Chapter 8

A Dictionary of American Authors (part 3)

Freeman, James Midwinter. “Robert Ranger.” N. Y., 1827-1900. A Methodist clergyman of New York city who published many books for children under the pseudonym “Robert Ranger.” Other works of his include Illustration in Sunday-School Teaching; Handbook of Bible Manners and Customs; Short History of the English Bible; Book of Books. Meth.
Freeman, Samuel. Me., 1743-1831. A jurist of Portland, Maine. The Massachusetts Justice; Probate Directory; The Town Officer. See Bibliography of Maine.
Frémont, Mrs. Jessie [Benton]. Va., 1824-1902. Wife of J. C. Frémont, infra, and daughter of T. H. Benton, supra. A resident of Los Angeles. The Story of the Guard, a Chronicle of the War; A Year of American Travel; Souvenirs of My Time; Sketch of Senator Benton; Far West Sketches; Will and the Way Stories. Lo.
Frémont, John Charles. Ga., 1813-1890. A famous soldier and politician who in 1856 was the first Republican candidate for the presidency, and served during the Civil War as a major-general in the Federal army. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842, and to Oregon and Northern California in 1843-44; Frémont’s Explorations; Memoirs of My Life. See Appleton’s American Biography; Lives by J. Bigelow, supra, C. Upham.
French, Alice. “Octave Thanet.” Ms., 1850- ——. A writer of novels and short stories whose home has been in Davenport, Iowa, and also in Arkansas. Knitters in the Sun; Otto the Knight, and other Trans-Mississippi Stories; Stories of a Western Town; An Adventure in Photography; Expiation. Hou. Scr.
French, Benjamin Franklin. Va., 1799-1877. A writer of New Orleans and subsequently of New York city. Biographia Americana; Memoirs of Eminent Female Writers; Historical Collections of Louisiana; History of the Iron Trade in the United States; Historical Annals of North America.
French, Henry Willard. Ct., 1853- ——. A lecturer and miscellaneous writer of Boston. Art and Artists in Connecticut; Our Boys in China; Our Boys in India; Through Arctics and Tropics; Gems of Genius; Nuna the Brahmin Girl; Lance of Kehama; Oscar Peterson; Colonel Thorndike’s Adventures; and the novels, The Only One; Castle Foam; Ego. Le. Lo.
French, John William. Ct., 1809-1871. An Episcopal clergyman of Washington, 1842-56, and from the latter date till his death professor of ethics at West Point. He was the author of a work on Practical Ethics.
French, Mrs. L. Virginia [Smith]. Va., 1830-1881. A writer and educator of Memphis. Wind Whispers, a collection of poems; Legend of the South; Iztalixo, a Tragedy; My Roses, the Romance of a June Day.
French, William Henry. Md., 1815-1881. An officer who served in the army of the United States during the Mexican, Seminole, and Civil wars. His only published work is a manual of Instruction for Field Artillery.
Freneau [frē-nō´], Philip. N. Y., 1752-1832. A journalist of New York city who, during the Revolution, produced much patriotic verse that was very effective as well as popular, though none of it is marked by any high degree of excellence. Poems of Philip Freneau, written chiefly during the Late War (1786); Poems Written between the Years 1768 and 1794; Poems Written and Published during the American Revolution; Collection of Poems on American Affairs. Among his prose writings are, The Philosopher of the Forest; Essays by Robert Slender. See American Literatures by Hart, Nichol, and Richardson. Cr.
Frey, Albert Romer. N. Y., 1858- ——. A writer of New York city upon Shakesperean and dramatic topics, who has also published a work upon Sobriquets and Nicknames. Hou.
Frey, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick. G., 1773-1850. A clergyman of Jewish descent who became a Christian in 1798, and, after coming to America in 1816, was for some ten years a Presbyterian minister and subsequently a Baptist preacher, especially active as a missionary to the Jews. Narrative of My Life: Hebrew Bible; Hebrew Grammar; Judah and Israel; Joseph and Benjamin; The Passover; Scripture Types.
Frieze, Henry Simmons. Ms., 1817-1889. A professor of Latin in the University of Michigan from 1854 until his death. He published editions of Quintilian and Virgil’s Æneid, and was the author of The Story of Giovanni Dupré.
Frisbie, Levi. Ct., 1748-1806. A Congregational clergyman of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who published Sermons and Orations.
Frisbie, Levi. Ms., 1783-1822. Son of L. Frisbie, supra. A tutor and professor at Harvard College from 1805 till his death. Miscellaneous Writings of Professor Frisbie, edited with Memoir by Andrews Norton, infra, appeared in 1823.
Fritschel, Gottfried Leonhard Wilhelm. G., 1836-1889. A Lutheran clergyman who came from Germany to the United States in 1857, and was a professor of theology in the seminary at Mendota, Illinois, from that time. He published (in German) Meditations on the Passion of Christ; History of Protestant Missions among North American Indians in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Frost, John. Me., 1800-1859. An educator of Philadelphia who was a prolific writer and compiler of historical and other works of indifferent merit. Their number was very great, and the sale of some of them extensive. Among them are, Beauties of English History; Beauties of French History; Wild Scenes in a Hunter’s Life; Pioneer Mothers in the West; The Presidents of the United States; Pictorial History of the United States; History of the World. Har. Le.
Frothingham, Ellen. Ms., 1835-1902. Daughter of N. L. Frothingham, infra. A Bostonian who published several fine translations from Lessing (The Laocoön); Auerbach; Goethe (Hermann and Dorothea); Grillparzer (Sappho); “Marie-Herbert” (Poems of Therese).
Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon. Ms., 1793-1870. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston whose writing displays singular grace and refinement. Deism or Christianity; Sermons in the Order of a Twelvemonth; Metrical Pieces, Original and Translated.
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks. Ms., 1822-1895. Son of N. L. Frothingham, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of extremely radical views who resigned his charge in New York city in 1879, and returned to Boston the next year, devoting the remainder of his life to literary pursuits. He was at one period art critic for the New York Tribune. Stories from the Lips of the Teacher; Stories from the Old Testament; The Religion of Humanity; The Cradle of the Christ; Memoir of W. H. Channing, supra; The Safest Creed; Beliefs of the Unbelievers; Creed and Conduct; The Spirit of the New Faith; The Rising and the Setting Faith; Visions of the Future; Lives of Gerrit Smith, George Ripley, Theodore Parker; History of New England Transcendentalism; Boston Unitarianism; Recollections and Impressions. Hou. Put.
Frothingham, Richard. Ms., 1812-1880. A journalist and local historian of Charlestown, Massachusetts. History of the Siege of Boston; The Rise of the Republic; History of Charlestown; Life of General Joseph Warren; The Command in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Lit.
Frothingham, Washington. N. Y., 1822- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Albany. Atheos, or Tragedies of Unbelief; The Martel Papers: Scenes in the Reign of Terror.
Fry, James Barnet. Il., 1827-1894. A colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army who was retired from active service in 1881, and thereafter lived in New York city. Sketch of the Adjutant-General’s Department, 1775-1875; Historical and Legal Effects of Brevets in Great Britain and the United States from their Origin in 1692; Army Sacrifices; McDowell and Tyler in the Campaign of Bull Run; Operations of the Army under Buell; New York and Conscription.
Fuller, Andrew S——. N. Y., 1828-1896. A horticultural writer and journalist of New York city, editor of Woodward’s Record of Horticulture. The Fruit Tree Culturist; The Grape Culturist; The Small Fruit Culturist; The Strawberry Culturist; Practical Forestry; The Propagation of Plants; The Nut Culturist.
Fuller, Anna. Ms., 1853- ——. A Boston novelist. Pratt Portraits; A Literary Courtship; Peak and Prairie; A Venetian June. Put.
Fuller, Edward. N. Y., 1860- ——. A Boston journalist, subsequently on the staff of the Providence Journal. The Complaining Millions of Men, a novel of social conditions in Boston.
Fuller, Henry Blake. Il., 1857- ——. A novelist of Chicago. The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani; The Chatelaine of La Trinité; The Cliff Dwellers; With the Procession; The Puppet-Booth, twelve one-act plays. Cent. Har.
Fuller, Hiram. Ms., c. 1815-1880. A journalist of New York city who at the outset of the Civil War supported the Confederate cause, and emigrated to England on that account. Subsequently he became an adventurer in Paris. The Groton Letters; Belle Brittan on a Tour; Sparks from a Locomotive; Grand Transformation Scenes in the United States.
Fuller, Margaret. See Ossoli.
Fuller, Richard. S. C., 1804-1876. A Baptist clergyman of Charleston, and subsequently of Baltimore. Argument on Baptist Close Communion; Sermons; Scriptural Baptism.
Fuller, Richard Frederick. Ms., 1821-1869. Brother of M. Fuller, supra. A lawyer of Boston who published Visions in Verse; Chaplain Fuller, a life of his brother Arthur.
Fuller, Samuel. N. Y., 1802-1895. An Episcopal clergyman, professor at the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Connecticut. Confirmation, its Authority and Nature; The Revelation of St. John Self-Interpreted.
Fuller, Samuel Richard. Ms., 1850- ——. Son of S. Fuller, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Massachusetts. Personality, a volume of Sermons. Hou.
Fullerton, George Stuart. E. I., 1859- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of moral philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania. The Conception of the Infinite and the Solution of the Mathematical Antinomies, a psychological treatise; A Plain Argument for God. Lip.
Fullerton, William Morton. Ct., 1865- ——. A journalist in Boston for several years, and since 1890 a member of the Paris staff of the London Times. Cairo, a descriptive essay; Patriotism and Science, a collection of essays. Mac. Rob.
Fulton, John. S., 1834- ——. An Episcopal clergyman noted as an able exponent of canon law, and professor of that subject at the Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia. Letters on Christian Unity; Index Canonum; The Laws of Marriage; Documentary History of the Episcopal Church in the Confederate States; The Beautiful Land, a description of Palestine; The Chalcedonian Decree. Wh.
Fulton, Justin Dewey. N. Y., 1828-1901. A Baptist clergyman, prominent in Boston and Brooklyn for his continued and violent attacks upon the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Element in American History; The True Woman; Show Your Colors, a story of Boston Life; The Way Out; Witnessing for the Truth, or the Overthrow of the Papacy; Rome in America, include the most of his work, which is of interest as an example of religious bigotry if for no other reason.
Furness, Mrs. Helen Kate [Rogers]. 1837-1883. Wife of H. H. Furness, infra. A Shakespearean scholar of Philadelphia who published A Concordance to the Poems of Shakespeare. Lip.
Furness, Horace Howard. Pa., 1833- ——. Son of W. H. Furness, infra. A distinguished Shakespearean scholar of Philadelphia, widely known in the literary world for his scholarly and exhaustive variorum editions of King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and others of Shakespeare’s plays. Lip.
Furness, William Henry. Ms., 1802-1896. A Unitarian clergyman of Philadelphia, from 1825 to 1875 pastor of the Unitarian church in that city. A theologian of radical views, but reverent temper. The Unconscious Truth of the Four Gospels; Jesus and his Biographers; History of Jesus; Thoughts on the Life and Character of Jesus; The Story of the Resurrection Told Once More; The Power of Spirit; Discourses; The Veil Lifted and Jesus becoming Visible; Verses: Translations and Hymns; The Faith of Jesus; a much admired translation of Schiller’s Song of the Bell. See Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, June, 1896. El. Lip.
Futhey, John Smith. Pa., 1820-1888. A lawyer and antiquarian of Eastern Pennsylvania. History of Chester County; Historical Collections of Chester County.
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Gage, Mrs. Frances Dana [Barker]. O., 1808-1884. A prominent advocate of woman-suffrage who lectured much on that subject as well as upon temperance and anti-slavery. Elsie Magoon, a temperance story; Poems; Gertie’s Sacrifice; Nightcaps, a Series of Books; Sparks Upward. She wrote much over the signature “Aunt Fanny.” Lip.
Gage, Mrs. Matilda Joslyn. N. Y., 1826-1898. A noted woman suffragist of Fayetteville, New York. Woman’s Rights Catechism; Woman as an Inventor; Woman, Church, and State; History of Woman Suffrage (with Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton). Ke.
Gage, Simon Henry. N. Y., 1851- ——. A physiologist who has been professor of physiology at Cornell University. The Microscope and Histology; Anatomical Technology (with B. G. Wilder, infra).
Gage, William Leonard. N. H. 1832-1889. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford, 1868-84. Trinitarian Sermons to a Unitarian Congregation; Songs of War Time; Light in Darkness; Life of Carl Ritter; Studies in Bible Lands; Verses; The Home of God’s People; A Leisurely Journey; Palestine, Historic and Descriptive; The Salvation of Faust; a number of translations from the German. Lo.
Gallagher [găl´a-ḡer], William Davis. Pa., 1808-1894. A journalist of Cincinnati prominent in the early literary annals of the Ohio Valley, whose home in later years was near Louisville. Miami Woods and Other Poems; A Golden Wedding, and Other Poems; Erato (verse). See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America. Clke.
Gallatin, Albert. Sd., 1761-1849. A financier of distinction. He came to America from Switzerland in 1780, and was active in political affairs. He was secretary of the treasury under President Jefferson; an associate of Adams and Clay in negotiating the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain in 1815; minister to France 1816-23; subsequently minister to Great Britain. After his retirement from public life he became a banker in New York city. Considerations on the Currency and Banking System of the United States; Synopsis of the Indian Tribes; Notes on the Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America; Peace with Mexico; War Expenses. His writings have been edited in six volumes by H. Adams, supra. See Lives by H. Adams, J. A. Stevens. Lip.
Gallaudet [găl-aw-dĕt´], Edward Miner. Ct., 1837- ——. Son of T. H. Gallaudet, infra. Popular Manual of International Law; Life of T. H. Gallaudet, infra.
Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins. Pa., 1787-1851. A celebrated educator of deaf-mutes, who was superintendent of the institution for deaf-mutes at Hartford, the first in the United States, 1817-30. Child’s Book of the Soul; The Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Sermons Preached to an English Congregation in Paris; Bible Stories for the Young. See Lives by H. Humphrey, E. M. Gallaudet.
Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine. Prince. Hd., 1770-1841. The son of the Russian ambassador to France, he came to America in 1792, was educated as a Sulpitian priest, and founded the Roman Catholic colony of Loretto in Pennsylvania in 1803. Defence of Catholic Principles; Appeal to the Protestant Public; Six Letters of Advice; Letter to a Protestant Friend on the Holy Scripture. See Lives by Lemcke, Heyden, Brownson.
Galloway, Charles Betts. Mi., 1849- ——. A bishop of the Methodist Church South. Methodism a Child of Providence; Aaron’s Rod in Public Morals.
Galloway, Joseph. Md., 1731-1803. A Philadelphia lawyer who was a noted loyalist, and went to England after the evacuation of the city by the English. Historical and Political Reflections on the American Rebellion; The Prophetic History of the Church of Rome.
Gallup, Joseph Adams. Ct., 1769-1849. A Vermont physician, professor in Vermont Medical College, which he founded. Epidemic Diseases in Vermont; Outlines of the Institutes of Medicine.
Gammell, William. Ms., 1812-1889. An educator of Rhode Island, professor at Brown University, 1835-64. Life of Roger Williams; History of American Baptist Missions.
Gannett, Ezra Stiles. Ms., 1801-1871. A Unitarian clergyman of prominence in Boston for many years, who published a great number of single sermons and addresses. See Memoir by W. C. Gannett.
Gannett, Henry. Me., 1846- ——. The chief topographer of the United States Geological Survey since 1882. Boundaries of the United States; The Building of a Nation; Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States; Results of Primary Triangulation; Manual of Topographical Methods; Geographic Dictionaries of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey.
Gannett, William Channing. 1840- ——. Son of E. S. Gannett, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Minneapolis, and subsequently of Rochester, New York. A Year of Miracle, a poem in Four Sermons; Memoir of E. S. Gannett, supra; The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems (with F. L. Hosmer). A. U. A. El. Rob.
Garden, Alexander. S., circa 1685-1750. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston remembered for his vigorous opposition to Whitefield. Six Letters to the Reverend George Whitefield; Two Sermons. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Garden, Alexander. S., 1728-1791. A botanical writer of Charleston for whom Linnæus named the genus Gardenia. He went to England as a loyalist in 1783, and became vice-president of the Royal Society.
Garden, Alexander. S. C., 1757-1829. Son of A. Garden, 2d. An officer in the American army during the Revolution. Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War (1822). See edition of 1865.
Gardener, Mrs. Helen. See Smart, Mrs.
Gardiner, Frederick. Me., 1822-1889. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown from 1869. The Island of Life, an Allegory; Commentary on Epistle of Jude; Harmony of the Four Gospels in Greek; Harmony of the Four Gospels in English; Diatessaron; The Principles of Textual Criticism; The Old and New Testament in their Mutual Relations; Aids to Scripture Study. Hou.
Gardner, Augustus Kinsley. Ms., 1812-1876. Son of S. J. Gardner, infra. A physician of New York city. The French Metropolis; Causes of Sterility; Conjugal Sins; Our Children, a Handbook for Parents; Old Wine in New Bottles; Ships and Shipbuilders of New York; translation of Scanzoni’s Diseases of Females.
Gardner, Charles Kitchell. N. J., 1787-1869. A United States army officer who was postmaster of Washington in President Polk’s administration. Dictionary of United States Army Commissioned Officers from 1789 to 1853; Compendium of Military Tactics; Permanent Designation of Companies, and lesser works.
Gardner, Dorsey. Pa., 1842-1894. A journalist of New York city who was one of the revisers of the Webster International Dictionary. Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo; Condensed Etymological Dictionary of the English Language.
Gardner, Eugene C. Ms., 1836- ——. An architect of Springfield, Massachusetts. Homes and All About Them; The House that Jill Built; Homes and How to Make Them; Illustrated Homes; Home Interiors; Common Sense in Church-Building; Town and Country School Buildings.
Gardner, Samuel Jackson. Ms., 1788-1864. A lawyer of Boston, and subsequently a journalist of Newark, New Jersey, whose essays over the signature “Decius” were issued in book form with the title Autumn Leaves.
Garfield, James Abram. O., 1831-1881. The twentieth president of the United States. A statesman of Ohio, prominent as a general in the Federal army during the Civil War, and subsequently as a congressman till his elevation to the presidency. In July, 1881, he was mortally wounded by an assassin, and died in the September following. His Complete Works have been edited by B. A. Hinsdale, infra. See Appleton’s American Biography; Life by J. R. Gilmore, infra, 1880; Eulogy by G. F. Hoar.
Garland, Hamlin. Wis., 1860- ——. A novelist who was for some years a resident of Boston, and then returned to the Western States, in which the scenes of his realistic fictions are mainly laid. Main Travelled Roads; A Spoil of Office; Prairie Folks; Prairie Songs; Crumbling Idols; Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly; Little Norsk. St.
Garland, Landon Cabell. Va., 1810-1895. A mathematician who held professorships in several Southern colleges, and published Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical.
Garman, Samuel. Pa., 1846- ——. A naturalist of Cambridge, assistant in the Agassiz Museum there. The Reptiles and Batrachians of North America; Reptiles and Batrachians of Bermuda. Clke.
Garnett, James Mercer. Va., 1840- ——. A professor of English literature at the University of Virginia since 1882. Translation of Beowulf; Anglo-Saxon Poems; Translations of Elene, Judith, Athelstan, and Byrhtnoth.
Garretson, James Edmund. “John Darby.” Del., 1828-1895. A physician of Philadelphia, dean of the dental college there from 1879. System of Oral Surgery; Odd Hours of a Physician; Thinkers and Thinking; Two Thousand Years Ago; Hours with John Darby; Brushland; 19th Century Common Sense. Lip.
Garrett, Alexander Charles. I., 1832- ——. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Northern Texas. Historical Continuity, a series of Sketches on the Church. Wh.
Garrigues, Henry Jacques. Dk., 1831- ——. A Danish physician who came to America in 1875, and since 1886 has been professor of practical obstetrics in the post-graduate medical school of New York city. Gastro-Elytrotomy; Practical Guide in Antiseptic Midwifery.
Garrison, James Harney. Mo., 1842- ——. A clergyman and editor of religious journals. Heavenward Way; Alone With God.
Garrison, Joseph Fithian. N. J., 1823-1892. An Episcopal clergyman of Camden, New Jersey, professor of canon law at the Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity School for some years. The Formation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; The American Prayer Book.
Garrison, William Lloyd. Ms., 1805-1879. A very celebrated anti-slavery journalist of Boston who established The Liberator in 1831, and was its editor for the thirty-five years of its existence. His uncompromising attitude roused the fiercest opposition in both North and South, and he was at one time dragged through the streets of Boston by a mob who intended to hang him for his newspaper utterances, but he fortunately lived to see the triumph of his ideas and the liberation of the slave. Thoughts on African Colonization; Sonnets and Other Poems. See Johnson’s Garrison and his Times; Life by his Sons.
Gath. See Townsend, G. A.
Gay, Ebenezer. Ms., 1696-1787. A Unitarian clergyman of Hingham from 1718 until his death. The Old Man’s Calendar, a sermon preached on his eighty-fifth birthday, went through several editions in America and England, and was translated into several continental languages.
Gay, Eben Howard. Ms., 1858- ——. Nephew of S. H. Gay, infra. A banker of Boston who has published A Treatise on Municipal Bonds.
Gay, Sydney Howard. Ms., 1814-1888. Great-grandson of E. Gay, supra. A journalist of New York and Chicago, during the Civil War the managing editor of the New York Tribune. Life of James Madison; Bryant and Gay’s Popular History of the United States, of which the preface only was the work of Mr. Bryant. Hou. Scr.
Gayarré, Charles Étienne Arthur. La., 1805-1895. A jurist of New Orleans, profoundly versed in the history of his State. Histoire de la Louisiane; Romance of the History of Louisiana; Colonial History of Louisiana; Louisiana as a French Colony; The Spanish Domination in Louisiana; Philip the Second, a Biography; Louisiana Supreme Court Reports; School for Politics, a drama; Fernando de Lemos, a novel; Aubert Dubayet, a sequel to the preceding; School for Politics, a Dramatic Novel.
Gayler, Charles. N. Y., 1820-1892. A dramatist of New York city among whose many plays are, The Gold Hunters; Taking the Chances; Fritz. Among his various novels are, The Romance of a Poor Young Man; Out of the Streets, both of which were dramatized by their author.
Gaylord, Glance. See Bradley, Warren.
Geer, George Jarvis. Ct., 1821-1885. An Episcopal clergyman, long rector of St. Timothy’s Church, New York city, and the author of The Conversion of St. Paul, a series of Discourses.
Gemünder, George. Wg., 1816-1899. A violin-maker who came to America from Würtemberg in 1847, and settled in New York city, 1852. He published Progress in Violin-Making.
Genin, John Nicholas. N. Y., 1819-1878. A noted hatter of New York city who wrote a History of the Hat from the Earliest Ages.
Genth, Frederick Augustus Louis Charles William. G., 1820-1893. A professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1872. Ammonia Cobalt Bases (with O. W. Gibbs, infra); Minerals of North Carolina; First and Second Preliminary Reports on the Mineralogy of Pennsylvania.
Genung [je-nŭng´], John Franklin. N. Y., 1850- ——. A professor at Amherst College. A Study of In Memoriam; The Epic of the Inner Life, an annotated translation of Job; Practical Elements of Rhetoric; The Study of Rhetoric in College Courses. Gi. Hou.
George, Henry. Pa., 1839-1897. A very widely known political economist of New York city whose radical views upon economic and social topics have met with much criticism both in America and Europe. Progress and Poverty; Our Land and Land Policy; The Subsidy Question and the Democratic Party; Protection or Free Trade; The Irish Land Question; The Land Question; Social Problems.
George, Nathan Dow. N. H., 1808-1896. A Methodist clergyman, long prominent in Maine, and subsequently in Massachusetts. An Examination of Universalism; Universalism Not of God; Materialism Anti-Scriptural; Annihilation Not of the Bible. Meth.
Gerard, James Watson. N. Y., 1822-1900. A lawyer of New York city. The Pelican Papers, a satire; Titles to Real Estate in New York City; Title of the Corporation and Others to the Streets, Wharves, Lands, and Franchises in New York City; The Peace of Utrecht; Aquarelles (verse); Ostrea, or the Loves of the Oysters, a collection of humourous verse. Put.
Gerhard, William Paul. G., 1854- ——. A sanitary engineer of New York city. Theatre Fires and Panics; Anlagen von Haus-Entwässerungen; Diagram for Sewer Calculations; House Drainage and Sanitary Plumbing; Guide to General House Inspection; Domestic Sanitary Appliances; Prinzipien der Haus-Kanalization, include his principal writings. Wil.
Gerhard, William Wood. Pa., 1809-1872. A Philadelphia physician. Diagnosis of Chest Diseases; Spotted Fever; Fevers; Clinical Guide.
Gerhart [gair´hart], Emmanuel Vogel. Pa., 1817-1904. A German Reformed clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, professor of theology in Franklin and Marshall College. Philosophy and Logic; Monograph of the Reformed Church; Child’s Heidelberg Catechism; Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Gerrish, Theodore. Me., 1846- ——. A clergyman of Portland, Maine. Army Life; Will Newton, the Young Volunteer; Life in the World’s Wonderland; The Blue and the Gray, an army history (with J. Hutchinson).
Gholson, William Yates. O., 1807-1870. An Ohio jurist who published Speeches on Payment of the Public Debt of the United States.
Gianque, Florien. O., 1843- ——. A Cincinnati lawyer of Swiss descent. Laws of Election in Ohio; Election and Naturalization Laws of the United States; Manual for Ohio Road Supervisors; Manual for Guardians and Trustees; Manual for Assignees, Insolvent Debtors, etc.; Laws of Ohio relating to Roads, Ditches, Bridges, and Water-Courses; Manual for Notaries, etc.; Appendix to Ohio Revised Statutes. Clke.
Gibbes [ḡĭbz], Robert Wilson. Ms., 1809-1866. A physician, educator, and journalist of Columbia, South Carolina. Monograph of the Squalidæ; Typhoid Pneumonia; Documentary History of South Carolina; Documentary History of the American Revolution.
Gibbon, John [Oliver]. Pa., 1827-1896. A major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War who published The Artillerist’s Manual.
Gibbons, Henry. Del., 1808-1848. Son of W. Gibbons, infra. A physician of San Francisco, professor in the Pacific Medical College who was the author of an anti-tobacco treatise, Tobacco and its Effects.
Gibbons, James. Md., 1834- ——. A cardinal of the Roman Catholic church since 1886. The Faith of Our Fathers; Our Christian Heritage; The Ambassador of Christ.
Gibbons, James Sloan. Del., 1810-1892. Son of W. Gibbons, infra. A prominent financier and philanthropist of New York city. He was a noted abolitionist, and was a pioneer in the movement for preserving the forests. The Banks of New York; The Public Debt of the United States. He wrote the popular war song, “We are Coming, Father Abraham.”
Gibbons, Mrs. Phœbe [Earle]. Pa., 1821-190-. An author of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Dutch, and Other Essays; French and Belgians. Lip.
Gibbons, William. Pa., 1781-1845. A philanthropist and scientist of Wilmington, Delaware. He wrote Truth Vindicated, a notably clear exposition of the principles of the Friends.
Gibbs, George. L. I., 1815-1873. A lawyer and antiquarian of New York city. The Judicial Chronicle; Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon or Trade Language of Oregon; Comparative Vocabulary; Research relative to the Ethnology and Philology of America; Suggestions relating to Scientific Observation in Russian America.
Gibbs, Josiah Willard. Ms., 1790-1861. A philologist who was professor of sacred literature at Yale University, 1824-61. Philological Studies; New Latin Analyst; Teutonic Etymology.
Gibbs, Josiah Willard. Ct., 1839-1903. Son of J. W. Gibbs, supra. A professor of physics at Yale University, and the author of scientific papers and monographs.
Gibbs, [Oliver] Wolcott. N. Y., 1822-1903. Brother of G. Gibbs, supra. A chemist of distinction, Rumford professor at Harvard University, and author of scientific papers.
Gibson, Louis Henry. Ind., 1854- ——. An architect of Indianapolis. Beautiful Houses, a Study in Housebuilding; Convenient Houses; Gradual Reduction Milling; Artistic Houses at Moderate Cost. Cr.
Gibson, William. Md., 1788-1868. A once famous physician of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in the University of Pennsylvania, 1819-55. Principles and Practice of Surgery; Rambles in Europe. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Gibson, William. Md., 1826-1887. A United States naval officer retired in 1879. Sailing Directions for the Kattegat, etc.; Poems of Many Years; Vision of Faery Land, and Other Poems; a translation of the Miscellaneous Poems of Goethe. Le.
Gibson, William Hamilton. Ct., 1850-1896. An artist and author of New York city who has illustrated his own writings. The Complete American Trapper; Pastoral Days; Highways and Byways; Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine; Happy Hunting-Grounds; Sharp-Eyes, a Rambler’s Calendar; Camp Life in the Woods; Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms. See New England Magazine, February, 1897. Har.
Giddings, Franklin Henry. Ct., 1855- ——. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia University since 1891. Report on Profit Sharing; The Modern Distributive Process (with J. B. Clark); The Principles of Sociology. Mac.
Giddings, Joshua Reed. Pa., 1795-1864. A once noted anti-slavery statesman and congressman of Ohio. The Exiles of Florida; The Rebellion: its Authors and its Causes; Speeches in Congress; Essays of Pacificus. See Life by G. W. Julian, infra.
Gihon, Albert Leary. Pa., 1833-1901. A United States naval surgeon. Practical Suggestions in Naval Hygiene; Need of Sanitary Reform in Ship Life; Sanitary Commonplaces Applied to the Navy; Prevention of Venereal Disease by Legislation.
Gilbert, Benjamin. Pa., 1711-1780. A miller of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, who wrote on theological themes. Truth Defended; Discourses on Perfection; Further Discourses on Sin, Election, Reprobation, and Baptism.
Gilbert, Charles Henry. Il., 1859- ——. An ichthyologist, professor of zoölogy at Stanford University. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America (with D. S. Jordan).
Gilbert, David McConaughy. Pa., 1836- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Virginia. The Lutheran Church in Virginia, 1776-1876; The Synod of Virginia; The Annihilation Theory Briefly Examined; Muhlenberg’s Ministry in Virginia.
Gilbert, Grove Karl. N. Y., 1843- ——. A geologist attached to the United States Geological Survey. Geology of the Henry Mountains; Topographical Features of Lake Shores; Geology of Nevada, Utah, etc.; Lake Bonneville.
Gilder, Richard Watson. N. J., 1844- ——. A writer of New York City well known both as a poet and as the editor of The Century Magazine, of which, with its predecessor, Scribner’s Monthly, he has been editor-in-chief since 1881. The New Day, The Poet and his Master, Lyrics; The Celestial Passion; Two Worlds; The Great Remembrance, and Other Poems; Five Books of Song (1894), include all of his collected poems up to the year of issue. Cent.
Gilder, William Henry. Pa., 1835-1900. Brother of R. W. Gilder, supra. An Arctic explorer. Schwatka’s Search; Ice Pack and Tundra. Scr.
Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau. S. C., 1831- ——. A professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins University from 1876, and editor of the American Journal of Philology from its establishment. He is the author of Essays and Studies, and has published a Latin Grammar, and editions of Justin Martyr and the Odes of Pindar. Gi. Har.
Giles, Chauncey. Ms., 1813-1893. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Philadelphia, and of much prominence in his denomination. The Nature of Spirit; The Second Coming of our Lord; Perfect Prayer; Man as a Spiritual Being; The Incarnation; The Wonderful Pocket; The Magic Spectacles, a fairy tale; The Gate of Pearl; The Magic Shoes, and Other Stories; Heavenly Blessedness; The New Jerusalem; The Spiritual World; The Valley of the Diamonds, and Other Stories. Lip.
Giles, Ella Augusta. Wis., 1851- ——. A writer of Madison, Wisconsin. Bachelor Ben; Out from the Shadows; Maiden Rachel; Flowers of the Spirit (verse). See Bibliography of Wisconsin.
Giles, Henry. I., 1809-1882. A Unitarian minister of Liverpool, England, and after 1840 a literary lecturer in the United States. Lectures and Essays; Christian Thought on Life; Illustrations of Genius; Human Life in Shakespeare; Lectures on the Irish, and Other Subjects. See Hart’s American Literature.
Gill, Theodore Nicholas. N. Y., 1837- ——. A naturalist, professor of zoölogy in the Columbian University, Washington, District of Columbia. Arrangement of the Families of Mollusks; Arrangement of the Families of Fishes; Arrangement of the Families of Mammals; Catalogue of the Fishes of the East Coast of North America; Scientific and Popular Views of Nature Contrasted.
Gill, William Fearing. Ms., 1844- ——. The Martyred Church (verse); Home Recreations; Life of Poe.
Gill, William Ireland. 18— - ——. Evolution and Progress; Analytical Processes; Christian Conception and Experience.
Gillespie, George. S., 1683-1760. A Presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in Delaware. Treatise Against Deists and Free Thinkers; Letters to the Presbytery of New-York; Remarks upon Mr. George Whitefield.
Gillespie, William Mitchell. N. Y., 1816-1868. A professor of civil engineering at Union College, 1845-68. Rome as seen by a New Yorker; Roads and Railroads; Manual for Roadmaking; Principles and Practice of Land Surveying; Levelling; Topography and Higher Surveying; Philosophy of Mathematics (from Comte). Ap.
Gillet, Ransom H——. N. Y., 1800-1876. A lawyer of Ogdensburg, New York. History of the Democratic Party; The Federal Government; Life of Silas Wright.
Gillett [jĭl-lĕt´], Ezra Hall. Ct., 1823-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor of political economy in the University of New York from 1868. History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; Life of John Huss; God in Human Thought; The Moral System; Life Lessons in the School of Christianity; What Then? or the Soul’s To-Morrow; Ancient Cities and Empires. Scr.
Gillette, Mrs. Lucia Fidelia [Woolley]. N. Y., 1827- ——. A Universalist minister who published Pebbles from the Shore (verse); Editorials and Other Waifs.
Gillette, William Hooker. Ct., 1853- ——. An actor and playwright, among whose plays are Held by the Enemy; The Professor; Esmeralda; The Private Secretary.
Gilliss, James Melville. D. C., 1811-1865. An astronomer of distinction in charge of the naval observatory at Washington. United States Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere; Observations at the Naval Observatory. Lip.
Gillmore, Quincy Adams. O., 1825-1888. A military engineer in charge of the Federal bombardment of Charleston in 1863. He was a major-general of volunteers in the Civil War, and a high authority on engineering matters. Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski; Limes, Hydraulic Cements, and Mortars; Engineer and Artillery Operations Against the Defences of Charleston; Compressive Strength, etc., of Building Stones of the United States.
Gilman, Arthur. Il., 1837- ——. An educator of Cambridge, and the organizer of Radcliffe College (long known as “the Harvard Annex”). First Steps in English Literature; Seven Historic Ages; First Steps in English History; History of the American People; Rome from the Earliest Times; Tales of the Pathfinders; Short Stories from the Dictionary; The Saracens; Colonization of America; The Discovery of America; The Making of the American Nation. He has also edited the Riverside Chaucer. Lo.
Gilman, Mrs. Caroline [Howard]. Ms., 1794-1888. Wife of S. Gilman, infra. A writer whose married life was passed in Charleston. Among her writings are included Recollections of a Southern Matron; Recollections of a New England Housekeeper; The Sibyl, or New Oracles from the Poets; Verses of a Lifetime; Poetry of Travelling in the United States; Ruth Raymond; Stories and Poems. Le.
Gilman, Chandler Robbins. O., 1802-1865. A physician of New York City, professor from 1841 in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Legends of a Log Cabin; Life on the Lakes; Life of J. B. Beck, supra; The Relations of the Medical to the Legal Profession; Tracts on Generation.
Gilman, Daniel Coit. Ct., 1831- ——. An educator of prominence, President of Johns Hopkins University from 1875. Our National Schools in Science; Life of James Monroe.
Gilman, Nicholas Paine. Il., 1849- ——. A Unitarian clergyman, formerly of Massachusetts, prominent as a writer upon economics and since 1895 professor of sociology at the Meadville Theological Seminary. Profit Sharing between Employer and Employee; The Laws of Daily Conduct; Socialism and the American Spirit. Hou.
Gilman, Samuel. Ms., 1791-1858. A Unitarian clergyman of Charleston, 1819-58. He published Memoirs of a New England Choir; The History of a Ray of Light; Pleasures and Pains of a Student’s Life; Contributions to Literature, and was the author of the noted college song, “Fair Harvard.”
Gilman, Mrs. Stella [Scott]. Al., 1844- ——. Wife of A. Gilman, supra. Mothers in Council.
Gilmer, George Rockingham. Ga., 1790-1859. A Georgia lawyer who was governor of his State, 1829-31, and three times a representative in Congress. The Georgians, an historical work (1855).
Gilmore, James Roberts. “Edmund Kirke.” Ms., 1823-1903. In earlier life a shipping merchant in New York city, but during and since the Civil War a journalist and miscellaneous writer. Among the Pines; My Southern Friends; Down in Tennessee; Life of Garfield; Among the Guerillas; Adrift in Dixie; On the Border; Patriot Boys; The Rear Guard of the Revolution; John Sevier as a Commonwealth Builder; The Advance Guard of Western Civilization. See Hart’s American Literature. Ap.
Gilmore, Joseph Henry. Ms., 1834- ——. A Baptist minister of Rochester, New York, professor of rhetoric in the University of Rochester since 1867. Outlines of the Art of Expression; Outlines of Logic; English Language and its Early Literature; English Literature; He Leadeth Me, and Other Poems.
Gilpin, Henry Dilwood. E., 1801-1860. Son of J. Gilpin, infra. A jurist of Pennsylvania who was attorney-general of the United States, 1840-41. He edited The Atlantic Souvenir, the first American literary annual, and published Reports of Cases in the United States District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania; Opinions of the Attorneys-General. He also edited the Papers of President Madison in three volumes.
Gilpin, Joshua. Pa., 1765-1840. A Philadelphia writer who published Verses at the Fountain of Vaucluse; Farm of Virgil, and Other Poems; Memoir on a Canal from the Chesapeake to the Delaware.
Girard, Charles. F., 1822-1895. A naturalist who came to the United States with Agassiz in 1847. Life in its Physical Aspects; Contributions to the Fauna of Chili; Herpetology of the Wilkes Expedition, are his more important publications. Lip.
Girardeau, John L. S. C., 1825-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman of South Carolina, professor of systematic theology in Columbia Theological Seminary from 1876. Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism Compared; The Will in its Theological Relations.
Gladden, Washington. Pa., 1836- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Columbus, Ohio, of prominence as a writer upon social reforms. The Lord’s Prayers: Seven Homilies; The Christian League of Connecticut; Things New and Old; Amusements, their Uses and Abuses; Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living; From the Hub to the Hudson; Being a Christian; Working-People and their Employers; The Christian Way; The Young Man and the Church; Applied Christianity; Parish Problems; Tools and the Man; Who Wrote the Bible?; Ruling Ideas of the Present Age; The Cosmopolis City Club; Burning Questions, a volume of sermons. Cent. Co. Hou.
Glazier, Willard. N. Y., 1841- ——. A captain in the Federal army during the Civil War, and the discoverer, in 1881, of the true source of the Mississippi River. Capture, Prison-Pen, and Escape; Three Years in the Federal Cavalry; Battles for the Union; Heroes of Three Wars; Peculiarities of Great Cities; Down the Great River. See Life by Owens, “Sword and Pen,” 1881.
Gleason, Mrs. Rachel Brooks. Vt., 1820- ——. A physician of Elmira, New York, for many years in charge of the Gleason Sanitarium. She has published Talks to My Patients.
Glisan, Rodney. Md., 1827- ——. A physician of Portland, Oregon, emeritus professor of obstetrics in Willamette University. Journal of Army Life; Modern Midwifery; Two Years in Europe.
Glyndon, Howard. See Searing, Mrs.
Gmeiner, John. Bv., 1847- ——. A Roman Catholic priest of Milwaukee, professor of homiletics in St. Francis de Sales Seminary. Die Katholische Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten; Sind wir den Weltende nahe?; Modern Scientific Views and Christian Doctrines Compared; The Spirits of Darkness and their Manifestations on Earth; The Church and the Various Nationalities in the United States.
Godfrey, Thomas. Pa., 1736-1763. A lieutenant in the colonial militia who possessed much poetic ability, and was the first dramatic author in America. The Court of Fancy; Juvenile Poems on Various Subjects, with The Prince of Parthia, a Tragedy. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence. I., 1831-1902. A prominent journalist of New York city. He came to America in 1856. From 1865 to 1869 he was editor of The Nation, and, 1881-1899, of the Evening Post. Government; History of Hungary; Reflections and Comments; Problems of Democracy. Scr.
Godman, John D. Md., 1794-1830. A physician and naturalist of Cincinnati and New York. A man of great natural gifts whose career was one of failure and disappointment. Rambles of a Naturalist; American Natural History; Irregularities of Structure and Morbid Anatomy; Anatomical Investigations. See North American Review, January, 1835; Gross, Lives of Eminent American Physicians, 1861, and Autobiography, vol. 1.
Godwin, Parke. N. Y., 1816-1904. A journalist of New York city, the son-in-law of the poet Bryant, whose writings he edited. He was long connected with the Evening Post, and was the editor of Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, 1853-55 and 1867-70. Pacific and Constructive Democracy; Popular View of the Doctrines of Fourier; Vala, a mythological tale; Political Essays; History of France; Life of William Cullen Bryant; Out of the Past, a collection of essays; Commemorative Addresses; Handbook of Universal Biography (edited). Har.
Goebel, Julius. G., 1857- ——. A philologist, professor at Leland Stanford Junior University from 1892. Ueber die Zukunft unseres Volkes in Amerika; Ueber Fragische Schuld und Sühne; Zur deutschen Frage in Amerika; Poetry in the Limburger Chronik.
Goff, Mrs. Harriet Newell [Kneeland]. N. Y., 1828- ——. A noted reformer of Brooklyn and elsewhere, prominent in the temperance, woman-suffrage, and other movements. Was it an Inheritance?; Who Cares?; Episodes in the Life of Mary Campbell.
Gooch, Mrs. Fannie. See Inglehart, Mrs.
Good, James Isaac. Pa., 1850- ——. A German Reformed clergyman and educator of Reading, Pennsylvania, professor in Ursinus Theological Seminary, 1890-93. Origin of the Reformed Church of Germany; Rambles Around Reformed Lands.
Goodale, Dora Reed. Ms., 1866- ——. Sister of Mrs. E. G. Eastman, supra, and author with her in their childhood of Verses from Sky-Farm; Apple Blossoms; In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers. She has contributed much verse to The Century and other periodicals, and has also published Heralds of Easter. Put.
Goodale, Elaine. See Eastman, Mrs. Elaine.
Goodale, George Lincoln. Me., 1839- ——. A botanist of prominence, professor of botany at Harvard University from 1878. The Wild Flowers of America; Physiological Botany; Concerning a Few Common Plants; Useful Plants of the Future. Wn.
Goode, George Brown. Ind., 1851-1896. An ichthyologist in the government service. Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas; Annual Resources of the United States; Game Fishes of the United States; Beginnings of Natural History in America; Britons, Saxons, and Virginians; American Fishes, a popular treatise; Fisheries and Fishing Industries of the United States; Oceanic Ichthyology (with T. H. Bean). Est.
Goodell, William. Malta, 1829-1894. A Philadelphia physician, medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Lessons in Gynæcology.
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor. Ct., 1869- ——. An architect of Boston whose border designs and initials for book illustration are of notable excellence. Mexican Memories.
Goodenow, John M. Ms., 1782-1838. An Ohio jurist who published American Jurisprudence in Contrast with the Doctrine of English Law.
Goodnow, Frank Johnson. L. I., 1859- ——. A professor of administrative law in Columbia University from 1884. Comparative Administrative Law; Municipal Home Rule. Mac.
Goodrich, Aaron. N. Y., 1807- ——. A Minnesota jurist, secretary of legation at Brussels 1861-68. He published A History of the So-called Christopher Columbus. Ap.
Goodrich, Charles Augustus. Ct., 1790-1862. Brother of S. G. Goodrich, infra. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford. Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; History of the United States; View of Religions; Family Tourist; Great Events of American History; Outlines of Geography; Universal Traveller. He assisted his brother in the preparation of a number of works.
Goodrich, Chauncey Allen. Ct., 1790-1860. A Congregational clergyman, professor at Yale University, 1817-60. He published Greek and Latin Lessons; A Greek Grammar; was the editor and reviser of Webster’s Dictionary, and also edited Select British Eloquence, with careful critical notes. Har.
Goodrich, Frank Boot. “Dick Tinto.” Ms., 1826-1894. Son to S. G. Goodrich, infra. A dramatist and miscellaneous writer of New York city. The Court of Napoleon; Man upon the Sea; Tri-Colored Sketches of Paris; The Tribute Book; World-Famous Women; Women of Beauty and Heroism; History of Maritime Adventure. Lip.
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. “Peter Parley.” Ct., 1793-1863. Brother of Charles A. Goodrich, supra. A once famous writer and compiler of Boston and New York. He published nearly two hundred volumes, mainly juvenile and educational, some of which achieved a wide popularity. Among them are, History of All Nations; Tales of Peter Parley about America; Recollections of a Lifetime, an autobiography. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Goodwin, Daniel. N. Y., 1832- ——. A lawyer of Chicago. James Pitts and his Sons in the American Revolution; The Dearborns; The Lord’s Table; Provincial Pictures.
Goodwin, Daniel Raynes. Me., 1811-1890. An Episcopal clergyman who was a professor in the Philadelphia Divinity School, and of much prominence as a Low Churchman. Southern Slavery in its Present Aspects; Christianity Neither Ascetic nor Fanatic; The Christian Ministry; Shall we Return to Rome?; The Perpetuity of the Sabbath; The New Ritualistic Divinity; Christian Eschatology. See Bibliography of Maine.
Goodwin, Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth [Bradbury]. Ms., 1827-1893. A Boston writer for young people, among whose works are Madge; Christine’s Fortune; Dorothy Gray; Dr. Howells’s Family; Fortunes of Miss Follen. Ap.
Goodwin, Isaac. Ms., 1786-1832. A writer of Worcester, Massachusetts, and the father of Mrs. Jane Goodwin Austin, supra. History of the Town of Stirling; The Town Officer; The New England Sheriff.
Goodwin, John Abbott. Ms., 1824-1884. Son of I. Goodwin, supra. A Lowell writer who published The Pilgrim Fathers Neither Puritans nor Persecutors; The Pilgrim Republic, an historical review of the Plymouth colony. Hou.
Goodwin, Mrs. Lavinia Stella [Tyler]. Vt., 1833- ——. The Mysterious Miner; The Little Helper; Little Folks’ Own. Le.
Goodwin, Mrs. Maud [Wilder]. N. Y., 1856- ——. An historical novelist of New York city. The Colonial Cavalier, or Southern Life before the Revolution; The Head of a Hundred; White Aprons, an historical romance; Dolly Madison, a biography. Lit. Scr.
Goodwin, Nathaniel. Ct., 1782-1855. A Hartford genealogist and probate judge. Genealogical Notes of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Goodwin, William Watson. Ms., 1831- ——. Nephew of I. Goodwin, supra. An eminent Greek scholar, Eliot professor of Greek at Harvard University from 1860. He has published Syntax of Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb; A Greek Grammar. Gi.
Goodyear, William Henry. Ct., 1846- ——. An art educator of New York city, the son of the noted inventor, Charles Goodyear. Roman and Mediæval Art; Renaissance and Modern Art; History of Art; The Grammar of the Lotus; Ancient and Modern History. Bar. Fl.
Gookin, Daniel. E., c. 1612-1687. A colonial writer of Massachusetts, the friend of John Eliot, the “Indian apostle,” and a man far in advance of the general sentiment of his time and country in regard to the treatment of the Indians. For the last thirty years of his life he was superintendent of the Indians in Massachusetts. His writings include Historical Collections of the Indians in New England; Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England. The first of these remained in manuscript until 1792, and the second until 1836. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Gordon, Adoniram Judson. N. H., 1836-1895. A Baptist clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Clarendon Church from 1869 until his death. Grace and Glory; In Christ; Ministry of Healing; The Ministry of the Spirit; The Life that Now Is and That to Come; The Holy Spirit in Missions; Ecce Venit. See Life of, by E. B. Gordon, 1896. Bap. Rev.
Gordon, Archibald D. I., 1848-1895. A dramatic critic and playwright of New York city. The Ugly Duckling; Is Marriage a Failure?; That Girl from Mexico, are among his plays.
Gordon, Armistead Churchill. Va., 1855- ——. A lawyer of Staunton, Virginia, co-author with T. N. Page, infra, of a volume of verse entitled Befo’ the War; Echoes in Negro Dialect; Congressional Currency. Put.
Gordon, Clarence. “Vieux Moustache.” N. Y., 1835- ——. A writer of Newburg, New York. His writings, intended for juvenile reading, include Christmas at Under Tor; Our Fresh and Salt Tutors; Two Lives in One; Boarding-School Days.
Gordon, George Angier. S., 1853- ——. A prominent Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South Church from 1884. The Christ of To-Day; The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy, and Life; Immortality and the New Theodicy. Hou.
Gordon, George Henry. Ms., 1823-1886. A lawyer of Boston who served as a brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. History of the Second Massachusetts Infantry; The Campaign of the Army of Virginia under General Pope; War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion; Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain. Hou.
Gordon, Julien. See Cruger, Mrs. Julia.
Gordon, M. Lafayette. Pa., 1843-1900. A Congregational clergyman and physician, formerly a missionary to Japan, and subsequently a professor in Dōshisha University, Kyōto. An American Missionary in Japan. Hou.
Gordon, Thomas F——. Pa., 1787-1866. A Philadelphia lawyer and antiquarian. Digest of the Laws of the United States; History of Pennsylvania to 1776; History of New Jersey to 1789; History of America; Cabinet of American History; History of Ancient Mexico; Gazetteers of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Gordon, William Robert. N. Y., 1811-1896. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York and New Jersey. Supreme Godhead of Christ; Particular Providence, A Threefold Test of Modern Spiritualism; The Peril of our Ship of State; Revealed Truth Impregnable; The Reformed Church in America; Christocracy (with J. T. Demarest, supra), include his principal writings.
Gore, James Howard. Va., 1856- ——. A professor of mathematics in Columbian University, Washington, District of Columbia. Geodesy; Elements of Geodesy; and several annotated editions of German works for college study. Gi. Hou. Wil.
Gorgas, Ferdinand James Samuel. Va., 1834- ——. A Baltimore dentist, professor in the College of Dental Surgery from 1860. Lectures on Dental Science and Therapeutics; Dental Materia Medica.
Gorrie, Peter Douglas. S., 1813-1884. A Methodist clergyman of New York. Churches and Sects in the United States; Episcopal Methodism as it Was and Is; Lives of Eminent Methodists.
Gorringe, Henry Honeychurch. W. I., 1841-1885. A United States naval officer who superintended the removal of the obelisk from Egypt to New York, and after leaving the navy engaged in shipbuilding. His only publication is a work on Egyptian Obelisks.
Gorton, David Allyn. N. Y., 1832- ——. Descendant of S. Gorton, infra. A physician of Brooklyn. The Monism of Man, or the Unity of the Divine and Human; The Principles of Mental Hygiene; The Drift of Medical Philosophy; Neurasthenia. Put.
Gorton, Samuell. E., 1592-1677. The founder of a small sect sometimes called “Nothingarians,” which survived him for about a century. Simplicitie’s Defence against Seven Headed Policy; An Incorruptible Key composed of the CX. Psalm; Saltmarsh Returned from the Dead; An Antidote Against the Common Plague of the World; Certain Copies of Letters. See Life of, by L. G. Janes, 1896; Bibliography of Rhode Island.
Goss, Warren Lee. Ms., 1838- ——. A writer of Norwich, Connecticut, and more recently of Rutherford, New Jersey. The Soldier’s Story of the Captivity at Andersonville; Jack Alden; Tom Clifton; Jed; Recollections of a Private. Cr. Le.
Gouge, William M——. Pa., 1796-1863. A financial writer, for thirty years in the Treasury Department at Washington. History of the American Banking System (1835); Expediency of Dispensing with Bank Paper; Fiscal History of Texas.
Gough [gŏf], John Bartholomew. E., 1817-1886. A celebrated temperance lecturer. He came to America in 1829, fell into habits of dissipation, but reformed and signed the pledge in 1842. Entering into the temperance movement as a lecturer, he soon rose to fame. Autobiography (1846); Temperance Lectures; Sunlight and Shadow, or Gleanings from my Life Work; Temperance Dialogues; Platform Echoes. See Life, by Carlos Martyn, infra.
Gould [goold], Augustus Addison. N. H., 1805-1866. Son of N. D. Gould, infra. A conchologist of Boston. System of Natural History; Mollusca and Shells; Olia Conchologia; The Mollusca of the North Pacific Expedition; The Invertebrata of Massachusetts.
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp. Ms., 1787-1859. An educator of Massachusetts who published The Prize Book; Adam’s Latin Grammar; and editions of Horace, Ovid, and Virgil.
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp. Ms., 1824-1896. Son of B. A. Gould, supra. A distinguished astronomer, from 1868-1885 director of the Argentine Republic national observatory at Cordova, and subsequently a resident of Cambridge. Uranometry of the Southern Heavens; Trans-Atlantic Longitude as Determined by the Coast Survey.
Gould, Edward Sherman. Ct., 1808-1885. Son of J. Gould, infra. A merchant and author of New York city. The Sleep Rider; The Very Age, a comedy; John Doe and Richard Roe, a tale of New York life; Classified Elocution; Good English.
Gould, Ezra Palmer. Ms., 1841-1900. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of New Testament literature in the Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity School. Commentary on Corinthians; Notes on the Lessons of 1885.
Gould, Hannah Flagg. Vt., 1789-1865. Sister of B. A. Gould, 1st, supra. A verse-writer of Newburyport whose work was simple in conception but not unpleasing. The Snow Flake and the Frost still find a place in anthologies, and afford a fair example of her style. Hymns and Poems for Children; The Golden Vase; The Youth’s Coronal; Mother’s Dream, and Other Poems; Diosma, poems original and selected; Gathered Leaves, a volume of prose. See North American Review, October, 1835.
Gould, James. Ct., 1770-1836. A jurist of Connecticut who published The Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions.
Gould, John W. Ct., 1814-1838. Son of J. Gould, supra. Forecastle Yarns; Private Journal of Voyage from New York to Rio Janeiro.
Gould, Nathaniel Duren. Ms., 1781-1864. A musician and penman of Boston who published A History of Church Music.
Goulding, Francis Robert. Ga., 1810-1881. A Presbyterian clergyman of Georgia whose Young Marooners on the Florida Coast, a tale for boys, has long been popular. Other works of his include Marooner’s Island; Frank Gordon; Fishing and Fishes; Woodruff Stories; Little Josephine; Cousin Aleck; Adventures among the Indians; Boy Life on the Water. Do.
Gouley, John William Severin. La., 1832- ——. A physician, professor in the University of New York. External Perineal Urethrotomy; Diseases of the Urinary Organs; Diseases of Man. Ap.
Graebner, August Lawrence. Mch., 1849- ——. A Lutheran clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at St. Louis from 1887. Half a Century of Sound Lutheranism in America; Life of John Sebastian Bach.
Grafton, Charles Chapman. Ms., 1832- ——. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac, and, prior to his consecration in 1889, rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston. Vocation, or the Call of the Divine Master to a Sister’s Life.
Graham, David. E., 1808-1852. A lawyer of New York city. Practice of the Supreme Court of New York State; New Trials; Courts of Law and Equity in New York State.
Graham, John Andrew. Ct., 1764-1841. A lawyer of Rutland, Vermont. Descriptive Sketch of Present State of Vermont (1797); Speeches; Memoirs of Horne Tooke.
Graham, Mrs. Margaret [Collier]. Ia., 1850- ——. A California writer who has published Stories of the Foot-Hills. Hou.
Graham, Sylvester. Ct., 1794-1851. A once well-known vegetarian and lecturer upon temperance. He advocated the use of unbolted wheat, since called Graham flour. Lectures on the Science of Human Life; Bread and Breadmaking; Philosophy of Sacred History.
Grahame, Nellie. See Dunning, Mrs.
Granbery, John Cowper. Va., 1829- ——. A bishop of the Methodist Church South who published a Bible Dictionary.
Grant, Asahel. N. Y., 1807-1844. A physician who was a missionary in Persia. The Nestorians, or the Lost Tribes. See Memoir, 1847; Grant and the Nestorians, 1853.
Grant, Robert. Ms., 1852- ——. A lawyer of Boston well known as a littérateur; from 1893 a judge of probate and insolvency for Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He has written several satirical works, including The Little Tin Gods on Wheels; The Lambs; Yankee Doodle; and the juvenile tales, Jack Hall; Jack in the Bush. In fiction he has published Confessions of a Frivolous Girl; The Carletons; Mrs. Harold Stagg; An Average Man; The Knave of Hearts; A Romantic Young Lady; Face to Face; The Bachelor’s Christmas, and Other Stories; The Opinions of a Philosopher; Reflections of a Married Man. Other works of his are, The Art of Living; The Oldest School in America. Hou. Scr.
Grant, Ulysses Simpson. O., 1822-1885. The eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War as lieutenant, and in the Civil War as major-general, 1861-64, and subsequently became lieutenant-general in command of the entire army. Report of the Armies of the United States; Personal Memoirs. See Military Life of, by A. Badeau, supra; Life by J. G. Wilson; Appleton’s American Biography. Cent.
Gratacap, Louis Pope. N. Y., 1850- ——. A naturalist connected with the American Museum of Natural History in New York city who has published Philosophy of Ritualism, or Apologia Pro Ritu.
Graves, Mrs. Adelia Cleopatra [Spencer]. “Aunt Alice.” O., 1821-1895. An educator of Tennessee. Life of Columbus; Poems for Children; Seclusarval, or the Arts of Romanism; Jephtha’s Daughter, a drama.
Graves, James Robinson. Vt., 1820-1896. Brother-in-law of Mrs. A. C. Graves, supra. A Baptist clergyman of Nashville, prominent as a controversialist. The Great Iron Wheel, or Republicanism Backward; The Little Iron Wheel; The Intermediate State; Old Landmarks; Intercommunion of Churches; The Redemptive Work of Christ; The New Great Iron Wheel; Denominational Sermons; Parables and Prophecies of Christ.
Gray, Albert Zabriskie. N. Y., 1840-1889. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, warden of Racine College, Wisconsin, 1882-88. Racine and her Labour of Love; The Land and the Life; Jesus Only, and Other Devotional Poems; Mexico as it Is. Ran.
Gray, Asa. N. Y., 1810-1888. An eminent botanist of Cambridge, and one of the highest authorities in his department. He was professor at Harvard University 1842-88, and was in charge of the botanical garden at Cambridge. Elements of Botany, now called Structural and Systematic Botany; How Plants Grow; A Free Examination of Darwin’s “Origin of Species;” Darwiniana; Natural Science and Religion; Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States; Synoptical Flora of North America; How Plants Behave; Field, Forest, and Garden Botany; Lessons in Botany; School and Field Book of Botany; Botany of the United States Pacific Exploring Expedition (1854); Scientific Papers selected by C. S. Sargent. See Letters of, edited by Mrs. Gray. Am. Ap.
Gray, Barry. See Coffin, R. B.
Gray, David. S., 1836-1888. A journalist of Buffalo, on the editorial staff of The Courier, 1856-82. See Letters, Poems, and Selected Writings.
Gray, Elisha. O., 1835-1901. An electrician and inventor who published Experimental Researches in Electric Harmonic Telegraphy.
Gray, Francis Calley. Ms., 1790-1856. A Boston lawyer prominent as an enlightened patron of arts and education who published a work on Prison Discipline.
Gray, George Seaman. N. Y., 1835-1885. A Presbyterian clergyman who, after retiring from the ministry, engaged in business in Cincinnati. Eight Studies of the Lord’s Day. Hou.
Gray, George Zabriskie. N. Y., 1838-1889. Brother of A. Z. Gray, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, dean of the Theological School, 1876-89, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers. The Scripture Doctrine of Recognition; The Children’s Crusade: An Episode of the Thirteenth Century; Husband and Wife; The Church’s Certain Faith. Hou. Wh.
Gray, John Chipman. Ms., 1839- ——. A lawyer of Boston. Royall professor of law at Harvard University from 1883. Restraints on the Alienation of Property; Rule against Perpetuities; Select Cases. Lit.
Graydon, Alexander. Pa., 1752-1818. A citizen of Harrisburg who published Memoirs of a Life Passed Chiefly in Pennsylvania within the last Sixty Years (1811), a lively, entertaining autobiography.
Graydon, William. Pa., 1759-1840. Brother of A. Graydon, supra. A lawyer of Harrisburg. Digest of the Laws of the United States; Justice and Constable’s Assistant; Forms of Conveyancing.
Grayson, William John. S. C., 1788-1863. A South Carolina statesman. Chicora, and Other Poems; The Hireling and Slave, a poem; The Country, a poem; Life of James Petigru. Har.
Greeley, Horace. N. H., 1811-1872. A famous journalist of New York city, founder and editor of The Tribune. In 1872 he was the unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for the presidency. For a generation he was one of the most influential leaders of American public opinion. Letters from Texas; Glances at Europe; Essays in Political Economy; What I Know About Farming; The American Conflict; Recollections of a Busy Life. See Lives by Parton, 1868; Reavis, Ingersoll; Appleton’s American Biography.
Greely, Adolphus Washington. Ms., 1844- ——. An arctic explorer in the United States service. In 1887 he was appointed chief of the signal service corps, with the rank of brigadier-general, and was thus at the head of the Weather Bureau until its transfer to the Department of Agriculture in 1891. Three Years of Arctic Service; American Weather; Handbook of Arctic Discoveries; Explorers and Travellers. Do. Rob. Scr.
Green, Alexander Little Page. Tn., 1806-1874. A Methodist clergyman of Nashville who was the author of The Church in the Wilderness.
Green, Anna Katharine. See Rohlfs, Mrs.
Green, Ashbel. N. J., 1762-1848. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, 1812-22. Sermons from 1790 to 1836; Sermons on the Assembly’s Catechism; History of Presbyterian Missions. See Autobiography and Memoir by J. H. Jones, 1849. Ran.
Green, Beriah. Ct., 1795-1874. A reformer and anti-slavery leader of Ohio and New York. History of the Quakers; Sermons and Discourses.
Green, Duff. Ga., 1780-1875. A Washington lawyer and journalist. Facts and Suggestions; How to Pay off the National Debt.
Green, Francis Matthews. Ms., 1835-1902. A United States naval commander. The Navigation of the Caribbean Sea; Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes; List of Geographical Positions.
Green, George Walton. N. Y., 1854-1903. A New York city lawyer and politician. Repudiation.
Green, Horace. Vt., 1802-1866. A physician of New York city, president of the New York Medical College, 1850-60. Diseases of the Air Passages; Pathology and Treatment of Croup; Surgical Treatment of the Polypi of the Larynx; Report of a Hundred Cases of Pulmonary Diseases.
Green, Jacob. Pa., 1790-1841. Son of Ashbel Green, supra. A Philadelphia scientist who was professor of chemistry in Jefferson Medical College. Chemical Diagrams; Chemical Philosophy; Astronomical Recreations; Trilobites; The Botany of the United States; Notes of a Traveller; Diseases of the Skin.
Green, Joseph. Ms., 1706-1780. A Boston loyalist, widely known in his day for his political lampoons and his ready wit. He went to England in 1775, and never returned. The Wonderful Lament of Old Mr. Tanner; Poems and Satires. See Tyler’s American Literature; Hart’s American Literature.
Green, Mrs. Julia [Boynton]. N. Y., 1861- ——. A verse-writer of Rochester, New York, who has published Lines and Interlines.
Green, Rufus Smith. N. Y., 1848- ——. A Presbyterian minister, president of Elmira College for Women since 1893. History of Morristown, New Jersey; Our Church at Work; The Christian Steward; Both Sides, or Jonathan and Absalom.
Green, Samuel Abbott. Ms., 1830- ——. A physician and antiquarian of Boston. Groton during the Indian Wars; History of Medicine in Massachusetts; Groton Historical Series.
Green, Seth. N. Y., 1817-1888. A noted pisciculturist, from 1870 until his death the superintendent of the New York Fish Commission. Trout Culture; Home Fishing and Home Waters; Fish Hatching and Fish Catching.
Green, William Henry. N. J., 1825-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of biblical literature at Princeton College from 1851. The Pentateuch Vindicated; Grammar of the Hebrew Language; A Hebrew Chrestomathy; Argument of Job Unfolded; Moses and the Prophets; Newton Lectures for 1885; The Hebrew Feasts; The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch; The Unity of the Book of Genesis. Scr. Wil.
Green, William Mercer. N. C., 1798-1887. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Mississippi. His only publications were Lives of Bishop Ravenscroft and Bishop Otey.
Greene, Aella. Ms., 1838-1903. A journalist of Springfield, Massachusetts. Rhymes of Yankee Land; Into the Sunshine, and Other Poems; Stanza and Sequel, and Other Poems; John Peters; Gathered from Life.
Greene, Albert Gorton. R. I., 1802-1868. A lawyer of Providence who is chiefly remembered for his humourous poem, Old Grimes. He published Canonchet.
Greene, Asa. Ms., 1788-1837. A bookseller of New York city of note among his contemporaries as a humourist. Life and Adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth; Perils of Pearl Street; A Yankee Among the Nullifiers; A Glance at New York; Debtor’s Prison; Travels of Ex-Barber Fribbleton in America.
Greene, Belle C. See Greene, Mrs. Isabella.
Greene, Charles Ezra. Ms., 1842-1903. A professor of civil engineering in the University of Michigan from 1872. Graphical Method for Analysis of Bridge Trusses; Trusses and Arches; Notes on Rankine’s Civil Engineering. Wil.
Greene, Charles Warren. Ms., 1840- ——. Nephew of S. S. Greene, infra. A Massachusetts physician who has written upon natural science. Animals, their Homes and Habits; Birds, their Homes and Habits.
Greene, Edward Lee. R. I., 1843- ——. A professor of botany in the University of California. Illustrations of West American Oaks; Flora Franciscanæ.
Greene, Mrs. Frances Harriet [Whipple]. See McDougal, Mrs.
Greene, Francis Vinton. R. I., 1850-1900. A captain in the United States army who resigned in 1886. The Russian Army and its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877-78; Sketches of Army Life in Texas; The Mississippi, a military work; Life of General Greene. Ap. Scr.
Greene, George Washington. R. I., 1811-1883. An historian who was professor of American history at Cornell University from 1872. Historical Studies; The German Element in the American War of Independence; Short History of Rhode Island; Historical View of the American Revolution; Life of General Nathanael Greene; Biographical Studies; History and Geography of the Middle Ages. Hou.
Greene, Homer. Pa., 1853- ——. A story-writer of Honesdale, Pennsylvania. The Blind Brother; Burnham Breaker; Coal and the Coal Mines; The Riverpark Rebellion. Cr. Hou.
Greene, Mrs. Isabella Catherine [Colton]. Vt., 1844- ——. A novelist and writer for young people, long a resident of Nashua, New Hampshire. A New England Conscience; Adventures of an Old Maid; A New England Idyl; The Hobbledehoy. Lo.
Greene, Nathaniel. N. H., 1797-1877. A Boston journalist, postmaster of Boston 1829-40 and 1845-49. He published a translation of Sforzosi’s History of Italy; Tales from the German; Tales and Sketches from the German, Italian, and French.
Greene, Samuel Stillman. Ms., 1810-1883. An educator of Providence, professor at Brown University, 1851-83, who published Analysis of the English Language and several text-books on English Grammar.
Greene, Mrs. Sarah Pratt [McLean]. Ct., 1858- ——. A writer whose first novel, Cape Cod Folks, was widely popular, while the fact that certain of the dramatis personæ were portraits of living people gave rise to much litigation. Her other works include Towhead; Some Other Folks; Peter Patrick; Vesty of the Basins; Flood Tide. Har.
Greene, William Batchelder. Ms., 1819-1878. Son of N. Greene, supra. In early life a member of the noted Brook Farm Community. He was subsequently a Unitarian minister, and during the Civil War served as colonel of a Massachusetts regiment. Remarks on the Science of History; Theory of the Calculus; Socialistic, etc., Fragments; Reflections and Modern Maxims. Put.
Greene, William Houston. Pa., 1854- ——. A Philadelphia chemist, professor in the Central High School from 1880. Medical Chemistry; Lessons in Chemistry. Lip.
Greenhow, Robert. Va., 1800-1854. A surgeon and scholar whose latest years were spent in California. History of Tripoli; History of Oregon and California (1846).
Greenleaf, Benjamin. Ms., 1786-1864. An educator of Bradford, Massachusetts, who published a popular series of text-books on arithmetic and the higher mathematics.
Greenleaf, Jonathan. Ms., 1785-1865. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn. Sketches of Ecclesiastical History of Maine; History of New York Churches; Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family.
Greenleaf, Moses. Ms., 1788-1834. Brother of J. Greenleaf, supra. Statistical View of Maine (1816); Survey of Maine (1829).
Greenleaf, Simon. Ms., 1783-1853. Brother of B. Greenleaf, supra. A distinguished jurist of Massachusetts, and professor of law at Harvard University from 1835 till his death. His greatest work, A Treatise on the Laws of Evidence, has passed into fifteen editions. His other writings include Origin and Principles of Freemasonry; Full Collection of Cases Overruled, etc.; Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Maine, 1820-31; Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence. See Bibliography of Maine.
Greenough [green´o], Henry. Ms., 1807-1883. An architect of Cambridge whose writings include the novels Ernest Carroll; Apelles and his Contemporaries, and various essays on art.
Greenough, James Bradstreet. Me., 1833-1901. A professor of Latin at Harvard University from 1873, who published with J. H. Allen, supra, a series of classical text-books. Other works of his are, Special Vocabulary to Virgil; The Queen of Hearts, a Dramatic Fantasia. Gi.
Greenough, Mrs. Richard. See Greenough, Mrs. Sarah.
Greenough, Mrs. Sarah Dana [Loring]. 1827-1885. The wife of the noted sculptor Richard Greenough. In Extremis, a Story of a Broken Law; Arabesques, four stories of the supernatural; Mary Magdalene, and Other Poems. Rob.
Greenwald, Emanuel. Md., 1811-1885. A Lutheran clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Order of Family Prayer; The Lutheran Reformation; The Baptism of Children; Meditations for Passion Week; Romanism and the Reformation; The True Church; Meditations for the Closet, include the most of his controversial and other writings. See Life by Haupt, 1889.
Greenwood, Francis William Pitt. Ms., 1797-1843. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of King’s Chapel, 1824-43. History of King’s Chapel; Sermons to Children; Sermons of Consolation; Sermons on Various Subjects; Essays; Lives of the Apostles; Miscellaneous Writings. A. U. A.
Greenwood, Grace. See Lippincott, Mrs. Sarah.
Greenwood, James Mickleborough. Il., 1836- ——. An educator and school superintendent of Kansas City who has published Principles of Education Practically Applied. Ap.
Greer, David Hummell. W. Va., 1844- ——. Protestant Episcopal bishop-coadjutor of New York from 1904. The Preacher and his Place; From Things to God; Visions. Scr. Wh.
Greey [gree], Edward. E., 1835-1888. An English writer of French descent who came to America in 1868, and was for many years a dealer in Japanese curios in New York city. His writings include the dramas, Vendome, and Mirah; Blue Jackets, a novel; The Golden Lotus; the juvenile tales Young Americans in Japan; The Wonderful City of Tokio; The Bear Worshippers of Yezo; and translations from the Japanese of the novels, The Loyal Ronins; The Captive of Love. Le.
Gregg, Alexander. S. C., 1819-1893. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Texas. History of the Old Cheraws, an Account of the Indian Tribes in the Valley of the Pedee.
Gregory, Daniel Seeley. N. Y., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Lake Forest University, Illinois, 1878-86. Christian Ethics; Why Four Gospels; Practical Logic; The Tests of Philosophic Systems; Christ’s Trumpet Call to the Ministry. Fu.
Gregory, John Milton. N. Y., 1822-1898. A Baptist clergyman and educator of Michigan and Illinois. Handbook of History; New Political Economy; The Seven Laws of Teaching.
Greylock, Godfrey. See Smith, J. E. A.
Griffin, Edward Dorr. Ct., 1777-1837. A Congregational clergyman of Boston and elsewhere who was president of Williams College, 1821-36. Lectures in Park Street Church, Boston; Sixty Sermons on Practical Subjects. See Recollections of, by P. Cooke, 1856.
Griffin, George. Ct., 1778-1860. Brother of E. D. Griffin, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Sufferings of Our Saviour; Evidences of Christianity; The Gospel its Own Evidence.
Griffin, Gilderoy Wells. Ky., 1840-1891. A journalist who was a consul in Australia and elsewhere. Studies in Literature; Danish Days; Visit to Stratford; New Zealand, her Commerce and Resources; Life of George Prentice, infra.
Griffin, Solomon Bulkley. Ms., 1852- ——. A journalist of Springfield, Massachusetts, who has published Mexico of To-Day (1886). Har.
Griffis, William Elliot. Pa., 1843- ——. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, pastor at Schenectady 1877-86, in charge of the Shawmut Congregational Church in Boston 1886-92, and subsequently settled at Ithaca, New York. An authority upon Japanese topics. The Mikado’s Empire; Japanese Fairy World; Corea: the Hermit Nation; The Tokio Guide; The Yokohama Guide; Japan in History, Folk-Lore, and Art; The Religions of Japan; Brave Little Holland and What She Taught Us; The Lily Among Thorns, a biblical study; Life of Matthew Calbraith Perry; Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations; Townsend Harris, first American Envoy in Japan; Honda the Samurai: a Story of Modern Japan. Do. Har. Hou. Scr.
Griffith, Robert Eglesfield. Pa., 1798-1850. A physician and botanist who was from 1838 a medical professor in the University of Virginia. Medical Botany; Universal Formulary.
Griffiths, John Willis. N. Y., 1809-1882. A naval architect of New York city. Treatise on Marine and Naval Architecture, a work of great value; The Ship Builders’ Manual; The Progressive Ship Builder.
Grimke [grim´ke], Archibald Henry. S. C., 1849- ——. A Massachusetts lawyer of African descent. Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; Charles Sumner, the Scholar in Politics; William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist. Fu.
Grimke, Frederick. S. C., 1791-1863. Son of J. F. Grimke, infra. An Ohio jurist. Ancient and Modern Literature; Nature and Tendencies of Free Institutions. Clke.
Grimke, John Faucheraud. S. C., 1752-1819. A jurist of South Carolina. Revised Edition of Laws of South Carolina; Law of Executors of South Carolina; Public Law of South Carolina; Probate Directory; Duty of Justices of the Peace.
Grimke, Sarah Moore. S. C., 1792-1873. Daughter of J. F. Grimke, supra. A reformer who was very prominent in the anti-slavery movement. Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States; Letters on the Condition of Women.
Grimke, Thomas Smith. S. C., 1786-1834. Son of J. F. Grimke, supra. A reformer of Charleston, active in temperance and in the promotion of peace societies, who published Addresses on Science, Education, and Literature.
Grimshaw, Robert. Pa., 1850- ——. A civil engineer, lecturer on physics at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. History, etc., of Saws; Saw Filing; Steam Engine Catechism; Pump Catechism; Steam Boiler Catechism; Record of Scientific Progress; Hints to Power Users; Fifty Years Hence. Bai. Cas. Wil.
Grimshaw, William. I., 1782-1852. A Philadelphia writer who published a once popular series of school histories, and also Etymological Dictionary; Gentlemen’s Lexicon; Ladies’ Lexicon; The American Chesterfield; Life of Napoleon. Lip.
Grinnell [grin´el], George Bird. N. Y., 1849- ——. An ornithologist and the editor of “Forest and Stream” of New York city. He has enjoyed a long and friendly acquaintance with the Indians of the Great Plains. The Story of a Prairie People; The Story of the Indian; Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales. Ap. Scr.
Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell. Vt., 1821-1891. A distinguished citizen of Iowa; in early life a Presbyterian minister. He founded the Iowa town of Grinnell in 1854, and was president of Iowa College, formerly Grinnell University. It was to him that Horace Greeley is said to have made the famous remark, “Go West, young man, go West.” Home of the Badgers; Cattle Industries of the United States; Men and Events of Forty Years. Lo.
Griscom, John. N. J., 1774-1852. A once noted educator who was professor of chemistry at Rutgers College, 1812-28. A Year in Europe; Monitorial Instruction. See Memoirs of, by his Son.
Griscom, John Hawkins. N. Y., 1809-1874. Son of J. Griscom, supra. An eminent physician of New York city. Animal Mechanism and Physiology; Prison Hygiene; Use and Abuses of Air; Use of Tobacco and Evils Resulting Therefrom; Physical Indications of Longevity. Har.
Griswold, Alexander Viets. Ct., 1766-1843. Third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. Discourses on the Most Important Doctrines; The Reformation and the Apostolic Office; Remarks on Prayer Meetings. See Memoirs, by J. S. Stone, infra.
Griswold, Mrs. Frances Irene [Burge] [Smith]. R. I., 1826-1900. A Brooklyn writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are The Bishop and Nannette Series; Miriam’s Reward.
Griswold, Mrs. Harriet [Tyng]. Ms., 1842- ——. In early life a schoolteacher in Columbus, Wisconsin, who has published Apple Blossoms, a volume of poems; Home Life of Great Authors; Waiting on Destiny; Lucille and her Friends. Her poem, Under the Daisies, has had a wide popularity as a song. Mg.
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot. Vt., 1815-1857. An industrious compiler and literary editor who possessed but a slight amount of critical insight and discrimination. His best known publications are, Female Poets of America; Prose Writers of America; Poets and Poetry of America; Sacred Poets of England and America. His other works include Washington and the Generals of the Revolution; The Republican Court; Scenes in the Life of the Saviour; Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire (with H. B. Wallace, infra). See Lowell’s Fable for Critics. Ap. Co.
Griswold, William Macrillis. Me., 1853-1899. Son of R. W. Griswold, supra. A literary worker of Cambridge who has published A Manual of Misused Words, and many valuable indexes to periodicals.
Gronlund, Laurence. Dk., 1847-1899. A lecturer upon socialistic topics in many cities of the United States. The Coöperative Commonwealth in its Outlines; Ça Ira, or Danton in the French Revolution; Our Destiny. Le.
Gross, Joseph B——. 18— -1891. Brother of S. D. Gross, infra. A Lutheran clergyman, among whose writings are The Heathen Religion in its Symbolical Development; Teachings of Providence; Truth in Religion; Belief in Immortality on Purely Logical Principles; Old Faith and New Thoughts.
Gross, Samuel David. Pa., 1805-1884. A distinguished surgeon of Philadelphia who was professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College 1856-82, and a member of many medical associations in America and Europe. A System of Surgery; Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the 19th Century; Manual of Military Surgery; History of American Medical Literature; John Hunter and his Pupils; Pathological Anatomy; Wounds of the Intestines; Diseases of the Urinary Organs. He also edited American Medical Biography. See Autobiography, edited by his sons, 1887.
Gross, Samuel Weissell. O., 1837-1889. Son of S. D. Gross, supra. A surgeon of Philadelphia who succeeded his father as professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College in 1882. Tumors of the Mammary Gland; Treatise on Impotence, Sterility, and Allied Disorders. Ap.
Grosvenor, Edwin Augustus. Ms., 1845- ——. A professor of European History at Amherst College, and from 1873-90 professor of history at Roberts College, Constantinople. Constantinople. Rob.
Grote, Augustus Radcliffe. 18— -1903. A scientist, formerly of Buffalo, but afterward living in Bremen, Germany. Notes on the Bombycidæ of Cuba; Notes on the Sphingidæ of Cuba; Notes on the Zygænidæ of Cuba; Genesis; The New Infidelity; Notes of the Lepidoptera of America (with C. T. Robinson); Rip Van Winkle, a Sun Myth, and Other Poems.
Grubé, Bernhard Adam. G., 1715-1808. A Moravian missionary who came to America in 1746 and settled in Pennsylvania. He published Delaware Indian Hymn Book; Harmony of the Gospels.
Grund, Francis Joseph. Bo., 1805-1863. A journalist of Philadelphia who published Exercises in Arithmetic; Americans in their Moral, Religious, and Social Relations; Aristocracy in America; Life of General Harrison (in German); Thoughts and Reflections on the Present Position of Europe (1860).
Guernsey, Alfred Hudson. Vt., 1818-1902. A writer of New York city, at one period editor of Harper’s Monthly. The Spanish Armada; The World’s Opportunities; Carlyle, his Life, Books, and Theories; Emerson, Poet and Philosopher. Ap.
Guernsey, Clara Florida. N. Y., 1836- ——. A Rochester writer of juvenile tales, among which are, The Boys of Eaglewood School; The Silver Library; Friends in Need; The Merman and the Figure Head. Lip.
Guernsey, Egbert. Ct., 1823-1903. A homœopathic physician of New York city, editor of The Medical Times from 1872. History of the United States; Homœopathic Domestic Practice; The Gentleman’s Book of Homœopathy.
Guernsey, Henry Newell. Vt., 1817-1885. A homœopathic physician of Philadelphia. Application of Homœopathy to Obstetrics; Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects; The Keynote System; Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; Lectures on Materia Medica.
Guernsey, Lucy Ellen. N. Y., 1826-1899. Sister of C. F. Guernsey, supra. A writer of Rochester, New York, who published more than fifty juvenile tales, including Old Stanfield House; Through Unknown Ways; Winifred; Agnes Warrington’s Mistake. Do.
Guernsey, Rocellus Sheridan. N. Y., 1836- ——. Juries and Physicians on Insanity; Mechanics’ Lien Laws for New York City; Municipal Law and its Relations to the Constitution of Man; Key to Story’s “Equity Jurisprudence;” Living Authors at the New York Bar; Suicide, a History of the Penal Laws Relating to It; New York City and Vicinity during the War of 1812.
Guild, Mrs. Caroline Snowden [Whitmarsh]. Ms., 1827-1898. A religious writer of Boston. Violet; Daisy; Never Mind the Face; Some House Songs. Compiler of Hymns of the Ages; Prayers of the Ages. Hou.
Guild, Curtis. Ms., 1828- ——. A journalist of Boston, founder and editor of The Commercial Bulletin. Over the Ocean, a popular book of travels; Abroad Again; Britons and Muscovites; From Sunrise to Sunset, a volume of verse; A Chat About Celebrities. Le.
Guild, Reuben Aldridge. Ms., 1822-1899. A librarian of Brown University, 1848-93. Librarian’s Manual; Rhode Island in the Continental Congress (edited); History of Brown University; Chaplain Smith and the Baptists; Footprints of Roger Williams; Roger Williams, the Pioneer Missionary to the Indians.
Guiney [gī´nĭ], Louise Imogen. Ms., 1861- ——. A writer of Newton, Massachusetts, whose published works include Goose-Quill Papers; Brownies and Bogles; Three Heroines of New England Romance (with Mrs. Spofford and Alice Brown); Monsieur Henri, a Footnote to French History; A Little English Gallery; Lovers’ Saint Ruths, and Three Other Tales; Patrins, a collection of essays; Verse: Songs at the Start; The White Sail; A Roadside Harp. She has edited the select poems of Mangan, with a study of his life and work. Cop. Har. Hou. Lam. Lo. Rob.
Gummere [gŭm´ery], Francis Barton. N. J., 1855- ——. A professor of English in Haverford College, Pennsylvania. The Anglo-Saxon Metaphor; Handbook of Poetics; Germanic Origins, a study in Primitive Culture. Gi. Scr.
Gummere, John. Pa., 1784-1845. A once noted educator of Burlington, New Jersey. Treatise on Surveying; Theoretical and Practical Astronomy.
Gummere, Samuel R. Pa., 1789-1866. Brother of J. Gummere, supra, and also an educator of Burlington. Treatise on Geography; Compendium of Elocution.
Gunnison, Almon. Me., 1844- ——. A Universalist clergyman of prominence. Rambles Overland, a Trip Across the Continent; Wayside and Fireside Rambles.
Gunnison, Elisha Norman. Ms., 1837-1880. A journalist of York, Pennsylvania, who published One Summer Dream, and Other Poems; Our Stars.
Gunnison, John Williams. N. H., 1812-1853. A civil engineer killed by Mormons and Indians while making railway surveys in Utah. A History of the Mormons was his only published work.
Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley. O., 1856- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Chicago. The Metamorphosis of a Creed; The Transfiguration of Christ; Monk and Knight, an Historical Study in Fiction; Phidias, and Other Poems; October at Eastwood; Songs of Night and Day. Hou. Mg.
Gunter, Archibald Clavering. E., 1847- ——. A writer of popular sensational romances quite destitute of literary merit. Mr. Barnes of New York; Mr. Potter of Texas; The First of the English; The Ladies’ Juggernaut.
Gurowski, Adam. Po., 1805-1866. A Polish count who came to the United States in 1849, and was employed as a translator in the state department at Washington. La Civilisation et la Russie; Pensées sur l’Avenir des Polonais; Aus meinem Gedankenbuche; Eine Tour durch Belgien; Impressions et Souvenirs; Die letzen Ereignisse in den drei Theilen des alten Polen; Le Panslavisme; Russia as It Is; The Turkish Question; A Year of the War (1855); America and Europe; Slavery in History; My Diary, 1861-66.
Gurteen, Stephen Humphreys Villiers. E., 1840-1898. An Episcopal clergyman of Buffalo, Toledo, and elsewhere, prominent as an organizer of charities. Phases of Charity; Provident Schemes; What is Charity Organization; How Paupers are Made; Casuistry; The Arthurian Epic; Epic of the Fall of Man. Put.
Gustafson, Axel. “Carl Johan.” Sn., 1849- ——. A Swedish writer who came to the United States in 1868, and has published The Foundation of Death: a Study of The Drink Question; The Drink Problem; Some Thoughts on Moderation. Fu.
Gustafson, Mrs. Zadel [Barnes] [Buddington]. Ct., 1841- ——. Wife of A. Gustafson, supra. Meg: a Pastoral, and Other Poems; Can the Old Love? a novel; Genevieve Ward, a Biography. Le.
Gutheim, James Koppel. Wa., 1817-1886. A Jewish clergyman of New Orleans who published The Temple Pulpit, a volume of sermons; and a translation of Gratz’s History of the Jews.
Guyot [ḡe-o´], Arnold Henry. Sd., 1807-1884. A geographer of distinction who came to America in 1849, and from 1854 until his death was professor of geography at Princeton College. He was the founder of the Princeton Museum. Earth and Man; Creation, or the Biblical Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science; Physical Geography; Social Economy. See Memoir by J. A. Dana, supra. Scr.
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Habberton, John. L. I., 1842- ——. A journalist of New York city whose first book, Helen’s Babies, enjoyed a popularity out of all proportion to its literary merit. His subsequent writings include Other People’s Children; The Barton Experiment; The Jericho Road; Who was Paul Grayson?; The Scripture Club of Valley Rest; The Bowsham Puzzle; Brueton’s Bayou; Country Luck; Grown-Up Babies; Life of Washington; Some Folks; My Mother-in-Law; Mrs. Mayburn’s Twins; The Worst Boy in Town; The Chautauquans; All He Knew; Honey and Gall; The Lucky Lover. Fl. Fu. Har. Ho. Lip.
Habersham, Alexander Wylly. N. Y., 1826-1883. A naval officer who in later life was a tea merchant in Japan, and the author of My Last Cruise, an Account of the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Lip.
Hackett, Horatio Balch. Ms., 1808-1875. A Baptist clergyman, professor at Newton Seminary, Massachusetts, 1839-70, and from 1870 till his death professor in Rochester Seminary, New York. He was one of the American Revisers of the Bible, and editor of Smith’s Bible Dictionary. A Commentary on the Original Text of the Acts of the Apostles is his chief work. Others are, Memorials of Christian Men in the War; Illustrations of Scripture by a Tour in the Holy Land. See Memorials of, 1876.
Hackett, James Henry. N. Y., 1800-1871. A popular actor, noted for his impersonation of Falstaff. Notes and Comments on Shakespeare.
Hackley, Charles William. 1808-1861. An Episcopal clergyman who was professor of mathematics at Columbia College from 1843 until his death. Treatise on Algebra; Elementary Course in Geometry; Elements of Trigonometry.
Haddock, Charles Brickett. N. H., 1796-1861. Nephew of D. Webster, infra. A professor of rhetoric at Dartmouth College, 1819-50, and chargé d’affaires in Portugal, 1850-54. He originated the railway system of New Hampshire, and also the system of common schools in that State. His Addresses and Miscellaneous Writings appeared in 1840.
Hadley, Arthur Twining. Ct., 1856- ——. Son of J. Hadley, infra. President of Yale University from 1899; previously a professor of political science there. Private Property and Public Welfare; Railroad Transportation, its History and Laws; Report on the System of Weekly Payments. Put.
Hadley, James. N. Y., 1821-1872. A philologist who was Greek professor at Yale University, 1848-72. Lectures on Roman Law; A Greek Grammar; Elements of the Greek Language; Essays, Philological and Critical; Brief History of the English Language. See The New Englander, January, 1873. Ap.
Hageman, Samuel Miller. N. J., 1848- ——. Grandson of S. Miller, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman who has published Once, a novel; and several volumes of poems, including Vesper Voices; Greenwood, and Other Poems; Silence; Saint Paul.
Hagen, Hermann August. P., 1817-1893. An entomologist of prominence who came to Cambridge from Königsberg in 1870, and was professor of comparative zoölogy at Harvard University. Catalogue of Neuropterous Insects in the British Museum; Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America; North American Astacidæ; Some Insect Deformities.
Hagen, Theodor von. G., 1823-1871. A musician who came to New York city from Germany in 1854. Civilisation und Musik; Musikalische Novellen.
Hager, Albert David. Vt., 1817-1888. A geologist, from 1877 librarian of the Chicago Historical Society. Geology of Vermont (with C. H. Hitchcock, infra); Economic Geology of Vermont.
Hager, Mrs. Lucie Caroline [Gilson]. Ms., 1853- ——. A Massachusetts writer who has published Boxborough, a New England Town and its People.
Hagert, Henry Schell. Pa., 1826-1885. A noted nisi prius lawyer of Philadelphia. Poems, with Memoir by C. A. Lagen (1886).
Hague, Arnold. Ms., 1840- ——. Son of W. Hague, infra. A geologist in the government service. Volcanoes of California, Oregon, and Washington; Volcanic Rocks of the Great Basin; Nevada, with Notes on the Geology of the District; Volcanic Rocks of Salvador; Crystallization in the Igneous Rocks of Washoe.
Hague, James Duncan. Ms., 1836- ——. Son of W. Hague, infra. An engineer attached to the United States Geological Survey who has published a work on Mining Industry.
Hague, Mrs. Parthenia Antoinette [Vardaman]. Ga., 1838- ——. A Florida writer. A Blockaded Family; Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War. Hou.
Hague, William. N. Y., 1808-1887. A Baptist clergyman of Boston and elsewhere. Christianity and Statesmanship; The Baptist Church Transplanted from the Old World to the New; Guide to Conversion; Home Life; Authority of the Christian Sabbath; Self-Witnessing Character of the New Testament; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Life Notes, or Fifty Years’ Outlook. Le.
Haldeman [hŏl´de-man], Samuel Stehman. Pa., 1812-1880. A professor of comparative philology in the University of Pennsylvania, 1869-81. Zoölogical Contributions; Analytical Orthography; Word-Building; Tours of a Chess Knight; Elements of Latin Pronunciation; Pennsylvania Dutch; Outlines of Etymology; Affixes in their Origin and Application; Rhymes of the Poets. Lip.
Hale, Benjamin. Ms., 1797-1863. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1836-58. Introduction to the Mechanical Principles of Carpentry; Scriptural Illustrations of the Liturgy; Education in its Relations to a Free Government; Historical Notices of Geneva College (1849). See Life of, by Malcolm Douglass, 1883.
Hale, Charles Reuben. Pa., 1837-1900. The Protestant Episcopal coadjutor bishop of Springfield, Illinois, with the title of Bishop of Cairo. The Mozarabic Liturgy; The Universal Episcopate; Speeches and Addresses.
Hale, Edward Everett. Ms., 1822- ——. A prominent Unitarian clergyman of Boston, widely known as a writer, whose literary activity covers a wide field. Since 1856 he has been pastor of the South Congregational Church, and his influence in civic life has been extensive. As a writer of short stories he will, perhaps, be longest remembered, his work in this direction including The Man Without a Country; Ten Times One is Ten; In His Name; Mrs. Merriam’s Scholars; His Level Best; The Ingham Papers; Four and Five; Crusoe in New York; Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Christmas in Narragansett; Our Christmas in a Palace. Longer essays in fiction are, Margaret Percival in America; Mr. Tangier’s Vacations; Ups and Downs; Philip Nolan’s Friends; The Fortunes of Rachel. Other works of his are, Sketches in Christian History; Kansas and Nebraska; How To Do It; What Career?; Gone to Texas; Seven Spanish Cities; June to May, a collection of sermons; Boys’ Heroes; The Story of Massachusetts; Sybaris and Other Homes; Sunday-School Stories on the Golden Texts of 1889; For Fifty Years, a collection of poems; A New England Boyhood, an autobiographic work; Chautauquan History of the United States; If Jesus Came to Boston. See Vedder’s American Writers. See, also, Hale, Susan. A. U. A. Cas. Fu. Lam. Rob. Scr.
Hale, Edwin Moses. N. H., 1826-1899. Nephew of Mrs. Sarah Hale, infra. A Chicago physician, professor in the Homœopathic College. Pocket Manual of Domestic Practice; Homœopathic Materia Medica; Treatment of Diseases of Women; Treatise on Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
Hale, Enoch. Ms., 1790-1848. A physician in Boston, and a nephew of the patriot Nathan Hale. History of the Spotted Fever at Gardiner, Maine, in 1814; Typhoid Fever.
Hale, Horatio. R. I., 1817-1896. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hale, infra. A lawyer and ethnologist of prominence who lived in Clinton, Ontario, from 1856. Ethnology and Philology; Indian Migrations as Evidenced by Language; Report on the Blackfeet Tribes. He has edited the Iroquois Book of Rites.
Hale, Lucretia Peabody. Ms., 1820-1900. Sister of E. E. Hale, supra. A writer who is best known by her humourous juvenile books. The Peterkin Papers; The Last of the Peterkins. Her other works comprise The Lord’s Supper and its Observance; The Service of Sorrow; Sunday-School Stories for Little Children; Fagots for the Fireside, a collection of games; The Struggle for Life, a Story of Home; Art Needle Work; An Uncloseted Skeleton (with E. L. Bynner, supra); The New Harry and Lucy (with E. E. Hale). Hou. Rob.
Hale, Robert Beverly. Ms., 1869-1895. Son of E. E. Hale, supra. Elsie and Other Poems; Six Stories and Some Verses.
Hale, Salma. N. H., 1787-1866. Brother-in-law of Mrs. Sarah Hale, infra. A New Hampshire jurist who represented his State in Congress in 1816. History of the United States; Annals of the Town of Keene. Har.
Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha [Buell]. N. H., 1788-1879. A once well-known writer of Philadelphia who was editor of The Lady’s Book for forty years. It was largely through her influence that Thanksgiving became a national festival. Among her numerous books Woman’s Record, a large biographical and critical work, is the most important. Others are, The Genius of Oblivion, and Other Poems; Northwood, a novel; Sketches of American Character; Traits of American Life; Flora’s Interpreter; The Way to Live Well; Grosvenor, a Tragedy; Manners, or Happy Homes; Love, or Woman’s Destiny, with Other Poems; The White Veil; The Judge, a drama; Three Hours, or the Vigil of Love; Harry Gray, a Sea Story; Alice Ray, a Romance in Rhyme. She also edited cookery books, compilations, annuals, and the letters of Madame de Sévigné and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. See Allibone’s Dictionary. Har.
Hale, Susan. Ms., 1833- ——. Sister of E. E. Hale, supra, and co-author with him of the Family Flight series of travels for young people. She has also published The Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton, supra. Ap. Lo. Rob.
Hall, Abraham Oakey. N. Y., 1826-1898. A once prominent Tammany politician of New York city, of which he was at one time mayor. He was subsequently on the staff of The World, but for many years lived in Europe. The Manhattaner in New Orleans; The Congressman’s Christmas Dream; Ballads; Old Whitey’s Christmas Trot, a story for the holidays. Har.
Hall, Arethusa. Ms., 1802-1891. An educator in New England, and subsequently in the Packer Institute, Brooklyn. The poet Whittier was one of her early pupils. Manual of Morals; Life of Sylvester Judd; Memorials of S. Judd, Senior; Thoughts of Pascal, a translation. See Memorial of, edited by F. E. Abbot, 1892.
Hall, Arthur Crawshay Alliston. E., 1847- ——. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. He was for many years in charge of the mission of the Cowley Fathers in Boston. Confession and the Lambeth Conference; Meditations on the Creed; Meditations on the Collects; The Example of the Passion.
Hall, Baynard Rush. Pa., 1798-1863. An educator of New Jersey and New York. A Latin Grammar; The New Purchase of Life in the Far West, long a very popular book; Something for Everybody; Teaching a Science; The Teacher an Artist; Frank Freeman’s Barber’s Shop.
Hall, Benjamin Franklin. N. Y., 1814-1891. A New York jurist, chief justice of Colorado, 1861-64. The Land Owner’s Manual; The Republican Party; Methodism, its Source and Power.
Hall, Benjamin Homer. N. Y., 1830-1891. Brother of Fitzedward Hall, infra. A lawyer of Troy, New York. College Words and Customs; History of Eastern Vermont; Bibliography of the United States: Vermont.
Hall, Charles Cuthbert. N. Y., 1852- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, 1877-97; from 1897 president of Union Theological Seminary. Does God Send Trouble?; Into His Marvellous Light; The Children, the Church, and the Communion; Qualifications for Ministerial Power; The Gospel of the Divine Sacrifice. Do. Hou.
Hall, Charles Francis. N. H., 1821-1871. An Arctic explorer. The Arctic Regions; Life Among the Esquimaux; Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition. Har.
Hall, Charles Henry. Ga., 1820-1895. An Episcopal clergyman of Brooklyn, rector of Holy Trinity Church, 1869-95. Commentaries on the Gospel; Protestant Ritualism; Spina Christi; The Church of the Household; Valley of the Shadow.
Hall, Charles Winslow. Ms., 1843- ——. A lawyer of Minnesota. Arctic Rovings; Twice Taken; Adrift in the Ice-Fields; Drifting Around the World. Le.
Hall, Christopher Webber. Vt., 1845- ——. Professor of geology and mineralogy in University of Minnesota, at Minneapolis, from 1878, and dean of the College of Engineering, Metallurgy, and Mechanic Arts. He has written many valuable professional papers, and a History of the University of Minnesota.
Hall, Edward Henry. O., 1831- ——. Stepson of Louisa Hall, infra. A Unitarian clergyman of Worcester, and subsequently of Cambridge. Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Christian Church; Lessons on the Life of Saint Paul; Discourses. A. U. A. El.
Hall, Edwin. N. Y., 1802-1877. A Congregational clergyman, professor of theology in Auburn Seminary, 1854-77. The Law of Baptism; The Puritans and their Principles; Historical Records of Norwalk; Shorter Catechism with Proofs.
Hall, Fitzedward. N. Y., 1825-1901. A philologist of distinction who was inspector of schools in India, 1846-62, and in the latter year became professor of Sanskrit in King’s College, London. Recent Exemplifications of False Philology; Modern English; English Adjectives in -able with Special Reference to Reliable; Lectures on the Nyâya Philosophy; and several works in Sanskrit. Scr.
Hall, Mrs. Florence [Howe]. Ms., 1845- ——. Daughter of Mrs. J. W. Howe, infra. A writer of Plainfield, New Jersey. Social Customs; The Correct Thing in Good Society. Est.
Hall, Frederick. Vt., 1780-1843. An educator who was professor of chemistry in Columbian College, Washington, at the time of his death. He published Letters from the East and from the West.
Hall, Gertrude. Ms., 1863- ——. A Boston writer of short stories and poems. Far from To-Day, a collection of strikingly original stories; Allegretto, a volume of verse; Foam of the Sea, and Other Tales; Verses. Rob.
Hall, Granville Stanley. Ms., 1845- ——. An educator of note, president of Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1888. Aspects of German Culture; Hints Toward a Bibliography of Education (with J. M. Mansfield); How to Teach Reading.
Hall, Harrison. Md., 1785-1866. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, infra. A scientist of Philadelphia who in 1815 published a work on Distillation that was much commended in its day.
Hall, Hiland. Vt., 1795-1885. A jurist of Vermont and governor of that State, 1858-60, who wrote a History of Vermont to 1791.
Hall, Isaac Hollister. Ct., 1837-1896. Son of E. Hall, supra. A lawyer and Oriental scholar, lecturer on New Testament Greek in Johns Hopkins University, 1884-96. He published American Greek Testaments, a critical Bibliography.
Hall, James. Pa., 1744-1826. A Presbyterian clergyman in the Southern States. Narrative of a Most Extraordinary Work of Religion in North Carolina; Missionary Tour through the Mississippi and Southwest Country.
Hall, James. Pa., 1793-1868. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, infra. Letters from the West; Legends of the West; Tales of the Border; Sketches of the West; Notes on the Western States; Life of General Harrison; History of the Indian Tribes (with McKinney); The Wilderness and the War Path; The Harpe’s Head, a Legend of Kentucky; Romance of Western History. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Bibliography of Ohio. Clke.
Hall, James. Ms., 1811-1898. A paleontologist of distinction, professor of geology at the Troy Polytechnic School from 1836, and State geologist of New York from 1837. Geology of the Fourth District of New York; Paleontology of New York; Geological Survey of Wisconsin; and many scientific monographs.
Hall, John. Pa., 1806-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor of the First Church in Trenton, New Jersey, from 1841, among whose writings are, Translation of Milton’s Latin Letters; History of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton; Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, supra; Sabbath-School Theology.
Hall, John. I., 1829-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman who came from Dublin to America in 1867, and became pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York city. All the Way Across; The Chief End of Man; Familiar Talks to Boys; Questions of the Day; God’s Word through Preaching; A Christian Home; Foundation Stones for Young Builders, include his principal writings. Bar. Ran.
Hall, John Elihu. Pa., 1783-1829. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, infra. A lawyer and author of Philadelphia who edited The Portfolio, 1817-27. Memoirs of Eminent Persons; Practice and Jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty; Life of Dr. John Shaw; Tracts on Constitutional Law. See A. H. Smyth’s Philadelphia Magazines, 1892.
Hall, Mrs. Louisa Jane [Park]. Ms., 1802-1892. A writer of Providence. Miriam, a dramatic poem; Joanna of Naples, a tale; Life of Elizabeth Carter. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.
Hall, Samuel Read. N. H., 1795-1877. An educator of Vermont who organized the first training-school for teachers in the United States. The Instructor’s Manual; Lectures on Education; Geography for Children.
Hall, Mrs. Sarah [Ewing]. Pa., 1761-1830. A Philadelphia writer well known at one time as the author of Conversations on the Bible. Selections from her work were published in 1833, with Memoir by Harrison Hall, supra.
Hall, Thomas Mifflin. Pa., 1798-1828. A Philadelphia littérateur. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, supra.
Hall, William Whitty. Ky., 1810-1876. A physician of New York city, the founder of Hall’s Journal of Health. Health and Good Living; Health and Disease as Affected by Constipation; Fun Better than Physic; Consumption; Sleep; Guide-Board to Health; Coughs and Colds; Health at Home; How to Live Long; Dyspepsia; Treatise on Cholera; Bronchitis and Kindred Diseases. Hou.
Hallam, Robert Alexander. Ct., 1807-1877. An Episcopal clergyman who was rector of St. James’s Church, New London, Connecticut, from 1835 till his death. Lectures on the Morning Prayer; Lectures on Moses; Sovereigns of Judah; Sermons; Annals of St. James’s.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene. Ct., 1790-1867. A poet who was for many years a clerk in a New York banking-house, and subsequently confidential adviser to John Jacob Astor. His verse has grace and sweetness, but is wanting in positive qualities, and has already largely passed out of remembrance. Marco Bozzaris is his most famous poem. Fanny; Alnwick Castle, and Other Poems. See Life and Letters, by Grant Wilson; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant and his Friends; Appleton’s American Biography. Ap. Cr.
Halleck, Henry Wager. N. Y., 1816-1872. A major-general who was general-in-chief of the armies of the United States, 1862-64. Bitumen, its Varieties, Properties, and Uses; Mining Laws of Spain and Mexico; Elements of International Law (1866); Treatise on International Law (1861); Elements of Military Art and Science. See Appleton’s American Biography. Lip.
Halliday, Samuel Byram. N. J., 1812-1897. A Congregational clergyman of Brooklyn, assistant of Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth Church for nearly twenty years. The Little Street Sweeper; The Lost and Found, or Life Among the Poor; Winning Souls; The Church in America and Its Baptisms of Fire (with D. S. Gregory, supra). Fu.
Hallock, Charles. N. Y., 1834- ——. A journalist of New York city, founder of Forest and Stream. The Fishing Tourist; Camp Life in Florida; The Sportsman’s Gazetteer; Our New Alaska. Har.
Hallock, Mrs. Julia Isabel [Sherman]. Ct., 1846- ——. A Connecticut writer. Broken Notes from a Gray Nunnery, a study of country life. Le.
Hallock, Mrs. Mary Angelina [Ray] [Lathrop]. Ms., 1810- ——. Wife of W. A. Hallock, infra. A writer of Sunday-school books, including That Sweet Story of Old; Child’s History of the Fall of Jerusalem; Child’s Life of Daniel; The Story of Moses; Bethlehem and her Children; Beasts and Birds; Child’s History of Solomon; Life of the Apostle Paul.
Hallock, William Allen. Ms., 1794-1880. A Congregational clergyman, secretary of the American Tract Society, 1825-70. Life of Harlan Page; Moses Hallock; Justin Edwards, supra, and several very popular tracts.
Hallowell, Richard Price. Pa., 1835-1904. A wool merchant of Boston who wrote The Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts; The Pioneer Quakers. Hou.
Halpine, Charles Graham. “Miles O’Reilly.” I., 1829-1868. A journalist of New York city who came to America in 1852 and served during the Civil War as a colonel in the Federal army. Lyrics; Poems; Miles O’Reilly Papers; Life and Adventures of Private Miles O’Reilly; Baked Meats of the Funeral. His Poetical Works, edited by R. B. Roosevelt, infra, appeared in 1869. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 24; Appleton’s American Biography. Har.
Halsey, Leroy Jones. Va., 1812-1896. A Presbyterian clergyman, from 1859 professor in Chicago Theological Seminary. The Literary Attractions of the Bible; The Life and Pictures of the Bible; The Beauty of Emmanuel; Living Christianity; Scotland’s Influence on Civilization.
Halstead, Murat. O., 1829- ——. A journalist of note, editor and proprietor of The Commercial of Cincinnati, and since 1890 of The Standard Union, Brooklyn. Caucuses of 1860; Life of William McKinley.
Halsted, Byron David. N. Y., 1852- ——. An agricultural writer, since 1884 professor of botany in Iowa Agricultural College. A Century of American Weeds; The Vegetable Garden; Farm Conveniences; Household Conveniences.
Halsted, George Bruce. N. J., 1853- ——. Grandson of O. S. Halsted, infra. A professor of mathematics in the University of Texas from 1887, and a mathematician of prominence. Metrical Geometry, a Treatise on Mensuration; Elements of Geometry; Synthetic Geometry; Number, Discrete and Continuous. See Bibliography of Texas. Gi. Wil.
Halsted, Oliver Spencer. N. J., 1792-1877. A jurist of Newark, New Jersey. The Theology of the Bible; The Book called Job.
Ham, Charles Henry. N. H., 1831-1902. A lawyer and journalist of Chicago. Manual Training: the Solution of Social and Industrial Problems. Har.
Ham, Marion Franklin. O., 1867- ——. A verse-writer of Chattanooga. The Golden Shuttle, and Other Poems.
Hamersley, Lewis Randolph. D. C., 1847- ——. A lieutenant in the United States marine corps. Records of Living Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps (1890); Naval Encyclopædia.
Hamilton, Alexander. W. I., 1757-1804. A statesman who ranks as the ablest political writer of his day in America. In 1789 he became the first secretary of the United States Treasury, and his first Report on the Public Credit was one of the most notable of national state papers. He was the principal contributor to The Federalist, 51 of its 85 articles being by him alone, and he assisted Washington in preparing the latter’s Farewell Address. See Complete Works, including The Federalist, edited by H. C. Lodge, infra, 1885; Lives, by Williams, 1804; J. C. Hamilton, infra, 1840; Renwick, 1841; Smucker, 1856; J. T. Morse, Jr., 1876; Shea, 1879; Lodge, 1882; Hamilton and his Contemporaries, Richtmueller; Shea’s Historical Study of Hamilton; Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana, Ford, 1886. Ap. Put.
Hamilton, Alice King. 18— - ——. A novelist. Mildred’s Cadet; One of the Duanes. Lip.
Hamilton, Allen McLane. N. Y., 1848- ——. A physician of New York city. Clinical Electro-Therapeutics; Nervous Diseases; Medical Jurisprudence; Types of Insanity; The Modern Treatment of Headaches. Ap.
Hamilton, Edward John. I., 1834- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of philosophy in the State University of Washington. The general system of philosophy advocated by him is best defined by the term Perceptional. The Human Mind; Mental Science; The Modalist, or the Laws of Rational Thought; A New Analysis in Fundamental Modes, a short treatise in ethics. Gi.
Hamilton, Frank Hastings. Vt., 1813-1886. A distinguished surgeon of New York city, for many years professor in Bellevue Hospital. Strabismus; Fractures and Dislocations; Military Surgery; Principles and Practice of Surgery; Surgical Memories of the War of the Rebellion.
Hamilton, Gail. See Dodge, Abigail.
Hamilton, James Alexander. N. Y., 1788-1878. Third son of A. Hamilton, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Reminiscences during Three Quarters of a Century; Martin Van Buren’s Calumnies Repudiated.
Hamilton, John Church. Pa., 1792-1882. The fourth son of A. Hamilton, supra. A lawyer in New York city. Memoirs of Alexander Hamilton; History of the Republic; The Prairie Province. He edited his father’s works.
Hamilton, John William. W. Va., 1845- ——. A Methodist clergyman who founded the People’s Church in Boston. Memorials of Jesse Lee; Lives of the Methodist Bishops; People’s Church Pulpit.
Hamilton, Kate Waterman. “Fleeta.” N. Y., 1841- ——. An Illinois writer of Sunday-school and other fictions. Among them are, The Old Brown House; Frederick Gordon; Wood, Hay, and Stubble; Rachel’s Share of the Road, a Novel; The Parson’s Proxy. Hou.
Hamilton, Robert S——. 18— - ——. Present Status of Social Science; Present Status of the Philosophy of Society.
Hamilton, Schuyler. N. Y., 1822-1903. Son of J. C. Hamilton, supra. A major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. History of the American Flag; Our National Flag.
Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster. Ty., 1855- ——. Son of Cyrus Hamlin, infra. An architect, professor of architecture in Columbia College from 1889. Handbook of the History of Ornament.
Hamlin, Augustus Choate. Me., 1829- ——. A surgeon of Bangor. Martyria, or Andersonville Prison; The Tourmaline; Leisure Hours Among the Gems. Hou.
Hamlin, Charles. Me., 1837- ——. Cousin of A. C. Hamlin, and son of Hannibal Hamlin, who was vice-president of the United States, 1861-65. He was an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War, and has published The Insolvent Laws of Maine.
Hamlin, Cyrus. Me., 1811-1900. A Congregationalist missionary in Turkey, 1837-60, president of Robert College, Constantinople, 1860-76, and of Middlebury College, Vermont, 1880-85. Papists and Protestants; Arithmetic for Americans; Cholera and Its Treatment; Among the Turks; My Life and Times (1893). C. P. S.
Hamlin, Teunis Slingerland. N. Y., 1847- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Washington. Denominationalism versus Christian Union. Rev.
Hamline, Leonidas Lent. Ct., 1797-1865. A Methodist bishop prominent in Ohio. Sermons; Works, edited by F. G. Hibbard.
Hammett, Samuel A——. “Philip Paxton.” Ct., 1816-1865. A journalist of New York city. A Stray Yankee in Texas; The Wonderful Adventures of Captain Priest, are among his works.
Hammond, Anthony. 18— - ——. Law of Nisi Prius; Parties to Actions; Principles of Pleading; Reports in Equity; Criminal Code: Forgery; Practice and Proceedings in Parliament; Index to Tennessee Reports; Criminal Code: Simple Larceny.
Hammond, Edward Payson. Ms., 1831- ——. A noted evangelist who has been a prolific author of religious books and tracts. Among his hundred or more publications are, Good Will to Men; Sketches of Palestine; The Conversion of Children; Gathered Lambs. See Reaper and Harvest, by P. C. Headley, infra. Fu. Rev.
Hammond, Mrs. Henrietta [Hardy]. “Henri Dangé.” Va., 1854-1883. A Southern writer of fiction. The Georgians; A Fair Philosopher; Her Waiting Heart; Woman’s Secrets, or How to be Beautiful. Hou.
Hammond, Jabez D. Ms., 1778-1855. A jurist of New York State. The Political History of New York; Life of Julius Melbourn; Life of Silas Wright; Evidence of the Immortality of the Soul.
Hammond, James Henry. S. C., 1807-1864. A South Carolina politician, governor of his State, 1842-47, and United States Senator, 1857-60. Owing to a speech of his in Congress in which the term “mudsills” was used, he was afterwards known as “Mudsill Hammond.” He published The Pro-Slavery Argument.
Hammond, Marcus Claudius Marcellus. S. C., 1814-1876. Brother of J. H. Hammond, supra. A United States army officer whose home was in South Carolina, and who published A Critical History of the Mexican War.
Hammond, William Alexander. Md., 1828-1900. An eminent physician of New York city, surgeon-general of the United States army, 1862-64; later on the retired list as brigadier-general and surgeon-general. His medical writings include Military Hygiene; Physiological Essays; Sleep and its Derangements; Nervous Derangements; Physiological Memoirs; Lectures on Venereal Diseases; Wakefulness; Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations; Physics and Physiology of Spiritualism; Diseases of the Nervous System; Insanity and its Medical Relations; Sexual Impotence in the Male; Cerebral Hyperæmia; Neurological Contributions. His novels include Robert Severne; Lal; Dr. Grattan; Mr. Oldmixon; A Strong-Minded Woman; On the Susquehanna. Ap. Lip.
Hanaford, Mrs. Phebe Ann [Coffin]. Ms., 1829- ——. A Universalist minister, the first woman to enter the ministry in the Universalist denomination. Since 1887 she has been in charge of a church at New Haven. Life of Abraham Lincoln; Life of George Peabody; Lucretia the Quakeress; Leonette, or Truth Sought and Found; The Best of Books and its History; Frank Nelson the Runaway Boy; The Soldier’s Daughter; Field, Gunboat, and Hospital; Women of the Century; The Captive Boy of Tierra del Fuego; Life of Dickens; From Shore to Shore, and Other Poems. Mer.
Hancock, Anson Uriel. 18— - ——. The Genius of Galilee, an historical novel; John Auburntop, Novelist; Old Abraham Jackson, a Nebraska Story. Ke.
Hanson, Edgar Filmore. Me., 1853- ——. Demonology or Spiritualism, Ancient and Modern.
Hanson, John Wesley. Ms., 1823- ——. A Universalist clergyman, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, Chicago, 1869-84. Histories of Danvers, Norridgewock, and Gardiner, in Maine; Bible Threatenings Explained; Cloud of Witnesses, a compilation; Aion Aionos; Bible Proofs of Universal Salvation; Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer; The Leaven at Work; The New Covenant, a translation of the New Testament.
Hapgood, Isabel Florence. Ms., 1851- ——. A writer and translator of New York city. The Epic Songs of Russia; Russian Rambles; translations of Gogol and Victor Hugo. Hou. Scr.
Harbaugh [har´baw], Henry. Pa., 1817-1867. A German Reformed clergyman of Pennsylvania, professor in Mercersburg Seminary, whose principal writings include Fathers of the German Reformed Church in Europe and America; The Heavenly Home; Christological Theology; The True Glory of Woman; Heaven, or the Sainted Dead; Birds of the Bible; The Golden Censer; Union with the Church.
Harbaugh, Thomas Chalmers. Md., 1849- ——. A popular verse-writer of Casstown, Ohio, whose only published collection of poems is entitled Maple Leaves.
Harby, Isaac. S. C., 1788-1828. A dramatist of Charleston whose plays include Alexander Severus; The Gordian Knot; Alberti. See Life by H. L. Pinckney, 1829.
Harby, Mrs. Lee [Cohen]. S. C., 1849- ——. A New York writer, formerly of Texas, who has published Christmas Before the War. See Bibliography of Texas.
Hardee, William Joseph. Ga., 1815-1873. A Confederate general who was the author of a well-known work on Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics. See Southern Generals, by W. P. Snow.
Hardie, James. S., c. 1750-1832. An educator of New York city. Corderii Colloquia; Epistolary Guide; Freeman’s Monitor; Wonders of Art and Nature, especially in America; Biographical Dictionary; Malignant Fevers in New York; Viris Illustribus Urbis Romæ; Description of New York City.
Hardy, Arthur Sherburne. Ms., 1847- ——. A professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College 1878-93, well known both as novelist and mathematician. Elements of Quaternions; New Methods in Surveying; Elements of Analytic Geometry; Elements of Calculus; But Yet A Woman; The Wind of Destiny; Passe Rose; Joseph Hardy Neesima, a biography. See London Academy, June 30, 1883. Gi. Hou.
Hare, George Emlen. Pa., 1808-1892. Son of R. Hare, infra. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of biblical learning in the Philadelphia Divinity School from 1852. Christ to Return; Visions and Narratives of the Old Testament, a volume of sermons. Dut.
Hare, John Innes Clark. Pa., 1816- ——. Son of R. Hare, infra. A noted Philadelphia jurist. Treatise on Contracts; New England Exchequer Reports; American Constitutional Law. Lit.
Hare, Robert. Pa., 1781-1858. A once prominent Philadelphia scientist who made a number of important discoveries, and contributed frequently to scientific journals. Brief View of Policy and Resources of the United States; Spiritualism Scientifically Demonstrated; Chemical Apparatus and Scientific Manipulations.
Hargrove, Robert Kenyon. Al., 1829- ——. A bishop of the Methodist Church South from 1882. Laws of the Methodist Episcopal Church South as Interpreted by the College of Bishops.
Hark, J[oseph] Max[imilian]. Pa., 1849- ——. A Moravian clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Unity of Truth in Christianity and Evolution. He has translated and edited from the German The Chronicon Ephratense.
Harkey, Sidney Levi. N. C., 1827- ——. A Lutheran clergyman whose writings include The Signs of the Times; The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints; Thorough Education; Agnosticism; National Blessings and Dangers.
Harkey, Simon Walcher. N. C., 1811-1889. A Lutheran clergyman of Illinois. True Wisdom Triumphant; Justification by Faith; The Church’s Best State, are among his writings.
Harkness, Albert. Ms., 1822- ——. An educator of Providence, professor of Greek in Brown University from 1855. He has published Complete Latin Course for the First Year, and many Greek and Latin text-books.
Harkness, James. S., 1803-1878. A Presbyterian clergyman who emigrated from Scotland in 1839, and was a pastor in Jersey City, 1862-78. Messiah’s Throne and Kingdom was his only published work.
Harkness, William. S., 1837- ——. Son of J. Harkness, supra. A mathematician of distinction who has published Magnetic Observations on the Monadnock.
Harlan, George Cuvier. Pa., 1835- ——. Son of R. Harlan, infra. A Philadelphia physician who has made a specialty of diseases of the eye, and is the author of Eyesight and How to Take Care of It.
Harlan, Richard. Pa., 1796-1843. A physician and naturalist of Philadelphia. Observations on the Genus Salamandra; Fauna Americana; American Herpetology; Medical and Physical Researches.
Harland, Henry. “Sidney Luska.” N. Y., 1861- ——. A novelist of New York city who removed to London, and has there edited The Yellow Book. Grandison Mather; Mea Culpa; As It Was Written; Mrs. Peixada; The Land of Love; The Yoke of the Thorah; My Uncle Florimond; Grey Roses. Cas. Rob.
Harland, Marion. See Terhune, Mrs.
Harman, Henry Martyn. Md., 1822-1897. A Methodist clergyman, professor in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1870. Journey to Egypt and the Holy Land; Introduction to Study of the Scriptures. Meth.
Harney, John Milton. Del., 1789-1825. A Savannah journalist who became a Dominican monk. He published Crystallina, a fairy tale in verse, and his other poems appeared posthumously in periodicals.
Harney, William Wallace. Ia., 1831- ——. A journalist and verse-writer of Florida whose poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies, but have not been gathered into book form.
Harper, Robert Goodloe. Va., 1765-1825. A once noted South Carolina and Maryland statesman. Letters on the Proceedings of Congress; Letters to Constituents. His Select Works appeared in 1814.
Harper, William Rainey. O., 1856- ——. A Baptist clergyman, president of the University of Chicago. Elements of Hebrew; Elements of Hebrew Syntax; Hebrew Vocabularies; An Introductory New Testament, Greek Method (with R. F. Weidner). Scr.
Harrigan, Edward. N. Y., 1845- ——. An actor and playwright of New York city among whose many plays of low life in the metropolis are, Squatter Sovereignty; Cordelia’s Aspirations.
Harriman, Walter. N. H., 1817-1884. A New Hampshire politician, governor of his state, 1867-68, and during the Civil War a Federal officer. History of Warner, New Hampshire; Travels and Observations in the Orient. See Life by Amos Hadley. Le.
Harrington, Mark Walrod. Il., 1848- ——. A scientist, professor of astronomy in the University of Michigan. The Analysis of Plants; Identification of Crude Drugs.
Harris, Amanda Bartlett. N. H., 1824- ——. A writer whose life has been mainly spent at her birthplace, Warner, New Hampshire. Christ our Friend; Thy Will be Done; The Duty of Uniting with the Church; Summer’s Autographs; How we went Birds’-Nesting, republished as Field, Wood, and Meadow Rambles; Wild Flowers and Where They Grow; Door-yard Folks; Pleasant Authors for Young Folks; American Authors for Young Folks; The Luck of Edenhall. She has contributed much to periodical literature, and has written reviews for The (Boston) Literary World from 1877. Lo.
Harris, Chapin A——. N. Y., 1806-1866. A dentist of Baltimore, founder of the Baltimore Dental College. Principles of Dental Surgery; Characteristics of the Human Teeth; Diseases of the Maxillary Sinus; Dictionary of Dental Science.
Harris, George. Me., 1844- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts, professor of Christian theology in Andover Theological Seminary since 1883, and one of the editors of “The Andover Review,” 1884-93. Editor (with W. J. Tucker and E. K. Glezen) of Hymns of the Faith. Author of Moral Evolution. Hou.
Harris, George Washington. Pa., 1814-1869. A Tennessee River steamboat captain who contributed humourous and political articles to newspapers. Sut Lovengood’s Yarns were published in 1867.
Harris, Joel Chandler. Ga., 1848- ——. An Atlanta journalist, editor of The Constitution, celebrated as the author of Uncle Remus, a unique character study of the Southern negro as well as a notable contribution to the literature of folk-lore. His writings include Uncle Remus: his Songs and his Sayings; Nights with Uncle Remus; Uncle Remus and his Friends; Mingo, and Other Sketches in Black and White; Balaam and his Master, and Other Sketches; Little Mr. Thimblefinger, a juvenile; Mr. Rabbit at Home, a juvenile; The Story of Aaron, a juvenile; Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches; Evening Tales, from the French of Fréderic Ortoli; Stories of Georgia; Sister Jane, her Friends and Acquaintances; Georgia, from the Invasion of De Soto to Recent Times. See Chautauquan, October, 1896. Ap. Hou. Scr.
Harris, Mrs. Miriam [Coles]. L. I., 1834- ——. A novelist of New York city whose first story, Rutledge, was very popular. Later works are, Richard Vandermarck; The Sutherlands; St. Philip’s; Happy-Go-Lucky; Missy; Frank Warrington; A Perfect Adonis; Phœbe; An Utter Failure; Louie’s Last Term at St. Mary’s; The Rosary for Lent, a compilation. Ap. Hou.
Harris, Samuel. Me., 1814-1899. A Congregational clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Yale University from 1871. Zaccheus, or the Scriptural Plan of Benevolence; The Kingdom of Christ on Earth; The Philosophic Basis of Theism; The Self-Revelation of God; Christ’s Prayer for the Death of His Redeemed; God: Creator and Lord of All. See Andover Review, February, 1884. Scr.
Harris, Samuel Smith. Al., 1841-1888. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Michigan. The Dignity of Man; Christianity and Civil Society; Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality; Shelton, a novel. Mg. Wh.
Harris, Thaddeus Mason. Ms., 1768-1842. A Unitarian clergyman of Dorchester from 1793 until his death. Discourses in Favor of Freemasonry; Journal of a Tour in the Northwest Territory (1805); Memorials of the First Church at Dorchester; Biographical Memoirs of James Oglethorpe; Natural History of the Bible.
Harris, Thaddeus William. Ms., 1795-1856. Son of T. M. Harris, supra. An entomologist and physician who was librarian of Harvard University from 1831. He published Systematic Catalogue of the Insects of Massachusetts, and a valuable work on Insects Injurious to Vegetation.
Harris, Thomas Lake. E., 1823- ——. A mystical philosopher who founded the Brotherhood of the New Life, which had its home at Salem-on-Erie, near Brocton, New York. He has since lived in California. Among his writings are included Epics of the Starry Heavens; Modern Spiritualism; Lyric of the Morning Land; Truth and Life in Jesus; The Millennium Age; Arcana of Christianity; The Wisdom of the Adepts; God’s Breath in Man. See Life of Laurence Oliphant, by Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant.
Harris, William Logan. O., 1817-1887. A Methodist bishop of prominence as educator and missionary. The Powers of the General Conference; Ecclesiastical Law (with W. J. Henry); Relation of Episcopacy to the General Conference. Meth.
Harris, William Torrey. Ct., 1835- ——. A speculative philosopher and educator of Washington city, a translator of Hegel, and editor of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy; since 1889 United States commissioner of education. The Spiritual Sense of Dante’s Divina Commedia; Method of Study of Social Science; How to Teach Social Science; Hegel’s Logic, a critical exposition; Introduction to the Study of Philosophy. Ap. Hou. Sc.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton. See Harrison, Mrs. Constance.
Harrison, Mrs. Constance [Cary]. Va., 1846- ——. A novelist and miscellaneous writer of New York city. Story of Helen Troy; Woman’s Handiwork in Modern Homes; An Edelweiss of the Sierras, and Other Tales; Bar Harbor Days; The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book; Folk and Fairy Tales; Anglomania; An Errant Wooing; A Virginia Cousin; Bric-a-Brac Stories; A Bachelor Maid; Sweet Bells Out of Tune; Crow’s Nest and Belhaven Tales; Externals of Modern New York. Bar. Cent. Har. Scr.
Harrison, Gabriel. Pa., 1818-1902. A Brooklyn dramatist and instructor in elocution. Life of John Howard Payne; The Stratford Bust, a Critical Inquiry as to its Authenticity; Melanthia; Dartmore, are among his writings.
Harrison, George Leib. Pa., 1811-1885. A philanthropist of Philadelphia. Chapters on Social Science; Legislation on Insanity, a compilation of lunacy laws.
Harrison, Gessner. Va., 1807-1862. A once noted educator of Virginia. Exposition of some Laws of Greek Grammar; On Greek Prepositions.
Harrison, Hall. Md., 1837-1900. An Episcopal clergyman and educator. From 1865 to 1879 he was a master in St. Paul’s School at Concord, and after the latter date rector of St. John’s church at Ellicott City, Maryland. Life of Hugh Davy Evans, supra; Life of Bishop Kerfoot.
Harrison, James Albert. Mi., 1848- ——. An educator in Virginia, since 1876 a professor of languages at Washington and Lee University. Greek Vignettes; Spain in Profile; The Rhine; French Syntax; The History of Spain; The Story of Greece; Autrefois, tales of Old New Orleans and Elsewhere; A Group of Poets and Their Haunts; Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (with W. M. Baskerville); Exodus and Daniel (with T. W. Hunt). Hou. Lip. Lo. Mer. Put.
Harrison, Jonathan Baxter. O., 1835- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of New Hampshire. Certain Dangerous Tendencies in American Life; The Latest Studies on Indian Reservations. Hou.
Harrison, Joseph. Pa., 1810-1874. A Philadelphia engineer and inventor, from 1843-52 employed in locomotive construction by the Russian government. Essay on the Steam Boiler; The Locomotive Engine and Philadelphia’s Share in its Early Improvements; The Iron Worker and King Solomon, a poem.
Harrison, William Pope. Ga., 1830- ——. A prominent clergyman of the Methodist Church South. Theophilus Walton, a controversial work; Lights and Shadows of Forty Years; The Living Christ; The High Churchman Disarmed; Methodist Union; The Gospel among the Slaves.
Harrisse [har-ēs´], Henri. F., 1830- ——. A bibliographer of New York city, of French birth, but long a citizen of the United States. Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima; Christophe Colombe; Jean et Sebastian Cabot; The Discovery of North America. Do.
Harsha, David Addison. N. Y., 1827-1895. A writer in Argyle, New York. The Heavenly Token; The Star of Bethlehem; Manual of Sacred Literature; Lives of Charles Sumner, Doddridge, Baxter, Bunyan, Addison, James Hervey, Watts, Whitefield, Abraham Booth; Eminent Orators and Statesmen. Co.
Hart, Albert Bushnell. Pa., 1854- ——. A professor of history in Harvard University. Coercive Powers of the United States Government; Introduction to the Study of Federal Government; Formation of the Union, 1750-1829; Studies in Education; Life of Salmon P. Chase; Practical Essays on American Government. Fl. Hou. Lgs.
Hart, Charles Henry. Pa., 1847- ——. A lawyer and antiquarian of Philadelphia. Memoir of W. H. Prescott, infra; Biographical Sketch of Abraham Lincoln; Turner, the Dream Painter; Remarks on Tabasco, Mexico; Bibliographia Websteriana.
Hart, James Morgan. N. J., 1839- ——. Son of J. S. Hart, infra. A professor of Germanic languages at Cornell University from 1868. Handbook of English Composition; Syllabus of Anglo-Saxon Literature; German Universities. Put.
Hart, John Seely. Ms., 1810-1877. An educator of New Jersey who was professor of rhetoric at Princeton College, 1872-77. Manuals of English and American Literature; Composition and Rhetoric; In the Schoolroom.
Hart, Samuel. Ct., 1845- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in Trinity College from 1868, who has published editions of Juvenal and Persius. Historical Sermons of Bishop Seabury.
Harte, [Francis] Bret. N. Y., 1839-1902. A Californian writer who first drew public attention in 1868 by a short story called The Luck of Roaring Camp, published in The Overland Monthly, which he edited. This tale, and the now famous poem, Plain Language from Truthful James, established his reputation. From 1871 to 1878 he resided in New York, and afterward he made his home abroad, but mainly in London from 1885. His writings include, Condensed Novels; The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches; Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands; Tales of the Argonauts; Gabriel Conroy; Two Men of Sandy Bar, a play; The Story of a Mine; Drift from Two Shores; Thankful Blossom; The Twins of Table Mountain; By Shore and Sedge; Flip, and Found at Blazing Star; In the Carquinez Woods; On the Frontier; Maruja; Snow-Bound at Eagle’s; The Queen of the Pirate Isle, a Child’s Story; A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready; The Crusade of the Excelsior; A Phyllis of the Sierras; The Argonauts of North Liberty; Cressy; The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh; A Waif of the Plains; A Ward of the Golden Gate; A Sappho of Green Springs; Colonel Starbottle’s Client; A First Family of Tasajara; Susy; A Protégé of Jack Hamlin’s; Sally Dows; The Bell-Ringer of Angel’s; Clarence; In a Hollow of the Hills; Barker’s Luck. In verse he has published East and West Poems; Echoes of the Foot Hills. See Haweis’s American Humorists; Nichol’s American Literature; Vedder’s American Writers; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1896. Hou.
Harte, Walter Blackburn. Ont., 1866- ——. A littérateur who has published Meditations in Motley. Ar.
Hartley, Cecil B——. 18— -18—. Louis Wetzel, the Virginia Ranger; lives of Empress Josephine, Francis Marion, Daniel Boone; Hunting Spots in the West; Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons; Pictorial Teaching and Bible Illustration. Co.
Hartley, Isaac Smithson. N. Y., 1830-1899. Son of R. M. Hartley, infra. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Utica since 1871. Prayer and its Relation to Modern Criticism; Old Fort Schuyler in History, are his principal works.
Hartley, Robert Milham. E., 1796-1881. A philanthropist who founded in 1842 the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. History, Science, and Practical Essay on Milk; Temperance in Large Cities and Towns.
Hartshorne, Edward. Pa., 1818-1885. A Philadelphia physician. Separate System for Criminals; Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery; an edition of Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence, with Notes.
Hartshorne, Henry. Pa., 1823-1897. Brother of E. Hartshorne, supra. A Philadelphia physician, professor of organic science at Haverford College, 1867-97. Memoranda Medica; Essentials of Principles and Practice of Medicines; Family Adviser; Our Homes; Cholera; Household Manual; Handbook of Human Anatomy; Conspectus of the Medical Sciences; Glycerin and its Uses; Woman’s Witchcraft, a dramatic romance; Summer Songs. Lip.
Hartt, Charles Frederick. N. B., 1840-1878. A professor of geology at Cornell University, 1868, and chief of the geological surveys in Brazil at the time of his death. Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil; Contributions to the Geology of the Lower Amazons; Amazonian Tortoise Myths.
Hartzell, J[onas] Hazard. Pa., 1830-1890. An Episcopal clergyman of Waverly, New York, but prior to 1881 a noted clergyman in the Universalist faith, for fourteen years a pastor in Buffalo. Wanderings on Parnassus, a collection of verse; Application and Achievement.
Harvey, William Hope. W. Va., 1851- ——. A writer on financial topics whose theories regarding unlimited coinage of silver have been popular with superficial thinkers. Coin’s Financial School; A Tale of Two Nations, a financial novel.
Harwood, Andrew Allen. Pa., 1802-1884. Son of J. E. Harwood, infra. A rear-admiral in the United States navy. Summary Courts Martial; Law and Practice of the United States Navy Courts Martial.
Harwood, John Edmund. E., 1771-1809. An English actor who came to the United States in 1793, and published a collection of Poems the year of his death.
Hascall, Daniel. Vt., 1782-1852. A Baptist clergyman of Hamilton, New York. Baptism; Elements of Theology; Analysis of Divine Revelation.
Haskell, Daniel. Ct., 1784-1848. A Congregational clergyman of Burlington, Vermont, who was subsequently a writer in Brooklyn. Gazetteer of the United States (with J. C. Smith); Chronological View of the World.
Haskins, David Greene. Ms., 1818-1896. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Cambridge. Selections from the Old and New Testament for Use in Families and Schools; French and English First Book; Maternal Ancestors of Ralph Waldo Emerson (his cousin).
Hassard, John Rose Greene. N. Y., 1836-1888. A New York journalist who was a literary critic on the staff of The Tribune. The King of the Nibelung; School History of the United States; Life of Archbishop Hughes, infra; Life of Pope Pius Ninth; A Pickwickian Pilgrimage. Hou.
Hassaurek, Friedrich. A., 1832-1885. A journalist and lawyer of Cincinnati. Four Years Among the Spanish-Americans; The Secret of the Andes. Clke.
Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph. Sd., 1770-1843. A noted surveyor in the government service who published System of the Universe and a series of works on astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry.
Hastings, Horace Lorenzo. Ms., 1831-1899. A Boston writer. Signs of the Times; Reasons for My Hope; Thessalonica; Atheism and Arithmetic, are his principal writings.
Haswell, Charles Haynes. N. Y., 1809- ——. A civil engineer of much prominence. Mechanics’ and Engineers’ Pocket Book; Mechanics’ Tables; Mensuration and Practical Geometry; Bookkeeping; History of the Steam Boiler; Reminiscences of New York from 1816 to 1855. Ap. Har.
Hatfield, Edwin Francis. N. J., 1807-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman of St. Louis, and subsequently of New York city. Universalism As It Is; History of Elizabeth, New Jersey; St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope; The Poets of the Church. Rev.
Hathaway, Benjamin. N. Y., 1822- ——. A verse-writer who was for many years a nurseryman and farmer. Art Life, and Other Poems; The League of the Iroquois; The Finished Creation, and Other Poems. Ar.
Haupt [howpt], Herman. Pa., 1817- ——. An engineer of distinction who has held many important posts, and is the inventor of a drilling engine. Since 1875 the chief engineer of the Tide Water Pipe Line Company. Hints on Bridge Building; General Theory of Bridge Construction; Plan for Improvement of the Ohio River; Military Bridges; Street Railway Motors. Ap. Bai.
Haupt, Lewis Muhlenberg. Pa., 1844- ——. Son of H. Haupt, supra. An engineer of Philadelphia, since 1872 professor of civil engineering in the University of Pennsylvania. Engineering Specifications and Contracts; Working Drawings and How to Make Them; The Topographer: his Methods and Instruments; Essays on Road Making. Bai.
Haven, Mrs. Alice [Bradley] [Neal]. “Cousin Alice.” N. Y., 1828-1863. A writer of juvenile tales which were very popular. Her later years were spent in New York city, but she formerly lived in Philadelphia, her first husband being J. C. Neal, infra. Among her writings are, No Such Word as Fail; Contentment Better than Wealth; Patient Waiting No Loss. See Memoir; Harper’s Magazine, October, 1863. Ap.
Haven, Erastus Otis. Ms., 1820-1881. A Methodist bishop, chancellor of Syracuse University from 1874, and from 1863-69 president of the University of Michigan. Pillars of Truth; Young Man Advised; Rhetoric; American Progress. Har. Meth.
Haven, Gilbert. Ms., 1821-1880. A Methodist bishop whose official residence was in Atlanta. National Sermons; The Pilgrim’s Wallet; Our Next-Door Neighbor, or Mexico of To-Day; Life of Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher; Christus Consolator. Meth.
Haven, Joseph. Ms., 1816-1874. A Congregational clergyman, a professor in the Chicago Theological Seminary, 1858-70. Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; History of Ancient and Modern Philosophy; Studies in Philosophy and Theology; Systematic Theology.
Haven, Samuel Foster. Ms., 1806-1881. An archæologist who was librarian of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester. Archæology of the United States; History of the Grants Under the Great Council for New England.
Hawes, Joel. Ms., 1789-1867. A prominent Congregational clergyman of Hartford, 1818-67. Lectures to Young Men; The Religion of the East; Looking-Glass for Ladies; Washington and Jay; Experimental and Practical Sermons; Tribute to the Pilgrims; Character Everything to the Young.
Hawes, William Post. N. Y., 1803-1842. A lawyer of New York city, author of Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches, published, with Memoir, by H. W. Herbert, infra.
Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse. E., 1807-1889. An English anatomist who removed to the United States in 1868. Popular Comparative Anatomy; Elements of Form; Comparative View of the Human and Animal Frame; Artistic Anatomy of the Horse; Artistic Anatomy of Cattle and Sheep; Artistic Anatomy of the Dog and Deer; Atlas of Comparative Osteology (with Huxley).
Hawkins, Dexter Arnold. Me., 1825-1886. A lawyer of New York city, an advocate of protection and similar political measures. Among his writings are, Traditions of Overlook Mountain; Free Trade and Protection; The Roman Catholic Church in New York City.
Hawkins, Rush Christopher. Ct., 1831- ——. Cousin of D. A. Hawkins, supra. A New York city lawyer who served as a colonel in the Federal army during the Civil War, and has since been a prominent advocate of political reforms. He has published The First Books and Printers of the 15th Century.
Hawkins, William George. Md., 1823- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Nebraska, prominent in the field of domestic missions. Life of J. H. Hawkins, his father, a noted temperance reformer; Lunsford Lane; History of the New York Freedmen’s Association.
Hawks, Francis Lister. N. C., 1798-1866. A once noted Episcopal clergyman, rector of churches in New York, New Orleans, and Baltimore. History of North Carolina; Reports of Cases in North Carolina Supreme Court; History of the Episcopal Church in Virginia and Maryland; The Romance of Biography; Cyclopædia of Biography; Egypt and its Monuments; Documentary History of the Episcopal Church.
Hawley, Bostwick. N. Y., 1814- ——. A Methodist clergyman of New York State. Close Communion; Manual of Methodism; The Shield of Faith; Dancing as an Amusement; The Lenten Season; Methodist Episcopacy Valid, include his chief works. Meth.
Hawley, Charles. N. Y., 1819-1885. A Presbyterian clergyman of Auburn, New York. Early Chapters of Cayuga History; Sanitary Reforms; Memorial Discourses; Early Chapters of Seneca History.
Hawthorne, Julian. Ms., 1846- ——. Son of N. Hawthorne, infra. A novelist who has inherited much of his father’s originality, but whose work is often careless and hasty in construction and of ephemeral interest only. Bressant; Garth; Dust; Idolatry; Fortune’s Fool; Beatrix Randolph; Saxon Studies; Archibald Malmaison; Sebastian Strome; Noble Blood; Love, or a Name; Mrs. Gainsborough’s Diamonds; David Poindexter’s Disappearance, and Other Tales; A Dream and a Forgetting; Confessions and Criticisms; Constance; Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife; American Literature; The Trial of Gideon; Prince Saroni’s Wife; Love is a Spirit. Ap. Fu. He. Hou.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Ms., 1804-1864. A celebrated romancer, born at Salem, Massachusetts. From 1838 to 1841 he held a position in the Boston custom-house, was next a member of the Brook Farm Association, and after 1843 a resident at Concord, Massachusetts, from time to time until his death, though within that period he was surveyor of the port of Salem, 1846-50, and from 1853 to 1857 consul at Liverpool. Fanshawe; Twice-Told Tales; Grandfather’s Chair; Mosses from an Old Manse; Famous Old People; Liberty Tree; Biographical Stories for Children; The Scarlet Letter; True Stories; The House of the Seven Gables; A Wonder-Book; The Snow Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales; The Blithedale Romance; Tanglewood Tales; The Marble Faun, known in England as Transformation; Our Old Home; Passages from American Note-Books; English Note-Books; French and Italian Note-Books; Septimius Felton; The Dolliver Romance; Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret. See North American Review, July, 1837, July, 1850, January, 1852; Blackwood’s Magazine, November, 1863; Atlantic Monthly, May, 1860; Lathrop’s Study of Hawthorne; James’s Hawthorne; Hawthorne Index; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Personal Recollections of, by H. N. Bridge; Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, by J. Hawthorne; Some Memories of Hawthorne, by Mrs. R. H. Lathrop; Appleton’s American Biography; Nichol’s American Literature; Richardson’s American Literature. Hou.
Hawthorne, Mrs. Sophia [Peabody]. Ms., 1810-1871. Wife of N. Hawthorne, supra, sister of Elizabeth Peabody, infra. Her only publication was Notes in England and Italy. Hou.
Hay, John. Ind., 1838- ——. A writer who was Lincoln’s private secretary, adjutant, and aide-de-camp during the Civil War, and also served under Generals Hunter and Gillmore as major and assistant adjutant-general, being brevetted colonel. He was subsequently in the diplomatic service. Life of Abraham Lincoln (with J. G. Nicolay, infra); Pike County Ballads, and Other Poems; Castilian Days, a volume of travels. Of his dialect poems, Jim Bludso and Little Breeches are the best known. Cent. Hou.
Hayden, Ferdinand Vanderveer. Ms., 1827-1880. A professor of geology in the University of Pennsylvania. Origin and Progress of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories; The Yellowstone National Park.
Hayden, Horace H——. Ct., 1769-1844. A once noted Baltimore dentist who published Geological Essays.
Hayden, William Benjamin. N. Y., 1816-1893. A Swedenborgian clergyman. Science and Revelation; Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism; The Apocalyptic Dispensation; Light on the Last Things; Dangers of Modern Spiritualism, include the greater portion of his work. See Selected Essays and Memorials of his Life, 1894. Lip.
Hayes, Augustus Allen. 1837-1892. A novelist of Brookline, Massachusetts. New Colorado and the Santa Fé Trail; The Jesuit’s Ring, a Romance; The Denver Express. Har. Scr.
Hayes, Henry. See Kirk, Mrs. Ellen.
Hayes, Isaac Israel. Pa., 1832-1881. An Arctic explorer whose first voyage was made with Dr. Kane, infra. The Open Polar Sea; An Arctic Boat Journey; Cast Away in the Cold; The Land of Desolation; Pictures of Arctic Travel. Har. Hou. Le.
Haygood, Atticus Green. Ga., 1839-1896. A Methodist clergyman of much prominence in the South. The Monk and the Prince, a Critical Study of Savonarola and Lorenzo de’ Medici; Our Keep-Sake; Our Children; Our Brother in Black; Speeches and Sermons; Jack-knife and Brambles, a discussion of the authorship and meaning of the books of the Bible; Pleas for Progress; The Man of Galilee. Meth.
Hayne, Paul Hamilton. S. C., 1830-1886. A lyric poet whose verse has much melody. He served as a colonel in the Confederate army, and at the close of the Civil War, broken in health and fortunes, retired to the small village of Grovetown, Georgia, where the rest of his life was passed. Avolio; The Mountain of the Lovers; Legends and Lyrics; Sonnets and Other Poems; Lives of Robert Hayne and Hugh Legare, infra. A complete edition of his Poems appeared in 1883. Lip. Lo.
Hayne, William Hamilton. S. C., 1856- ——. Son of Paul Hayne, supra, and a popular lyrist of the South. Sylvan Lyrics. Sto.
Haynes, Emory Judson. Vt., 1846- ——. A Methodist clergyman of Boston and elsewhere. Are These Things So?; Fairest of Three, a Tale of American Life; Dollars and Duties; A Farmhouse Cobweb, a Vermont novel. Har.
Hays, George Peirce. Pa., 1838- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Kansas City. Everyday Reasoning; The Honest Book; May Women Speak?; Presbyterians.
Hays, William Shakespeare. Ky., 1837- ——. A popular ballad and song composer of Louisville. Mollie Darling is one of his best known songs. He has published a volume of Poems and Songs.
Hayward, Edward Farwell. Ms., 1851- ——. A Unitarian clergyman for some years pastor of a church in Boston. Willoughby; Patrice; Ecce Spiritus.
Hayward, George. Ms., 1781-1862. A Boston writer who published View of the United States; Religious Creeds of the United States; Book of Religions, and several gazetteers.
Hayward, George. Ms., 1791-1863. A Boston physician of note. Outlines of Physiology; Surgical Records.
Haywood, John. N. C., 1753-1826. A jurist of Tennessee. Manual of Laws of North Carolina; Haywood’s Justice; Tennessee Reports; History of Tennessee; Statute Laws of Tennessee (with R. L. Cutts).
Hazard, Caroline. R. I., 1856- ——. Granddaughter of R. G. Hazard, infra. Narragansett Ballads; Thomas Hazard, a Study of Life in Narragansett in the XVIIIth Century; Memoirs of J. L. Diman, supra. She has edited, with introductions, the works of R. G. Hazard.
Hazard, Ebenezer. Pa., 1744-1817. A Philadelphia writer who was postmaster-general, 1782-89. Historical Collections, the beginnings of a United States history; Remarks on a Report Concerning the Western Indians.
Hazard, Rowland Gibson. R. I., 1801-1888. A woolen manufacturer of Peace Dale, Rhode Island. Essays on Finance; Resources of the United States; Essay on Language, and Other Essays and Addresses; Freedom of Mind in Willing; Causation and Freedom in Willing; Man a Creative First Cause. See Works, in four volumes, edited by C. Hazard. Hou.
Hazard, Samuel. Pa., 1784-1870. Son of E. Hazard, supra. An archæologist of Philadelphia. Annals of Pennsylvania, 1609-82; Register of Pennsylvania, 1828-36; Pennsylvania Archives, 1682-1790; United States Commercial and Statistical Register.
Hazard, Samuel. Pa., 1834-1876. Son of S. Hazard, supra. An officer in the United States army. Santo Domingo Past and Present; Cuba with Pen and Pencil. Har.
Hazard, Thomas Robinson. R. I., 1784-1876. Brother of R. G. Hazard, supra, and like him a manufacturer at Peace Dale. He was an ardent Spiritualist, and wrote much in defence of his beliefs. Facts for the Laboring Man; The Ordeal of Life; Capital Punishment; Mediums and Mediumship; Recollections of Olden Time.
Hazard, Willis Pope. Al., 1825- ——. Son of S. Hazard, supra. A retired bookseller of Westchester, Pennsylvania. The Art of Pleasing, a work on etiquette; The Jersey, Alderney, and Guernsey Cow; Butter and Butter-making; Annals of Philadelphia, a continuation of Watson’s Annals. Co.
Hazelius, Ernest Lewis. P., 1777-1853. A Lutheran clergyman who was professor in a South Carolina theological seminary. Life of Luther; Church History; History of the Lutheran Church in America.
Hazeltine, Mayo Williamson. Ms., 1841- ——. A New York journalist, since 1878 the literary editor of the New York Sun. Chats About Books; British and American Education; The American Woman in Europe. Scr.
Hazen, William Babcock. Vt., 1830-1887. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War, and from 1880 chief officer of the Signal Service. The School and the Army in Germany and France; Barren Lands in the Interior of the United States; A Narrative of Military Service. Clke. Har. Hou.
Head, Franklin H. N. Y., 1835- ——. A Chicago Writer who has published Shakespeare’s Insomnia and the Causes thereof, an ingenious burlesque. Hou.
Headley, Joel Tyler. N. Y., 1813-1897. An historical writer of Newburg, New York, whose work is usually strongly partisan in character, though nearly always as entertaining as it is undiscriminating. Napoleon and his Marshals; The Old Guard of Napoleon; Life of Oliver Cromwell; The Great Rebellion; Sacred Scenes and Characters; Washington and his Generals; Life of Washington; Grant and Sherman; Life of General Grant; Life of Havelock; Achievements of Stanley and Other Explorers; The Adirondacks, or Life in the Woods; Farragut and Our Naval Commanders; Chaplains of the Revolution; Sacred Heroes and Martyrs; Letters from Italy and the Alps; The Second War with England. Scr.
Headley, Phineas Camp. N. Y., 1819-1903. Cousin of J. T. Headley, supra. A Congregational clergyman. Women of the Bible; The Island of Fire; Young Folks’ Heroes of the Rebellion; Lives of Josephine, Lafayette, Napoleon, Mary Queen of Scots; Half-Hours in Bible Lands; Evangelists in the Church. Le.
Heap, David Porter. Ty., 1843- ——. A major of engineers in government service. History of Application of Electric Light to the Courts of France; Ancient and Modern Lights; Electrical Appliances of the Present Day (1884).
Heap, Gwynn Harris. Pa., 1817-1887. A diplomatist who was consul-general at Constantinople from 1878. He published Central Route to the Pacific.
Heard, Franklin Fiske. Ms., 1825-1889. A Boston lawyer who was a high authority on pleading. Criminal Law; Criminal Pleading; Civil Pleading; Shakespeare as a Lawyer; Libel and Slander; Leading Cases in Criminal Law (with E. H. Bennett, supra); Curiosities of the Law Reporters; Oddities of the Law; Precedents of Equity Pleadings; Precedents of Pleadings in Special Actions. Lit.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Ion., 1850-1904. A writer of Irish and Greek parentage long a resident of New Orleans, later of New York city, and more recently of Japan. Stray Leaves from Strange Literature; Some Chinese Ghosts; Chita; Two Years in the French West Indies; Youma, the Story of a West Indian Slave; Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan; Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan; Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. Har. Hou.
Hebbard, Stephen Southwick. 1841- ——. A Universalist clergyman. The Secret of Christianity; History of Wisconsin under the Dominion of France. See Bibliography of Wisconsin.
Hecker, Isaac Thomas. N. Y., 1819-1888. A Roman Catholic clergyman who in early life was one of the noted Brook Farm community. Becoming a Roman Catholic he founded the Order of the Paulists in 1858. In 1865 he established The Catholic World, of which he remained the editor till his death. Questions of the Soul; Aspirations of Nature; Catholicity in the United States; Catholics and Protestants agreeing on the School Question; The Church and the Age.
Heckewelder [hĕk´e-wel-der], John Gottlieb Ernest. E., 1743-1823. A Moravian missionary who made extended studies of Indian customs. His views were vehemently attacked by Lewis Cass, and stoutly defended by Nathan Hale. History, etc., of the Pennsylvania Indians; Mission of the United Brethren among the Delawares; Names which the Delawares Gave to Rivers and Streams, etc., with their Signification. See Life by E. Rondthaler, 1847; Bibliography of Ohio.
Hedge, Frederic Henry. Ms., 1805-1890. Son of L. Hedge, infra. A Unitarian clergyman, professor of German language and literature at Harvard University, 1872-81. Reason in Religion; The Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition; A Christian Liturgy; Prose Writers of Germany; Ways of the Spirit and Other Essays; Atheism in Philosophy; Sermons; Hours with German Classics; Martin Luther and Other Essays; Metrical Translations and Poems (with Mrs. A. L. Wister, infra). Co. Hou. Rob.
Hedge, Levi. Ms., 1767-1843. An educator of Massachusetts, professor of logic in Harvard University, 1810-27, and author of A System of Logic.
Heilprin, Angelo. Hy., 1853- ——. Son of M. Heilprin, infra. A Philadelphia naturalist and artist, professor of geology at Wagner Free Institute from 1885. Contributions to the Tertiary Geology and Palæontology of the United States; Town Geology, the Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks; Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals; Explorations on the West Coast of Florida; Animal Life of Our Seashore; Geological Evidences of Evolution; The Arctic Problem. Ap. Lip.
Heilprin, Louis. Hy., 1851- ——. Son of M. Heilprin, infra. A writer of New York city. The Story of Hungary (with A. Vambéry); Historical Reference Book; Chronological Table of Universal History. Ap. Put.
Heilprin, Michael. Po., 1823-1888. A Polish refugee and scholar who supported Kossuth in Hungary in 1848, and came to the United States in 1850. He published Historical Poetry of the Hebrews Critically Examined. Ap.
Heitzman, Charles. Hy., 1836- ——. A physician who came to New York city from Vienna in 1874, and is of prominence as a dermatologist. Chirurgische Pathologie und Therapie; Descriptive and Topographical Anatomy of Man; Microscopic Morphology of the Animal Body.
Helmuth, Justus Christian Henry. G., 1745-1825. A Lutheran clergyman who came to America in 1769, and was pastor of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, 1779-1820, and for eighteen years professor of languages in the University of Pennsylvania. Taufe und heilige Schrift; Unterhalten mit Gott; Geistliche Lieder; and several works for children.
Helmuth, William Tod. Pa., 1833-1902. A surgeon of New York city. Treatise on Diphtheria; Medical Pomposity; System of Surgery; Scratches of a Surgeon; Suprapubic Lithotomy; With the “Pousse Café,” postprandial verses.
Helper, Hinton Rowan. N. C., 1829- ——. A Southern writer long resident in New York city. The Impending Crisis of the South, a once famous work, which appeared shortly before the opening of the Civil War; Nojoque; The Negroes in Negroland; The Land of Gold; Oddments of Andean Diplomacy; The Three Americas Railway.
Hempel, Charles Julius. P., 1811-1879. A physician of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who came to America from Prussia in 1835. Christendom and Civilization; System of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; The Science of Homœopathy; Homœopathic Theory and Practice in Surgical Diseases (with J. Beakley); True Organization of the New Church; Life of Christ (in German); several important translations from the German.
Henck, John Benjamin. Pa., 1816- ——. A professor of engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1865-81, and the author of a Field Book for Railway Engineers.
Henderson, Ernest Flagg. N. Y., 1861- ——. An instructor in Wellesley College. A History of Germany in the Middle Ages; Historical Documents of the Middle Ages (edited); collaborator in Larned’s History for Ready Reference. Mac.
Henderson, Isaac. N. Y., 1850- ——. A New York city journalist, 1872-81, who has since lived abroad. The Prelate; Agatha Page. The second of these two novels has been dramatized. Hou.
Henderson, Mrs. Mary [Foote]. N. Y., 1842- ——. A writer of St. Louis who organized the Industrial Art School in that city. Practical Cooking and Dinner-Giving; Diet for the Sick. Har.
Henderson, Peter. S., 1823-1890. A noted seedsman of New York city. Gardening for Profit; Practical Floriculture; Gardening for Pleasure; Handbook of Plants; How the Farm Pays; Garden and Farm Topics. Ju.
Henderson, William James. N. J., 1855- ——. A journalist on the staff of the New York Times. The Story of Music; Preludes and Studies; Sea Yarns for Boys; Afloat with the Flag; Elements of Navigation. Har.
Hendrix, Eugene Russell. Mo., 1847- ——. A bishop of the Methodist Church South, whose official residence is at Kansas City. He has written Around the World.
Hening, William Waller. 17— -1828. A legal writer of Virginia. The American Pleader and Lawyer’s Guide; The New Virginia Justice; The Statutes of Virginia, 1691-1792; Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia and in the Supreme Court of Chancery for Richmond District (with W. Munford, infra).
Henkle, Moses Montgomery. Va., 1798-1864. A Methodist clergyman of Baltimore and elsewhere. Masonic Addresses; Primary Platform of Methodism; Analysis of Church Government; Life of Bishop Bascom; Primitive Episcopacy.
Hennequin [en´-căn], Alfred. F., 1846- ——. A dramatist and educator who beside several Anglo-French text-books has published The Art of Playwriting. Hou.
Henningsen, Charles Frederick. E., 1815-1877. A soldier of Swedish descent and English birth who served with the Carlists in Spain in 1834, and subsequently joined Kossuth in Hungary. He came to America in 1856, was with Walker in Nicaragua, entered the Confederate army in 1861, and became a general. The Last of the Sophis, a Poem; Twelve Months’ Campaign with Zumalacarregui; The White Slave, a novel; Eastern Europe; Sixty Years Hence, a novel of Russian life; Scenes from the Belgian Revolution; Analogies and Contrasts; Personal Recollections of Nicaragua; The Past and Future of Hungary.
Henry, Alexander. N. J., 1739-1824. A once noted traveller in northwest America who published Travels and Adventures in Canada between 1760-76.
Henry, Caleb Sprague. Ms., 1804-1884. An Episcopal clergyman of New York and Connecticut who held professorships in several colleges, and was at one time a journalist in New York city. Moral and Philosophical Essays; Satan as a Moral Philosopher; About Men and Things; Dr. Oldham at Greystones and his Talk There; Social Welfare and Human Progress; Household Liturgy; The Endless Future of the Human Race; Epitome of the History of Philosophy. He was the translator of Guizot’s History of Civilization and other works. Ap. Har.
Henry, Guy Vernor. N. J., 1839-1899. Son of W. S. Henry, infra. An officer in the United States army who served during the Civil War, and in Indian wars subsequently. Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army; Army Catechism for Non-Commissioned Officers; Manual of Target Practice.
Henry, James. Pa., 1809-1895. A rifle manufacturer of Boulton, Pennsylvania, who was president of the Moravian Historical Society, and published Sketches of Moravian Life and Character.
Henry, John Flournoy. Ky., 1793-1873. A physician of Burlington, Iowa, who published a Treatise on Causes and Treatment of Cholera.
Henry, John Joseph. Pa., 1758-1811. A jurist of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was author of the Accurate and Interesting Account of Arnold’s Campaign Against Quebec.
Henry, Joseph. N. Y., 1797-1878. A scientist of eminence who was director of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846 till his death. Syllabus of Lectures on Physics; Scientific Writings of Joseph Henry, 1886. See Memorial, 1880; Appleton’s American Biography.
Henry, Patrick. Va., 1736-1799. A celebrated Virginia patriot and orator known to literature by his speeches. See Lives by William Wirt, H. H. Everett, M. C. Tyler, W. W. Henry; Appleton’s American Biography.
Henry, Mrs. Sarepta Myrenda [Irish]. Pa., 1839-1901. Temperance reformer of Evanston, Illinois. Victoria, with Other Poems; After the Truth; The Voice of the Home; Mabel’s Work; Beforehand; One More Chance.
Henry, Thomas Chalmers. Pa., 1790-1827. A Presbyterian clergyman of South Carolina. Consistency of Popular Amusements for Professing Christians; Moral Etchings from the Religious World; Letters from an Anxious Believer. See Memoir by T. Lewis, 1829; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Henry, William Seaton. N. Y., 1816-1851. An officer in the United States army who published Campaign Sketches of the War with Mexico.
Henry, William Wirt. Va., 1831-1900. A Virginia lawyer and historical writer who published Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Patrick Henry.
Hensel, William Uhler. Pa., 1851- ——. A politician and journalist of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, author of Lives of T. A. Hendricks and Grover Cleveland.
Henshaw, David. Ms., 1791-1852. A politician who was secretary of the navy in 1843, and wrote Letters on the Internal Improvement and Commerce of the West.
Henshaw, John Prentiss Kewley. Ct., 1792-1852. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island. Theology for the People; Lessons in Elocution; On Confirmation; The Work of Christ’s Living Body, are his principal works.
Henshaw, Joshua Sidney. Ms., 1811-1859. A lawyer in Utica from 1848, but previously an instructor in the United States navy. Incitements to Well Doing; Life of Father Mathew; United States Manual for Consuls; Around the World (1840); Philosophy of Human Progress.
Hentz, Mrs. Caroline Lee [Whiting]. Ms., 1800-1856. Wife of N. M. Hentz, infra. A popular Southern writer of many sensational romances of ephemeral interest. Among them are, Lovell’s Folly; Rena; The Planter’s Northern Bride; Linda. Pet.
Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus. F., 1797-1856. A French educator well known as an entomologist. He came to America in 1816, and taught in the University of North Carolina and elsewhere in the South.
Hepburn, James Curtis. Pa., 1815- ——. A missionary to Japan of note as a lexicographer. A Japanese and English Dictionary; A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary, an abridgment of the earlier work.
Hepworth, George Hughes. Ms., 1833-1902. A New York journalist since 1887 on the editorial staff of the Herald. From 1855-72 he was a Unitarian clergyman, but subsequently entered the Presbyterian ministry. Rocks and Shoals; Brown Studies; Hiram Golf’s Religion; The Life Beyond; They Met in Heaven; Herald Sermons; Starboard and Port, a summer’s yacht cruise; a book entitled !!!. Dut. Har.
Herbermann, Charles George. Wa., 1840- ——. A professor of Latin in the College of the City of New York from 1869, author of Business Life in Ancient Rome. Har.
Herbert, Henry William. “Frank Forester.” E., 1807-1858. A versatile, gifted writer who came to America in 1831, and lived near Newark, New Jersey. His writings in historical fiction include Cromwell; Marmaduke Nyvil; The Puritans of New England, issued later as The Puritan’s Daughter; The Fronde; Sherwood Forest. In history: Captains of the Old World; Cavaliers of England; Knights of England; Chevaliers of France; Persons and Pictures from French and English History; Captains of the Great Roman Republic; Henry VIII. and his Six Wives. As “Frank Forester” he published Field Sports of the United States and British Provinces; Fish and Fisheries of the United States; Frank Forester and his Friends; Warwick Woodlands; My Shooting Box; The Deer Stalkers; Manual for Young Sportsmen; Horse and Horsemanship; Fugitive Sporting Sketches. He also made a number of translations from the French, while a collection of his Poems, edited by M. Herbert, appeared in 1888. See Life by T. Picton, 1881; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appleton’s American Biography. Co. Lip.
Hering, Constantin. Sxy., 1800-1880. A German physician who came to Philadelphia in 1833 and founded there the first homœopathic school in America. Among his writings are, Rise and Progress of Homœopathy; Condensed Materia Medica; Effects of Snake Poison; American Drug Provings; Domestic Physician. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Hering, Rudolph. Pa., 1847- ——. A civil engineer of prominence and an authority upon sewerage and the water supply of cities, upon which topics he has written valuable reports.
Herndon, Mrs. Mary. See Chiles, Mrs.
Herndon, William Henry. Ky., 1818-1891. A lawyer of Springfield, Illinois, and a law partner of Abraham Lincoln, of whom he published a Life in 1891.
Herndon, William Lewis. Va., 1813-1857. A naval officer sent by government to explore the Amazon. The results of his expedition are detailed in his Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon (1853). His daughter became the wife of President Arthur.
Herrick, Mrs. Christine [Terhune]. N. J., 1859- ——. Daughter of Mrs. Mary Terhune, infra. A writer of New York city who has written much upon housekeeping themes. Housekeeping Made Easy; The Chafing-Dish Supper; The Little Dinner; What to Eat, how to Serve It; Cradle and Nursery; Liberal Living upon Narrow Means. Har. Hou. Scr.
Herrick, John Russell. Vt., 1822- ——. A Congregational clergyman, president of Dakota University since 1883, and the author of Lectures on Positivism.
Herrick, Samuel Edward. L. I., 1841-1904. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. Some Heretics of Yesterday. Hou.
Herrick, Mrs. Sophia McIlvaine [Bledsoe]. O., 1837- ——. Daughter of A. T. Bledsoe, supra. A New York writer on The Century staff, and well known as a microscopist. Wonders of Plant Life; Chapters in Plant Life; The Earth in Past Ages. Har. Put.
Herron, George Davis. Ind., 1862- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Iowa, since 1893 professor of applied Christianity in Iowa College, very prominent as a writer and lecturer upon Christian Socialism. The Christian Society; The Call of the Cross; The Larger Christ; The Message of Jesus to Men of Wealth; The Christian State; Social Meanings of Religious Experiences. See The Arena, April, 1896. Ar. Cr. Rev.
Hewett, Edwin Crawford. Ms., 1828- ——. An educator of Illinois, president of the State Normal University from 1876, and author of Pedagogy for Young Teachers.
Hewett, Waterman Thomas. Mo., 1846- ——. An educator who has held the chair of German literature at Cornell University from 1883. The Frisian Language and Literature; Aims and Efforts of Collegiate Study of Modern Languages; Mutual Relations of High Schools and Colleges.
Hewit, Nathaniel Augustus. Ct., 1820-1897. A Roman Catholic clergyman who, previous to 1846, was successively a Congregational and Episcopal clergyman. In 1858 he entered the Paulist order, taking the name of Augustine Francis, and since 1865 has been a professor in the Paulist Seminary. Reasons for Submitting to the Catholic Church; Life of Princess Borghese; Life of a Modern Martyr,—Dumoulin-Borie; Problems of the Age; The King’s Highway; Light in Darkness.
Hewitt, Mrs. Emma [Churchman]. La., 1850- ——. A writer of Philadelphia. Ease in Conversation; Hints to Ballad Singers; Queens of Home, a book for the household.
Hewitt, John Hill. N. Y., 1801-1890. A Baltimore author, once a rival of Poe. He wrote many ballads, among which is The Minstrel’s Return from the War; The Governess, a comedy; Washington, a play; Shadows on the Wall, a collection of reminiscences.
Hewitt, Mrs. Mary. See Stebbins, Mrs.
Hibbard, Freeborn Garretson. N. Y., 1811-1895. A Methodist clergyman of western New York. Christian Baptism; Geography and History of Palestine; The Religion of Childhood; Life of L. L. Hamline, supra; Eschatology; Commentary on the Psalms. Meth.
Hibbard, George Abiah. N. Y., 1858- ——. A Buffalo writer of short stories, notable for excellence of workmanship. Iduna, and Other Stories; Nowadays, and Other Stories; The Governor, and Other Stories. See The Book-Buyer, August, 1895. Har. Scr.
Hickok [hĭk´ŏk], Laurens Perseus. Ct., 1798-1888. A Congregational clergyman who held several college professorships, and was president of Union College, 1866-68. He subsequently lived at Amherst. Logic of Reason; Moral Science; Empirical Psychology; Rational Psychology; Rational Cosmology; Creator and Creation; Humanity Immortal. Gi.
Hickox, John Howard. N. Y., 1832-1897. The State librarian of New York, 1848-63, and subsequently employed in the Congressional Library. Historical Account of American Coinage; History of New York Paper Money, 1709-89; Catalogue of United States Government Publications.
Hicks, Elias. L. I., 1748-1830. A famous Quaker controversialist, and founder of the sect known as Hicksite Quakers. He was an early and very active opponent of slavery. Observations on Slavery; Journal of Life and Religious Labours of Elias Hicks; Doctrinal Epistle. See Letters of; History of the Friends, by S. Janney, infra.
Higginson, Mrs. Ella [Rhoads]. Kan., 1862- ——. A druggist of New Whatcom, Washington, who has written much verse of a popular character, and The Flower that Grew in the Sand, and Other Stories.
Higginson, Francis. E., 1588-1630. A Puritan clergyman of Salem who emigrated to America in 1629. True Relation of the Last Voyage to New England; New England’s Plantation. See Life, by T. W. Higginson, infra; Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Higginson, John. E., 1616-1708. Son of F. Higginson, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Salem, from 1659 till his death in charge of the church founded by his father, and widely popular in New England. The Cause of God and His People in New England; Attestation to Cotton Mather’s Magnalia. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Higginson, Mrs. Mary Potter [Thacher]. Me., 1844- ——. Wife of T. W. Higginson, infra. Seashore and Prairie, stories and sketches.
Higginson, Mrs. Sarah Jane [Hatfield]. Pa., 1840- ——. A writer of New York city. A Princess of Java, a tale of the Far East; Java: the Pearl of the East; The Bedouin Girl. Hou.
Higginson, Stephen. Ms., 1743-1828. A descendant of J. Higginson, supra. A merchant of Boston of note in his day as a political writer. Essays by Laco, reprinted as Ten Chapters in the Life of John Hancock; Defence of Jay’s Treaty.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Ms., 1823- ——. Grandson of S. Higginson, supra. An essayist and littérateur of Cambridge. In early life he was a Unitarian clergyman of a radical type, and prominent among anti-slavery thinkers. During the Civil War he commanded a regiment of freedmen. He has since been particularly active as an advocate of suffrage for women. His writings include, The Birthday in Fairy Land; Woman and her Wishes; Out-Door Papers; a translation of Epictetus; Malbone, a romance; Army Life in a Black Regiment; Atlantic Essays; Sympathy of Religions; Oldport Days; Young Folks’ History of the United States; Young Folks’ Book of American Explorers; Short Studies of American Authors; Common Sense about Women; Life of Margaret Fuller; Larger History of the United States; Travellers and Outlaws; Women and Men; The Afternoon Landscape, a collection of poems; Life of Francis Higginson; The New World and the New Book; Concerning All of Us; Such as They Are; The Monarch of Dreams; Hints on Writing and Speech-Making; Cheerful Yesterdays; English History for Americans (with E. Channing, supra); Book and Heart. Do. Har. Hou. Le. Lgs.
Hildeburn, Charles Swift Riché. Pa., 1855-1901. The librarian of the Philadelphia Athenæum from 1876. A Century of Printing, or the Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784; Printers and Printing in Colonial New York. Do.
Hildeburn, Mrs. Mary Jane [Reed]. Pa., 1821-1882. A Philadelphia writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, Day Dreams; Archy and Pussy Series; Dr. Leslie’s Boys; Gaffney’s Tavern.
Hildreth, Charles Lotin. N. Y., 1856-1896. A journalist of New York city. Judith, a novel; The New Symphony, and Other Stories; The Masque of Death, and Other Poems.
Hildreth, Ezekiel. Ms., 1784-1856. An educator of Ohio and Virginia. Logopolis, a grammatical treatise; A Key to Knowledge.
Hildreth, Richard. Ms., 1807-1865. A Boston journalist and historian who was consul at Trieste in his latest years. Archy Moore, an anti-slavery novel; History of Banks; Theory of Politics; Despotism in America; Japan as it Was and Is; History of the United States from the Discovery of the Continent to the Close of the 16th Congress in 1820, a work which has few charms of style, though its general merit is unquestioned. Har.
Hildreth, Samuel Prescott. Ms., 1783-1863. A physician once prominent in Marietta, Ohio, where he settled in 1806. History of the Diseases and Climate of Southeastern Ohio; Lives of the Early Settlers of Ohio; Contributions to the Early History of the North-West; Meteorological Observations (with J. Wood); Pioneer History of the Ohio Valley (1848); Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio. See Bibliography of Ohio. Meth.
Hilgard, Eugene Waldemar. Bv., 1831- ——. A professor of agricultural chemistry at the University of California from 1875. Geology and Agriculture of Mississippi; Geology of Lower Louisiana; Cotton Production in the United States; Climatic Features, etc., of the Arid Regions of the Pacific Slope (with T. C. Jones).
Hilgard, Julius Erasmus. Bv., 1825-1891. Brother of E. W. Hilgard, supra. A civil engineer of note who was superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, 1881-85, who published many valuable professional papers.
Hill, Adams Sherman. Ms., 1833- ——. The Boylston professor of rhetoric at Harvard University from 1876. Our English; The Principles of Rhetoric; The Foundation of Rhetoric. Har.
Hill, Mrs. Agnes Leonard [Scanland]. “Mollie Myrtle.” Ky., 1842- ——. Myrtle Blossoms; Vanquished, a novel; Heights and Depths.
Hill, Benjamin Dionysius. E., 1842- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator, for some time at Notre Dame University, who has published Poems Devotional and Occasional.
Hill, Benjamin Harvey. Ga., 1823-1882. A noted Georgia statesman. Notes on the Situation (1867-68); Address to the People of Georgia.
Hill, Britton Armstrong. N. J., c. 1818- ——. A prominent lawyer of St. Louis. Liberty and Law under Federative Government; Absolute Money; Specie Resumption and National Bankruptcy Identical.
Hill, Daniel Harvey. S. C., 1821-1889. A noted mathematician who held professorships in several Southern colleges before and since the Civil War, but during that conflict was a general in the Confederate army. Elements of Algebra; Consideration of the Sermon on the Mount; The Crucifixion of Christ.
Hill, David Jayne. N. J., 1850- ——. An educator of note, president of the Lewisburg University, Pennsylvania, from 1879, and subsequently of the University of Rochester, New York. Science of Rhetoric; Elements of Rhetoric; Life of Washington Irving; Life of Bryant; Principles and Fallacies of Socialism; Social Influences of Christianity; The Elements of Psychology; Genetic Philosophy.
Hill, Edward Judson. N. Y., 183- - ——. A lawyer of Chicago. Common Law Jurisdiction in Illinois; Chancery Jurisdiction in Illinois; Probate Jurisdiction in Illinois; Municipal Offices in Illinois.
Hill, Frederic Stanhope. Ms., 1829- ——. A journalist of Cambridge. Twenty Years at Sea, or Leaves from my Old Log-Books; Historical Continuity of the Anglican Church. Hou.
Hill, George. Ct., 1796-1871. A verse-writer who held several government clerkships, and after 1835 lived at Guilford, his native town. Ruins of Athens, and Other Poems; Titania’s Banquet, and Other Poems. See Griswold’s Poets of America.
Hill, George Canning. Ct., 1825-1898. Lives of Captain John Smith, Israel Putnam, Benedict Arnold, Daniel Boone; Homespun, or Five and Twenty Years Ago; Our Parish, or Pen Paintings of Village Life.
Hill, Hamilton Andrews. E., 1827-1895. A Boston writer who published History of the Old South Church, Boston, 1669-1884; Memoir of Abbott Lawrence. Hou. Lit.
Hill, Henry Barker. Ms., 1849-1903. Son of T. Hill, infra. A professor of chemistry at Harvard University from 1879, and author of Notes on Qualitative Analysis. Put.
Hill, Theophilus Hunter. N. C., 1836-1901. A lawyer of Raleigh, North Carolina. Hesper, and Other Poems, the first book copyrighted by the Confederate government; Passion Flower, and Other Poems.
Hill, Thomas. N. J., 1818-1891. A Unitarian clergyman and educator and a mathematician of eminence. He was president of Harvard University, 1862-1868, and held pastorates at Waltham, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine. He invented several mathematical instruments, one of which is the occultator. The Postulates of Religion and Ethics; The Stars and the Earth; The True Order of Studies; Geometry and Faith; Curvature; Jesus the Interpreter of Nature; Christmas, and Poems on Slavery; The Natural Sources of Theology; In the Woods and Elsewhere, containing notable experiments in classic metres; and several text-books on arithmetic and geometry. See Bibliography of Maine. El. Le. Put.
Hill, Walter Henry. Ky., 1822- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator of Chicago, a professor in St. Louis University, 1864-65 and 1871-1884. Elements of Philosophy; Ethics, or Moral Philosophy; Historical Sketch of St. Louis University.
Hillard, George Stillman. Me., 1808-1879. A lawyer of Boston. Life of General McClellan; Life of George Ticknor (with Mrs. Ticknor); Six Months in Italy. He also published a series of school readers and an edition of Spenser. Hou.
Hillhouse, James Abram. Ct., 1789-1841. A dramatic poet of New Haven. His ambitious, heavy dramas, Percy’s Masque, Hadad, Demetria, were once extravagantly praised, but have long been hopelessly dead. Dramas, Discourses, and Other Pieces, appeared in 1839. See North American Review, January, 1840.
Hilliard [hil´yärd], Francis. Ms., 1808-1878. A jurist of Boston. The Law of Taxation; The Law of Vendors and Purchasers; The Law of Mortgages; The Law of Torts; Law of Injunctions; Law of New Trials; Law of Contracts; Law of Bankruptcy; American Jurisprudence; American Law, a Comprehensive Summary. Lip.
Hilliard, Henry Washington. N. C., 1808-1892. A lawyer and congressman of Alabama. In 1841 he was chargé d’affaires to Belgium. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate army, and subsequently practiced law in Atlanta, serving as minister to Brazil, 1877-81. Speeches and Addresses; De Vane, a Story of Plebeians and Patricians; Politics and Pen Pictures. Har.
Hills, George Morgan. N. Y., 1825-1890. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of St. Mary’s Church, Burlington, New Jersey, 1870-90. History of the Church in Burlington; John Talbot, the First Bishop in North America; Church of England Missions in New Jersey; Transfer of the Church from Colonial Dependence to the Freedom of the Republic.
Hinkel, Charles John. E., 1817-1894. A German educator who came to America in 1855, and was professor of Greek and Latin at Vassar College, 1869-90. Die Speculative Analysis des Begriffs Geist; Leitfaden bei dem Unterreicht in der deutschen Grammatik; Allegemeine Aesthetik für gebildete Leser.
Hinman, Royal Ralph. Ct., 1785-1868. A lawyer and antiquarian of New Hampshire, and subsequently of New York city. Historical Recollections of Connecticut in the American Revolution; Catalogue of the First Puritan Settlers of Connecticut.
Hinrichs, Carl Detlef. Dk., 1836- ——. A Danish educator who came to America in 1860, and was professor of physical sciences in Iowa University, 1863-85. Elements of Physics; Elements of Atom Mechanics; Principles of Pure Crystallography; Principles of Physical Sciences; First Course in Qualitative Analysis.
Hinsdale, Burke Aaron. O., 1837-1900. An Ohio educator, president of Hiram College, 1870-82, and for four years subsequently superintendent of schools in Cleveland. Genuineness and Authenticity of the Gospels; President Garfield and Education; Schools and Studies; The Old Northwest; How to Study and Teach History; editor Life and Works of Garfield. Ap. Hou. Sil.
Hinton, Isaac Taylor. E., 1799-1847. A Baptist clergyman who came to America from England in 1822, and was pastor in Richmond, Virginia, and in New Orleans, in which latter city he died. History of Baptism; Lectures on the Prophecies.
Hirst, Henry Beck. Pa., 1813-1874. A lawyer and verse-writer of Philadelphia. His poetical writings comprise Endymion, a Tale of Greece; The Penance of Roland; The Coming of the Mammoth, and Other Poems. He also published a Poetical Dictionary.
Hitchcock, Alfred. Vt., 1813-1874. A surgeon of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, who published Christianity and Medical Science.
Hitchcock, Charles Henry. Ms., 1836- ——. Son of Edward Hitchcock, infra. The State geologist of New Hampshire. Natural History and Geology of Maine; New Hampshire Geological Survey; The Geology of New Hampshire.
Hitchcock, Edward. Ms., 1793-1864. A Congregational clergyman, State geologist of Massachusetts, 1833-1844, and president of Amherst College, 1845-54. Religion of Geology; Illustrations of Surface Geology; Fossil Footprints in the United States; Ichnology of New England; Dyspepsia Forestalled and Resisted; Religious Truth Illustrated from Science; Elementary Geology; Reminiscences of Amherst College. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Hitchcock, Edward. Ms., 1828- ——. Son of E. Hitchcock, supra. A physician, professor of hygiene in Amherst College from 1861. Anatomy and Physiology.
Hitchcock, Enos. Ms., 1744-1803. A Congregational clergyman of Providence once famous as a preacher. Treatise on Education; Sermons; Catechetical Instruction for Children and Youth.
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen. Vt., 1798-1870. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War. He was a grandson of Ethan Allen, the noted patriot, and was an ardent advocate of the doctrines of Swedenborg. Alchemy and the Alchemists; Swedenborg, a Hermetic Philosopher; Christ the Spirit, an argument for the symbolic exposition of the Gospels; Remarks on the Sonnets of Shakespeare; Spenser’s Colin Clout Explained; Notes on Dante’s “Vita Nuova.”
Hitchcock, James Ripley Wellman. Ms., 1857- ——. Son of A. Hitchcock, supra. A littérateur of New York city. The Western Art Movement; A Study of George Jenness; Etchings in America; Madonnas by Old Masters; Notable Etchings by American Artists; Some American Painters in Water Colors; The Future of Etching.
Hitchcock, Roswell Dwight. Me., 1817-1887. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Union Seminary from 1880. Life of Edward Robinson, infra; Complete Analysis of the Bible; The New Testament, with Readings Preferred by the American Committee Incorporated into the Text; Eternal Atonement (with Francis Brown, the editor of The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles). Scr.
Hittell, John Shertzer. Pa., 1825-1901. A journalist of San Francisco. Evidences against Christianity; Mining in the Pacific States; Brief History of Culture; History of San Francisco; The Spirit of the Papacy; History of Mental Growth of Mankind in Ancient Times; Resources of California. Ap. Ho.
Hittell, Theodore Henry. Pa., 1830- ——. Brother of J. S. Hittell, supra. A prominent lawyer and historian of San Francisco. Adventures of Captain Capen Adams; General Laws of California, 1850-64, commonly called Hittell’s Digest; Codes and Statutes of California; History of California, a work of great value, the first two volumes, appearing in 1885, carrying the narrative as far as the close of the Mexican War, the remaining two volumes, issued in 1897, bringing it to 1887. Goethe’s Faust, a critical review, was issued in 1870. Se.
Hobart, John Henry. Pa., 1775-1830. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, and a leader of Church thought in his day. Companion for the Altar; State of Departed Spirits; Festivals and Fasts; Apology for Apostolic Order. See Early and Professional Years of Bishop Hobart, 1834-36. Dut.
Hobart, John Henry. N. Y., 1817-1889. Son of J. H. Hobart, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Instruction and Encouragement for Lent; Church Reform in Mexico; Mediæval Papal and Ritual Principles Stated and Contrasted.
Hobby, William. Ms., 1707-1765. A Congregational clergyman of Reading, Massachusetts. Vindication of Whitefield; Self-Examination.
Hodge, Archibald Alexander. N. J., 1823-1886. Son of C. Hodge, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of theology at Princeton College from 1877. Outlines of Theology; Life of Charles Hodge, infra; The Atonement; Commentary on the Confession of Faith; Popular Lectures on Theological Themes. Scr.
Hodge, Charles. Pa., 1797-1878. A Presbyterian clergyman, for nearly forty years editor of The Princeton Review, which he founded, and to which he was the chief contributor. Systematic Theology; Commentaries on the Epistles; Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; What is Darwinism?; Discussions in Church Polity; Conference Papers. See Life by A. A. Hodge; Princetoniana, by Charles Salmond. Scr.
Hodge, Frederick Webb. E., 1864- ——. An ethnologist at the Smithsonian Institution. Architecture of the Prehistoric Pueblos of Southern Arizona; Methods of Irrigation of the Ancient Inhabitants of the Salado Valley.
Hodge, Hugh Lenox. Pa., 1796-1873. Brother of C. Hodge, supra. A physician who was professor of obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania from 1835. Principles and Practice of Obstetrics; Diseases Peculiar to Women.
Hodge, John Aspinwall. Pa., 1831-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman in Hartford, 1866-92. What is Presbyterian Law?; Theology of the Shorter Catechism (second part); Recognition After Death.
Hodges, George. N. Y., 1856- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, dean of the Theological School at Cambridge from 1894, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers. The Heresy of Cain; Christianity Between Sundays; Faith and Social Service. Wh.
Hodgkin, Louise Manning. Ms., 1846- ——. An educator who was from 1876 to 1891 professor of English Literature in Wellesley College. Guide to the Study of Nineteenth Century Literature; Via Christi.
Hodgson, Francis. E., 1805-1877. A Methodist minister in Pennsylvania and other States. Examination into the System of New Divinity; Ecclesiastical Policy of Methodism Defended; Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted. Meth.
Hoffman, Charles Fenno. N. Y., 1806-1884. Half brother of M. Hoffman, infra. A once popular poet and story-writer of New York city who from 1850 lived in absolute retirement by reason of mental disorder. He excelled as a song-writer, his best known songs being, Sparkling and Bright, and The Myrtle and Steel. A Winter in the West; Wild Scenes in the Forest and Prairie; The Vigil of Faith, and Other Poems; The Echo, or Borrowed Notes for Home Circulation (verse). Love’s Calendar, and Other Poems; Grayslaer, a novel. See Poems of, edited by E. Hoffman, 1874.
Hoffman, David. Md., 1784-1854. A lawyer who was professor of law in the University of Maryland. A Course of Legal Study; Legal Outlines; Legal Hints; Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men and Things; Chronicles Selected from the Originals of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew; Viator, a Peep into my Notebook.
Hoffman, David Bancroft. N. Y., 1827- ——. A politician and physician of San Diego who has published Medical History of San Diego County, California.
Hoffman, David Murray. N. Y., 1791-1878. A once prominent New York jurist. Office and Duties of Masters in Chancery; Estate and Rights of the Corporation of New York as Proprietors; Law of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; Ecclesiastical Law in the State of New York; Law and Practice as to References.
Hoffman, Eugene Augustus. N. Y., 1829-1902. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, dean of the General Theological Seminary from 1879, and a prominent benefactor of that institution. Free Churches; The Ritualistic Week; Manual of Devotion for Communicants.
Hoffman, John N——. Pa., 1804-1857. A Lutheran clergyman of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Evangelical Hymns, Original and Selected; A Collection of Tests; The Broken Platform, a Defence of the Symbolical Books of the Lutheran Church.
Hoffman, Wickham. N. Y., 1821-1900. Son of D. M. Hoffman, supra. A diplomatist who, after serving as secretary of legation at Paris, London, and St. Petersburg successively, was minister to Denmark, 1883-85. Camp, Court, and Siege, a Narrative of Personal Adventure during Two Wars; Leisure Hours in Russia.
Hogan, John. I., 1805-1892. A politician and banker of St. Louis. Thoughts about St. Louis; Resources of Missouri; Sketches of Early Western Pioneers; History of Western Methodism.
Hoge [hōg], Moses. Va., 1752-1820. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator of Virginia, president of Hampden and Sidney College, 1806-20, and widely known as an eloquent preacher. Christian Panoply, a Reply to Paine’s “Age of Reason;” Sermons.
Hoge, William James. Va., 1821-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, and subsequently of Petersburg, Virginia, very popular in his day, and the author of Blind Bartimeus, or the Sightless Sinner.
Hogg, Wilson Thomas. N. Y., 1852- ——. A Free Methodist clergyman, president of Greenville College from 1893. Handbook of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology; Revivals and Revival Work.
Hoke, Jacob. 18— - ——. The Age we Live In; Holiness, or the Higher Christian Life; Clusters from Eshcol; Guide to the Battle Field of Gettysburg; The Great Invasion of 1863.
Holbrook, Alfred. Ct., 1816- ——. An educator of Lebanon, Ohio. The Normal, or Methods of Teaching; An English Grammar Conformed to Present Usage.
Holbrook, James. 1812-1864. From 1845 a special agent of the United States Post Office. He published Ten Years Among the Mailbags.
Holbrook, John Edwards. S. C., 1794-1871. A physician and naturalist, professor of anatomy at the Medical College in Charleston for more than thirty years. American Herpetology; Ichthyology of South Carolina.
Holbrook, Martin Luther. O., 1831-1902. A physician of New York city, professor of hygiene in the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, and editor of The Herald of Health and Journal of Hygiene. Parturition Without Pain; Eating for Strength; Hygiene of Brain and Nerves; Marriage and Parentage; How to Strengthen the Memory; Hygienic Treatment of Consumption.
Holbrook, Silas Pinckney. S. C., 1796-1835. Brother of J. E. Holbrook, supra. A lawyer of Medfield, Massachusetts. Sketches by a Traveller is a collection of his contributions to the Boston Courier and the New England Galaxy.
Holcombe, Henry. Va., 1762-1826. A Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia. Lectures on Primitive Theology; First Fruits.
Holcombe, Hosea. S. C., 1780-1841. A Baptist clergyman of Alabama. Collection of Sacred Hymns; Anti-Mission Principles Exposed; History of Alabama Baptists.
Holcombe, James Philemon. Va., 1820-1873. A lawyer and educator of Virginia, professor of law in the University of Virginia, 1852-60, and member of the Confederate Congress, 1861-1863. Law of Debtor and Creditor; Literature and Letters; Introduction to Equity Jurisprudence; Leading Cases upon Commercial Law; Digest of United States Supreme Court Decisions; Merchants’ Book of Reference. Ap.
Holcombe, William Frederick. Ms., 1827- ——. A physician of New York city, professor of eye and ear diseases in several medical institutions. History of Mount Sterling, Kentucky; History of the Holcombes in America; Family Records, their Importance and Value.
Holcombe, William Henry. Va., 1825-1894. Brother of J. P. Holcombe, supra. A homœopathic physician of New Orleans, who was well known as a Swedenborgian writer. Our Children in Heaven; Lost Truths of Christianity; The Other Life; Southern Voices, a volume of verse; Scientific Basis of Homœopathy; How I Became a Homœopath; Poems; The Sexes Here and Hereafter; In Both Worlds; The End of the World; The New Tenant; Letters on Spiritual Subjects; Condensed Thoughts About Christian Science. Lip.
Holden, Edward Singleton. Mo., 1846- ——. An astronomer, president of the University of California since 1880, and director of the Lick Observatory. Astronomy for Students (with S. Newcomb, infra); Life of Sir William Herschel; Monograph of the Central Parts of the Nebula of Orion; Notes on the Bastion System of Fortification; Astronomical Bibliography; Handbook of Lick Observatory; The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan. Scr.
Holden, George Henry. Ms., 1848- ——. The proprietor of a bird store in Boston who has published Canaries and Cage Birds. Ju.
Holden, Luther Loud. 18— - ——. Persis, a Tale of the White Mountains; A Summer Jaunt through the Old World.
Holder, Charles Frederick. Ms., 1851- ——. Son of J. B. Holder, infra. A naturalist of New York city, and a popular writer upon natural history topics. Elements of Zoölogy (with J. B. Holder); Marvels of Animal Life; The Ivory King; Living Lights; Wonder Wings; A Strange Company; A Frozen Dragon, and Other Tales; All About Pasadena; Along the Florida Reef; Life of Agassiz; Young Folks’ Story Book of Natural History. Ap. Do. Le. Lo. Put. Scr.
Holder, Joseph Bassett. Ms., 1824-1888. A zoölogist who was a curator in the American Museum of Natural History, New York city. History of the North American Fauna; History of the Atlantic Right Whales; The Living World.
Holdich, Joseph. E., 1804-1893. A Methodist clergyman who was secretary of the American Bible Society, 1849-78. Bible History; Life of A. H. Hurd; Life of Wilbur Fisk, supra. Har. Meth.
Holland, Edward Clifford. S. C., 1794-1824. A journalist of Charleston who was the author of a volume of Odes, Naval Songs, and Other Poems.
Holland, Frederick May. Ms., 1836- ——. Son of F. W. Holland, infra. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts. The Reign of the Stoics; Stories from Robert Browning; The Rise of Intellectual Liberty from Thales to Copernicus; Life of Frederick Douglass. Fu. Ho.
Holland, Frederick West. Ms., 1811-1895. A Unitarian clergyman of Concord, Massachusetts. Scenes in Palestine; Sinai and Jerusalem, or Scenes from Bible Lands.
Holland, Henry Ware. N. Y., 1844- ——. Son of F. W. Holland, supra. A Boston lawyer and journalist. William Dawes and his Ride with Paul Revere.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert. “Timothy Titcomb.” Ms., 1819-1881. A popular author and lecturer whose writings met with severe criticism as literary productions without being materially affected in popularity. They were addressed to average commonplace humanity, and exerted a wide and helpful influence. He was editor of The Springfield Republican, 1849-66, and of Scribner’s Magazine from 1870 until his death. His writings in verse include, Kathrina; Bitter Sweet; The Mistress of the Manse; The Marble Prophecy; Garnered Sheaves, including all his poems up to 1873; The Puritan’s Guest, and Other Poems. In fiction: The Bay Path; Arthur Bonnicastle; Sevenoaks; Miss Gilbert’s Career; Nicholas Minturn. His other works comprise, Gold Foil Hammered from Popular Proverbs; History of Western Massachusetts; Letters to Young People; Lessons in Life; Concerning the Jones Family; Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects; Life of Abraham Lincoln, which had an enormous sale. See Century Magazine, December, 1881; Memoir by Mrs. H. M. Plunkett. Scr.
Holland, Robert Afton. Tn., 1844- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of St. Louis, but formerly a clergyman of the Methodist faith. The Philosophy of the Real Presence; Relations of Philosophy to Agnosticism and Religion; The Proof of Immortality; Midsummer Night’s Dream, an Interpretation; Democracy in the Church; What is the Use of Going to Church?
Holley, Alexander Lyman. Ct., 1832-1882. An engineer of eminence who was a lecturer on iron and steel manufacture in the Columbia School of Mines from 1879, and an inventor of prominence. Railway Economics (with Zerah Colburn, supra); Treatise on Ordnance and Armor. See Memorial of, 1884.
Holley, Marietta. “Josiah Allen’s Wife.” N. Y., 1844- ——. A well-known and popular humourous writer whose home has always been at Ellisburg, New York. Her writings contain much real wit and shrewd sense, but the effect is often marred by extravagance and faults of taste. My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet’s; My Wayward Pardner; Josiah Allen’s Wife as a P. A. and a P. I.; Samantha at the World’s Fair; Samantha in Europe; Samantha Among the Brethren; Samantha at Saratoga; Samantha at the Centennial; Poems; Sweet Cicely; Josiah’s Alarm. Fu. Lip.
Holley, Mrs. Mary [Austin]. 17— -1846. The wife of Horace Holley, a Unitarian clergyman of Kentucky. Texas: Observations Historical, Geographical, and Descriptive (1833); Memoir of Horace Holley.
Holley, Orville Luther. Ct., 1791-1861. Brother-in-law of Mrs. Holley, supra. A lawyer and journalist of New York city. Description of New York City; Life of Benjamin Franklin.
Hollister, Gideon Hiram. Ct., 1817-1881. A lawyer of Litchfield, Connecticut, who was minister to Hayti, 1868-69. Mount Hope, an historical romance; History of Connecticut; Thomas à Becket, a Tragedy, and Other Poems; Kinley Hollow.
Holloway, Mrs. Laura [Carter]. Tn., 1848- ——. A writer who was for ten years on the editorial staff of The Brooklyn Eagle. Ladies of the White House; An Hour with Charlotte Brontë; The Hearthstone, or Life at Home; The Mothers of Great Men and Women; Chinese Gordon; Howard, the Christian Hero; Life of Adelaide Neilson; The Buddhist Diet Book. Fu.
Holly, Henry Hudson. N. Y., 1834-1892. An architect of New York city. Country Seats; Church Architecture; Modern Dwellings in Town and Country.
Holm, Saxe. See Jackson, Mrs. Helen.
Holmes, Abiel. Ct., 1763-1837. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, pastor of the First Church there, 1792-1832. Life of Ezra Stiles, infra; History of Cambridge; American Annals; Memoir of the French Protestants. See Life by W. Jenks.
Holmes, Daniel. N. Y., 1810-1873. A Methodist preacher in Michigan and Indiana. Pure Gold, or Truth in its Native Loveliness; The Wesley Offering; Discussion on the Atonement.
Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana [Klingle]. “George Klingle.” Pa., 185- - ——. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. Make Thy Way Mine; In the Name of the King. Sto.
Holmes, John. Ms., 1773-1843. A once prominent senator in Congress from Massachusetts, and subsequently from Maine, who was the author of The Statesman, or Principles of Legislation.
Holmes, Mrs. Mary Jane [Hawes]. Ms., 18— - ——. A voluminous author of popular fiction of a domestic kind, the literary merit of which is slight. She has for many years lived at Brockport, New York. Among her writings are, Lena Rivers; Tempest and Sunshine; Marian Grey; Gretchen. Dil.
Holmes, Nathaniel. N. H., 1814-1901. A jurist of St. Louis in earlier life, but from 1868-72 Royall professor of law in Harvard University, and for many years a resident of Cambridge. He was an ardent advocate of the Baconian theory of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. The Authorship of Shakespeare; Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself. Hou.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Ms., 1809-1894. Son of A. Holmes, supra. A famous physician of Boston, widely known as poet, novelist, and essayist. He was born in Cambridge, and there and in Boston his life was almost entirely passed. From 1847 to 1882 he was professor of anatomy in Harvard University. His popularity dates from the founding of The Atlantic Monthly in 1857, in the earliest number of which he began the publication of the articles entitled The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Much of his verse was composed for especial occasions, and is more or less ephemeral in its nature; but his serious verse and his essays entitle him to a high place among American writers. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The Professor at the Breakfast Table; The Poet at the Breakfast Table; Mechanism in Thought and Morals; Memoir of Motley; Over the Teacups; Our Hundred Days in Europe; Life of Emerson; Medical Essays; Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel; A Mortal Antipathy; Currents and Counter Currents; Pages from an Old Volume of Life, comprise his prose works. In verse his publications include, Urania; Astræa; Songs in Many Keys; Songs of Many Seasons; The Iron Gate; The School-Boy; Before the Curfew. See Lives by W. Kennedy, E. E. Brown, J. T. Morse; Haweis’s American Humourists; Nichol’s American Literature; Richardson’s American Literature; Stedman’s Poets of America; O. W. Holmes, by Walter Jerrold; Ashcroft Noble’s Impressions and Memories; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Harper’s Monthly, December, 1896. Hou.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Ms., 1841- ——. Son of O. W. Holmes, supra. A jurist of Boston who has published The Common Law and edited Kent’s Commentaries. Lit.
Holst, Hermann Eduard von. Livonia, 1841-1904. An historian who first came to America in 1866 and engaged in lecturing and writing, but returned to Europe in 1872 and was successively professor of history in the University of Strassburg, 1872-74, and at Freiburg, 1874-92. In 1892 he became professor of history at the University of Chicago. His greatest work is Verfassung und Demokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, the translation of which is entitled The Constitutional and Political History of the United States. His other works are, Life of Calhoun; Life of John Brown; Constitutional Law of the United States. Hou.
Holt, John Saunders. Al., 1826-1886. A lawyer of New Orleans. Life of Abraham Page, a Novel; What I Know About Ben Eccles; The Quines. Lip.
Homes, Henry Augustus. Ms., 1812-1887. A Congregational clergyman who was a missionary at Constantinople, 1836-50, and subsequently in the diplomatic service there. From 1854 he was employed as librarian in the State library at Albany. The Need of Yezedees of Mesopotamia; Design and Import of Medals; Our Knowledge of California; The Palatine Emigration to England in 1709; The Water Supply of Constantinople, comprise his principal works.
Homes, Mrs. Mary Sophie [Shaw] [Rogers]. Md., 1830- ——. A writer of New Orleans. Carrie Harrington, or Scenes in New Orleans; Progression, or the South Defended, a volume of verse; A Wreath of Rhymes.
Honeywood, Saint John. Ms., 1763-1798. A lawyer of Salem, New York, whose political Poems were published in 1801.
Hood, George. Ms., 1807-1882. A clergyman long prominent as an educator in Massachusetts. Southern Church Melodies; Musical Manual; History of Music in New England (1846).
Hood, John Bell. Ky., 1831-1879. A noted general in the Confederate army. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experience in the United States and Confederate Armies, a careful defence of his military movements.
Hood, Samuel. I., c. 1800-1875. A Philadelphia lawyer, author of A Practical Treatise on the Law of Decedents in Pennsylvania.
Hooke, William. E., 1601-1678. A Puritan clergyman who was a cousin of Oliver Cromwell. He came to America about 1636; was for some seven years minister at Taunton, and for twelve years following pastor at New Haven. Returning to England in 1656, he became chaplain to Cromwell. New England’s Teares for Old England’s Feares is the best known of his writings. See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Hooker, Edward William. Ct., 1794-1875. A Congregational clergyman of Vermont who was a descendant of T. Hooker, infra. A Plea for Sacred Music; Life of Thomas Hooker.
Hooker, Herman. Vt., 1804-1865. An Episcopal clergyman who retired from the ministry and became a bookseller in Philadelphia. Family Book of Devotion; The Uses of Adversity; Thoughts and Maxims; The Portion of the Soul; Popular Infidelity; The Christian Life a Life of Faith.
Hooker, Horace. Ct., 1793-1864. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford. Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Bible History.
Hooker, Mrs. Isabella [Beecher]. Ct., 1822- ——. The youngest daughter of Lyman Beecher, supra. A philanthropist of Hartford, prominent as an advocate of spiritualism and woman-suffrage. Womanhood: its Sanctities and Fidelities.
Hooker, Thomas. E., 1586-1647. A Puritan clergyman who came to America in 1633, and was for three years minister at Cambridge, then called Newtowne. In 1636 he led a large portion of his flock to the Connecticut valley, where they founded the town of Hartford. A theologian of great influence in his century. Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline (with John Cotton); Application of Redemption; The Poore Doubting Christian drawne to Christ. See Tyler’s American Literature; Palfrey’s History of New England; Allibone’s Dictionary; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27.
Hooker, Worthington. Ms., 1806-1867. A physician of Norwich, Connecticut, who was professor of medicine at Yale University, 1852-67. Physician and Patient; An Examination of Homœopathy; Human Physiology for Schools; Rational Therapeutics; Child’s Book of Nature; Child’s Book of Common Things; Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions; Science for the School and Family; The Medical Profession and the Community. Har.
Hooper, Edward James. E., 1803-189-. A once prominent agriculturist in the West who published a Dictionary of Agriculture.
Hooper, Johnson. N. C., 1815-1863. A lawyer of Alabama. Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; Widow Rugby’s Husband, and Other Alabama Tales.
Hooper, Lucy. Ms., 1816-1841. A verse-writer of much promise whose home was in Brooklyn. Scenes from Real Life, a collection of prose Sketches, appeared during her lifetime, and her Complete Poems in 1848. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.
Hooper, Mrs. Lucy Hamilton [Jones]. Pa., 1835-1893. A Philadelphia author who lived in Europe after 1870, and was Paris correspondent for several American papers. Poems, with translations from the German; Under the Tri-Color, a Novel; The Tsar’s Window, a Novel. Lip. Rob.
Hope, James Barron. Va., 1827-1887. A lawyer and journalist of Norfolk. Leoni di Monti, and Other Poems; An Elegiac Ode; Under the Empire, or the Story of Madelon; Arms and the Man, and Other Poems.
Hopkins, Alphonso Alvah. N. Y., 1843- ——. A journalist, educator, and lecturer. His Prison Bars, a Temperance Tale; Newspaper Poets; Our Sabbath Evenings; Sinner and Saint, a Novel; Life of General Clinton Fisk; Asleep in the Sanctum, and Other Poems; Waifs and their Authors; Wealth and Waste; Geraldine, a novel in verse on the model of Lucile. Fu. Hou.
Hopkins, Caspar Thomas. Vt., 1826-1893. Son of Bishop Hopkins, infra. A Californian journalist who established the first insurance company on the Pacific coast. He published a Manual of American Ideas.
Hopkins, Edward Washburn. Ms., 1857- ——. A professor of Sanskrit in Yale University. Mutual Relations of the Four Castes in Manu; Translation of Laws of Manu; Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India; The Religions of India. Gi.
Hopkins, Erastus. Ms., 1810-1872. A Presbyterian clergyman, long a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts, and the author of The Family a Religious Institution.
Hopkins, John Henry. I., 1792-1868. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. A writer of vigour and versatility, prominent both as a High Churchman and a controversialist. History of the Confessional; The End of Controversy Controverted; The Primitive Church; Essay on Gothic Architecture; The Church of Rome in her Primitive Purity; Scriptural View of Slavery, a defence of the institution; Law of Ritualism; Lectures on the Reformation; Twelve Canzonets, words and music; History of the Church in verse, include his principal writings. See Life by his son, J. H. Hopkins, infra.
Hopkins, John Henry. Pa., 1820-1891. Son of J. H. Hopkins, supra. An Episcopal clergyman who founded The Church Journal, of which he was long the editor. Among his writings are included Carols, Hymns, and Songs; Poems by the Wayside; Life of Bishop Hopkins; Faith and Order of the Protestant Church in the United States; and a translation of Goethe’s Autobiography. See C. F. Sweet’s Champion of the Cross, 1894. Wh.
Hopkins, Lemuel. Ct., 1750-1801. A political writer of note in his day, author of satires, poems, and a favourite version of Psalm cxxxii. With Barlow and others he wrote the Anarchiad, a plea for an efficient federal constitution.
Hopkins, Mrs. Louisa Parsons [Stone]. Ms., 1834-1895. An educator of Boston, for some years a member of the Boston School Board. How Shall my Child be Taught?; Practical Pedagogy; Educational Psychology; Observation Lessons in Primary Schools; Cosmic Geography; Handbook of the Earth; Parables of Nature and Life. In verse she wrote, Motherhood; Breath of the Field and Shore; Easter Carols. Le.
Hopkins, Mrs. Louisa [Payson]. Me., 1812-1862. A writer of religious works for young people, the wife of Professor Albert Hopkins, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The Pastor’s Daughter; Lessons on the Book of Proverbs; Henry Langdon; The Guiding Star; The Silent Comforter; Select Thoughts. See Sewall’s Memoirs of Albert Hopkins.
Hopkins, Mark. Ms., 1802-1887. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1836-1872, and a man of wide influence as an educator and a religious writer. Lectures on Moral Science; The Law of Love and Love as a Law; Discourses and Essays; Outline Study of Man; The Scriptural Idea of Man; Teachings and Counsels; Evidences of Christianity. See Life by F. Carter, supra. Rev. Scr.
Hopkins, Mark. Ms., 1851- ——. Son of M. Hopkins, supra. A journalist in London. The World’s Verdict, a novel. Hou.
Hopkins, Samuel. Ct., 1721-1803. A Congregational clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, the founder of what has been called Hopkinsian Divinity, which differed from Calvinism in maintaining the free agency of sinners, the moral inability of the unregenerate, and ascribing the essence of sin to the disposition and purpose of the mind. His views had great influence in the modification of contemporary thought. He was a strong opponent of slavery, and his influence procured the passage of a law prohibiting the importation of slaves into Rhode Island. The System of Doctrine contained in Divine Revelation is his principal work. Others are, The True State of the Unregenerate; Nature of True Holiness; The Duty and Interest of American States to Emancipate their Slaves. See Life by Park; Mrs. Stowe’s Minister’s Wooing; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Hopkins, Samuel. Ms., 1807-1887. Cousin of M. Hopkins, 1st, supra. A Congregational clergyman of New England, long a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts. The Puritans and Queen Elizabeth; Lessons at the Cross; Youth of the Old Dominion.
Hopkins, Samuel Miles. Ct., 1772-1837. A jurist of New York State. Chancery Reports; Treatise on Temperance.
Hopkins, Samuel Miles. N. Y., 1813-1901. Son of S. M. Hopkins, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor in Auburn Theological Seminary from 1847. Manual of Church Polity; Liturgy and Book of Common Prayer.
Hopkins, Stephen. R. I., 1707-1785. One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and ten times governor of Rhode Island. He was the author of Rights of the Colonies Examined; History of the Planting and Growth of Providence. See Life by W. E. Foster, 1884; Bibliography of Rhode Island.
Hopkinson, Francis. Pa., 1737-1791. A once famous political writer and lawyer of Philadelphia, among whose political writings are, The Pretty Story; The Prophecy; The Political Catechism; The New Roof. He is best known by his humourous poem, The Battle of the Kegs. Three volumes of his Miscellaneous Writings were published in 1792.
Hopkinson, Joseph. Pa., 1770-1842. Son of F. Hopkinson, supra. A jurist of Philadelphia who is chiefly remembered as the author of the poem, Hail Columbia.
Hoppin, Augustus. R. I., 1828-1896. An artist and illustrator. On the Nile; Ups and Downs on Land and Water; Jubilee Days; Hay Fever; Recollections of Auton House, a novel; A Fashionable Sufferer; Two Compton Boys; Married for Fun, a romance. Hou.
Hoppin, James Mason. R. I., 1820- ——. Cousin of A. Hoppin, supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor of homiletics at Yale University, 1861-1879, and subsequently of the history of art. Notes of a Theological Student; Old England; Life of Admiral Foote; Memoirs of Henry Armitt Brown, supra; Homiletics; Pastoral Theology; Office and Work of the Christian Minister; Sermons on Faith, Hope, Love, etc.; The Early Renaissance; Greek Art on Greek Soil. Do. Fu. Har. Hou. Lip.
Horn, Edward Traill. Pa., 1850- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Charleston. The Christian Year; Old Matin and Vesper Services of the Lutheran Church; Outlines of Liturgics; The Evangelical Pastor.
Hornaday, William Temple. Ind., 1854- ——. A naturalist of Washington, for eight years chief taxidermist of the National Museum. Two Years in the Jungle; The Buffalo Hunt; Canoe and Rifle on the Orinoco; Free Rum on the Congo; Taxidermy and Zoölogical Collecting. Scr.
Horner, William Edmunds. Va., 1793-1853. A physician of Philadelphia, professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, 1819-53. Special Anatomy and Histology; United States Dissector; Anatomical Atlas; Pathological Anatomy. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Horsfield, Thomas. Pa., 1773-1859. A naturalist and traveller who was a native of Philadelphia, but was in the employ of the East India Company, and lived in England after 1820. Lepidopterous Insects; Zoölogical Researches in Java. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27.
Horsford, Eben Norton. N. Y., 1818-1893. A chemist of Cambridge who was Rumford professor at Harvard University, 1847-63. He was the discoverer of acid phosphate, and one of the founders of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. Theory and Art of Breadmaking; The Army Ration; Discovery of America by Northmen. Hou.
Horsford, Mrs. Mary L’Hommedieu [Gardiner]. N. Y., 1824-1855. Wife of E. N. Horsford, supra, and author of Indian Legends and Other Poems.
Horsmanden, Daniel. E., 1691-1778. A jurist of New York city. The New York Conspiracy, or the History of the Negro Plot; Letters to Governor Clinton.
Horton, George Forman. Pa., 1808-1888. A lawyer of Terrytown, Pennsylvania. Geology of Bradford County, Pennsylvania; The Horton Genealogy.
Horton, Samuel Dana. O., 1844-1895. A publicist of Pomeroy, Ohio, eminent as an advocate of bimetallism. Silver and Gold; The Silver Pound and England’s Monetary Position since the Restoration, with a History of the Guinea; Silver in Europe. Clke. Mac.
Hosack, David. N. Y., 1769-1835. An eminent physician and scientist of New York city who founded the first botanic garden in America. Contagious Diseases; Vision; Hortus Elginensis; Memoir of Hugh Williamson; Memoirs of De Witt Clinton; Essays on Medical Science; Theory and Practice of Medicine.
Hoskins, Nathan. Vt., 1795-1869. A lawyer of Vermont and Massachusetts. History of Vermont; Notes in the West; The Bennington Court Controversy.
Hosmer, Frederick Lucian. Ms., 1846- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Chicago. The Way of Life; The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems (with W. C. Gannett, supra). Rob.
Hosmer, George Washington. 1846- ——. A physician. The People and Politics; As We Went Marching On, a Story of the War. Har. Hou.
Hosmer, James Kendall. Ms., 1834- ——. A professor in Washington University of St. Louis, 1874-92, and since the latter date public librarian of Minneapolis. Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom; The Story of the Jews; Life of Sir Henry Vane; Life of Samuel Adams; Thomas Hutchinson, Royal Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay; The Color Guard, a narrative of personal experience; The Thinking Bayonet, a novel; A Short History of German Literature; How Thankful was Bewitched. Hou. Put. Scr.
Hosmer, Mrs. Margaret [Kerr]. Pa., 1830-1897. A Philadelphia writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, A Chinaman in California; The Chinese Boy; The Little Captives; Lonny the Orphan. She wrote, also, three novels, Blanche Gilroy; The Morrisons; Ten Years of a Life Time. Co. Lip.
Hosmer, William Henry Cuyler. N. Y., 1814-1877. A lawyer of western New York who wrote much in verse, the greater part of which is concerned with Indian legends. Fall of Tecumseh; Legends of the Senecas; The Themes of Song; The Months; Yonnondio; Bird Notes; Indian Traditions and Songs; The Pioneers of Western New York. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Hotchkiss, James Harvey. Ct., 1781-1851. A Presbyterian minister of Prattsburg, New York, the author of History of the Churches of Western New York.
Hough [hŭff], Franklin Benjamin. N. Y., 1820-1885. A physician whose later years were passed in Lowville, New York, in scientific and historical study. Among his works are, Catalogue of Plants in Lewis and Franklin Counties; History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties; The Siege of Charleston in 1780; Duty of Government in the Preservation of Forests; Report on Forestry; Elements of Forestry; American Constitutions. Clke.
Hough, George Washington. N. Y., 1836- ——. An astronomer of Chicago, director of the Dearborn Observatory. Annals of Dudley Observatory; Report of Dearborn Observatory; The Galvanic Battery, are among his writings.
Houghton [ho´ton], George Washington Wright. Ms., 1850-1891. A journalist and verse-writer of New York city. His published volumes of verse include, Songs from Over the Sea; Album Leaves; Drift from York Harbor, Maine; The Legend of St. Olaf’s Kirk; Niagara, and Other Poems. Hou.
Houghton, Henry Clark. Ms., 1837-1901. A physician of New York city, dean of the ophthalmic hospital. Lectures on Clinical Otology.
House, Edward Howard. Ms., 1836-1901. A journalist and critic of Boston and New York, long resident in Japan. The Simonoseki Affair; The Kagosima Affair; The Japanese Expedition to Formosa; Japanese Episodes; Yone Santo, a Child of Japan; The Midnight Warning, and Other Stories. Har.
Houston, Daniel Franklin. N. C., 1866- ——. A professor of political economy in the University of Texas. A Critical History of Nullification in South Carolina. Lgs.
Hovey [hŭv´ĭ], Alvah. N. Y., 1820-1903. A Baptist clergyman, professor in Newton Theological Seminary from 1849, and from 1868 its president. The Miracles of Christ; The Scriptural Law of Divorce; Life of Isaac Backus; State of the Impenitent Dead; Christian Teaching and Life; God With Us; Systematic Theology; Biblical Eschatology; Studies in Ethics and Religion, include his principal works. Bap.
Hovey, Charles Mason. Ms., 1810-1887. A noted horticulturist of Cambridge, editor of Hovey’s Magazine of Horticulture, which reached its thirty-fourth volume, and author of Fruits of America.
Hovey, Horace Carter. Ind., 1833- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Celebrated American Caverns.
Hovey, Richard. Il., 1864-1900. A verse-writer of Washington. The Laurel, an Ode; Launcelot and Guenevere, a Poem in Dramas, republished as The Marriage of Guenevere; Seaward, an Elegy on the Death of Thomas William Parsons, infra; Gandelfo, a tragedy; Songs from Vagabondia, and More Songs from Vagabondia (with W. B. Carman, supra). Cop. Lo. St.
Howard, Blanche Willis. See Teuffel, von.
Howard, Bronson. Mch., 1842- ——. A prominent dramatist of New York city. Saratoga, produced in London as Brighton, and in Berlin as Eine Erste und Einzige Liebe; Diamonds; The Banker’s Daughter; Old Love Letters; Young Mrs. Winthrop; One of Our Girls; The Henrietta; Shenandoah; Aristocracy; Moorcroft; Hurricanes; Wives; Met by Chance; Greenroom Fun.
Howard, Oliver Otis. Me., 1830- ——. A major-general in the United States army who served during the Civil War and in several Indian campaigns; in command of the Division of the Atlantic from 1888. Donald’s School Days; a translation of Agenor’s Life of Count de Gasparin; Chief Joseph, or the Nez Percés in Peace and War; Isabella of Castile. Fu. Le.
Howarth, Mrs. Ellen Clementine [Doran]. N. Y., 1827-1899. A verse-writer of Trenton, New Jersey. Poems; Poems edited by R. W. Gilder, (1868). ’Tis but a Little Faded Flower, and Thou Wilt Never Grow Old, are well-known poems of hers.
Howe, Edgar Watson. Ind., 1854- ——. A journalist of Atchison, Kansas, editor of The Daily Globe. His first novel, The Story of a Country Town, attracted much attention. Later stories include, The Mystery of The Locks; A Moonlight Boy; A Man Story.
Howe, Fisher. Vt., 1798-1871. A philanthropist of Brooklyn. Oriental and Sacred Scenes; The True Site of Calvary. Ran.
Howe, Frederic Clemson. Pa., 1867- ——. Taxation and Taxes in the United States under the Internal Revenue System, 1791-1895. Cr.
Howe, George. Ms., 1802-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of biblical literature in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, from 1831. Theological Education; History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina.
Howe, Henry. Ct., 1816-1893. An historical writer and compiler of Cincinnati. Historical Collections of New Jersey (with J. W. Barber, infra); Our Whole Country; The Great West; Historical Collections of Virginia and Ohio; Over the World; Adventures and Achievements of Americans; Times of the Rebellion in the West, are among his works.
Howe, Henry Marion. Ms., 1848- ——. Son of S. G. and J. W. Howe, infra. A metallurgist who has published The Metallurgy of Steel; Copper Smelting.
Howe, Herbert Alonzo. N. Y., 1858- ——. An astronomer of Colorado, director of Chamberlin Observatory, University of Denver. A Study of the Sky; Elements of Descriptive Astronomy. Fl. Sil.
Howe, John Badlam. Ms., 1813-1882. A publicist of Indiana whose works upon finance have had much influence. Monetary and Industrial Fallacies; Mono-Metalism and Bi-Metalism; The Political Economy of Great Britain, the United States, and France in the Use of Money; The Common Sense of Money; Replies to Criticisms. Hou.
Howe, Mrs. Julia [Ward]. N. Y., 1819- ——. Wife of S. G. Howe, infra. A writer of Boston long prominent in philanthropic movements, and as a lecturer upon the enfranchisement of women. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is her finest effort. Her writings include, Passion Flowers; Words for the Hour; The World’s Own; A Trip to Cuba; From the Oak to the Olive; Later Lyrics; Sex and Education; Memoir of S. G. Howe, infra; Modern Society; Life of Margaret Fuller; Is Polite Society Polite?; From Sunset Ridge, poems. Lam. Le.
Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe. R. I., 1809-1895. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central Pennsylvania. Domestic Slavery, a Reply to Bishop Hopkins; Life of Alonzo Potter, infra.
Howe, Maud. See Elliott, Mrs.
Howe, Samuel Gridley. Ms., 1801-1876. A physician of Boston, the first superintendent of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, and a man of prominence in the anti-slavery movement. Reader for the Blind; Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution. See J. F. Clarke’s Memorial and Biographical Sketches; Memoir by Mrs. Howe.
Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford. N. C., 1801-1868. A once noted Baptist clergyman of Nashville. Terms of Sacramental Communion; The Way of Salvation; Evils of Infant Baptism; The Cross; The Covenant; Early Baptists of Virginia.
Howells, William Cooper. W., 1807-1894. Life in Ohio from 1813 to 1840. Clke.
Howells, William Dean. O., 1837- ——. Son of W. C. Howells, supra. A novelist of much prominence who at nineteen was a printer on a Cincinnati journal, and in 1860 published with J. J. Piatt, infra, Poems of Two Friends. In the same year he wrote a Life of Abraham Lincoln, and from 1861-65 was consul at Venice. Venetian Life, and Italian Journeys, date from this portion of his career. From 1872-81 he was editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and since then has devoted his time wholly to literature in Boston and New York. His writings since 1869 include: The Day of Their Wedding; At the Sign of the Lion’s Head; No Love Lost; Suburban Sketches; Their Wedding Journey; A Chance Acquaintance; A Foregone Conclusion; The Lady of the Aroostook; The Undiscovered Country; A Modern Instance; A Woman’s Reason; The Minister’s Charge; Indian Summer; A Fearful Responsibility, and Other Stories; Doctor Breen’s Practice; The Rise of Silas Lapham; April Hopes; Annie Kilburn; A Hazard of New Fortunes; The Shadow of a Dream; An Imperative Duty; The Quality of Mercy; The World of Chance; The Coast of Bohemia; A Traveller from Altruria; Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories for Children; A Parting and a Meeting; The Sleeping-Car, and Other Farces; The Mouse-trap, and Other Farces; Out of the Question, a comedy; A Counterfeit Presentment, a comedy; A Sea Change, or Love’s Stowaway; Poems; Stops from Various Quills, a book of verse. Among miscellaneous writings of his are, Three Villages (Shirley, Lexington, Gnadenhütten); Modern Italian Poets; A Boy’s Town; Tuscan Cities; My Year in a Log Cabin; Criticism and Fiction; My Literary Passions. Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors; Century Magazine, March, 1882; Vedder’s American Writers; New England Magazine, October, 1893; The Bookman, February, 1897. Har. Hou.
Howison, George Holmes. Md., 1834- ——. A mathematician who has published a Treatise on Analytic Geometry.
Howison, Robert Reid. Va., 1820- ——. A lawyer of Richmond. History of Virginia; History of the American Civil War; Fredericksburg; Lives of Generals Morgan, Marion, Gates; God and Creation.
Howland, George. Ms., 1824-1892. An educator of Illinois, president of the State board of education, 1882. Grammar of the English Language; Little Voices, a book of verse; an hexameter translation of the Æneid; Practical Hints for the Teachers of Public Schools. Ap.
Hows, John William Stanhope. E., 1797-1871. A journalist and educator of New York city who published The Practical Elocutionist, and edited a number of school books.
Hoyt, Epaphras. Ms., 1765-1850. A major-general of the Massachusetts militia, who lived in Deerfield. Treatise on the Military Art; Military Instructions; Cavalry Discipline; Antiquarian Researches.
Hoyt, Henry Martyn. Pa., 1830-1892. A Pennsylvania lawyer, governor of his State, 1878-83. Controversy between Connecticut and Pennsylvania; Protection versus Free Trade. Ap.
Hoyt, John Wesley. O., 1831-1892. An educator of distinction, governor of Wyoming, 1878-82, and president of Wyoming University from 1887. Resources and Progress of Wisconsin; Resources and Progress of Wyoming.
Hoyt, Ralph. N. Y., 1806-1878. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. The Chant of Life, and Other Poems; Echoes of Memory and Emotion; Sketches of Life and Landscape. See Duyckinck’s American Literature.
Hoyt, Wayland. O., 1838- ——. A popular Baptist minister of Brooklyn. Hints and Helps for the Christian Life; Present Lessons from Distant Days; Gleams from Paul’s Prison; The Brook in the Way; Saturday Afternoon; Light on Life’s Highway. Ran.
Hubbard, Bela. N. Y., 1814-1896. A prominent lawyer and geologist of Detroit, author of Memorials of a Half Century; Ancient Garden Beds of Michigan.
Hubbard, Elbert. Il., 1856- ——. A littérateur of East Aurora, New York, editor of The Philistine. No Enemy but Himself; Little Journeys; The Legacy, a novel; Forbes of Harvard; One Day, a Tale of the Prairies. Put.
Hubbard, Lucius Lee. O., 1849- ——. The State geologist of Michigan from 1893. Summer Vacations at Moosehead Lake; Woods and Lakes of Maine. Hou.
Hubbard, William. E., 1621-1704. A colonial historian who was a Congregational clergyman of Ipswich, and a member of the first graduating class at Harvard College, 1642. Narrative of Troubles with the Indians; Sermons; Present State of New England. He also wrote a History of New England, for which the colony paid him £50, and which was printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1815. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Hubbell, Mrs. Martha [Stone]. Ct., 1814-1856. A writer of religious juveniles, and of The Shady Side, or Life in a Country Parsonage, which for a time enjoyed an extraordinary popularity.
Hubner, Charles William. Md., 1835- ——. A journalist of Atlanta. Souvenirs of Luther; Poems and Essays; Modern Communism; Wild Flowers, a book of verse; Cinderella, and Prince and Fairy, two lyrical dramas. Meth.
Hudson, Charles. Ms., 1795-1881. A Universalist clergyman in charge of a parish at Westminster, Massachusetts, 1819-41, and subsequently a resident of Lexington in the same State. Letters to Reverend Hosea Ballou; History of Westminster; History of Lexington; Doubts Concerning the Battle of Bunker Hill; History of Marlborough.
Hudson, Erasmus Darwin. Ct., 1805-1880. A surgeon of New York city. Resections; Essay on Temperance; Immobile Apparatus for Ununited Fractures.
Hudson, Erasmus Darwin. Ms., 1843-1887. Son of E. D. Hudson, supra. A physician of New York city. Doctors’ Hygiene and Therapeutics; Home Treatment of Consumptives; Physical Diagnosis of Thoracic Diseases; Methods of Examining Weak Chests; Diagnosis of the Relations of Weak Digestions.
Hudson, Frederick. Ms., 1819-1875. A journalist connected with The New York Herald in various capacities for nearly thirty years, who after 1866 lived at Concord, Massachusetts. History of Journalism in the United States, 1690-1872. Har.
Hudson, Henry Norman. Vt., 1814-1886. An Episcopal clergyman who was a Shakespearean scholar of eminence. He served as chaplain in the Federal army during the Civil War, and in his later years was professor of Shakespeare study in Boston University. Lectures on Shakespeare; Sermons; Studies in Wordsworth; A Chaplain’s Campaign with General Butler; Shakespeare: his Life and Characters; Essays on Education. He edited the Harvard and the University editions of Shakespeare. His criticisms are helpful, but are somewhat dogmatic in tone. Est. Gi. Lit.
Hudson, James Fairchild. O., 1846- ——. A journalist of Pittsburg for many years. The Railways and the Republic. Har.
Hudson, Mrs. Mary [Clemmer] [Ames]. N. Y., 1839-1884. A journalist of Washington, well known at one period by her Woman’s Letters from Washington in The Independent. Eirene; His Two Wives; Victoria (three novels); Ten Years in Washington; Men, Women, and Things; Poems of Life and Nature; Memorials of Alice and Phœbe Cary. See Memorial Biography, by E. Hudson.
Hudson, Thomson Jay. O., 1834-1903. The Law of Psychic Phenomena; A Scientific Demonstration of the Future Life. Mg.
Hudson, William Henry. E., 1863- ——. A professor of English literature at Leland Stanford Junior University from 1892. The Church and the Stage; Introduction to Study of Herbert Spencer.
Hughes, John. I., 1797-1864. A noted Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, 1850-64. He was prominent as a controversialist, and a controversy which he held with Erastus Brooks on the church property question attracted much attention. He collected the letters on both sides in a volume entitled Brooksiana. His writings were published in 1865. He founded St. John’s College, Fordham, New York, in 1839. See Life by Hassard; Appleton’s American Biography.
Hughes, Robert William. Va., 1821- ——. A jurist of Richmond, Virginia. Reports of Cases; The Currency Question from a Southern Point of View; Transcript of United States Supreme Court Decisions; The American Dollar; Lives of Generals Floyd and Johnston. Ap.
Huidekoper, Frederic. Pa., 1817- ——. A Unitarian theologian and philanthropist of Meadville, Pennsylvania. Belief of the First Three Centuries concerning Christ’s Mission to the Underworld; Judaism at Rome; Indirect Testimony of History to the Genuineness of the Gospels.
Huidekoper, Henry Shippen. Pa., 1839- ——. A soldier in the Federal army during the Civil War who afterwards attained the rank of major-general in the Pennsylvania militia. He was postmaster of Philadelphia, 1880-1885, and author of a Manual of Military Service.
Hull, William. Ct., 1753-1825. A famous general court-martialed in 1812 for his surrender of Detroit to the English. His defence of his action appears in his book, The Campaign of the Northwest Army (1824). See Life by Maria Campbell and James Freeman Clarke (1848).
Humes, Thomas William. Tn., 1815-1892. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Tennessee who published The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee.
Humphrey, Edward Porter. Ct., 1809-1887. Son of H. Humphrey, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Louisville. Our Theology in its Development; Sacred History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law.
Humphrey, Heman. Ct., 1779-1861. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Amherst College, 1823-1845. Tour in France, etc.; Domestic Education; Sketches and History of Revivals; Essays on the Sabbath; Life of Nathan Fiske; Letters to a Son in the Ministry.
Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson. Pa., 1810-1883. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War, subsequently Chief of Engineers of the United States Army. The Virginia Campaigns of 1864 and 1865; From Gettysburg to the Rapidan. Scr.
Humphreys, David. Ct., 1752-1818. A colonel who was aide-de-camp to Washington. His miscellaneous works, of which two collections appeared in his lifetime, include articles in both prose and verse, and he was also the author of a Life of General Putnam.
Humphreys, Edward Rupert. I., 1820-1893. An educator of Boston who came thither from England in 1859. Lessons on the Liturgy of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Education of Military Officers; The Higher Education of Europe and America; Manual of Political Science, include his principal works.
Humphreys, Milton Wylie. W. Va., 1844- ——. A professor of Greek at the University of Virginia from 1887. He has published scholarly translations, with notes, of the Antigone of Sophocles and The Clouds of Aristophanes.
Hunnewell, James Frothingham. Ms., 1832- ——. A resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Bibliography of the Hawaiian Islands; The Lands of Scott; The Historical Monuments of France; The Imperial Island: England’s Chronicle in Stone; Bibliography of Charlestown and Bunker Hill; A Century of Town Life, a History of Charlestown. Hou. Lit.
Hunt, Ezra Mundy. N. J., 1830-1894. A physician of Trenton, New Jersey. Patients’ and Physicians’ Assistant; Physicians’ Counsels; Alcohol as Food and Medicine; Principles of Hygiene, are among his writings.
Hunt, Freeman. Ms., 1804-1858. A publisher of New York city who was the founder of Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine. Lives of American Merchants; Sketches of Female Character; Letters About the Hudson River.
Hunt, Harriot Kezia. Ms., 1805-1875. A physician of Boston who lectured upon woman-suffrage and sanitary reforms. She published Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years’ Social and Twenty Years’ Professional Life.
Hunt, Helen. See Jackson, Mrs. Helen.
Hunt, Henry Jackson. Mch., 1819-1889. A brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War, brevetted major-general at its close. He was the author of Instructions for Field Artillery.
Hunt, Jedediah. N. Y., 1815- ——. A verse-writer of Chilo, Ohio. The Cottage Maid, a Tale in Rhyme.
Hunt, Samuel. Ms., 1810-1878. A Congregational clergyman of Franklin, Massachusetts. He assisted Henry Wilson, infra, in writing The Rise of the Slave Power, and completed the work after Mr. Wilson’s death. He was author of Political Duties of Christians; Letter to the Avowed Friends of Missions.
Hunt, Theodore Whitefield. N. Y., 1844- ——. An educator, professor of English literature in Princeton College. Principles of Written Discourse; English Prose and Prose Writers; Ethical Teachings in Old English Literature. Fu.
Hunt, Thomas Poage. Va., 1794-1876. A clergyman and temperance lecturer of Pennsylvania. History of Jesse Johnson and his Times; Death by Measure; Liquor Selling, a History of Fraud, include the most of his works.
Hunt, Thomas Sterry. Ct., 1826-1892. A geologist who was professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1872-78. Chemical and Geological Essays; Azoic Rocks; Mineral Physiology; New Basis for Chemistry.
Hunter, John Dunn. Circa 1798-1827. An adventurer whose Manners and Customs of the Indian Tribes West of the Mississippi once attracted much attention.
Huntington, Faye. See Foster, Mrs. Theodosia.
Huntington, Frederic Dan. Ms., 1819-1904. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central New York. He was in earlier life a Unitarian clergyman, and in 1842 was professor of Christian morals in Harvard University. He entered the Episcopal ministry in 1860, and was consecrated bishop in 1864. Christian Believing and Living; Sermons for the People; Christ in the Christian Year; Steps to a Living Faith; Lessons on the Parables; Helps to a Holy Lent; Christ in the World; Forty Days with the Master, The Fitness of Christianity to Man; Human Society, include the larger part of his works. Dut. Wh.
Huntington, Jedediah Vincent. N. Y., 1815-1862. A writer who was once an Episcopal clergyman, but became a Roman Catholic layman. He was a journalist in St. Louis for some years, and died in France. America Discovered: a Poem; Alban, or the History of a Young Puritan; Poems; Lady Alice, or the New Una; Blonde and Brunette; Rosemary, or Life and Death.
Huntington, William Reed. Ms., 1838- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of prominence as a Broad Churchman. He was rector of All Saints church at Worcester, 1862-83, and since 1883 has been rector of Grace church, New York city. The Church Idea; Conditional Immortality; The Peace of the Church; The Church Porch; Questions on the Fourth Gospel; The Causes of the Soul; Short History of the Book of Common Prayer; Quinquaginta, a book of fifty poems. Dut. Scr. Wh.
Hurd, John Codman. Ms., 1816-1892. A writer of Boston. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States; The Theory of Our National Existence. Lit.
Hurlburt, William Henry. S. C., 1827-1895. A journalist of New York city of much prominence at one time as one of the editors of The World. His latest years were spent in Europe. Gan Eden, or Pictures of Cuba; General McClellan and the Conduct of the War. See Hart’s American Literature.
Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman. N. Y., 1843- ——. A Methodist clergyman of prominence in New York and New Jersey. Manual of Biblical Theology; Studies in the Four Gospels; Outlines in Old Testament History. Meth.
Hurst, John Fletcher. 1834-1903. A Methodist bishop of much prominence as a writer. Literature of Theology; History of Rationalism; Martyrs to the Tract Cause; Life and Literature in the Fatherland; Outline of Church History; Our Theological Century; Bibliotheca Theologica; Short Histories of the Church; Short History of the Christian Church; Indika, the Country and People of India and Ceylon, include the greater part of his original works. He is also the translator of Hagenbach’s History of the Church in the 18th and 19th Centuries; of Van Oosterzee’s Lectures on John’s Gospel; and of Lange’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, with additions. Har. Meth. Ran. Scr.
Hutchins, Thomas. N. J., 1730-1789. A noted geographer of the colonial period. Topographical Description of Virginia, etc.; History, Narrative, and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West Florida.
Hutchinson, Ellen Mackay. N. Y., 18— - ——. A literary journalist of New York city, on The Tribune staff, and editor with E. C. Stedman of The Library of American Literature, in eleven volumes. She has published Songs and Lyrics. Hou.
Hutchinson, Thomas. Ms., 1711-1780. The last royal governor of Massachusetts. An historian of great ability but whose merits as such were not recognized by his contemporaries. His History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, the third and last volume of which was not published till nearly fifty years after his death, begins with the year 1628, and closes with the year 1774. He published also a Collection of Original Papers relating to the same subject. See Diary and Letters of, edited by P. O. Hutchinson, 1884-86; Life by J. K. Hosmer, supra; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 28; Appleton’s American Biography.
Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman. Ms., 1822-1867. A noted physician of Brooklyn. History of Asiatic Cholera in Brooklyn; Physiology and Hygiene; Contributions to Orthopædic Surgery; Acupressure.
Hutson, Charles Woodward. S. C., 1840- ——. Out of a Beleaguered City, a Tale of the Revolution; Beginnings of Civilization; History of French Literature; The Story of Beryl, a novel.
Hutton, Laurence. N. Y., 1843-1904. A littérateur of prominence in New York city. Other Times and Other Seasons; Plays and Players; Artists of the 19th Century (with Mrs. Waters, infra); Literary Landmarks of London; Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh; Curiosities of the American Stage; From the Books of Laurence Hutton; Portraits in Plaster; Edwin Booth; Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem; Literary Landmarks of Venice; Literary Landmarks of Florence; Literary Landmarks of Rome. Har.
Hyatt, Alpheus. D. C., 1838-1902. A professor of zoölogy in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and curator of the Boston Society of Natural History. Observations on Fresh Water Polyzoa; About Pebbles; Commercial and Other Sponges; Common Hydroids; Worms and Crustacea; Guides to Science Teaching; The Oyster, Clam, and other Common Mollusks.
Hyde, Edward Wyllys. Mch., 1843- ——. A professor of mathematics and civil engineering in the University of Cincinnati from 1875, and author of Skew Arches; Directional Calculus. Gi. Vn.
Hyde, James Nevins. Ct., 1840- ——. A surgeon of Chicago. Early Medical Chicago; Diseases of the Skin.
Hyde, Thomas Worcester. Iy., 1841-1899. A brigadier-general in the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War, and afterwards a builder of steel ships at Bath, Maine. Following the Greek Cross, or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps. Hou.
Hyde, William De Witt. Ms., 1858- ——. A Congregational clergyman, president of Bowdoin College from 1885. Practical Ethics; Outlines of Social Theology. Ho. Mac.
Hylton, John Dunbar. W. I., 1837- ——. A physician of Palmyra, New Jersey, whose writings are wholly in verse of a very ambitious but unpoetical character. They include The Bride of Gettysburg; Betrayed, a Northern Tale; The Heir of Liolyn; Above the Grave of John Odenswurge; Artaloisi, a Romance of King Arthur.
Hyneman, Leon. Pa., 1805-1879. An editor of New York city. The Fundamental Principles of Science; Freemasonry in England from 1567 to 1813.
Hyslop, James Hervey. O., 1854- ——. An instructor in Columbia College. The Elements of Ethics; The Elements of Logic; The Ethics of Hume. Gi. Scr.
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Ide, George Barton. Vt., 1804-1872. A Baptist clergyman, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Green Hollow; Bible Echoes, or Lessons from the War; The Power of Kindness, a juvenile tale; Bible Pictures.
Ilsley, Charles Parker. Me., 1807-1887. A writer whose home was in Portland, Maine, till 1866. The Island Fête, a poem; The Liberty Pole, a tale of Machias; Forest and Shore, subsequently published as The Wrecker’s Daughter.
Ingalls, Joshua King. 18— - ——. Social Wealth; Economic Equities.
Ingalls, William. Ms., 1769-1851. A physician who was professor of anatomy at Brown University, 1811-23, and author of a treatise on Malignant Fevers.
Ingersoll, Charles Jared. Pa., 1782-1862. A political writer and statesman of Philadelphia who filled several diplomatic positions abroad. History of the War of 1812-15; Chiomara, a Poem; Edwy and Elgiva, a Tragedy; Inchiquin, the Jesuit’s Letters in American Literature and Politics; Recollections, etc., a volume of personal reminiscences. See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Life by W. M. Meigs, 1897.
Ingersoll, Edward. Pa., 1817-1893. Son of C. J. Ingersoll, supra. History and Law of Habeas Corpus and Grand Juries; Personal Liberty and Martial Law.
Ingersoll, Ernest. Mch., 1852- ——. A naturalist of New York city whose writing is mainly for young people and of a popular character. Friends Worth Knowing; Natural History of Insects; Knocking Around the Rockies; Nests and Eggs of American Birds; The Crest of the Continent; Strange Adventures of a Stowaway; Down East Latch Strings; The Ice Queen, a story; Birds’-Nesting; Country Cousins, or Short Studies in Natural History; Old Ocean; To the Shenandoah and Beyond; Habits of Animals. Har. Lo. Mer. Wn.
Ingersoll, Luther Dunham. 18— - ——. The librarian of the War Department at Washington. Iowa and the Rebellion; Life of Horace Greeley; History of the War Department.
Ingersoll, Joseph Reed. Pa., 1786-1868. Brother of C. J. Ingersoll, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia who was minister to England in 1852. Secession a Folly and a Crime; Memoir of Samuel Breck.
Ingersoll, Robert Green. N. Y., 1833-1899. A noted lawyer and politician of Peoria, Illinois, and more recently of New York city, famous also as a lecturer and writer strongly opposed to the Christian religion. The Gods; Ghosts; Some Mistakes of Moses; Complete Lectures; Prose Poems. Ban.
Inglehart, Mrs. Frances [Chambers] [Gooch]. Mi., 1851- ——. A writer of Austin, Texas, author of Face to Face with the Mexicans. Fo.
Inglis, David. S., 1825-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn who published Systematic Theology in Relation to Modern Thought.
Ingraham, Edward Duncan. Pa., 1793-1854. A lawyer of Philadelphia. English Ecclesiastical Reports; A View of the Insolvent Laws of Pennsylvania.
Ingraham, Joseph Holt. Me., 1809-1866. An Episcopal clergyman of Holly Springs, Mississippi. In the earlier portion of his career he wrote a number of wildly sensational romances, among them Lafitte: the Pirate of the Gulf; Captain Kyd; The Dancing Feather, all of which were very popular and quite worthless as literature. The Southwest, by a Yankee, was another work of this period. He entered the Episcopal ministry in 1855, and afterwards wrote three religious romances as popular as the others and almost as valueless. They are, The Prince of the House of David; The Pillar of Fire; The Throne of David. Rob.
Innsley, Owen. See Jennison, Lucia.
Inskip, John Swannell. E., 1816-1884. A Methodist clergyman who was a noted camp-meeting conductor. Life of Rev. William Summers; Methodism Explained and Defended; Remarkable Display of the Mercy of God.
Iredell, James. N. C., 1788-1853. A lawyer of Raleigh who was governor of North Carolina, 1827. Laws of North Carolina; North Carolina Reports; Equity Reports; Law of Executors; Digest of Reported Cases.
Ireland, Joseph Norton. N. Y., 1817-1898. A merchant of New York city. Records of the New York Stage, 1750-1860; Memories of Mrs. Duff; Professional Life of Thomas Cooper.
Irving, John Treat. N. Y., 1812- ——. Nephew of Washington Irving, infra. A lawyer of New York city. Indian Sketches; Hawk Chief; The Attorney; Harry Harson; The Van Gelder Papers. Put.
Irving, Peter. N. Y., 1771-1838. Brother of Washington Irving, infra. A journalist of New York city, who published Giovanni Sbogarra, a Venetian Tale.
Irving, Pierre Munroe. N. Y., 1803-1876. Son of William Irving, infra, and the author of a Life of Washington Irving. Put.
Irving, Roland Duer. N. Y., 1847-1888. A professor of geology in the University of Wisconsin from 1870. Geology of Central Wisconsin; Geology of Lake Superior; Copper-Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior, are among his writings.
Irving, Theodore. N. Y., 1809-1880. Nephew of Washington Irving, the son of his brother Ebenezer. An Episcopal clergyman and educator. The Fountain of Living Waters; Tiny Footfalls; More than Conqueror; The History of De Soto’s Conquest of Florida. Put. Ran.
Irving, Washington. N. Y., 1783-1859. The most popular of the earlier American writers of the 19th century. He was born in New York city, and his earliest work was Salmagundi, written with his brother William and J. K. Paulding, infra. Diedrich Knickerbocker’s History of New York, his next work, and the one by which he will be longest remembered, appeared in 1809. Irving spent the years from 1815 to 1832 abroad, a portion of the time as secretary of the United States Legation at London, and from 1842 to 1846 as minister to Spain. The rest of his life was spent at his home in Tarrytown on the Hudson. His writings not already named include, The Sketch Book; Bracebridge Hall; Tales of a Traveller; Life and Voyages of Columbus; Conquest of Grenada; The Companions of Columbus; The Alhambra; Crayon Miscellanies; Astoria; Adventures of Captain Bonneville; Life of Oliver Goldsmith; Mahomet and his Successors; Wolfert’s Roost; Life of Washington; Spanish Papers. See Life and Letters of, by Pierre Irving; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1860, and June, 1864; Haweis’s American Humourists; Irvingiana; Life by C. D. Warner; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appleton’s American Biography; Nichol’s American Literature; The Bookman, February, 1897. Cr. Har. Kt. Lip. Mac. Put.
Irving, William. N. Y., 1766-1821. Brother of Washington Irving, supra. A merchant of New York city who was in Congress, 1814-18. He was author of the poetical portion of Salmagundi.
Ives, Levi Silliman. Ct., 1797-1867. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of North Carolina, consecrated in 1832 and deposed in 1853, he having become a Roman Catholic at the close of 1852. After that period he lectured in convents of the Sacred Heart. Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism; The Obedience of Faith; Manual of Devotion; Humility a Ministerial Qualification.
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Jackson, Abraham Reeves. Pa., 1827- ——. A noted surgeon of Chicago, who has published many valuable professional papers.
Jackson, Abraham Willard. Me., 1842- ——. A Unitarian clergyman who was formerly a pastor in New Hampshire and California, but has since devoted himself to study and literary work at Concord, Massachusetts. The Immanent God, and Other Essays; James Martineau. Hou. Lit.
Jackson, Charles. Ms., 1775-1855. A jurist of Boston who published a valued Treatise on Real Actions.
Jackson, Charles Davis. Ms., 1811-1871. An Episcopal clergyman of Westchester, New York. Suffering Here and Glory Hereafter; Popular Education; Relation of Education to Crime. Ran.
Jackson, Charles Thomas. Ms., 1805-1880. A Boston scientist whose laboratory for research in analytical chemistry was the first of its kind in the United States. Report on the Geology of Maine; Mineral Lands in Michigan; Manual of Etherization.
Jackson, Edward Payson. Ty., 1840- ——. An educator of Boston, master in the Latin School from 1877. Mathematic Geography; A Demigod, a novel; The Earth in Space; Character Building. Har. Hou.
Jackson, Francis. Ms., 1789-1861. A once prominent reformer who was president of the Anti-Slavery Society for many years, and published a History of Newton, Massachusetts (his home), from 1639 to 1800.
Jackson, George Anson. Ms., 1846- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Swampscott, Massachusetts. The Son of a Prophet, an historical novel; Apostolic Fathers; Fathers of the Second Century; Post-Nicene Greek Fathers; Post-Nicene Latin Fathers, four works which form a series of early Christian literature primers. Hou.
Jackson, George Thomas. N. Y., 1852- ——. A noted dermatologist of New York city. Diseases of the Hair and Scalp; Baldness; Handbook of Diseases of the Skin.
Jackson, Mrs. Helen Maria [Fiske] [Hunt]. “H. H.” Ms., 1831-1885. A novelist and poet whose greatest achievement is Ramona, a powerful romance of Indian life in southern California. To her is usually attributed the authorship of the “Saxe Holm” stories. Her other works include, Verses; Bits of Travel; Bits of Talk; A Century of Dishonor; Bits of Talk in Verse and Prose; Bits of Travel at Home; The Story of Boon, a Poem; Sonnets and Lyrics; Nelly’s Silver Mine; Cat Stories; Mercy Philbrick’s Choice; Hetty’s Strange History; Zeph; Glimpses of Three Coasts; Between Whiles, a collection of short stories; The Procession of Flowers in Colorado; Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians of California (with K. Abbot). See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement. Kt. Rob.
Jackson, Henry Rootes. Ga., 1820-1898. A Georgia jurist who was minister to Austria, 1854-58, and to Mexico 1885-86. During the Civil War he was a general in the Confederate army. Tallulah, and Other Poems, was published in 1850. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Jackson, Isaac Wilber. N. Y., 1805-1877. An educator who was professor of mathematics in Union College from 1826, and did much toward developing the arts of landscape gardening and horticulture. Elements of Conic Sections; Treatise on Optics.
Jackson, James. Ms., 1777-1867. Son of C. Jackson, supra. The first physician of the Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston, and professor of medicine at Harvard University from 1810 until his death. On the Brunonian System; Medical Effects of Dentition; Syllabus of Lectures; Text-Book of Lectures; Letters to a Young Physician.
Jackson, James Caleb. N. Y., 1811-1895. The founder of a popular hydropathic institution at Dansville, New York, called “Our Home.” Hints on the Reproductive Organs; The Sexual Organism and its Healthful Management; Consumption; Tobacco and its Effect; How to Treat the Sick without Medicine; Dancing, its Evils and Benefits; American Womanhood; Training of Children; Debilities of Our Boys; Christ as a Physician; Morning Watches.
Jackson, Sheldon. N. Y., 1834- ——. A Presbyterian missionary, government general agent of education in Alaska since 1885. Alaska and Missions on the North Pacific Coast; Education in Alaska. Do.
Jacobi [yä-kō´bē], Abraham. Wa., 1830- ——. A New York city physician, professor in the College of Physicians since 1870. Dentition and its Derangements; Infant Hygiene; Diphtheria; Pathology of the Thymus Gland; Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood; Contributions to Midwifery (with E. Noeggereth); Infant Diet. Lip. Put.