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Connecticut, Virginia, W isconsin, Minne-
sota, Missouri, California, Oneida county,
New York; the Military Historical Soci-
ety of Massachusetts, the Essex Institute,
the American Antiquarian Society, the
American Geographical Society and the
American Folklore Society; was given
the degree of Doctor of Laws by Har-
vard in 1894, and that of Doctor of Litera-
ture by the University of Pennsylvania
the same year. He composed a mass in
B minor, and several hymns and songs,
and was president of the Boylston club of
singers, Boston. Massachusetts, from 1876
to 1881. He was joint editor with James
Grant Wilson of Appletons' "Cyclopaedia
of American Biography" (six volumes,
[887-89). His published works include:
'•Tobacco and Alcohol" (1868); "History
of English Literature, abridged from
Taine and edited for Schools" (1872);
"Myths and Myth-Makers" ( 1872) ; "Out-
lines of Cosmis Philosophy based on the
Doctrine of Evolution" (two volumes,
1874); "The Unseen World" (1876);
"Darwinism and Other Essays" (1879;
new edition, I 885); "Excursions of an
Evolutionist" (1883); "The Destiny of
Man viewed in the Light of his Origin"
(1884); "The Idea of God as Affected by
Modern Knowledge" (1885) ; "American
Political Ideas Viewed from the Stand-
point of Universal History" (1885);
"Washington and His Country" (1887);
"The Critical Period of American His-
tory." 1783-1789 (1888; illustrated edi-
tion, 1897)
England ;
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
; "The Beginnings of New
or the Puritan Theocracy in its
Relation to Civil and Religious Liberty"
(1889; illustrated edition, 1898); "The
War of Independence, for Young People"
(1889); "Civil Government of the United
States, considered with some reference to
its origins" ( 1890) ; "The American Revo-
lution" (two volumes. 1891 ;
edition, 1896) ; "The
illustrated
Discovery of Amer-
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ica, with some Account of Ancient America
and the Spanish Conquest" (two
volumes, [892); "Franz Schubert" (in
Millet's "Famous Composers," [892);
"Edward Livingston Youmans, Interpre-
ter of Science for the People" (1894);
"History of the United States, for
Schools" (1894); "Old Virginia and Her
Neighbours" (two volumes, 1897); "The
Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America"
(two volumes, 1889); "Through Nature
to God" (1899); and "Japanese Translations
of The Destiny of Man and The
Idea of God," published at Tokio in
1894-95.
He was married, in 1864, to Abby,
daughter of Aaron Brooks, of Petersham,
Massachusetts. He died at East Glouces-
ter, Massachusetts, July 4, 1901.
HADLEY, Arthur T.,
Educator, Author.
Arthur Twining Hadley, son of Dr.
James (2) and Anne Loring (Twining)
Hadley, was born in New Haven, Con-
necticut, April 23, 1856.
He was prepared for college at the
Hopkins Grammar School, and was grad-
uated from Yale College in 1876, at the
age of twenty, with the highest honors
as valedictorian of his class, and taking
the Woolsey and Bristed scholarships,
one of the Winthrop prizes given to "stu-
dents most thoroughly acquainted with
Greek and Latin poets," the Clark prize
for the solution of astronomical problems,
and one of the Townsend prizes for English
composition. He studied history and
political science at Yale College, 1876-77,
and then went abroad and spent two years
in study of the same subjects in the Uni-
versity of Berlin, under Wagner, Treit-
schke and Gneist. also taking up history.
On his return home he was made a tutor
in Yale College, remaining in that capac-