his services in the ordnance department, and advanced to the rank of colonel of ordnance, 7 March, 1867. He was placed on the retired list, 1 June, 1881, at his own request, having been in the service for more than forty years.
HAGOOD, Johnson, lawyer, b. in West Virginia in 1771; d. in Charleston, S. C, in 1816. When he was four years old his father's family removed to Ninety-Six, S. C. He was on one occasion sent out in the night, when about seven years of age, to procure medical assistance for his father's
family, and passed through the scene of one of the guerilla skirmishes so frequent at that time. Several corpses were, lying unburied on the field, and
wolves were feeding on them. His nerves were severely tried, but he performed his errand. At the age of fourteen the lad determined to take care of himself, and walked sixty miles to Granby, where he succeeded in obtaining employment in a country store. At the end of a year he went to
Charleston and entered a lawyer's office, having access to books, and attending a night-school. He soon began the study of law, was admitted to the
bar in 1793 at the age of twenty-two, and immediately became a partner with his patron, who was elected to congress, and left to young Hagood the
entire management of his practice. He practised law until 1813, and attained note in his profession. Mr. Hagood also devoted much attention to natural sciences, was interested in the study of electricity and galvanism, and procured from Europe extensive apparatus for his experiments. He educated his younger brothers and sisters and several children of his poorer neighbors. In 1806 he purchased lands, and, gradually withdrawing from practice, devoted himself to their improvement.
HAGUE, William, clergyman, b. in Pelham,
N. Y., 4 Jan., 1808; d. in Boston, Mass., 1 Aug.,
1887. He was graduated at Hamilton in 1826, and
at the Newton theological institution in 1829. On
20 Oct. of the latter year he became pastor of the
2d Baptist church at Utica, N. Y., where he
remained until 1831. He held pastorates in Boston,
Providence, and New York city. He was elected
professor of homiletics in the Baptist theological
seminary at Chicago in 1869, and later accepted a
pastoral charge at Orange, N. J. Dr. Hague
received the degree of D. D. from Brown in 1849,
and from Harvard in 1863. He was also chosen a
trustee of the former university in 1837 and of
Vassar college in 1861. He was the author of
numerous occasional addresses and orations, including
discourses on the life and character of John
Quincy Adams and Adoniram Judson. He also
published “The Baptist Church Transplanted
from the Old World to the New” (New York,
1846); “Guide to Conversation on the Gospel of
John” (Boston); “Review of Drs. Fuller and
Wayland on Slavery” (Boston); “Christianity and
Statesmanship” (New York, 1855; enlarged ed.,
Boston, 1865); “Home Life” (New York, 1855);
“The Authority and Perpetuity of the Christian
Sabbath” (1863); “The Self-witnessing Character
of the New Testament Christianity” (Philadelphia,
1871); “Christian Greatness in the Minister”
(Boston, 1880); and “Life Notes,” an
autobiography (1887). — His son, James Duncan, mining
engineer, b. in Boston, Mass., 24 Feb., 1836,
was educated at Harvard, at the Freiberg
mining-school, and at the University of Göttingen.
On his return to the United States he followed
for a time the profession of mining engineer,
and in 1867 became first assistant geologist on
the U. S. geological survey of the 40th parallel,
under Clarence King, holding that place for three
years. In this connection he prepared the volume
on “Mining Industries” (Washington, 1870) for
the reports of the survey. He then returned to
his profession. Mr. Hague was sent as U. S.
commissioner to the World's fair in Paris in
1878, and with the assistance of George F. Becker
wrote the report on “Mining Industries at the
Paris Exposition of 1878” (Washington, 1880). —
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Another son, Arnold, geologist, b. in Boston, Mass., 3 Dec., 1840. He was graduated at the Sheffield scientific school of Yale in 1863, after which he spent three years in Germany, studying at the universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg, and at the Freiberg mining-school. In 1867 he returned to the United States, and was appointed assistant geologist on the U. S. geological exploration of the 40th parallel under Clarence King. He then went to California, and spent the winter of 1867-'8 in Virginia City, Nev., studying the surface geology of the Comstock lode and the chemistry of the amalgamation process as practised there, and known as the “Washoe process.” The results of this study were published in volume iii. of the report of the exploration, under the title of “Chemistry of the Washoe Process.” He also contributed to the same volume a chapter on the geology of the White Pine mining district, in which there was first brought to notice the great development of Devonian rocks in the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada. In volume ii. — “Descriptive Geology” — of the report of the exploration, which is the joint work of Mr. Hague and Samuel F. Emmons, there is given the results of a detailed geological survey across the Cordilleras of North America, from the Great Plains to the Sierra Nevada range in California. This work included a geological atlas of maps and sections, which was completed after a great deal of hardship, the map of the Great Basin being accomplished before the completion of either the Union or Central Pacific railway. On the termination of this work in 1877 he received the appointment of government geologist of Guatemala, and travelled extensively over the republic, visiting the principal mining regions and the centres of volcanic activity. In 1878 he was engaged by the Chinese government to examine gold, silver, and lead mines in northern China. On the organization of the U. S. geological survey in 1879 he returned to the United States, and became one of its geologists. He was sent to Nevada, and made a report on the “Geology of the Eureka District.” In 1883 he was made geologist of the Yellowstone park division, and assigned to the study of the geysers of that district in connection with the extinct volcanic regions of the Rocky mountains. He is a member of scientific societies both in the United States and Europe, and in 1885 was elected to the National academy of sciences. He has made numerous contributions to scientific journals, on lithology and geology, and is the principal author of the following memoirs: “The Volcanoes of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory” (1883); “The Volcanic Rocks
