Hurlbut, Stephen

AUGUST US, soldier, born at Charleston, S. C., Nov. 29, 1815; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1837. He held a number of posts in the ministry of public affairs. During the Civil War he commanded a division of the Federal army at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and was promoted from the rank of brigadier-general to that of major-general of volunteers, Sept., 1862; afterward commanded the Sixteenth Army Corps and the Department of the Gulf; was appointed minister resident to Colombia (1869-72); was member of the Forty-third Congre . He was sent as minister to Peru in 1881, where he died, March 28, 1882. Hurley, in Wisconsin , a post-village, cap. of Iron co., 4 m. S.E. of Ashland, on C. & N. W. and Wisconsin Central R.Rs. Iron ore and lumber are largely shipped. Pop . (1895) 2,267. Hu'ron, in South Dakota , a city, cap. of Beadle co., 118 miles E. of Pierre, on C. & N. W. and Gt. Nor. R. Rs. Here are the large machine shops of C. & N. W. R. R. It has manufactories of carriages, wagons, ornamental wood-work, flour, bricks, . Pop . (1895) 2,514. Huro/nian Formation. (Geol.) A geological division of the Azoic rocks of America, later than the Lauren tian and older than the Cam brian strata. Its rocks, consisting of sandstones, conglomerates, shales, and limestones, with imbedded igneous rocks, were first observed in 1858, on the north shore of Lake Huron, and were held to be later than the Lauren tian granites and gnei es from resting unconformably upon them. Rocks of seemingly the same age have since been discovered elsewhere, and the term has been used to indicate certain dark-colored rocks in all parts of the earth. Extended study of the pre-Cam brian strata has led to the use of the term Algonkian, which is employed to embrace all rocks between the Lauren tian and the Cam brian, including those originally described as He onian. See GEOLOGY.