Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-14
ARTHUR S. HARDY,
DIPLOMAT, DIES.
Served in Army, Was Author
and College Professor; Mas
sachuSettS Native; SO.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March i4.--ArthuT
Sherburne Hardy, diplomat and author,
died at his home. in Woodstock. Conn.
last night. He was So years old,
From 1893 to 1925 he was United
States Minister and consul general TO
Persia and later was Minister TO Greece,
Rumania, Serbia, Switzerland and
Spain.
-Four distinct lines of endeavor marked
the career of Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Army officer, college professor, diplomat
and author.
At the age of II he ran away from
home to enlist in the Union Army, but
his parents compelled him to return to
school and the same year he was grad
uated from Andover Academy. He then
received an appointment to the United
States Military Academy at West Point,
being graduated in 1859.
Receiving his commission as second
lieutenant, Mr.. Hardy was assigned TO
the Sd Artillery and was stationed at
DRY Tortugas Island, of the Florida
coast then used as military prison.
He resigned from the Army in 1871 to
accept appointment as professor OF
mathematics and civil engineering at
Iowa College.
Studies in Paris.
In 1879 he went to Paris for years
study at the Ecole des Points ct
Chaussees and upon his return to the
United States joined the faculty OF
Dartmouth College. He was professor
of engineering for four years and then
of mathematics until 1898, when he re-
signed to become editor of the Cosmo-
uolitan Magazine which had been pur-
chased by some of his friends. He re-
NAMED in that post two years,
Mr.. Hardy entered the dlplomatic
service of the United States in 1897 with
his appointment by President Mckinley
as minister and consul general at
Teheran. Persia. Two years later he was
advanced to minister plenipotentiary TO
Greece, Serbia and Rumania, and from
1901 to 1908 he served in a similar
capacity at Switzerland. Transferred to
Spain. he represented the United States
there until 1905, when he returned to
this country and resigned from the
diplomatic service because, as he ex-
pressed it, of IAN argument with Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt"
It was during his years as college
professor that Mr.. Hardy began writing,
his works including scientific volumes as
well as fiction. He concluded his liter
airy work in 1923 with volume, Things
Remembered" which was review of
his career from the time he entered the
Army. through his college professorships
and his diplomatic service. The book
was dedicated to his wife.
Mr.. Hardy was born at AnGOver,
Mass, August ID, 1847, the son Of Al
pheus and Susan Holmes Hardy. His
early education was obtained in the
public schools and at a private school
in Boston, only after persuasion and
insiStence upon the part of his parents.
In later years he often remarked that
he never could learn to like attending
the lower graded schools and that he
paid the penalty in spankings on numer-
Gus occasions for truancy
Father Merchant
The elder Hardy was a merchant in
Boston, and owned a number of ships
in the China and Mediterranean trade.
On his fathers vessel Mr.. Hardy, as q
boy, made several voyages to distant
ports during his school vacations.
On March 8, 1898, MIR. Hardy mar
ried Miss Grace AspinwalI Bowen at
Athens, Greece. They had one son.
Mrs. Hardy was the daughter of Henry
G. Bowen of Brooklyn, who had taken
up his residence in the Greek capital
During his Army career Mr.. Hardy
made reputation as an expert shot
with the rifle. He was an ardent
sportsman and keenly interested in
hunting and fishing. While United
States Minister at Athens he was
among the first Americans to advocate
the establishment of a golf course in
that city.
Mr.. Hardy's first works as an author
were published in 1881 and included
Elements of Quarternions, a mathe-
NAUTICAL treatise, and Imaginary GUAM
titles Two years later he produced
his first work of fiction, But Yet
Woman" His other volumes, besides
his autobiography. were New Methods
Of Typographical Surveying" Wind of
Destiny" "Passe Rose" Life and Let
ters of Joseph H. Neesima," Songs of
Two" Elements of Calculus "Ele-
ments of Analytic Geometry" His
Daughter First" "Aurelie," Diane and
Her Friends" Helen" and Number 13
Rue du Bon Diable."