. Commentaries on
the Gospel; Protestant Ritualism; Spina Christi; The Church of the
Household; Valley of the Shadow.
=Hall, Charles Winslow.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A lawyer of Minnesota.
Arctic Rovings; Twice Taken; Adrift in the Ice-Fields; Drifting Around
the World. _Le._
=Hall, Christopher Webber.= _Vt._, 1845- ----. Professor of geology
and mineralogy in University of Minnesota, at Minneapolis, from 1878,
and dean of the College of Engineering, Metallurgy, and Mechanic Arts.
He has written many valuable professional papers, and a History of the
University of Minnesota.
=Hall, Edward Henry.= _O._, 1831- ----. Stepson of Louisa Hall,
_infra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Worcester, and subsequently of
Cambridge. Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Christian Church; Lessons on the
Life of Saint Paul; Discourses. _A. U. A. El._
=Hall, Edwin.= _N. Y._, 1802-1877. A Congregational clergyman,
professor of theology in Auburn Seminary, 1854-77. The Law of Baptism;
The Puritans and their Principles; Historical Records of Norwalk;
Shorter Catechism with Proofs.
=Hall, Fitzedward.= _N. Y._, 1825-1901. A philologist of distinction
who was inspector of schools in India, 1846-62, and in the latter
year became professor of Sanskrit in King’s College, London. Recent
Exemplifications of False Philology; Modern English; English Adjectives
in -able with Special Reference to Reliable; Lectures on the Nyâya
Philosophy; and several works in Sanskrit. _Scr._
=Hall, Mrs. Florence [Howe].= _Ms._, 1845- ----. Daughter of Mrs. J. W.
Howe, _infra_. A writer of Plainfield, New Jersey. Social Customs; The
Correct Thing in Good Society. _Est._
=Hall, Frederick.= _Vt._, 1780-1843. An educator who was professor of
chemistry in Columbian College, Washington, at the time of his death.
He published Letters from the East and from the West.
=Hall, Gertrude.= _Ms._, 1863- ----. A Boston writer of short stories
and poems. Far from To-Day, a collection of strikingly original
stories; Allegretto, a volume of verse; Foam of the Sea, and Other
Tales; Verses. _Rob._
=Hall, Granville Stanley.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. An educator of note,
president of Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1888.
Aspects of German Culture; Hints Toward a Bibliography of Education
(with J. M. Mansfield); How to Teach Reading.
=Hall, Harrison.= _Md._, 1785-1866. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, _infra_. A
scientist of Philadelphia who in 1815 published a work on Distillation
that was much commended in its day.
=Hall, Hiland.= _Vt._, 1795-1885. A jurist of Vermont and governor of
that State, 1858-60, who wrote a History of Vermont to 1791.
=Hall, Isaac Hollister.= _Ct._, 1837-1896. Son of E. Hall, _supra_. A
lawyer and Oriental scholar, lecturer on New Testament Greek in Johns
Hopkins University, 1884-96. He published American Greek Testaments, a
critical Bibliography.
=Hall, James.= _Pa._, 1744-1826. A Presbyterian clergyman in the
Southern States. Narrative of a Most Extraordinary Work of Religion in
North Carolina; Missionary Tour through the Mississippi and Southwest
Country.
=Hall, James.= _Pa._, 1793-1868. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, _infra_.
Letters from the West; Legends of the West; Tales of the Border;
Sketches of the West; Notes on the Western States; Life of General
Harrison; History of the Indian Tribes (with McKinney); The Wilderness
and the War Path; The Harpe’s Head, a Legend of Kentucky; Romance of
Western History. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Bibliography of Ohio._
_Clke._
=Hall, James.= _Ms._, 1811-1898. A paleontologist of distinction,
professor of geology at the Troy Polytechnic School from 1836, and
State geologist of New York from 1837. Geology of the Fourth District
of New York; Paleontology of New York; Geological Survey of Wisconsin;
and many scientific monographs.
=Hall, John.= _Pa._, 1806-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor of the
First Church in Trenton, New Jersey, from 1841, among whose writings
are, Translation of Milton’s Latin Letters; History of the Presbyterian
Church in Trenton; Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander,
_supra_; Sabbath-School Theology.
=Hall, John.= _I._, 1829-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman who came from
Dublin to America in 1867, and became pastor of the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church in New York city. All the Way Across; The Chief
End of Man; Familiar Talks to Boys; Questions of the Day; God’s Word
through Preaching; A Christian Home; Foundation Stones for Young
Builders, include his principal writings. _Bar. Ran._
=Hall, John Elihu.= _Pa._, 1783-1829. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, _infra_.
A lawyer and author of Philadelphia who edited The Portfolio, 1817-27.
Memoirs of Eminent Persons; Practice and Jurisdiction of the Court of
Admiralty; Life of Dr. John Shaw; Tracts on Constitutional Law. _See A.
H. Smyth’s Philadelphia Magazines, 1892._
=Hall, Mrs. Louisa Jane [Park].= _Ms._, 1802-1892. A writer of
Providence. Miriam, a dramatic poem; Joanna of Naples, a tale; Life of
Elizabeth Carter. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America._
=Hall, Samuel Read.= _N. H._, 1795-1877. An educator of Vermont who
organized the first training-school for teachers in the United States.
The Instructor’s Manual; Lectures on Education; Geography for Children.
=Hall, Mrs. Sarah [Ewing].= _Pa._, 1761-1830. A Philadelphia writer
well known at one time as the author of Conversations on the Bible.
Selections from her work were published in 1833, with Memoir by
Harrison Hall, _supra_.
=Hall, Thomas Mifflin.= _Pa._, 1798-1828. A Philadelphia littérateur.
Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, _supra_.
=Hall, William Whitty.= _Ky._, 1810-1876. A physician of New York
city, the founder of Hall’s Journal of Health. Health and Good Living;
Health and Disease as Affected by Constipation; Fun Better than Physic;
Consumption; Sleep; Guide-Board to Health; Coughs and Colds; Health at
Home; How to Live Long; Dyspepsia; Treatise on Cholera; Bronchitis and
Kindred Diseases. _Hou._
=Hallam, Robert Alexander.= _Ct._, 1807-1877. An Episcopal clergyman
who was rector of St. James’s Church, New London, Connecticut, from
1835 till his death. Lectures on the Morning Prayer; Lectures on Moses;
Sovereigns of Judah; Sermons; Annals of St. James’s.
=Halleck, Fitz-Greene.= _Ct._, 1790-1867. A poet who was for many years
a clerk in a New York banking-house, and subsequently confidential
adviser to John Jacob Astor. His verse has grace and sweetness, but is
wanting in positive qualities, and has already largely passed out of
remembrance. Marco Bozzaris is his most famous poem. Fanny; Alnwick
Castle, and Other Poems. _See Life and Letters, by Grant Wilson;
Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant and his Friends; Appleton’s American
Biography._ _Ap. Cr._
=Halleck, Henry Wager.= _N. Y._, 1816-1872. A major-general who was
general-in-chief of the armies of the United States, 1862-64. Bitumen,
its Varieties, Properties, and Uses; Mining Laws of Spain and Mexico;
Elements of International Law (1866); Treatise on International Law
(1861); Elements of Military Art and Science. _See Appleton’s American
Biography._ _Lip._
=Halliday, Samuel Byram.= _N. J._, 1812-1897. A Congregational
clergyman of Brooklyn, assistant of Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth
Church for nearly twenty years. The Little Street Sweeper; The Lost and
Found, or Life Among the Poor; Winning Souls; The Church in America
and Its Baptisms of Fire (with D. S. Gregory, _supra_). _Fu._
=Hallock, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A journalist of New York
city, founder of Forest and Stream. The Fishing Tourist; Camp Life in
Florida; The Sportsman’s Gazetteer; Our New Alaska. _Har._
=Hallock, Mrs. Julia Isabel [Sherman].= _Ct._, 1846- ----. A
Connecticut writer. Broken Notes from a Gray Nunnery, a study of
country life. _Le._
=Hallock, Mrs. Mary Angelina [Ray] [Lathrop].= _Ms._, 1810- ----. Wife
of W. A. Hallock, _infra_. A writer of Sunday-school books, including
That Sweet Story of Old; Child’s History of the Fall of Jerusalem;
Child’s Life of Daniel; The Story of Moses; Bethlehem and her Children;
Beasts and Birds; Child’s History of Solomon; Life of the Apostle Paul.
=Hallock, William Allen.= _Ms._, 1794-1880. A Congregational clergyman,
secretary of the American Tract Society, 1825-70. Life of Harlan Page;
Moses Hallock; Justin Edwards, _supra_, and several very popular tracts.
=Hallowell, Richard Price.= _Pa._, 1835-1904. A wool merchant of Boston
who wrote The Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts; The Pioneer Quakers.
_Hou._
=Halpine, Charles Graham.= “Miles O’Reilly.” _I._, 1829-1868. A
journalist of New York city who came to America in 1852 and served
during the Civil War as a colonel in the Federal army. Lyrics; Poems;
Miles O’Reilly Papers; Life and Adventures of Private Miles O’Reilly;
Baked Meats of the Funeral. His Poetical Works, edited by R. B.
Roosevelt, _infra_, appeared in 1869. _See Dictionary of National
Biography, vol. 24; Appleton’s American Biography._ _Har._
=Halsey, Leroy Jones.= _Va._, 1812-1896. A Presbyterian clergyman,
from 1859 professor in Chicago Theological Seminary. The Literary
Attractions of the Bible; The Life and Pictures of the Bible; The
Beauty of Emmanuel; Living Christianity; Scotland’s Influence on
Civilization.
=Halstead, Murat.= _O._, 1829- ----. A journalist of note, editor and
proprietor of The Commercial of Cincinnati, and since 1890 of The
Standard Union, Brooklyn. Caucuses of 1860; Life of William McKinley.
=Halsted, Byron David.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. An agricultural writer,
since 1884 professor of botany in Iowa Agricultural College. A Century
of American Weeds; The Vegetable Garden; Farm Conveniences; Household
Conveniences.
=Halsted, George Bruce.= _N. J._, 1853- ----. Grandson of O. S.
Halsted, _infra_. A professor of mathematics in the University of
Texas from 1887, and a mathematician of prominence. Metrical Geometry,
a Treatise on Mensuration; Elements of Geometry; Synthetic Geometry;
Number, Discrete and Continuous. _See Bibliography of Texas._ _Gi. Wil._
=Halsted, Oliver Spencer.= _N. J._, 1792-1877. A jurist of Newark, New
Jersey. The Theology of the Bible; The Book called Job.
=Ham, Charles Henry.= _N. H._, 1831-1902. A lawyer and journalist
of Chicago. Manual Training: the Solution of Social and Industrial
Problems. _Har._
=Ham, Marion Franklin.= _O._, 1867- ----. A verse-writer of
Chattanooga. The Golden Shuttle, and Other Poems.
=Hamersley, Lewis Randolph.= _D. C._, 1847- ----. A lieutenant in the
United States marine corps. Records of Living Officers of the United
States Navy and Marine Corps (1890); Naval Encyclopædia.
=Hamilton, Alexander.= _W. I._, 1757-1804. A statesman who ranks as the
ablest political writer of his day in America. In 1789 he became the
first secretary of the United States Treasury, and his first Report
on the Public Credit was one of the most notable of national state
papers. He was the principal contributor to The Federalist, 51 of its
85 articles being by him alone, and he assisted Washington in preparing
the latter’s Farewell Address. _See Complete Works, including The
Federalist, edited by H. C. Lodge, infra, 1885; Lives, by Williams,
1804; J. C. Hamilton, infra, 1840; Renwick, 1841; Smucker, 1856;
J. T. Morse, Jr., 1876; Shea, 1879; Lodge, 1882; Hamilton and his
Contemporaries, Richtmueller; Shea’s Historical Study of Hamilton;
Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana, Ford, 1886._ _Ap. Put._
=Hamilton, Alice King.= 18-- - ----. A novelist. Mildred’s Cadet; One
of the Duanes. _Lip._
=Hamilton, Allen McLane.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A physician of New
York city. Clinical Electro-Therapeutics; Nervous Diseases; Medical
Jurisprudence; Types of Insanity; The Modern Treatment of Headaches.
_Ap._
=Hamilton, Edward John.= _I._, 1834- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman,
professor of philosophy in the State University of Washington. The
general system of philosophy advocated by him is best defined by the
term Perceptional. The Human Mind; Mental Science; The Modalist, or the
Laws of Rational Thought; A New Analysis in Fundamental Modes, a short
treatise in ethics. _Gi._
=Hamilton, Frank Hastings.= _Vt._, 1813-1886. A distinguished surgeon
of New York city, for many years professor in Bellevue Hospital.
Strabismus; Fractures and Dislocations; Military Surgery; Principles
and Practice of Surgery; Surgical Memories of the War of the Rebellion.
=Hamilton, Gail.= _See Dodge, Abigail._
=Hamilton, James Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1788-1878. Third son of A.
Hamilton, _supra_. A lawyer of New York city. Reminiscences during
Three Quarters of a Century; Martin Van Buren’s Calumnies Repudiated.
=Hamilton, John Church.= _Pa._, 1792-1882. The fourth son of A.
Hamilton, _supra_. A lawyer in New York city. Memoirs of Alexander
Hamilton; History of the Republic; The Prairie Province. He edited his
father’s works.
=Hamilton, John William.= _W. Va._, 1845- ----. A Methodist clergyman
who founded the People’s Church in Boston. Memorials of Jesse Lee;
Lives of the Methodist Bishops; People’s Church Pulpit.
=Hamilton, Kate Waterman.= “Fleeta.” _N. Y._, 1841- ----. An Illinois
writer of Sunday-school and other fictions. Among them are, The Old
Brown House; Frederick Gordon; Wood, Hay, and Stubble; Rachel’s Share
of the Road, a Novel; The Parson’s Proxy. _Hou._
=Hamilton, Robert S----.= 18-- - ----. Present Status of Social
Science; Present Status of the Philosophy of Society.
=Hamilton, Schuyler.= _N. Y._, 1822-1903. Son of J. C. Hamilton,
_supra_. A major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War.
History of the American Flag; Our National Flag.
=Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster.= _Ty._, 1855- ----. Son of Cyrus Hamlin,
_infra_. An architect, professor of architecture in Columbia College
from 1889. Handbook of the History of Ornament.
=Hamlin, Augustus Choate.= _Me._, 1829- ----. A surgeon of Bangor.
Martyria, or Andersonville Prison; The Tourmaline; Leisure Hours Among
the Gems. _Hou._
=Hamlin, Charles.= _Me._, 1837- ----. Cousin of A. C. Hamlin, and
son of Hannibal Hamlin, who was vice-president of the United States,
1861-65. He was an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War,
and has published The Insolvent Laws of Maine.
=Hamlin, Cyrus.= _Me._, 1811-1900. A Congregationalist missionary in
Turkey, 1837-60, president of Robert College, Constantinople, 1860-76,
and of Middlebury College, Vermont, 1880-85. Papists and Protestants;
Arithmetic for Americans; Cholera and Its Treatment; Among the Turks;
My Life and Times (1893). _C. P. S._
=Hamlin, Teunis Slingerland.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Washington. Denominationalism versus Christian Union.
_Rev._
=Hamline, Leonidas Lent.= _Ct._, 1797-1865. A Methodist bishop
prominent in Ohio. Sermons; Works, edited by F. G. Hibbard.
=Hammett, Samuel A----.= “Philip Paxton.” _Ct._, 1816-1865. A
journalist of New York city. A Stray Yankee in Texas; The Wonderful
Adventures of Captain Priest, are among his works.
=Hammond, Anthony.= 18-- - ----. Law of Nisi Prius; Parties to Actions;
Principles of Pleading; Reports in Equity; Criminal Code: Forgery;
Practice and Proceedings in Parliament; Index to Tennessee Reports;
Criminal Code: Simple Larceny.
=Hammond, Edward Payson.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A noted evangelist who has
been a prolific author of religious books and tracts. Among his hundred
or more publications are, Good Will to Men; Sketches of Palestine; The
Conversion of Children; Gathered Lambs. _See Reaper and Harvest, by P.
C. Headley, infra._ _Fu. Rev._
=Hammond, Mrs. Henrietta [Hardy].= “Henri Dangé.” _Va._, 1854-1883.
A Southern writer of fiction. The Georgians; A Fair Philosopher; Her
Waiting Heart; Woman’s Secrets, or How to be Beautiful. _Hou._
=Hammond, Jabez D.= _Ms._, 1778-1855. A jurist of New York State. The
Political History of New York; Life of Julius Melbourn; Life of Silas
Wright; Evidence of the Immortality of the Soul.
=Hammond, James Henry.= _S. C._, 1807-1864. A South Carolina
politician, governor of his State, 1842-47, and United States Senator,
1857-60. Owing to a speech of his in Congress in which the term
“mudsills” was used, he was afterwards known as “Mudsill Hammond.” He
published The Pro-Slavery Argument.
=Hammond, Marcus Claudius Marcellus.= _S. C._, 1814-1876. Brother of
J. H. Hammond, _supra_. A United States army officer whose home was in
South Carolina, and who published A Critical History of the Mexican War.
=Hammond, William Alexander.= _Md._, 1828-1900. An eminent physician
of New York city, surgeon-general of the United States army, 1862-64;
later on the retired list as brigadier-general and surgeon-general.
His medical writings include Military Hygiene; Physiological Essays;
Sleep and its Derangements; Nervous Derangements; Physiological
Memoirs; Lectures on Venereal Diseases; Wakefulness; Insanity in its
Medico-Legal Relations; Physics and Physiology of Spiritualism;
Diseases of the Nervous System; Insanity and its Medical Relations;
Sexual Impotence in the Male; Cerebral Hyperæmia; Neurological
Contributions. His novels include Robert Severne; Lal; Dr. Grattan; Mr.
Oldmixon; A Strong-Minded Woman; On the Susquehanna. _Ap. Lip._