He then executed a colossal bronze statue of Clay, which is in New Orleans, and a marble statue of the same subject for the court house, Lexington, Ky. He invented a device by which he obtained the exact dimensions of the head and bust of living subjects and thus secured a degree of accuracy that give his portrait busts great favor. His best examples are Woman Triumphant, in the Court House, Louisville, Ky.; H Penseroso; and Charity. He died in Florence, Italy, March 1, 1877.
HART, John, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Hopewell, N.J., in 1707; son of Capt. Edward Hart, commander of the New Jersey Blues in the French and Canadian wars. He was a farmer, was a member of the provincial CONGRESS HALL.An image should appear at this position in the text. legislature for several terms, and a public-spirited citizen; an advocate of better schools and roads, and of the enforcement of law and order. In his neighborhood he was known as " Honest John Hart." He opposed the stamp act of 1765 and suggested the delegates to the New York congress of October in that year. He was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1774-76, and signed the Declaration of Independence when he was in his seventieth year. He was chairman of the committee of safety, 1777-78. His farm and stock were destroyed by the Hessians, his family exiled and his wife died from privation and anxiety as to his safety, a price having been placed on his head by the British commander. His two sons, Edward and Daniel, served in the Revolutionary war. He retired to his desolated farm after the battles of Trenton and Princeton, 1777, and died there, probably. May 9-10, 1779. As his will was probated May 26, 1779, the date of his death as 1780 on his monument is evidently an error.
HART, John Seely, educator and author, was born at Stockbridge, Mass., Jan. 28, 1810; son of Isaac and Abigail (Stone) Hart; grandson of Job and Rachel (Tyrrell) Ball Hart, and of the Rev. John S. Stone, D.D., and a descendant in the eighth generation of Deacon Stephen Hart, who was born in Braintree, Essex, England, in 1605, and came to Massachusetts Bay about 1632. In 1812 his parents removed to Luzerne county, Pa., near Scranton. and in 1823 to Wilkes- Barre, where John attended the academy. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1830, taught for a year in Natchez, Miss., and was graduated from Princeton theological seminary in 1834. He was a tutor at the College of New Jersey, 1832-34, and adjunct professor of ancient languages, 1834-36. He was licensed by the presbytery of New Brunswick, Aug. 4, 1835, but subsequently returned his license to the presbytery, by whom it was cancelled. He was married April 21, 1836, to Amelia Caroline, daughter of Edmund Morford of Princeton, N.J. He was principal of the Edgehill school at Princeton, 1836-42, and of the Philadelphia high school, 1842-59. Meanwhile he edited the Pennsylvania Common School Journal in 1844, and Sartain's Magazine, 1849-59 He edited the Publications of the American Sunday School union in Philadelphia, 1859-62. He established the Sunday School Times and to secure greater independence for this paper he separated from the union in 1861 and continued the periodical on his own account till 1871. He was principal of the model department of the New Jersey state normal school. Trenton, 1862-63, and principal of the entire institution, 1863-71. He was lecturer on the English language in the College of New Jersey, 1864-71, and professor of rhetoric and English language there, 1872-74. He resigned and removed to Philadelphia, where he devoted his time to literary work. He received the degree of LL.D. from Miami university in 1850. Among his publications are: Reports of the Philadelphia high School (1842-59); Class-Book of Poetry and Class-Book of Prose (1844); Essay on the Life and Writings of Edmund Spenser (1847); Female Prose Writers of America (1851); In the School Room (1868); Manual of Composition and Rhetoric (1870); Manual of English Literature (1872); Manual of American Literature (1873); Short Course in Literature, English and American (1974:); Language Lessons and English Grammar Analysis (1876); Mistakes of Educated Men; and Greek and Roman Mythology. At the time of his death he was engaged upon a Grammar of Grammars. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 26, 1877.
HART, Jonathan, soldier, was born in Kensington, Conn., in 1744; son of Deacon Ebenezer and Elizabeth Lawrence Hart; grandson of Deacon Thomas and Mary (Thompson) Hart; great-grand.son of Capt. Thomas and Ruth (Hawkins) Hart; and great2 grandson of Thomas Hart, born in 1644, freeman of Cambridge, Mass., and Hartford and Farmington, Conn He was graduated at Yale in 1768. taught school in New Jersey, 1768-73, and was a merchant in Kensington, 1773-75. He served in the American army throughout the Revolution as a member of the 1st Connecticut regiment, and at the close of the war held the rank of captain. He then became a public surveyor and in 1785 was appointed a captain in the 1st U.S. infantry He was sent with his regiment to the Indiana territory and was in the Indian campaign under Gen. Charles Scott and Gen, Josiah Harmer. He was promoted
