HART
HART
at Dojdestovvn and took a special course in chem-
istry with Prof. Thomas M. Drown in Philadel-
phia and as a fellow of Johns Hopkins university,
1876-78. He was an assistant in laboratories at
Lafayette under Professor Drown, 1874-75 ; tutor
in chemistry, 187o-76; adjunct professor of gen-
eral chemistry there, 1878-81; adjunct professor
of chemistrj', 1881-82, and was elected to the
William Adamson chair of anahtical chemistry
in 1882. He was made a member of the American
chemical society and served as editor of its Journal
after 1893, as a member of the council and on
important committees; was elected a member of
the American institvite of mining engineers in
1881 ; a fellow of the American association for the
advancement of science, 1885, and vice-president
of section C in 1893 and editor of the Journal of
AnaJytiml Chemistry. He became president of
the Baker & Adamson Chemical Co., for whicli
company he invented a hj^drofluoric acid bot-
tle, awarded the John Scott Legacy medal and
premium by the Franklin institvite, a nitric acid
condenser, and numerous improvements in man-
ufacturing processes. He received the degree of
Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1879. He is the
author of Handbook of Volumetric Analysis, Lab-
oratory Exercises for Begin^iers in Chemistry, and
articles in scientific journals.
HART, Emanuel Bernard, representative, was born in New York city, Oct. 27, 1809; son of Ber- nard Hart, a merchant. He prepared for Colum- bia college in the public schools, but went into business life as clerk in a shipping house in 1823 and was also supercargo in a sailing vessel. He engaged as a stock and bond broker and was a volunteer fireman, alderman of the city, 1845, 1846 and 1871; and chairman of the Tammany general committee in 1849. He was a representa- tive in the 32d congress, 1851-53, surveyor of the port of New York, 1857-62. by appointment of President Buchanan; and special treasury com- missioner in Europe to investigate undervaluation by merchants, 1860. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1868; was a presidential elector and a commissioner of emigration the same year ; was excise commissioner, 1880-83; disbursing agent at the New York custom house, 1885-89 and cashier in the sheriff's office, 1889-93. He served as president of Mt. Sinai hospital, and an officer of the internal revenue department, 1893- 97; was lieutenant-colonel in tlie N.Y. state mili- tia, and was a prominent director and officer in various Hebrew charitable organizations. He died in New York city, Aug. 29, 1897.
HART, James McDougall, painter, was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, May 10, 1828; brother of William Hart, painter. He was taken to the United States in 1831, settled in Albany. N.Y., attended the public schools and served an appren-
ticeship to a carriage maker. II3 first studied
painting in Albany, N. Y., and later studied under
Schirmer at Dusseldorf, 1851-53. He first exhib-
ited at the National academy of design in 1853.
He had a studio in Albany, 1853-57, and in the
latter year removed to New York citj'. He was
elected an associate National academician in 1858
and an acadomician in 1859, and served as vice-
president of the academy, 1897-1900. He received
a medal at the Centennial at Philadelphia in 1876;
silver and gold medals from the Mechanics' in-
stitute, Boston; and a bronze medal at Paris in
1889. His paintings include: Cattle Going Home
(1871); Moonrise on the Adirondacks (1871); A
Breezy Day on the Boad (1874) ; Landscape, Boad
and Cattle (1875) ; A Misty 3Iorning (1876) ; In the
Basture (1877) ; Indian Summer (1878) ; Brincess
Lily (1882) ; Boughs for Christmas (1884) ; At the
Watering Trough (1885) ; On the North Shore
(1886); The Meadoio Boad; On the Bluffs, North-
X>ort, L.I. ; Trout Brook in the Adirondacks ; On the
Croton : View at Fannington ; Winter in the Adi-
ro)idacks. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 22, 1901.
HART, James Morgan, educator, was born in Princeton, N.J., Nov. 2, 1839; only child of John Seely and Amelia Caroline (Morford) Hart; and grandson of Isaac Hart and of Edmund Mor- ford. He resided in Philadelphia, Pa., 1841-57, was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1860, and was a student at Gottin- gen, Germany, 1861-64, receiving the degree of J.U.D. in 1864. He was assistant professor of modern languages at Coi-nell university, 1868-72 ; professor of modern languages and English litera- ture at the Universitj^ of Cincinnati, 1876-90, and became professor of rhetoric and English philol- ogy at Cornell in 1890. He was elected a member of the American philosophical society, Feb. 2, 1877. He translated and edited a number of works from the French and German, and is the author of: German Universities (1874); Syllabus of Anglo-Saxon Literature (1881); Handbook of Eng- lish Composition (1895) ; and contributions to the magazines.
HART, Joel T., sculptor, was born in Clark county, Ky., in 1810. He learned the trade of mason and stone cutter, working in Lexington in a marble yard, 1830-50. In 1850 he took iip mod- elling in clay, in which he gained a reputation, and to aid him in his art he took a course in anatomy at the Lexington medical college. He went to Italy in 1849 to have executed in marble the statue of Henry Clay for the Ladies' Clay asso- ciation of Richmond. Va. The model of the statue, which he made in Lexington, was on board a vessel bound for Italy, which was shipwrecked, and he was obliged to send to America for a du- plicate of the model, and the completed work did not leave Italy for Richmond till Aug. 29, 1859.
