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DR. SIMEON DEMING HART, Washington Co., 0., born in 1818, son of Benjamin Hart, of Watertown, O., is a physician at Manetta, 0., and superintendent of the Childrens' Home.

DR. JOHN HART, son of John, born at Ipswich, Mass., in 1752, was a lawyer, and a noted musician; he joined Prescott's regiment in the commencement of the revolutionary war, and subsequently, to its close, was a surgeon in the second Massachusetts regiment he died in South Reading, April 27th, 1836, aged 84 years. He settled in Reading in 1782, was five years in the State Senate, and was a venerable patriot and Christian; when chosen to public office, instead of making a treat as was customary, he gave the money to purchase books for schools.

DR. CLEMENT LEWIS HART, Madison, Wis., son of Edward Buel Hart, born in 1836, at Spencerport, N. Y., married, in 1862, Lutheria N. Thornton, and for a second wife married Ella R. Tolford.

DR. JAMES HARVEY HART, son of Abram, of White Plains, N. Y., is now (1874,) a physician in New York City; his mother's maiden name was Mary Coleman.

SOLDIERS BY THE NAME OF HART.

GENERAL SELAR HART, Kensington, an officer of the Revolution, born 1732, at Kensington, a son of Nathaniel Hart. He served the country as a general during the war, but was two years a prisoner in New York: Died in 1806, aged 74.

CAPTAIN FREDERIC W. HART, New Britain, Conn., son of Salmon, born 1822. In the late war as captain nine months.

CAPTAIN NOAH HARRISON HART, Lapeer, Mich., son of O. B. Hart, of Cornwall, Conn.; was four years in the army of the late war; born 1813, at Cornwall, Conn.; is, in 1874, a lawyer at Lapeer.

EDWARD HART, a son of Julius B. Hart. He was a soldier in the late war, and was killed. He was from Bay City, Mich.

WILLIAM S. HART, youngest son of Almon Hart, of Perry, N.Y. He was killed in 1863, in the army of the late war after dispatches. He was thrown off and kicked to death by a mule.

DR. CHARLES R. HART, son of Salmon N., of Hartford. He was a surgeon in the 10th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, in the late war, and honorably discharged September 2d, 1865. He was first assistant, and then promoted.

ALFRED DWIGHT HART, Hartford, Conn., son of Salmon N., born 1840, a private in the 25th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, for nine months.

JOHN OLIVER HART, enlisted when the war began, and died of disease,