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2g2 HASKINS. IIATIIEWAY. During his diaconate he had charge for six months of Christ church, Gardiner, Me. From 1847 to '51 he lived at Medford, where he gathered a society and built Grace church, of which he was the first rector. For a part of this period he was treasurer of the diocesan convention. Subject at this time to an occasional loss of voice, he decided to take a temporary rest from regular preaching. For some months he taught a class of girls in Lowell. Removing to Roxbury in 1853, he estab- lished and conducted a private school for young ladies at the South End, Boston ; this school, at the time of its fullest devel- opment, occupied the two upper floors of the large Concord Hall Building on Con- cord Street, and numbered about sixty pupils. It was known as the Concord Hall school. While in charge of this institution he published •'Selections from the Old and New Testaments for Use in Families and Schools," also "The French and English First Book." For one year of this period he supplied the Sunday services of the infant church at Hyde Park. In 1862, when his son en- tered college, he removed to his present home in Cambridge. Soon afterwards, transferring his school interests to the Rev. Charles C. Shackford and Miss M. C. Pratt, he resumed ministerial work and organized the first Episcopal church in Brighton, of which he was the rector till the latter part of 1866. In 1868 and '69 he was chaplain of the McLean Asylum for the Insane, Somerville. In 1S73 and '74 he traveled in Europe with his family. From 1875 to '80 he was rector of St. John's, Arlington, having gathered the society and erected the church building. Since January, 1889, he has had charge of St. Bartholomew's Mission, Cambridge. In 1876 he was chosen dean and profes- sor of ecclesiastical history in the theo- logical school of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. He declined these positions, but acce-pted the appointment of commissioner of education for the uni- , versity, which he still holds. In 1877 he prepared an illustrated sketch of the uni- versity, which was printed by this institu- tion. The same year he received the de- gree of S. T. D. from Columbia College. In addition to the works above men- tioned, he has published treatises in pam- phlet form on the following subjects: " Con- firmation," " The Study of the Larger English Dictionaries," " The Religious Education of Children in New England," " The Requisites for a Church School for Girls." He is also the author of a volume recently issued entitled, " The Maternal Ancestors of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with some Personal Reminiscences of Him." Mr. Haskins was a cousin of Mr. Emerson, and went to his school in Roxbury. Mr. Haskins was married in Portland, Me., December 20, r842, to Mary Cogs- well Daveis, daughter of the Hon. Charles Stuart Daveis, of that city, and Elizabeth Taylor (Gilman) Daveis (the daughter of Governor John Taylor Gilman of Exeter, N. H.) . He has one son and two daughters now surviving : David G. Haskins, Jr., (H. U„ 1866), Mary Cogswell Daveis Haskins (now Mrs. James O. Watson, of Orange, N. J.) and Frances Greene Has- kins. HATHAWAY, GUILFORD H., son of Edmund and Betsey Hathaway, was born in Freetown, Bristol county, May 3, 1808. His educational advantages, besides the common school, were the military school, Norwich, Vt. (Captain Alden Partridge). In 1836 he became director of the Fall River Bank, which position he still holds. He has been president of the same bank since 1S76. He is the oldest living and senior member of the board of investment of the Fall River Savings Bank. He was collector of taxes, Freetown, four years ; selectman five years ; chair- man Fall River board of assessors thirteen years ; member of the common council, 1864 and '65 ; alderman, 1S66 and '67 ; county commissioner Bristol county, i860 to '77, and representative to the Legislature in 1837. Mr. Hathaway was married in Fall River, November 1, 1832, to Betsey, daughter of Edward and Hannah Wilson. Of this union were seven children : Othalia W., Abiah, Edmund, Edward W., Edmund 2d, Emma F. and Charles G. Hathaway. HATHEWAY, NICHOLAS, son of Elna- than P. and Salome (Cushman) Hathe- way, was born in Freetown, Bristol county, September 3, 1S24. He was the eldest of eleven children, and comes of Puritan stock on both sides. His mother was a direct descendant of Robert Cush- man, who preached the first sermon on Plymouth Rock. His father was a lawyer of distinction and an acknowledged leader of the Democratic party. Passing through the public schools of his native town, he supplemented his early educational training by attendance at Phil- lips Academy, Andover, and fitted for