HALE, HORATIO EMMONS American ethnologist, was born in Newport, N.H., on May 3, 1817. He was the son of David Hale, a lawyer, and of Sarah Josepha Hale (179o-1879), a popular poet, who is supposed to have been the first to suggest the national observance of Thanksgiving Day. The son graduated in 1837 at Harvard, and during 1838-42 was phil ologist to the U.S. exploring expedition, which under Capt. Charles Wilkes sailed around the world. Of the reports of that expedition Hale prepared the sixth volume, Ethnography and Philology (1846), which is said to have "laid the foundations of the eth nography of Polynesia." He was admitted to the Chicago bar in 1855, and in the following year removed to Clinton, Ont., Canada, where he practised his profession, and where he died on Dec. 28, 1896. His works include Indian Migrations as Evidenced by Lan guage (1882) ; The Origin of Language and the Antiquity of Speaking Man (1886) ; The Development of Language (1888) ; and Language as a Test of Mental Capacity: Being an Attempt to Demonstrate the True Basis of Anthropology (1891). He also edited for Brinton's "Library of Aboriginal Literature" the Iro quois Book of Rites (1883) .
See "Horatio Hale" by D. G. Brinton in The American Anthropol ogist, vol. 10 (1897) .