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Moriarty. He was educated at the schools of Boston, Mass., and Newark, N.J., at the Lawrence scientific school, Harvard, at the University of Gottingen, and the Royal school of mines, Freiberg, Saxony. He was sent by W. H. Webb of New York city in 1859 to explore coral islands in the Pacific ocean for phosphatic deposits and included in his exploration tour of three years many of the South Sea islands rarely visited. Returning to New York he went in 1862 to Point Royal, S.C., in the U.S. naval service, and by appointment of Admiral Dupont served as judge advocate of courts martial in the South Atlantic squadron. He was in the copper region of Lake Superior, 1863–66, in the interest of eastern capitalists, in the meantime being elected professor of mining in the Massachusetts institute of technology, Boston, which chair he temporarily accepted without service, but ultimately declined. He visited the West Indies and explored for phosphatic deposits in 1866–67, and was first assistant geologist to the U.S. geological exploration of the Fortieth parallel, 1837–70. He was professional adviser in mining operations on the Pacific coast and in Mexico, and was a U.S. commissioner to the Paris exposition, 1878, where he served as an international juror on mining industries. He made his residence in New York city in 1879. directing mining enterprises in the west and contributing to scientific literature mainly on the subject of mining.

HAGUE, William, clergyman, was born in Pelham, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1803; son of Capt. James and Ann (Bayley) Hague; grandson of William Hague, a celebrated Baptist clergyman of Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, and of Capt. William and Sarah (Pell) Bayley; great-grandson of

Joseph Pell, fourth and last lord of Pelham Manor, Westchester, N.Y., and a descendant of Sir John Pell (born in London, 1643; died in 1702), who came to America as second lord of Pelham Manor. Through the Pell family he descended from a long line of English ancestry, and by the marriage of the third lord of Pelham Manor with Anna, daughter of the reigning chief of the Westchester Indians, he had a notable strain of native American blood. William Hague was graduated at Hamilton college in 1826; was a theological student at Princeton, N.J., 1836–37, and Newton, Mass., 1827–29, and was graduated at the Newton theological institution in 1829. He was ordained pastor of the Second Baptist church, Utica, N.Y., Oct. 20, 1829, and served, 1829–30; was professor of Latin and Greek in Georgetown college, Ky., 1830; was pastor of the First Baptist church, Boston, Mass., 1831–37; of the First Baptist church, Providence, R.I., 1837–40; of the Federal Street and the Rowe Street churches, Boston, 1840–48; at Jamaica Plain, 1848–50; at Newark, N J., 1850–53; of the Pearl Street church, Albany, N.Y., 1853–58; of the Madison Avenue church. New York city, 1858–62; of the Charles Street church, Boston, 1862–64, and of the Shawmut Avenue church, Boston, 1865–69. He was professor of homiletics in the Chicago theological seminary and pastor of the University Place church, Chicago, 1869–70; was pastor of the First Baptist church, Orange, N.J., 1870–74; travelled in Europe, 1874–76, and was pastor at Wollaston Heights, Mass., 1877–87. He was a trustee of Brown university, 1837–87; of Vassar college, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1861–87, and an overseer of Columbian university, Washington, D.C., 1874–87. He received the degree of D.D. from Brown in 1849 and from Harvard in 1863. He is the author of: Conversational Commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew (1835); Guide to Conversation on the Gospel of John (1840); Eight Views of Baptism (1841); Conversational Commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles (1845); The Baptist Church Transplanted from the Old World to the New (1846); Review of Drs. Fuller and Wayland on Slavery (1855); Home Life (1855); The Authority and Perpetuity of the Christian Sabbath (1863); The Self-Witnessing Character of New Testament Christianity (1871); Christian Greatness in the Minister (1880); Ralph Waldo Emerson (1884); and Life Notes (1888). He died in Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1887.

HAHN, Michael, governor of Louisiana, was born in Bavaria, Nov. 24, 1830. His widowed mother removed to America when he was a child, landing in New York, and after a few years there and in Texas settled in New Orleans. He was graduated at the New Orleans high school, and at the University of Louisiana LL.B. in 1851, his diploma admitting him to practice in all the courts of the state. He was elected school director in 1852, serving several years, and was president of the board for a time. He advocated the candidacy of Stephen A. Douglas for president in 1860, and canvassed the state, 1860–61, against secession. He acted under the Confederate government as a notary and when General Butler took military possession of New Orleans, he took the oath of allegiance to the United States and was elected a representative in the 37th congress, taking his seat in that body Feb. 17, 1863. On his return to New Orleans after March 3, 1863,