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=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._
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