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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.