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were objects of popular interest of their day.
In the same year he advertised in the Boston
Evening Post his engravings of the King and
his minister "fit for a Picture, or for Gentlemen
and Ladies to put in their Watches." He also
made a portrait of the Rev. Joseph Sewall With
the exception of these few portraits and an oc-
casional lodge emblem, his engraving on copper
was confined chiefly to bookplates, the most fa-
mous of which was made for Harvard College.
His usual advertisement, such as that in the
Boston Gazette for Apr. 28, 1760, announced
that he did "Goldsmith's Work, likewise en-
graves in Gold, Silver, Copper, Brass, and Steel,
in the neatest Manner, and at reasonable Rates."
In his bookplates he used the same device re-
peatedly, an escutcheon with a shell at its base,
from which water is flowing. His silver was
marked "N. Kurd" in shaded Roman letters in
a rectangle, or in a shaped rectangle, or in very
small letters in a cartouche. His portrait by John
Singleton Copley is in the Cleveland Museum of
Art

["Early Am. Artists and Mechanics: No. i, Na-
thaniel Hurd," New Eng. Mag., July 1832; D. McN.
Stauffer, Am. Engravers upon Copper and Steel
(1907) ; Am. Graphic Art (1912); F. H. Bigelow, Hist.
Silver of the Colonies (1917).] K.H.A.

HURLBERT, WILLIAM HENRY (July 3,
i827~Sept. 4, 1895), journalist and author, son
of Martin Luther Hurlbut and Margaret Ash-
burner (Morford) Hurlbut and half-brother of
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut [##.], was born at
Charleston, S. C. The change in his surname
was brought about by the error of an engraver
in making some cards for him, and he liked the
spelling, "Hurlbert," so much that he retained
it Graduating at Harvard in 1847, be next en-
tered the Harvard Divinity School, where he
was graduated in 1849, t^611 spent two years in
study and travel in Europe. Returning to Amer-
ica, he entered the Unitarian ministry, but served
only a short time, though during that period he
wrote some hymns which were long in use. In
1852-53 he spent a year in the Harvard Law
School. After visiting the West Indies, he pub-
lished Can-Eden or Pictures of Cuba (1854).
In 1855 he became a writer on the staff of Put-
#am*s Magazine and dramatic critic for the Al-
bion; and in 1857 joined the New York Times.
His brilliant but erratic genius was manifested
in many ways. It is said that he could work on
two or three editorials at once, dashing off al-
ternate pages of them to send to the typesetters.
He wrote many poems, and a play of his, Amer-
icans in Paris; or A Game of Dominoes, was
performed at Wallack's in 1858 and published
the same year. Having professed strong opposi-

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tion to slavery, he was arrested while on a busi-
ness trip in the South in 1861 and confined for a
number of months in Richmond, but escaped in
the summer of 1862, making his way on foot
through the lines and to Washington. He now
declared the Republican party to be a menace to
the nation, and joined the staff of the New York
World. In 1864 he published McClellan and the
Conduct of the War, and took the stump for
McClellan in the campaign of that year. He
headed a group which purchased the New York
Commercial Advertiser in 1864, but he and his
associates could not agree, and the paper was
sold in 1867 to Thurlow Weed. In 1866 he visit-
ed Mexico; the following year, as the repre-
sentative of the World, he attended the Paris
Exposition and the Festival of St. Peter in
Rome. In 1871 he was special correspondent
for the World with the commission sent by Pres-
ident Grant to Santo Domingo. From 1876 to
1883 he was editor-in-chief of the World. After
1883 he spent most of his time in Europe, writ-
ing many essays and articles for British and
American periodicals during those latter years.
He endeared himself to British Tories by his
book, Ireland Under Coercion (2 vols., 1888)
but, considering himself to have been insulted
by a remark made by the Lord Chief Justice,
Lord Coleridge, he wrote in retort a book of 500
closely printed pages entitled, England Under
Coercion (1893). A suit for breach of promise,
which he won, nevertheless caused him to leave
England in 1891. He died in Cadenabbia, Italy,
with a warrant still out against him in London,
for perjury in connection with the suit On Aug.
9, 1884, he married Katharine Parker Tracy of
New York.

[See H. H. Hurlbut, The Hurlbut Geneal. (1888) ;
Cat. of the Artistic and Valuable Collections of Mr.
Wm. Henry Hurlbert . . . to be Sold by Auction
(1883) ; J. M. Lee, Hist, of Am. Journalism (1923) ;
N. Y. Times, Sept. 7, 1895; N. Y. Times Sat. Rev.,
June 14, 1902; Times (London), Sept. 7, 1895 ; World
(N. Y.), Sept. 7, 8, 1895. The London newspapers of
April 1891 and thereafter, during the trial of Evelyn
vs. Hurlbert, contain much interesting material ; though
some of the charges made against Hurlbert in this trial
would seem to have been refuted on good authority
elsewhere (see letters of John Gilmer Speed of New
York and W. W. Story, the sculptor, in the New York
Svn, Dec. 8, 1893).]

HURLBUT, JESSE LYMAN (Feb. 15, 1843-
Aug, 2, 1930), Methodist clergyman, editor, au-
thor, was born in New York City, a descendant
of Thomas Hurlbut who settled at Saybrook,
Conn., about 1635, and the son of Samuel and
Evelina (Proal) Hurlbut While he was a child
the family moved to Orange, N. J., where his
boyhood was spent He was one of twenty-three
to graduate from Wesleyan University in the
class of 1864, thirteen of whom became minis-

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