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leturning in 1870 to New York, where he was
made hydrographic surveyor in the dock depart-
ment under Gen. George B. McCiellau. In 18T2 he
adopted literature as a profession, and went with
his wife to Dresden, where he lived two years;
removing to England in 1874, and living there
during the greater
part of the follow-
ing eight years. In
1881 he returned with
his family to New
York, where he re-
sided thereafter, with
the exception of two
trips to Europe and
one to India (1897)
and a residence of
three jears in the
West indies (1893-
96) . He was literary
critic on the staff of
the London Spectator,
1877-81, and iiad
charge of the literary page of the New York
World, 1885-86. He did journalistic work on the
New York Times as far back as 1872; and also
sent letters from Europe to the TrOnine and the
Herald, but his chief productions in this line
were in connection with the New York Journal,
as whose special commissioner he accompanied
W^illiam J. Bryan on his campaign for the presi-
dency in 1896. He also went as special connuis-
sioner for the Journal to Cuba, at the time of the
destruction of the Maine in Havana harbor in
1898. In 1897 he accepted a commission from the
Cosmopolitan Magazine to px'oceed to India and
investigate the facts of the plague and famine
in that country ; and his experiences were pub-
lished in the magazine the same year. His oldest
son, J. F. B. Hawthorne was acting U.S. consul
in Jamaica, West Indies. 1894-95; and in 1898
enlisted in the 71st regiment, N.Y. vols., and
made the charge up San Juan hill at Santiago.
Henry, his second son, entered a publishing
house and Frederick, the youngest, prepared for
Harvard. Notable among Mr. Hawthorne's novels
are: (Tartli (1875); Sebastian Strome (1878): Arch-
ihald Malmaison (1879) ; Dust (1880) ; Fortune's
Fool (1882) ; Sinfire (1885) ; and Love is a Spirit
(1895). In 1895 he also wrote A Fool of Nature,
which took the first prize of §10,000 in the New
York Herald competition. In addition to these
novels, and numerous short stories, he published
A Biography of Xathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife
(2 vols., 1885) ; and History of the United States (3
vols., 1898). In 1890 he wrote, in conjunction
with Mr. Lemmon of Texas, a treatise on Amer-
ican Literature, widely used in schools through-
out the United States.
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel, author, was born
in Sulem, Mass., July 4, 1804; the only son of
Captain Nathaniel and Elizabeth Clark (Manning)
Hathorne ; grandson of Capt. Daniel and Rachel
(Phelps) Hathorne, Captain Hathorne being com-
mander of the privateer The Fair American;
great-grandson of Joseph Hathorne, a farmer;
great^ grandson of John Hathorne, chief justice
in the witch trials at Salem ; and great^ grand-
son of William Hawthorne (born 1607, died 1681),
who came from Wiltshire, England, with Jolin
Wintlirop in the Arbella in 1630, settled in Dor-
chester, Mass., and in 1636 removed to Salem in
BIRTH PLACe OFAJATHANIEL HAWTHOB/va.
consideration of a gift of large tracts of land, the settlers at Salem holding such a citizen to be " a public benefit. Nathaniel was a pupil in the school of Dr. Joseph E. Worcester, the lexicog- rapher, from 1811 to 1818. His mother removed to Raymond, Maine, and after living there in the woods one year Nathaniel returned to Salem and prepared for college. He matriculated at Bow- doin in 1821, at which time he restored the original English spelling of the name. He was graduated at Bowdoin, A.B., 1825, and A.M., 1828. Among his classmates were, John S. C. Abbott, James Ware Bradbury, Horatio Bridge, George Barrell Cheever. Jonathan Cilley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hezekiah Pack- ard, David Shepley, William Stone and other men of mark. President Franklin Pierce and Prof. Calvin Ellis Stowe were of tlie class of 1824. For twelve years after he left college Haw- thorne lived a recluse, reading and writing by night or day as it suited his fancy. He published his first novel, " Fanshawe," at his own expense in 1826 and sold a few hundred copies. He then completed "Seven Tales of My Native Land," stories of witchcraft, piracy and the sea, but finally decided to destroy the manuscript. In 1830 he wandered from home as far as the Con- necticut valley in company with an uncle, and in "1831 he went through New Hampshire, Vermont
