About Horatio Hale Horatio Hale, F.R.S.C. (1817-1896), a lawyer and resident of Clinton, Ontario, was a distinguished contributor to American ethnology and linguistics, one of his special fields of interest being the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Books by Horatio Hale The Iroquois Book of Rites edited by Horatio Hale introduction by William Fenton