Haggart, John

GRAHAM, Canadian statesman, was born at Perth, Ontario, on Nov. 14, 1836; was employed in the milling busine , in that city, of which he was for some time mayor; elected to the Dominion Parliament in 1872-74-78-82-87 and 1891; was made Postmaster General of Canada in 1888, and appointed Minister of Railways and Canals under Premier Abbott. Hague ( hāg ), ARNOLD, geologist, was born in Boston, Ma ., Dec. 3, 1840; educated at Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, Heidelberg University, and Freiberg Mining Academy; was a istant geologist on the Fortieth Parallel Survey (1867-77); government geologist to Guatemala (1877) and China (1878); geologist on the U. S. Geological Survey (1879); elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (1885). In his writings he has made a specialty of volcanic rocks, though his works are varied in character. Among these are: Descriptive Geology; Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel; Geology of the Eureka District, Nevada , Monograph XX., U. S. Geological Survey. Some of his minor papers are: Volcanoes of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington; Volcanic Rocks of the Great Basin, . Hahn-Hahn, IDA MARIE, COUNTESS, novelist and religious writer, born in Germany, June 22, 1805; became the wife of her cousin, Count Fried rich Wilhelm Adolf von Hahn-Hahn, but obtained a divorce in 1829. She published poems, novels, and travels, of which her romances were the most popular and were widely read. They include: Aus der Gesellschaft; Gräfin Faustine ; Sigismund Forster , . She was converted to the Roman Catholic faith and wrote a book upon the subject, entitled Von Babylon nach Jerusalem ; afterward devoted herself to the reformation of fallen women, residing the latter part of her life at Mentz. Among her later works are: Peregrin a; Die Glöcknerstochter, . Died Jan. 12, 1880, Hahns'town, in Pennsylvania, a village of West more land co. Pop . (1897) about 700.