commissions relating to state boundaries. He was one of the committee on the reunion of the two branches of the Presbyterian church, and aided materially in accomplishing the result. He was influential in establishing the insane asylum in Trenton, the soldiers' home in Newark, and the re- form-school for juveniles in Jamesburg. He went to Cincinnati in 1870 as a commissioner to the National prison reform association, and was one of the committee that met in London in 1872 to or- ganize an international congress on prison disci- gline. He was also president of the Sussex county ible society, and the oldest living trustee of Princeton college. — His son, Alanson Austin, clergyman, b. in Hamburg, N. J., 18 March, 1830, was graduated at Princeton in 1857, and at the theological seminary there in 1858. He held pas- torates in Berlin, Md., and Amgansett, L. I., till 1862, when he was appointed chaplain of the 15th New Jersey regiment. He served till the close of the war, accompanying his regiment in the thirty- six battles in which it was engaged, and since his discharge in 1865 has held a pastorate in his native place. In 1873 he was appointed engineer of the Palestine exploration society, and in that capacity visited the Holy Land, Egypt, and Turkey, making maps, sketches of Oriental scenery, and transcripts of rock inscriptions. Mr. Haines is the author of a "History of the Fifteenth Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers " (New York, 1883), and is a contributor to various periodicals. — Another son, Thomas Ryerson, lawyer, b. in Hamburg, N. J., 15 March, 1838 ; d* near Harrisonburg, Va., 6 June, 1862, was graduated at Princeton in 1857, and in 1860, having been admitted to the bar, en- tered on the practice of his profession in Newark, N. J. On 15 Aug., 1861, he became 1st lieutenant in the 1st New Jersey cavalry regiment, and in March, 1862, was commissioned captain after de- clining an appointment on a general's staff. He had already gained credit as adjutant and regi- mental judge-advocate. He became the victim of a rash movement on the part of the colonel of his regiment. Five miles in advance of its supports, that regiment was driven into the woods near Harrisonburg, and was surprised and cut in pieces by a vastly superior force. While he was bravely endeavoring to rally his troops, Capt. Haines was mortally wounded.
HAINES, Richard Townley, merchant, b. in
Elizabeth, N. J., 21 May, 1795 ; d. there, 21 Aug.,
1870. He was an original member of the firm of
Halsted, Haines and Co., dry-goods merchants in
New York city. He was one of the founders of
the American tract society, a member of its execu-
tive committee from the beginning, and for forty
years the chairman of its finance committee. He
served as a member of its board of direction, and
contributed largely to its funds. He was a director
and liberal supporter of the American Bible so-
ciety, the American board of foreign missions, and
many other religious and benevolent institutions,
and the first president of the board of trustees of
the Union theological seminary in New York city.
HAINES, Thomas Jefferson, soldier, b. in
Portsmouth, N. H., 26 Oct., 1827; d. in Hartford,
Conn., 14 Aug., 1883. He was graduated at the
U. S. military academy in 1849, assigned to the
1st artillery, and served in Fortress Monroe, Va..
after which he became assistant professor of mathe-
matics at West Point. He took part in the Flori-
da hostilities against the Seminole Indians, as act-
ing assistant adjutant-general, and in the early
part of the civil war held the same post in the
Department of Virginia. He was chief commis-
sary of the Department of the Missouri in 1861-*2,
and then served as chief purchasing and super-
vising commissary in the Departments of the
Missouri, Tennessee, and the Northwest from
1862 till 1865, holding the rank of major. He
also held this office for the territory between the
Mississippi and New Mexico and Utah, and was in
charge of affairs of the subsistence department in
Illinois and the Department of the Mississippi to
the southern boundary of Arkansas. He was bre-
vetted brigadier-general on 13 March, 1865, for
faithful and meritorious services. He had general
charge of the subsistence department throughout
the western states and territories from 1865 till
1868, and served as chief of the commissariat de-
partment of the south from 1868 till 1873. He
was then purchasing and depot commissary at Bos-
ton till 1875, when he was made assistant to the
commissary-general in Washington, D. C.
HAKLUYT, Richard, English author, b. about
1553 ; d. 23 Oct., 1616. He was educated at West-
minster school and at Oxford university, where he
was appointed lecturer on cosmography, and was
the first to teach the use of globes. In 1584, when
a master of arts and a professor of divinity, he ac-
companied the English ambassador, Sir Edward
Stafford, to Paris, where he remained five years.
On his return to England he was appointed by Sir
Walter Raleigh a member of the company of gen-
tlemen adventurers and merchants formed for the
purpose of colonizing Virginia. In 1605 Hakluyt
was appointed prebendary of Westminster, having
before been prebendary of Bristol, and he received
afterward the rectory of Wetheringset in Suffolk.
He was buried in Westminster abbey. His name
is perpetuated in Hakluyt's head, a promontory on
the northwest end of Spitzbergen, named by Henry
Hudson in 1608 ; in Hakluyt's island in Baffin's
bay, named by Bylot, and in the Hakluyt society,
founded in 1846 for the republication of early voy-
ages and travels. He wrote the following books :
" Diuers Voyages touching the Discouerie of Amer-
ica and Islands adjacent unto the Same" (1582;
new ed., 1850) ; " Foure Voyages unto Florida
(1587) ; an improved edition of Peter Martyr's
" De Orbe Novo " (1587), which at his suggestion
was translated into English by Michael Lok, the
London agent of the Muscovy company, under the title "The Historie of the West Indies": "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries made by the English Nation " (fol., London ; enlarged ed., 3 vols, in 2, fol., 1598-1600 ; new ed. with additions, 5 vols., 4to, London, 1809-'12). Besides the different voyages, this work contains many curious public documents, such as charters granted by the czar, the sultan, and other monarchs to English merchants. In many copies the voyage to Cadiz (pp. 607-'19, vol. i., 2d ed.) is omitted, having been suppressed by order of Queen Elizabeth after the disgrace of the Earl of Essex. The additions to the last edition comprise all the voyages and travels printed by Hakluyt, or at his suggestion, which were not included in his collection. His unpublished manuscripts were used by Purchas in his " Pilgrims." An analysis of Hakluyt's chief works is contained in Oldys's " British Librarian." Hallam says that " the best map of the sixteenth century is one of uncommon rarity, which is found in a very few copies of the first edition of Hakluyt's 'Voyages.'"
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HALDEMAN, Samuel Stehman, naturalist, b. in Locust Grove, Lancaster co., Pa., 12 Aug., 1812; d. in Chickies, Pa., 10 Sept., 1880. He was educated at a classical school in Harrisburg, and then spent two years in Dickinson college, but
