Princeton, was licensed in 1840, and preached in Dallas county, Ala. He was pastor of the Pres- byterian church in Jackson, Miss., from 1843 till 1848, when he removed to Louisville, Ky., and for ten years was pastor of the Chestnut street Pres- byterian church. In 1859 he was elected to the chair of pastoral theology, horailetics, and church government in the Theological seminary of the northwest, Chicago, 111. His published works are "The Literary Attractions of the Bible" (New York, 1859); "The Life and Pictures of the Bible" (Philadelphia, 1860); "The Beauty of Em- manuel" (1861): "The Life and Works of Philip Lindley" (3 vols., 1866); "Memoir of the Rev. Lewis W. Green, D. D." (New York, 1871) ; " Liv- ing Christianity " (Philadelphia, 1881) ; and " Scot- land's Place in Civilization " (1885).
HALSEY, Lather, clergyman, b. in Schenec-
tady, N. Y., 1 Jan., 1794; d. in Norristown, Pa.,
29 Oct., 1880. From 1829 till 1837 he was profes-
sor of theology in the Western theological seminary,
Alleghany, Pa., after which he held the chair of
ecclesiastical history and church polity in Auburn,
N. Y., theological seminary, resigning in 1844.
From 1847 till 1850 he- was professor of church
history in Union theological seminary, New York
city. For several years previous to his death he
lived in retirement. — His brother, Job Foster,
clergyman, b. in Schenectady, N. Y., 12 July, 1800 ;
d. in Norristown, Pa., 7 March, 1881, was gradu-
ated at Union in 1819, studied theology with his
brother, and spent the years from 1823 till 1826 at
Princeton seminary. From 1826 till 1828 he held
charge of the Old Tennent church in Freehold,
N. J. He was agent for the American Bible society
in New Jersey in 1828-'9, for the American tract
society in Albany, N. Y., in 1829-'30, and for the
Sunday-school union in Pittsburg in 1830-'l.
From 1831 till 1836 he was pastor of the First
church in Alleghany City, Pa., and in 1835-'6 a
professor in Marion manual-labor college, Mis-
souri. He was principal of Raritan seminary for
young ladies in Perth Amboy, N. J., from 1836 till
1848, pastor at West Bloomfield (now Montclair),
N. J., from 1852 till 1856, and pastor of the 1st
Presbyterian church in Norristown, Pa., from 1856
till he resigned in 1881.
HALSTEAD, Murat, journalist, b. in Paddy's
Run, Butler co., Ohio, 2 Sept., 1829. He spent
the summers on his father's farm and the winters
in school until he was nineteen years old, and, after
teaching for a few months, entered Farmer's
college, near Cincinnati, where he was graduated in
1851. He had already contributed to the press,
and after leaving college became connected with
the Cincinnati “Atlas,” and then with the
“Enquirer.” He afterward established a Sunday
newspaper in that city, and in 1852-'3 worked on the
“Columbian and Great West,” a weekly. He
began work on the “Commercial” on 8 March,
1853, as a local reporter, and soon became news
editor. In 1854 the “Commercial” was reorganized,
and Halstead purchased an interest in the
paper. In 1867 its control passed into his hands.
After pursuing for a time a course of independent
journalism, he allied himself with the Republican
party, which he has since supported. The Cincinnati
“Gazette” was consolidated with his paper in
1883, and he became president of the company that
publishes the combined journal under the name of
the “Commercial Gazette.”
HALSTEAD, Schureman, philanthropist, b.
in 1805 ; d. in Mamaroneck, N. Y., 5 Oct., 1868.
He entered a dry-goods house at the age of fifteen,
and by the time he had reached manhood had ac-
quired a competence. Through all his life he de-
voted himseli to the promotion of religious and
benevolent enterprises. It was due to his personal
efforts that the legislature passed the act creating
the board of " ten governors," and, having been ap-
pointed one of the original governors, he devoted
much time to securing the successful working of
the system. He was vice-president of the Ameri-
can Bible society, president of the Westchester
county Bible society, manager of the Parent mis-
sionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church,
founder, and for many years president, of the
Broadway insurance company, and held many
other responsible offices.
HALSTED, Byron David, agriculturist, b. in
Venice, N. Y., 7 June, 1852. He was graduated
at the Michigan agricultural college in 1871, and
subsequently studied at Harvard, where in 1878 he
received the degree of D. Sc. In 1873-4 he was
instructor in ' history and algebra at the Agricul-
tural college, and in 1874-'5 instructor in botany
in Harvard. In 1875-'9 he taught in the Chigaco
high-school, and then became editor of the " Ameri-
can Agriculturist," which office he held until 1884.
He was then called to fill the chair of botany in
the Iowa agricultural college. Dr. Halsted is a
fellow of the American association for the ad-
vancement of science, and a member of other so-
cieties. He has contributed largely to all the agri-
cultural and botanical journals in the United
States, and published " The Vegetable Garden "
(Chicago, 1882) ; " Farm Conveniences" (New York,
1883) ; and " Household Conveniences " (1883).
HALSTED, Nathaniel Norris, merchant, b.
in Elizabeth, N. J., 13 Aug., 1816 ; d. in Newark, N.
J., 6 May, 1884. At a very early age he was adopt-
ed by his uncle, Caleb O. Halsted, a merchant of
New York, who educated him in the schools of
that city and in the Boys' seminary at Woodbridge,
N. J. Entering the dry-goods establishment of his
uncle, he became at the age of twenty-nine years
a partner in the house, and so continued until
1855, when he retired with a fortune. Soon after-
ward he removed to Newark, N. J., having pur-
chased stock in the New Jersey rubber company, of
which he became a director and finally president.
In the early part of the civil war he received an
appointment on the staff of Gov. Olden, of New
Jersey, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and
when recruiting camps were established at Trenton
he was bre vetted brigadier-general and placed in
command. Princeton is indebted to him for the
astronomical observatory which bears his name,
and in the erection of which he expended $55,000.
He had been a trustee of this institution for many
years at the time of his death. He also gave largely
for the establishment and successful conduct of
the New Jersey state agricultural society, of which
he was the first president. The New Jersey his-
torical society, in its " Proceedings," makes mention
of him not only as one of its benefactors, but as
an earnest laborer in every worthy cause.
HALSTED, Oliver Spencer, jurist, b. in Elizabeth, N. J., 22 Sept., 1792; d. in Lyons Farms, N. J., 29 Aug., 1877. He was graduated at Princeton in 1810, studied law in the Litchfield law-school and in his native town, was admitted to the bar in 1814, and settled in Newark, N. J. In 1820 he removed to Huntsville, Ala., and devoted two
years and a half to the practice of law. He returned to Elizabeth in 1823, and in 1827 was elected to the legislature. He was appointed surrogate of Essex county in 1828, was again elected to the legislature in 1834, and in 1840 became mayor of Newark. In 1844 he was a member of the conven-
