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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Ms., 1841- ——. Son of O. W. Holmes, supra. A jurist of Boston who has published The Common Law and edited Kent’s Commentaries. Lit.

Holst, Hermann Eduard von. Livonia, 1841-1904. An historian who first came to America in 1866 and engaged in lecturing and writing, but returned to Europe in 1872 and was successively professor of history in the University of Strassburg, 1872-74, and at Freiburg, 1874-92. In 1892 he became professor of history at the University of Chicago. His greatest work is Verfassung und Demokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, the translation of which is entitled The Constitutional and Political History of the United States. His other works are, Life of Calhoun; Life of John Brown; Constitutional Law of the United States. Hou.

Holt, John Saunders. Al., 1826-1886. A lawyer of New Orleans. Life of Abraham Page, a Novel; What I Know About Ben Eccles; The Quines. Lip.

Homes, Henry Augustus. Ms., 1812-1887. A Congregational clergyman who was a missionary at Constantinople, 1836-50, and subsequently in the diplomatic service there. From 1854 he was employed as librarian in the State library at Albany. The Need of Yezedees of Mesopotamia; Design and Import of Medals; Our Knowledge of California; The Palatine Emigration to England in 1709; The Water Supply of Constantinople, comprise his principal works.

Homes, Mrs. Mary Sophie [Shaw] [Rogers]. Md., 1830- ——. A writer of New Orleans. Carrie Harrington, or Scenes in New Orleans; Progression, or the South Defended, a volume of verse; A Wreath of Rhymes.

Honeywood, Saint John. Ms., 1763-1798. A lawyer of Salem, New York, whose political Poems were published in 1801.

Hood, George. Ms., 1807-1882. A clergyman long prominent as an educator in Massachusetts. Southern Church Melodies; Musical Manual; History of Music in New England (1846).

Hood, John Bell. Ky., 1831-1879. A noted general in the Confederate army. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experience in the United States and Confederate Armies, a careful defence of his military movements.

Hood, Samuel. I., c. 1800-1875. A Philadelphia lawyer, author of A Practical Treatise on the Law of Decedents in Pennsylvania.

Hooke, William. E., 1601-1678. A Puritan clergyman who was a cousin of Oliver Cromwell. He came to America about 1636; was for some seven years minister at Taunton, and for twelve years following pastor at New Haven. Returning to England in 1656, he became chaplain to Cromwell. New England’s Teares for Old England’s Feares is the best known of his writings. See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Hooker, Edward William. Ct., 1794-1875. A Congregational clergyman of Vermont who was a descendant of T. Hooker, infra. A Plea for Sacred Music; Life of Thomas Hooker.

Hooker, Herman. Vt., 1804-1865. An Episcopal clergyman who retired from the ministry and became a bookseller in Philadelphia. Family Book of Devotion; The Uses of Adversity; Thoughts and Maxims; The Portion of the Soul; Popular Infidelity; The Christian Life a Life of Faith.

Hooker, Horace. Ct., 1793-1864. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford. Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Bible History.

Hooker, Mrs. Isabella [Beecher]. Ct., 1822- ——. The youngest daughter of Lyman Beecher, supra. A philanthropist of Hartford, prominent as an advocate of spiritualism and woman-suffrage. Womanhood: its Sanctities and Fidelities.

Hooker, Thomas. E., 1586-1647. A Puritan clergyman who came to America in 1633, and was for three years minister at Cambridge, then called Newtowne. In 1636 he led a large portion of his flock to the Connecticut valley, where they founded the town of Hartford. A theologian of great influence in his century. Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline (with John Cotton); Application of Redemption; The Poore Doubting Christian drawne to Christ. See Tyler’s American Literature; Palfrey’s History of New England; Allibone’s Dictionary; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27.

Hooker, Worthington. Ms., 1806-1867. A physician of Norwich, Connecticut, who was professor of medicine at Yale University, 1852-67. Physician and Patient; An Examination of Homœopathy; Human Physiology for Schools; Rational Therapeutics; Child’s Book of Nature; Child’s Book of Common Things; Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions; Science for the School and Family; The Medical Profession and the Community. Har.

Hooper, Edward James. E., 1803-189-. A once prominent agriculturist in the West who published a Dictionary of Agriculture.

Hooper, Johnson. N. C., 1815-1863. A lawyer of Alabama. Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; Widow Rugby’s Husband, and Other Alabama Tales.

Hooper, Lucy. Ms., 1816-1841. A verse-writer of much promise whose home was in Brooklyn. Scenes from Real Life, a collection of prose Sketches, appeared during her lifetime, and her Complete Poems in 1848. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.

Hooper, Mrs. Lucy Hamilton [Jones]. Pa., 1835-1893. A Philadelphia author who lived in Europe after 1870, and was Paris correspondent for several American papers. Poems, with translations from the German; Under the Tri-Color, a Novel; The Tsar’s Window, a Novel. Lip. Rob.

Hope, James Barron. Va., 1827-1887. A lawyer and journalist of Norfolk. Leoni di Monti, and Other Poems; An Elegiac Ode; Under the Empire, or the Story of Madelon; Arms and the Man, and Other Poems.

Hopkins, Alphonso Alvah. N. Y., 1843- ——. A journalist, educator, and lecturer. His Prison Bars, a Temperance Tale; Newspaper Poets; Our Sabbath Evenings; Sinner and Saint, a Novel; Life of General Clinton Fisk; Asleep in the Sanctum, and Other Poems; Waifs and their Authors; Wealth and Waste; Geraldine, a novel in verse on the model of Lucile. Fu. Hou.

Hopkins, Caspar Thomas. Vt., 1826-1893. Son of Bishop Hopkins, infra. A Californian journalist who established the first insurance company on the Pacific coast. He published a Manual of American Ideas.

Hopkins, Edward Washburn. Ms., 1857- ——. A professor of Sanskrit in Yale University. Mutual Relations of the Four Castes in Manu; Translation of Laws of Manu; Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India; The Religions of India. Gi.

Hopkins, Erastus. Ms., 1810-1872. A Presbyterian clergyman, long a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts, and the author of The Family a Religious Institution.

Hopkins, John Henry. I., 1792-1868. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. A writer of vigour and versatility, prominent both as a High Churchman and a controversialist. History of the Confessional; The End of Controversy Controverted; The Primitive Church; Essay on Gothic Architecture; The Church of Rome in her Primitive Purity; Scriptural View of Slavery, a defence of the institution; Law of Ritualism; Lectures on the Reformation; Twelve Canzonets, words and music; History of the Church in verse, include his principal writings. See Life by his son, J. H. Hopkins, infra.

Hopkins, John Henry. Pa., 1820-1891. Son of J. H. Hopkins, supra. An Episcopal clergyman who founded The Church Journal, of which he was long the editor. Among his writings are included Carols, Hymns, and Songs; Poems by the Wayside; Life of Bishop Hopkins; Faith and Order of the Protestant Church in the United States; and a translation of Goethe’s Autobiography. See C. F. Sweet’s Champion of the Cross, 1894. Wh.

Hopkins, Lemuel. Ct., 1750-1801. A political writer of note in his day, author of satires, poems, and a favourite version of Psalm cxxxii. With Barlow and others he wrote the Anarchiad, a plea for an efficient federal constitution.

Hopkins, Mrs. Louisa Parsons [Stone]. Ms., 1834-1895. An educator of Boston, for some years a member of the Boston School Board. How Shall my Child be Taught?; Practical Pedagogy; Educational Psychology; Observation Lessons in Primary Schools; Cosmic Geography; Handbook of the Earth; Parables of Nature and Life. In verse she wrote, Motherhood; Breath of the Field and Shore; Easter Carols. Le.

Hopkins, Mrs. Louisa [Payson]. Me., 1812-1862. A writer of religious works for young people, the wife of Professor Albert Hopkins, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The Pastor’s Daughter; Lessons on the Book of Proverbs; Henry Langdon; The Guiding Star; The Silent Comforter; Select Thoughts. See Sewall’s Memoirs of Albert Hopkins.

Hopkins, Mark. Ms., 1802-1887. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1836-1872, and a man of wide influence as an educator and a religious writer. Lectures on Moral Science; The Law of Love and Love as a Law; Discourses and Essays; Outline Study of Man; The Scriptural Idea of Man; Teachings and Counsels; Evidences of Christianity. See Life by F. Carter, supra. Rev. Scr.

Hopkins, Mark. Ms., 1851- ——. Son of M. Hopkins, supra. A journalist in London. The World’s Verdict, a novel. Hou.

Hopkins, Samuel. Ct., 1721-1803. A Congregational clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, the founder of what has been called Hopkinsian Divinity, which differed from Calvinism in maintaining the free agency of sinners, the moral inability of the unregenerate, and ascribing the essence of sin to the disposition and purpose of the mind. His views had great influence in the modification of contemporary thought. He was a strong opponent of slavery, and his influence procured the passage of a law prohibiting the importation of slaves into Rhode Island. The System of Doctrine contained in Divine Revelation is his principal work. Others are, The True State of the Unregenerate; Nature of True Holiness; The Duty and Interest of American States to Emancipate their Slaves. See Life by Park; Mrs. Stowe’s Minister’s Wooing; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Hopkins, Samuel. Ms., 1807-1887. Cousin of M. Hopkins, 1st, supra. A Congregational clergyman of New England, long a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts. The Puritans and Queen Elizabeth; Lessons at the Cross; Youth of the Old Dominion.

Hopkins, Samuel Miles. Ct., 1772-1837. A jurist of New York State. Chancery Reports; Treatise on Temperance.

Hopkins, Samuel Miles. N. Y., 1813-1901. Son of S. M. Hopkins, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor in Auburn Theological Seminary from 1847. Manual of Church Polity; Liturgy and Book of Common Prayer.

Hopkins, Stephen. R. I., 1707-1785. One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and ten times governor of Rhode Island. He was the author of Rights of the Colonies Examined; History of the Planting and Growth of Providence. See Life by W. E. Foster, 1884; Bibliography of Rhode Island.

Hopkinson, Francis. Pa., 1737-1791. A once famous political writer and lawyer of Philadelphia, among whose political writings are, The Pretty Story; The Prophecy; The Political Catechism; The New Roof. He is best known by his humourous poem, The Battle of the Kegs. Three volumes of his Miscellaneous Writings were published in 1792.

Hopkinson, Joseph. Pa., 1770-1842. Son of F. Hopkinson, supra. A jurist of Philadelphia who is chiefly remembered as the author of the poem, Hail Columbia.

Hoppin, Augustus. R. I., 1828-1896. An artist and illustrator. On the Nile; Ups and Downs on Land and Water; Jubilee Days; Hay Fever; Recollections of Auton House, a novel; A Fashionable Sufferer; Two Compton Boys; Married for Fun, a romance. Hou.

Hoppin, James Mason. R. I., 1820- ——. Cousin of A. Hoppin, supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor of homiletics at Yale University, 1861-1879, and subsequently of the history of art. Notes of a Theological Student; Old England; Life of Admiral Foote; Memoirs of Henry Armitt Brown, supra; Homiletics; Pastoral Theology; Office and Work of the Christian Minister; Sermons on Faith, Hope, Love, etc.; The Early Renaissance; Greek Art on Greek Soil. Do. Fu. Har. Hou. Lip.

Horn, Edward Traill. Pa., 1850- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Charleston. The Christian Year; Old Matin and Vesper Services of the Lutheran Church; Outlines of Liturgics; The Evangelical Pastor.

Hornaday, William Temple. Ind., 1854- ——. A naturalist of Washington, for eight years chief taxidermist of the National Museum. Two Years in the Jungle; The Buffalo Hunt; Canoe and Rifle on the Orinoco; Free Rum on the Congo; Taxidermy and Zoölogical Collecting. Scr.

Horner, William Edmunds. Va., 1793-1853. A physician of Philadelphia, professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, 1819-53. Special Anatomy and Histology; United States Dissector; Anatomical Atlas; Pathological Anatomy. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

Horsfield, Thomas. Pa., 1773-1859. A naturalist and traveller who was a native of Philadelphia, but was in the employ of the East India Company, and lived in England after 1820. Lepidopterous Insects; Zoölogical Researches in Java. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27.

Horsford, Eben Norton. N. Y., 1818-1893. A chemist of Cambridge who was Rumford professor at Harvard University, 1847-63. He was the discoverer of acid phosphate, and one of the founders of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. Theory and Art of Breadmaking; The Army Ration; Discovery of America by Northmen. Hou.

Horsford, Mrs. Mary L’Hommedieu [Gardiner]. N. Y., 1824-1855. Wife of E. N. Horsford, supra, and author of Indian Legends and Other Poems.

Horsmanden, Daniel. E., 1691-1778. A jurist of New York city. The New York Conspiracy, or the History of the Negro Plot; Letters to Governor Clinton.

Horton, George Forman. Pa., 1808-1888. A lawyer of Terrytown, Pennsylvania. Geology of Bradford County, Pennsylvania; The Horton Genealogy.

Horton, Samuel Dana. O., 1844-1895. A publicist of Pomeroy, Ohio, eminent as an advocate of bimetallism. Silver and Gold; The Silver Pound and England’s Monetary Position since the Restoration, with a History of the Guinea; Silver in Europe. Clke. Mac.

Hosack, David. N. Y., 1769-1835. An eminent physician and scientist of New York city who founded the first botanic garden in America. Contagious Diseases; Vision; Hortus Elginensis; Memoir of Hugh Williamson; Memoirs of De Witt Clinton; Essays on Medical Science; Theory and Practice of Medicine.

Hoskins, Nathan. Vt., 1795-1869. A lawyer of Vermont and Massachusetts. History of Vermont; Notes in the West; The Bennington Court Controversy.

Hosmer, Frederick Lucian. Ms., 1846- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Chicago. The Way of Life; The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems (with W. C. Gannett, supra). Rob.

Hosmer, George Washington. 1846- ——. A physician. The People and Politics; As We Went Marching On, a Story of the War. Har. Hou.

Hosmer, James Kendall. Ms., 1834- ——. A professor in Washington University of St. Louis, 1874-92, and since the latter date public librarian of Minneapolis. Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom; The Story of the Jews; Life of Sir Henry Vane; Life of Samuel Adams; Thomas Hutchinson, Royal Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay; The Color Guard, a narrative of personal experience; The Thinking Bayonet, a novel; A Short History of German Literature; How Thankful was Bewitched. Hou. Put. Scr.

Hosmer, Mrs. Margaret [Kerr]. Pa., 1830-1897. A Philadelphia writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, A Chinaman in California; The Chinese Boy; The Little Captives; Lonny the Orphan. She wrote, also, three novels, Blanche Gilroy; The Morrisons; Ten Years of a Life Time. Co. Lip.

Hosmer, William Henry Cuyler. N. Y., 1814-1877. A lawyer of western New York who wrote much in verse, the greater part of which is concerned with Indian legends. Fall of Tecumseh; Legends of the Senecas; The Themes of Song; The Months; Yonnondio; Bird Notes; Indian Traditions and Songs; The Pioneers of Western New York. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.

Hotchkiss, James Harvey. Ct., 1781-1851. A Presbyterian minister of Prattsburg, New York, the author of History of the Churches of Western New York.

Hough [hŭff], Franklin Benjamin. N. Y., 1820-1885. A physician whose later years were passed in Lowville, New York, in scientific and historical study. Among his works are, Catalogue of Plants in Lewis and Franklin Counties; History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties; The Siege of Charleston in 1780; Duty of Government in the Preservation of Forests; Report on Forestry; Elements of Forestry; American Constitutions. Clke.

Hough, George Washington. N. Y., 1836- ——. An astronomer of Chicago, director of the Dearborn Observatory. Annals of Dudley Observatory; Report of Dearborn Observatory; The Galvanic Battery, are among his writings.

Houghton [ho´ton], George Washington Wright. Ms., 1850-1891. A journalist and verse-writer of New York city. His published volumes of verse include, Songs from Over the Sea; Album Leaves; Drift from York Harbor, Maine; The Legend of St. Olaf’s Kirk; Niagara, and Other Poems. Hou.

Houghton, Henry Clark. Ms., 1837-1901. A physician of New York city, dean of the ophthalmic hospital. Lectures on Clinical Otology.

House, Edward Howard. Ms., 1836-1901. A journalist and critic of Boston and New York, long resident in Japan. The Simonoseki Affair; The Kagosima Affair; The Japanese Expedition to Formosa; Japanese Episodes; Yone Santo, a Child of Japan; The Midnight Warning, and Other Stories. Har.

Houston, Daniel Franklin. N. C., 1866- ——. A professor of political economy in the University of Texas. A Critical History of Nullification in South Carolina. Lgs.

Hovey [hŭv´ĭ], Alvah. N. Y., 1820-1903. A Baptist clergyman, professor in Newton Theological Seminary from 1849, and from 1868 its president. The Miracles of Christ; The Scriptural Law of Divorce; Life of Isaac Backus; State of the Impenitent Dead; Christian Teaching and Life; God With Us; Systematic Theology; Biblical Eschatology; Studies in Ethics and Religion, include his principal works. Bap.

Hovey, Charles Mason. Ms., 1810-1887. A noted horticulturist of Cambridge, editor of Hovey’s Magazine of Horticulture, which reached its thirty-fourth volume, and author of Fruits of America.

Hovey, Horace Carter. Ind., 1833- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Celebrated American Caverns.

Hovey, Richard. Il., 1864-1900. A verse-writer of Washington. The Laurel, an Ode; Launcelot and Guenevere, a Poem in Dramas, republished as The Marriage of Guenevere; Seaward, an Elegy on the Death of Thomas William Parsons, infra; Gandelfo, a tragedy; Songs from Vagabondia, and More Songs from Vagabondia (with W. B. Carman, supra). Cop. Lo. St.

Howard, Blanche Willis. See Teuffel, von.

Howard, Bronson. Mch., 1842- ——. A prominent dramatist of New York city. Saratoga, produced in London as Brighton, and in Berlin as Eine Erste und Einzige Liebe; Diamonds; The Banker’s Daughter; Old Love Letters; Young Mrs. Winthrop; One of Our Girls; The Henrietta; Shenandoah; Aristocracy; Moorcroft; Hurricanes; Wives; Met by Chance; Greenroom Fun.

Howard, Oliver Otis. Me., 1830- ——. A major-general in the United States army who served during the Civil War and in several Indian campaigns; in command of the Division of the Atlantic from 1888. Donald’s School Days; a translation of Agenor’s Life of Count de Gasparin; Chief Joseph, or the Nez Percés in Peace and War; Isabella of Castile. Fu. Le.

Howarth, Mrs. Ellen Clementine [Doran]. N. Y., 1827-1899. A verse-writer of Trenton, New Jersey. Poems; Poems edited by R. W. Gilder, (1868). ’Tis but a Little Faded Flower, and Thou Wilt Never Grow Old, are well-known poems of hers.

Howe, Edgar Watson. Ind., 1854- ——. A journalist of Atchison, Kansas, editor of The Daily Globe. His first novel, The Story of a Country Town, attracted much attention. Later stories include, The Mystery of The Locks; A Moonlight Boy; A Man Story.

Howe, Fisher. Vt., 1798-1871. A philanthropist of Brooklyn. Oriental and Sacred Scenes; The True Site of Calvary. Ran.

Howe, Frederic Clemson. Pa., 1867- ——. Taxation and Taxes in the United States under the Internal Revenue System, 1791-1895. Cr.

Howe, George. Ms., 1802-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of biblical literature in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, from 1831. Theological Education; History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina.

Howe, Henry. Ct., 1816-1893. An historical writer and compiler of Cincinnati. Historical Collections of New Jersey (with J. W. Barber, infra); Our Whole Country; The Great West; Historical Collections of Virginia and Ohio; Over the World; Adventures and Achievements of Americans; Times of the Rebellion in the West, are among his works.

Howe, Henry Marion. Ms., 1848- ——. Son of S. G. and J. W. Howe, infra. A metallurgist who has published The Metallurgy of Steel; Copper Smelting.

Howe, Herbert Alonzo. N. Y., 1858- ——. An astronomer of Colorado, director of Chamberlin Observatory, University of Denver. A Study of the Sky; Elements of Descriptive Astronomy. Fl. Sil.

Howe, John Badlam. Ms., 1813-1882. A publicist of Indiana whose works upon finance have had much influence. Monetary and Industrial Fallacies; Mono-Metalism and Bi-Metalism; The Political Economy of Great Britain, the United States, and France in the Use of Money; The Common Sense of Money; Replies to Criticisms. Hou.

Howe, Mrs. Julia [Ward]. N. Y., 1819- ——. Wife of S. G. Howe, infra. A writer of Boston long prominent in philanthropic movements, and as a lecturer upon the enfranchisement of women. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is her finest effort. Her writings include, Passion Flowers; Words for the Hour; The World’s Own; A Trip to Cuba; From the Oak to the Olive; Later Lyrics; Sex and Education; Memoir of S. G. Howe, infra; Modern Society; Life of Margaret Fuller; Is Polite Society Polite?; From Sunset Ridge, poems. Lam. Le.

Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe. R. I., 1809-1895. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central Pennsylvania. Domestic Slavery, a Reply to Bishop Hopkins; Life of Alonzo Potter, infra.

Howe, Maud. See Elliott, Mrs.

Howe, Samuel Gridley. Ms., 1801-1876. A physician of Boston, the first superintendent of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, and a man of prominence in the anti-slavery movement. Reader for the Blind; Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution. See J. F. Clarke’s Memorial and Biographical Sketches; Memoir by Mrs. Howe.

Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford. N. C., 1801-1868. A once noted Baptist clergyman of Nashville. Terms of Sacramental Communion; The Way of Salvation; Evils of Infant Baptism; The Cross; The Covenant; Early Baptists of Virginia.

Howells, William Cooper. W., 1807-1894. Life in Ohio from 1813 to 1840. Clke.

Howells, William Dean. O., 1837- ——. Son of W. C. Howells, supra. A novelist of much prominence who at nineteen was a printer on a Cincinnati journal, and in 1860 published with J. J. Piatt, infra, Poems of Two Friends. In the same year he wrote a Life of Abraham Lincoln, and from 1861-65 was consul at Venice. Venetian Life, and Italian Journeys, date from this portion of his career. From 1872-81 he was editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and since then has devoted his time wholly to literature in Boston and New York. His writings since 1869 include: The Day of Their Wedding; At the Sign of the Lion’s Head; No Love Lost; Suburban Sketches; Their Wedding Journey; A Chance Acquaintance; A Foregone Conclusion; The Lady of the Aroostook; The Undiscovered Country; A Modern Instance; A Woman’s Reason; The Minister’s Charge; Indian Summer; A Fearful Responsibility, and Other Stories; Doctor Breen’s Practice; The Rise of Silas Lapham; April Hopes; Annie Kilburn; A Hazard of New Fortunes; The Shadow of a Dream; An Imperative Duty; The Quality of Mercy; The World of Chance; The Coast of Bohemia; A Traveller from Altruria; Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories for Children; A Parting and a Meeting; The Sleeping-Car, and Other Farces; The Mouse-trap, and Other Farces; Out of the Question, a comedy; A Counterfeit Presentment, a comedy; A Sea Change, or Love’s Stowaway; Poems; Stops from Various Quills, a book of verse. Among miscellaneous writings of his are, Three Villages (Shirley, Lexington, Gnadenhütten); Modern Italian Poets; A Boy’s Town; Tuscan Cities; My Year in a Log Cabin; Criticism and Fiction; My Literary Passions. Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors; Century Magazine, March, 1882; Vedder’s American Writers; New England Magazine, October, 1893; The Bookman, February, 1897. Har. Hou.

Howison, George Holmes. Md., 1834- ——. A mathematician who has published a Treatise on Analytic Geometry.

Howison, Robert Reid. Va., 1820- ——. A lawyer of Richmond. History of Virginia; History of the American Civil War; Fredericksburg; Lives of Generals Morgan, Marion, Gates; God and Creation.

Howland, George. Ms., 1824-1892. An educator of Illinois, president of the State board of education, 1882. Grammar of the English Language; Little Voices, a book of verse; an hexameter translation of the Æneid; Practical Hints for the Teachers of Public Schools. Ap.

Hows, John William Stanhope. E., 1797-1871. A journalist and educator of New York city who published The Practical Elocutionist, and edited a number of school books.

Hoyt, Epaphras. Ms., 1765-1850. A major-general of the Massachusetts militia, who lived in Deerfield. Treatise on the Military Art; Military Instructions; Cavalry Discipline; Antiquarian Researches.

Hoyt, Henry Martyn. Pa., 1830-1892. A Pennsylvania lawyer, governor of his State, 1878-83. Controversy between Connecticut and Pennsylvania; Protection versus Free Trade. Ap.

Hoyt, John Wesley. O., 1831-1892. An educator of distinction, governor of Wyoming, 1878-82, and president of Wyoming University from 1887. Resources and Progress of Wisconsin; Resources and Progress of Wyoming.

Hoyt, Ralph. N. Y., 1806-1878. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. The Chant of Life, and Other Poems; Echoes of Memory and Emotion; Sketches of Life and Landscape. See Duyckinck’s American Literature.

Hoyt, Wayland. O., 1838- ——. A popular Baptist minister of Brooklyn. Hints and Helps for the Christian Life; Present Lessons from Distant Days; Gleams from Paul’s Prison; The Brook in the Way; Saturday Afternoon; Light on Life’s Highway. Ran.

Hubbard, Bela. N. Y., 1814-1896. A prominent lawyer and geologist of Detroit, author of Memorials of a Half Century; Ancient Garden Beds of Michigan.

Hubbard, Elbert. Il., 1856- ——. A littérateur of East Aurora, New York, editor of The Philistine. No Enemy but Himself; Little Journeys; The Legacy, a novel; Forbes of Harvard; One Day, a Tale of the Prairies. Put.

Hubbard, Lucius Lee. O., 1849- ——. The State geologist of Michigan from 1893. Summer Vacations at Moosehead Lake; Woods and Lakes of Maine. Hou.

Hubbard, William. E., 1621-1704. A colonial historian who was a Congregational clergyman of Ipswich, and a member of the first graduating class at Harvard College, 1642. Narrative of Troubles with the Indians; Sermons; Present State of New England. He also wrote a History of New England, for which the colony paid him £50, and which was printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1815. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Hubbell, Mrs. Martha [Stone]. Ct., 1814-1856. A writer of religious juveniles, and of The Shady Side, or Life in a Country Parsonage, which for a time enjoyed an extraordinary popularity.

Hubner, Charles William. Md., 1835- ——. A journalist of Atlanta. Souvenirs of Luther; Poems and Essays; Modern Communism; Wild Flowers, a book of verse; Cinderella, and Prince and Fairy, two lyrical dramas. Meth.

Hudson, Charles. Ms., 1795-1881. A Universalist clergyman in charge of a parish at Westminster, Massachusetts, 1819-41, and subsequently a resident of Lexington in the same State. Letters to Reverend Hosea Ballou; History of Westminster; History of Lexington; Doubts Concerning the Battle of Bunker Hill; History of Marlborough.

Hudson, Erasmus Darwin. Ct., 1805-1880. A surgeon of New York city. Resections; Essay on Temperance; Immobile Apparatus for Ununited Fractures.

Hudson, Erasmus Darwin. Ms., 1843-1887. Son of E. D. Hudson, supra. A physician of New York city. Doctors’ Hygiene and Therapeutics; Home Treatment of Consumptives; Physical Diagnosis of Thoracic Diseases; Methods of Examining Weak Chests; Diagnosis of the Relations of Weak Digestions.

Hudson, Frederick. Ms., 1819-1875. A journalist connected with The New York Herald in various capacities for nearly thirty years, who after 1866 lived at Concord, Massachusetts. History of Journalism in the United States, 1690-1872. Har.

Hudson, Henry Norman. Vt., 1814-1886. An Episcopal clergyman who was a Shakespearean scholar of eminence. He served as chaplain in the Federal army during the Civil War, and in his later years was professor of Shakespeare study in Boston University. Lectures on Shakespeare; Sermons; Studies in Wordsworth; A Chaplain’s Campaign with General Butler; Shakespeare: his Life and Characters; Essays on Education. He edited the Harvard and the University editions of Shakespeare. His criticisms are helpful, but are somewhat dogmatic in tone. Est. Gi. Lit.

Hudson, James Fairchild. O., 1846- ——. A journalist of Pittsburg for many years. The Railways and the Republic. Har.

Hudson, Mrs. Mary [Clemmer] [Ames]. N. Y., 1839-1884. A journalist of Washington, well known at one period by her Woman’s Letters from Washington in The Independent. Eirene; His Two Wives; Victoria (three novels); Ten Years in Washington; Men, Women, and Things; Poems of Life and Nature; Memorials of Alice and Phœbe Cary. See Memorial Biography, by E. Hudson.

Hudson, Thomson Jay. O., 1834-1903. The Law of Psychic Phenomena; A Scientific Demonstration of the Future Life. Mg.

Hudson, William Henry. E., 1863- ——. A professor of English literature at Leland Stanford Junior University from 1892. The Church and the Stage; Introduction to Study of Herbert Spencer.

Hughes, John. I., 1797-1864. A noted Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, 1850-64. He was prominent as a controversialist, and a controversy which he held with Erastus Brooks on the church property question attracted much attention. He collected the letters on both sides in a volume entitled Brooksiana. His writings were published in 1865. He founded St. John’s College, Fordham, New York, in 1839. See Life by Hassard; Appleton’s American Biography.

Hughes, Robert William. Va., 1821- ——. A jurist of Richmond, Virginia. Reports of Cases; The Currency Question from a Southern Point of View; Transcript of United States Supreme Court Decisions; The American Dollar; Lives of Generals Floyd and Johnston. Ap.

Huidekoper, Frederic. Pa., 1817- ——. A Unitarian theologian and philanthropist of Meadville, Pennsylvania. Belief of the First Three Centuries concerning Christ’s Mission to the Underworld; Judaism at Rome; Indirect Testimony of History to the Genuineness of the Gospels.

Huidekoper, Henry Shippen. Pa., 1839- ——. A soldier in the Federal army during the Civil War who afterwards attained the rank of major-general in the Pennsylvania militia. He was postmaster of Philadelphia, 1880-1885, and author of a Manual of Military Service.

Hull, William. Ct., 1753-1825. A famous general court-martialed in 1812 for his surrender of Detroit to the English. His defence of his action appears in his book, The Campaign of the Northwest Army (1824). See Life by Maria Campbell and James Freeman Clarke (1848).

Humes, Thomas William. Tn., 1815-1892. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Tennessee who published The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee.

Humphrey, Edward Porter. Ct., 1809-1887. Son of H. Humphrey, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Louisville. Our Theology in its Development; Sacred History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law.

Humphrey, Heman. Ct., 1779-1861. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Amherst College, 1823-1845. Tour in France, etc.; Domestic Education; Sketches and History of Revivals; Essays on the Sabbath; Life of Nathan Fiske; Letters to a Son in the Ministry.

Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson. Pa., 1810-1883. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War, subsequently Chief of Engineers of the United States Army. The Virginia Campaigns of 1864 and 1865; From Gettysburg to the Rapidan. Scr.

Humphreys, David. Ct., 1752-1818. A colonel who was aide-de-camp to Washington. His miscellaneous works, of which two collections appeared in his lifetime, include articles in both prose and verse, and he was also the author of a Life of General Putnam.

Humphreys, Edward Rupert. I., 1820-1893. An educator of Boston who came thither from England in 1859. Lessons on the Liturgy of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Education of Military Officers; The Higher Education of Europe and America; Manual of Political Science, include his principal works.

Humphreys, Milton Wylie. W. Va., 1844- ——. A professor of Greek at the University of Virginia from 1887. He has published scholarly translations, with notes, of the Antigone of Sophocles and The Clouds of Aristophanes.

Hunnewell, James Frothingham. Ms., 1832- ——. A resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Bibliography of the Hawaiian Islands; The Lands of Scott; The Historical Monuments of France; The Imperial Island: England’s Chronicle in Stone; Bibliography of Charlestown and Bunker Hill; A Century of Town Life, a History of Charlestown. Hou. Lit.

Hunt, Ezra Mundy. N. J., 1830-1894. A physician of Trenton, New Jersey. Patients’ and Physicians’ Assistant; Physicians’ Counsels; Alcohol as Food and Medicine; Principles of Hygiene, are among his writings.

Hunt, Freeman. Ms., 1804-1858. A publisher of New York city who was the founder of Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine. Lives of American Merchants; Sketches of Female Character; Letters About the Hudson River.

Hunt, Harriot Kezia. Ms., 1805-1875. A physician of Boston who lectured upon woman-suffrage and sanitary reforms. She published Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years’ Social and Twenty Years’ Professional Life.

Hunt, Helen. See Jackson, Mrs. Helen.

Hunt, Henry Jackson. Mch., 1819-1889. A brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War, brevetted major-general at its close. He was the author of Instructions for Field Artillery.

Hunt, Jedediah. N. Y., 1815- ——. A verse-writer of Chilo, Ohio. The Cottage Maid, a Tale in Rhyme.

Hunt, Samuel. Ms., 1810-1878. A Congregational clergyman of Franklin, Massachusetts. He assisted Henry Wilson, infra, in writing The Rise of the Slave Power, and completed the work after Mr. Wilson’s death. He was author of Political Duties of Christians; Letter to the Avowed Friends of Missions.

Hunt, Theodore Whitefield. N. Y., 1844- ——. An educator, professor of English literature in Princeton College. Principles of Written Discourse; English Prose and Prose Writers; Ethical Teachings in Old English Literature. Fu.

Hunt, Thomas Poage. Va., 1794-1876. A clergyman and temperance lecturer of Pennsylvania. History of Jesse Johnson and his Times; Death by Measure; Liquor Selling, a History of Fraud, include the most of his works.

Hunt, Thomas Sterry. Ct., 1826-1892. A geologist who was professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1872-78. Chemical and Geological Essays; Azoic Rocks; Mineral Physiology; New Basis for Chemistry.

Hunter, John Dunn. Circa 1798-1827. An adventurer whose Manners and Customs of the Indian Tribes West of the Mississippi once attracted much attention.

Huntington, Faye. See Foster, Mrs. Theodosia.

Huntington, Frederic Dan. Ms., 1819-1904. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central New York. He was in earlier life a Unitarian clergyman, and in 1842 was professor of Christian morals in Harvard University. He entered the Episcopal ministry in 1860, and was consecrated bishop in 1864. Christian Believing and Living; Sermons for the People; Christ in the Christian Year; Steps to a Living Faith; Lessons on the Parables; Helps to a Holy Lent; Christ in the World; Forty Days with the Master, The Fitness of Christianity to Man; Human Society, include the larger part of his works. Dut. Wh.

Huntington, Jedediah Vincent. N. Y., 1815-1862. A writer who was once an Episcopal clergyman, but became a Roman Catholic layman. He was a journalist in St. Louis for some years, and died in France. America Discovered: a Poem; Alban, or the History of a Young Puritan; Poems; Lady Alice, or the New Una; Blonde and Brunette; Rosemary, or Life and Death.

Huntington, William Reed. Ms., 1838- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of prominence as a Broad Churchman. He was rector of All Saints church at Worcester, 1862-83, and since 1883 has been rector of Grace church, New York city. The Church Idea; Conditional Immortality; The Peace of the Church; The Church Porch; Questions on the Fourth Gospel; The Causes of the Soul; Short History of the Book of Common Prayer; Quinquaginta, a book of fifty poems. Dut. Scr. Wh.

Hurd, John Codman. Ms., 1816-1892. A writer of Boston. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States; The Theory of Our National Existence. Lit.

Hurlburt, William Henry. S. C., 1827-1895. A journalist of New York city of much prominence at one time as one of the editors of The World. His latest years were spent in Europe. Gan Eden, or Pictures of Cuba; General McClellan and the Conduct of the War. See Hart’s American Literature.

Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman. N. Y., 1843- ——. A Methodist clergyman of prominence in New York and New Jersey. Manual of Biblical Theology; Studies in the Four Gospels; Outlines in Old Testament History. Meth.

Hurst, John Fletcher. 1834-1903. A Methodist bishop of much prominence as a writer. Literature of Theology; History of Rationalism; Martyrs to the Tract Cause; Life and Literature in the Fatherland; Outline of Church History; Our Theological Century; Bibliotheca Theologica; Short Histories of the Church; Short History of the Christian Church; Indika, the Country and People of India and Ceylon, include the greater part of his original works. He is also the translator of Hagenbach’s History of the Church in the 18th and 19th Centuries; of Van Oosterzee’s Lectures on John’s Gospel; and of Lange’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, with additions. Har. Meth. Ran. Scr.

Hutchins, Thomas. N. J., 1730-1789. A noted geographer of the colonial period. Topographical Description of Virginia, etc.; History, Narrative, and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West Florida.

Hutchinson, Ellen Mackay. N. Y., 18— - ——. A literary journalist of New York city, on The Tribune staff, and editor with E. C. Stedman of The Library of American Literature, in eleven volumes. She has published Songs and Lyrics. Hou.

Hutchinson, Thomas. Ms., 1711-1780. The last royal governor of Massachusetts. An historian of great ability but whose merits as such were not recognized by his contemporaries. His History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, the third and last volume of which was not published till nearly fifty years after his death, begins with the year 1628, and closes with the year 1774. He published also a Collection of Original Papers relating to the same subject. See Diary and Letters of, edited by P. O. Hutchinson, 1884-86; Life by J. K. Hosmer, supra; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 28; Appleton’s American Biography.

Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman. Ms., 1822-1867. A noted physician of Brooklyn. History of Asiatic Cholera in Brooklyn; Physiology and Hygiene; Contributions to Orthopædic Surgery; Acupressure.

Hutson, Charles Woodward. S. C., 1840- ——. Out of a Beleaguered City, a Tale of the Revolution; Beginnings of Civilization; History of French Literature; The Story of Beryl, a novel.

Hutton, Laurence. N. Y., 1843-1904. A littérateur of prominence in New York city. Other Times and Other Seasons; Plays and Players; Artists of the 19th Century (with Mrs. Waters, infra); Literary Landmarks of London; Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh; Curiosities of the American Stage; From the Books of Laurence Hutton; Portraits in Plaster; Edwin Booth; Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem; Literary Landmarks of Venice; Literary Landmarks of Florence; Literary Landmarks of Rome. Har.

Hyatt, Alpheus. D. C., 1838-1902. A professor of zoölogy in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and curator of the Boston Society of Natural History. Observations on Fresh Water Polyzoa; About Pebbles; Commercial and Other Sponges; Common Hydroids; Worms and Crustacea; Guides to Science Teaching; The Oyster, Clam, and other Common Mollusks.

Hyde, Edward Wyllys. Mch., 1843- ——. A professor of mathematics and civil engineering in the University of Cincinnati from 1875, and author of Skew Arches; Directional Calculus. Gi. Vn.

Hyde, James Nevins. Ct., 1840- ——. A surgeon of Chicago. Early Medical Chicago; Diseases of the Skin.

Hyde, Thomas Worcester. Iy., 1841-1899. A brigadier-general in the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War, and afterwards a builder of steel ships at Bath, Maine. Following the Greek Cross, or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps. Hou.

Hyde, William De Witt. Ms., 1858- ——. A Congregational clergyman, president of Bowdoin College from 1885. Practical Ethics; Outlines of Social Theology. Ho. Mac.

Hylton, John Dunbar. W. I., 1837- ——. A physician of Palmyra, New Jersey, whose writings are wholly in verse of a very ambitious but unpoetical character. They include The Bride of Gettysburg; Betrayed, a Northern Tale; The Heir of Liolyn; Above the Grave of John Odenswurge; Artaloisi, a Romance of King Arthur.

Hyneman, Leon. Pa., 1805-1879. An editor of New York city. The Fundamental Principles of Science; Freemasonry in England from 1567 to 1813.

Hyslop, James Hervey. O., 1854- ——. An instructor in Columbia College. The Elements of Ethics; The Elements of Logic; The Ethics of Hume. Gi. Scr.

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Ide, George Barton. Vt., 1804-1872. A Baptist clergyman, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Green Hollow; Bible Echoes, or Lessons from the War; The Power of Kindness, a juvenile tale; Bible Pictures.

Ilsley, Charles Parker. Me., 1807-1887. A writer whose home was in Portland, Maine, till 1866. The Island Fête, a poem; The Liberty Pole, a tale of Machias; Forest and Shore, subsequently published as The Wrecker’s Daughter.

Ingalls, Joshua King. 18— - ——. Social Wealth; Economic Equities.

Ingalls, William. Ms., 1769-1851. A physician who was professor of anatomy at Brown University, 1811-23, and author of a treatise on Malignant Fevers.

Ingersoll, Charles Jared. Pa., 1782-1862. A political writer and statesman of Philadelphia who filled several diplomatic positions abroad. History of the War of 1812-15; Chiomara, a Poem; Edwy and Elgiva, a Tragedy; Inchiquin, the Jesuit’s Letters in American Literature and Politics; Recollections, etc., a volume of personal reminiscences. See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Life by W. M. Meigs, 1897.

Ingersoll, Edward. Pa., 1817-1893. Son of C. J. Ingersoll, supra. History and Law of Habeas Corpus and Grand Juries; Personal Liberty and Martial Law.

Ingersoll, Ernest. Mch., 1852- ——. A naturalist of New York city whose writing is mainly for young people and of a popular character. Friends Worth Knowing; Natural History of Insects; Knocking Around the Rockies; Nests and Eggs of American Birds; The Crest of the Continent; Strange Adventures of a Stowaway; Down East Latch Strings; The Ice Queen, a story; Birds’-Nesting; Country Cousins, or Short Studies in Natural History; Old Ocean; To the Shenandoah and Beyond; Habits of Animals. Har. Lo. Mer. Wn.

Ingersoll, Luther Dunham. 18— - ——. The librarian of the War Department at Washington. Iowa and the Rebellion; Life of Horace Greeley; History of the War Department.

Ingersoll, Joseph Reed. Pa., 1786-1868. Brother of C. J. Ingersoll, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia who was minister to England in 1852. Secession a Folly and a Crime; Memoir of Samuel Breck.

Ingersoll, Robert Green. N. Y., 1833-1899. A noted lawyer and politician of Peoria, Illinois, and more recently of New York city, famous also as a lecturer and writer strongly opposed to the Christian religion. The Gods; Ghosts; Some Mistakes of Moses; Complete Lectures; Prose Poems. Ban.

Inglehart, Mrs. Frances [Chambers] [Gooch]. Mi., 1851- ——. A writer of Austin, Texas, author of Face to Face with the Mexicans. Fo.

Inglis, David. S., 1825-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn who published Systematic Theology in Relation to Modern Thought.

Ingraham, Edward Duncan. Pa., 1793-1854. A lawyer of Philadelphia. English Ecclesiastical Reports; A View of the Insolvent Laws of Pennsylvania.

Ingraham, Joseph Holt. Me., 1809-1866. An Episcopal clergyman of Holly Springs, Mississippi. In the earlier portion of his career he wrote a number of wildly sensational romances, among them Lafitte: the Pirate of the Gulf; Captain Kyd; The Dancing Feather, all of which were very popular and quite worthless as literature. The Southwest, by a Yankee, was another work of this period. He entered the Episcopal ministry in 1855, and afterwards wrote three religious romances as popular as the others and almost as valueless. They are, The Prince of the House of David; The Pillar of Fire; The Throne of David. Rob.

Innsley, Owen. See Jennison, Lucia.

Inskip, John Swannell. E., 1816-1884. A Methodist clergyman who was a noted camp-meeting conductor. Life of Rev. William Summers; Methodism Explained and Defended; Remarkable Display of the Mercy of God.

Iredell, James. N. C., 1788-1853. A lawyer of Raleigh who was governor of North Carolina, 1827. Laws of North Carolina; North Carolina Reports; Equity Reports; Law of Executors; Digest of Reported Cases.

Ireland, Joseph Norton. N. Y., 1817-1898. A merchant of New York city. Records of the New York Stage, 1750-1860; Memories of Mrs. Duff; Professional Life of Thomas Cooper.

Irving, John Treat. N. Y., 1812- ——. Nephew of Washington Irving, infra. A lawyer of New York city. Indian Sketches; Hawk Chief; The Attorney; Harry Harson; The Van Gelder Papers. Put.

Irving, Peter. N. Y., 1771-1838. Brother of Washington Irving, infra. A journalist of New York city, who published Giovanni Sbogarra, a Venetian Tale.

Irving, Pierre Munroe. N. Y., 1803-1876. Son of William Irving, infra, and the author of a Life of Washington Irving. Put.

Irving, Roland Duer. N. Y., 1847-1888. A professor of geology in the University of Wisconsin from 1870. Geology of Central Wisconsin; Geology of Lake Superior; Copper-Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior, are among his writings.

Irving, Theodore. N. Y., 1809-1880. Nephew of Washington Irving, the son of his brother Ebenezer. An Episcopal clergyman and educator. The Fountain of Living Waters; Tiny Footfalls; More than Conqueror; The History of De Soto’s Conquest of Florida. Put. Ran.

Irving, Washington. N. Y., 1783-1859. The most popular of the earlier American writers of the 19th century. He was born in New York city, and his earliest work was Salmagundi, written with his brother William and J. K. Paulding, infra. Diedrich Knickerbocker’s History of New York, his next work, and the one by which he will be longest remembered, appeared in 1809. Irving spent the years from 1815 to 1832 abroad, a portion of the time as secretary of the United States Legation at London, and from 1842 to 1846 as minister to Spain. The rest of his life was spent at his home in Tarrytown on the Hudson. His writings not already named include, The Sketch Book; Bracebridge Hall; Tales of a Traveller; Life and Voyages of Columbus; Conquest of Grenada; The Companions of Columbus; The Alhambra; Crayon Miscellanies; Astoria; Adventures of Captain Bonneville; Life of Oliver Goldsmith; Mahomet and his Successors; Wolfert’s Roost; Life of Washington; Spanish Papers. See Life and Letters of, by Pierre Irving; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1860, and June, 1864; Haweis’s American Humourists; Irvingiana; Life by C. D. Warner; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appleton’s American Biography; Nichol’s American Literature; The Bookman, February, 1897. Cr. Har. Kt. Lip. Mac. Put.

Irving, William. N. Y., 1766-1821. Brother of Washington Irving, supra. A merchant of New York city who was in Congress, 1814-18. He was author of the poetical portion of Salmagundi.

Ives, Levi Silliman. Ct., 1797-1867. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of North Carolina, consecrated in 1832 and deposed in 1853, he having become a Roman Catholic at the close of 1852. After that period he lectured in convents of the Sacred Heart. Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism; The Obedience of Faith; Manual of Devotion; Humility a Ministerial Qualification.

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Jackson, Abraham Reeves. Pa., 1827- ——. A noted surgeon of Chicago, who has published many valuable professional papers.

Jackson, Abraham Willard. Me., 1842- ——. A Unitarian clergyman who was formerly a pastor in New Hampshire and California, but has since devoted himself to study and literary work at Concord, Massachusetts. The Immanent God, and Other Essays; James Martineau. Hou. Lit.

Jackson, Charles. Ms., 1775-1855. A jurist of Boston who published a valued Treatise on Real Actions.

Jackson, Charles Davis. Ms., 1811-1871. An Episcopal clergyman of Westchester, New York. Suffering Here and Glory Hereafter; Popular Education; Relation of Education to Crime. Ran.

Jackson, Charles Thomas. Ms., 1805-1880. A Boston scientist whose laboratory for research in analytical chemistry was the first of its kind in the United States. Report on the Geology of Maine; Mineral Lands in Michigan; Manual of Etherization.

Jackson, Edward Payson. Ty., 1840- ——. An educator of Boston, master in the Latin School from 1877. Mathematic Geography; A Demigod, a novel; The Earth in Space; Character Building. Har. Hou.

Jackson, Francis. Ms., 1789-1861. A once prominent reformer who was president of the Anti-Slavery Society for many years, and published a History of Newton, Massachusetts (his home), from 1639 to 1800.

Jackson, George Anson. Ms., 1846- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Swampscott, Massachusetts. The Son of a Prophet, an historical novel; Apostolic Fathers; Fathers of the Second Century; Post-Nicene Greek Fathers; Post-Nicene Latin Fathers, four works which form a series of early Christian literature primers. Hou.

Jackson, George Thomas. N. Y., 1852- ——. A noted dermatologist of New York city. Diseases of the Hair and Scalp; Baldness; Handbook of Diseases of the Skin.

Jackson, Mrs. Helen Maria [Fiske] [Hunt]. “H. H.” Ms., 1831-1885. A novelist and poet whose greatest achievement is Ramona, a powerful romance of Indian life in southern California. To her is usually attributed the authorship of the “Saxe Holm” stories. Her other works include, Verses; Bits of Travel; Bits of Talk; A Century of Dishonor; Bits of Talk in Verse and Prose; Bits of Travel at Home; The Story of Boon, a Poem; Sonnets and Lyrics; Nelly’s Silver Mine; Cat Stories; Mercy Philbrick’s Choice; Hetty’s Strange History; Zeph; Glimpses of Three Coasts; Between Whiles, a collection of short stories; The Procession of Flowers in Colorado; Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians of California (with K. Abbot). See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement. Kt. Rob.

Jackson, Henry Rootes. Ga., 1820-1898. A Georgia jurist who was minister to Austria, 1854-58, and to Mexico 1885-86. During the Civil War he was a general in the Confederate army. Tallulah, and Other Poems, was published in 1850. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.

Jackson, Isaac Wilber. N. Y., 1805-1877. An educator who was professor of mathematics in Union College from 1826, and did much toward developing the arts of landscape gardening and horticulture. Elements of Conic Sections; Treatise on Optics.

Jackson, James. Ms., 1777-1867. Son of C. Jackson, supra. The first physician of the Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston, and professor of medicine at Harvard University from 1810 until his death. On the Brunonian System; Medical Effects of Dentition; Syllabus of Lectures; Text-Book of Lectures; Letters to a Young Physician.

Jackson, James Caleb. N. Y., 1811-1895. The founder of a popular hydropathic institution at Dansville, New York, called “Our Home.” Hints on the Reproductive Organs; The Sexual Organism and its Healthful Management; Consumption; Tobacco and its Effect; How to Treat the Sick without Medicine; Dancing, its Evils and Benefits; American Womanhood; Training of Children; Debilities of Our Boys; Christ as a Physician; Morning Watches.

Jackson, Sheldon. N. Y., 1834- ——. A Presbyterian missionary, government general agent of education in Alaska since 1885. Alaska and Missions on the North Pacific Coast; Education in Alaska. Do.

Jacobi [yä-kō´bē], Abraham. Wa., 1830- ——. A New York city physician, professor in the College of Physicians since 1870. Dentition and its Derangements; Infant Hygiene; Diphtheria; Pathology of the Thymus Gland; Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood; Contributions to Midwifery (with E. Noeggereth); Infant Diet. Lip. Put.

Jacobi, Mrs. Mary [Putnam]. E., 1842- ——. Wife of A. Jacobi, supra, and daughter of George P. Putnam, a noted publisher of New York, infra. A physician of prominence in New York city, and the first woman to enter and graduate from the Ecole de Médecine in Paris. The Value of Life; Cold Pack and Anæmia; Hysteria, and Other Essays; The Martyr to Science; Studies in Primary Education; Common Sense Applied to Woman Suffrage; Manual of Nursing; Found and Lost. Put.

Jacobs, Henry Eyster. Pa., 1844- ——. Son of M. Jacobs, infra. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, professor in the Lutheran Seminary from 1883, and editor of the Lutheran Review from 1882. The Lutheran Movement in England; The Lutherans; several translations of religious works from the German; History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States. Fu.

Jacobs, John Adamson. Va., 1806-1869. An educator who was forty-five years superintendent of the deaf and dumb institution at Danville, Kentucky, his nephew of the same name succeeding him at his death. He published Primary Lessons for Deaf Mutes.

Jacobs, Michael. Pa., 1808-1871. An educator who was professor in Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, 1852-1871, and published Notes on the Rebel Invasion and the Battle of Gettysburg.

Jacobs, Michael William. Pa., 1850- ——. Son of M. Jacobs, supra. A lawyer of Harrisburg, and the author of a Treatise on the Law of Domicile. Lit.

Jacobs, Sarah Sprague. R. I., 1813- ——. A writer of Cambridge. Nonantum and Natick, a juvenile giving an account of the labours of John Eliot among the New England Indians; White Oak and its Neighbors.

Jacobus, Melancthon Williams. N. J., 1816-1876. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn and Pittsburg, professor of Oriental literature in the theological seminary at Allegheny City, 1851-76. Letters on the Public School Question; Notes on the New Testament, a very popular work; Notes on Genesis.

Jacoby, Ludwig Sigismund. Mg., 1811-1874. A Methodist clergyman of German birth who as general foreign agent of the Methodist church resided at Bremen, 1849-72. On his return to the United States he lived in St. Louis. Geschichte des Methodismus; Letzte Stunden; Kurzer Inbegriff der christlichen Glaubenlehre; Biblische Hand-Concordanz.

Jacques, Daniel Harrison. Circa 1825-1877. A Southern physician who edited The Rural Carolinian. Hints about Physical Perfection; The Garden; The Farm; The Barnyard; The House; Florida as a Permanent Home; How to Grow Handsome; The Temperaments; How to Behave; How to Talk.

James, Edmund Janes. Il., 1855- ——. An educator well known as a political economist, since 1883 professor in the Wharton School of Finance in the University of Pennsylvania. Studien über den amerikanischen Zolltarif; Our Legal Tender Decisions; The Education of Business Men; The Relation of the Modern Municipality to the Gas Supply; with several translations from the German, comprise his more important works.

James, Edwin. Vt., 1797-1861. A geologist and botanist whose later years were spent in Burlington, Iowa. Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains, 1818-19; Narrative of John Tanner; a translation of the New Testament into the Ojibway language.

James, Henry. N. Y., 1811-1882. A Swedenborgian writer of Cambridge who was a thinker of marked spirituality and originality. Spiritual Creation, which he did not live to complete, affords the best example of his felicitous style and matured thought. His other works include, Society the Redeemed Form of Man; Remarks on the Gospels; Moralism and Christianity; The Nature of Evil; Substance and Shadow; The Secret of Swedenborg; What Is the State?; The Church of Christ; Christianity the Lyric of Creation; Literary Remains, edited by W. James, infra. Hou.

James, Henry. N. Y., 1843- ——. Son of H. James, supra. A novelist and critic who since 1869 has resided in Europe, and mainly in London. He has been a prolific writer whose works have been much discussed by critics and general readers. In fiction his writings include, Roderick Hudson; The American; The Europeans; A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales; Confidence; Washington Square; The Portrait of a Lady; Watch and Ward; Daisy Miller; An International Episode; The Siege of London; The Author of Beltraffio, and Other Tales; The Bostonians; The Princess Casamassima; The Reverberator; The Aspern Papers, and Other Stories; A London Life; The Tragic Muse; The Lesson of the Master, and Other Tales; The Spoils of Poynton; What Maisie Knew; The Other House; The Private Life; The Wheel of Time; Terminations; Embarrassments; Theatricals, two comedies; The Real Thing, and Other Tales; Tales of Three Cities. Other works by Mr. James are, Transatlantic Sketches; French Poets and Novelists; Portraits of Places; Life of Hawthorne; The Madonna of the Future; A Little Tour in France; Picture and Text; Essays in London; Partial Portraits. See Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement; Vedder’s American Writers. Har. Hou. Mac. S.

James, Henry Ammon. Md., 1854- ——. A lawyer of New York city who has published Communism in America.

James, William. N. Y., 1842- ——. Son of H. James, 1st, supra. Professor of psychology at Harvard University. Principles of Psychology; Psychology, a briefer study of the subject; The Will to Believe, and Other Essays. Ho. Lgs.

Jameson, John Alexander. Vt., 1824-1890. A jurist of Chicago, for many years an assistant editor of The American Law Register. The Constitutional Convention, its History, Power, and Modes of Proceeding.

Jameson, John Franklin. Ms., 1859- ——. A professor of history in Brown University. William Usselinx, Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies; The History of Historical Writing in America; Dictionary of United States History. Hou.

Jamison, Mrs. Cecile Viets [Hamilton]. N. S., 1848- ——. The Story of an Enthusiast; Toinette’s Philip; Lady Jane; Seraph, the Little Violiniste. Cent. Hou. We.

Janes, Edwin Lines. Ms., 1807-1875. A Methodist clergyman. Wesley his Own Historian; Character and Career of Bishop Asbury; Memento of Edward Payson. Meth.

Janes, Lewis George. R. I., 1844-1901. A lecturer of Brooklyn, for twelve years president of the Brooklyn Ethical Association. A Study of Primitive Culture; Samuell Gorton, a Forgotten Founder of Our Liberties. Pr.

Janeway, Jacob Jones. N. Y., 1774-1858. A Presbyterian clergyman who held pastorates in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and was engaged in general mission work. Exposition of the Acts, Romans, and Hebrews; Internal Evidences of the Holy Bible; Unlawful Marriage; Review of Dr. Schaff on Protestantism; The Abrahamic Covenant. See Memoir by T. L. Janeway.

Janney, Samuel Macpherson. Va., 1801-1880. A preacher among the Hicksite Friends who in 1869 was appointed one of the government superintendents of Indian affairs. Lives of William Penn and George Fox; Conversations on Religious Subjects; The Last of the Lenape, and Other Poems; Historical Sketch of the Christian Church; Summary of Christian Doctrines Held by Friends; Peace Principles Exemplified in the Early History of Pennsylvania; History of the Religious Society of Friends from its Rise to 1828.

Janvier, Francis de Haes. Pa., 1817-1885. Cousin of T. A. Janvier, infra. The Skeleton Monk, and Other Poems; The Sleeping Sentinel (verse); Patriotic Poems. Lip.

Janvier, Margaret Thomson. “Margaret Vandegrift.” La., 1845- ——. Sister of T. A. Janvier, infra. A Philadelphia writer of children’s books, among which are, Clover Bank; Under the Dog Star; Little Helpers; A Dead Doll, and Other Verses. Hou.

Janvier, Thomas Allibone. Pa., 1849- ——. A journalist and littérateur of Philadelphia, and subsequently of New York. An Embassy to Provence, a volume of travel; Color Studies: Four Stories; The Mexican Guide; Stories of Old New Spain; The Aztec Treasure House, a Romance; The Uncle of an Angel, and Other Stories; In Old New York. Ap. Cent. Har. Scr.

Jarves, James Jackson. Ms., 1820-1888. An art connoisseur who lived in Hawaii, 1838-49, and subsequently for many years in Florence. Why and What Am I?; Art Studies; History of the Sandwich Islands (1843); Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands; Parisian Sights and French Principles; Italian Sights and Papal Principles; Kiana, a Tradition of Hawaii; A Glimpse at the Art of Japan; Art Hints; The Art Idea; Art Thoughts; Italian Rambles; Pepero, the Boy Artist. Har. Hou.

Jarvis, Edward. Ms., 1803-1884. A once prominent physician of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Physiology and Health; Elementary Physiology; Condition of the Insane and Idiots in Massachusetts, are his more important publications.

Jarvis, Samuel Farmar. Ct., 1786-1851. An Episcopal clergyman of Connecticut. Sermons on Prophecy; No Union with Rome; Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church; The Religion of the Indian Tribes of North America.

Jay, Sir James. N. Y., 1732-1815. An elder brother of J. Jay, infra. A physician of New York city who was knighted by George III., and who published Reflections and Observations on Gout.

Jay, John. N. Y., 1745-1829. A famous New York statesman who was one of the authors of The Federalist. Of his state papers, the Address to the People of Great Britain is the most celebrated. His Correspondence and State Papers, edited by H. P. Johnston, appeared 1890-93. See Lives by Wm. Jay, infra; Pellew; Appleton’s American Biography. Put.

Jay, John. N. Y., 1817-1894. Son of W. Jay, infra. A lawyer and diplomat of New York who was minister to Austria, 1869-75, and a prominent opponent of slavery. Dignity of the Abolition Cause; Caste and Slavery in the American Church; America Free or America Slave, are some of his political and other pamphlets.

Jay, William. N. Y., 1789-1858. Son of J. Jay, supra. A philanthropist of New York city who was strongly opposed to slavery. Life of John Jay; War and Peace; Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.

Jay, W. M. L. See Woodruff.

Jeffers, William Nicholson. N. J., 1824-1883. A United States naval officer who became a commodore in 1878. Short Methods in Navigation; Theory and Practice of Naval Gunnery; Inspection and Proof of Cannon; Ordnance Instruction for the United States Navy.

Jefferson, Joseph. Pa., 1829- ——. A famous actor of New York city who has published an entertaining Autobiography. He is the author of the famous play, Rip Van Winkle, in which he has long been identified with the leading rôle. Cent. Do.

Jefferson, Thomas. Va., 1743-1826. The third president of the United States. A statesman whose literary monument is the world-famous Declaration of Independence. Other writings of his are, Notes on Virginia; Rights of British America; Manual of Parliamentary Practice. A ten-volume edition of his works was published in 1892. See Lives by Linn, 1834; Rayner, 1834; Tucker, 1837; Dwight, 1839; Randall, 1858; Parton, 1874; J. T. Morse, 1883; Domestic Life of, by Randolph, 1871; Edinburgh Review, July, 1830, and October, 1837; North American Review, April, 1830, and January, 1835; Allibone’s Dictionary; Jefferson at Monticello; Appleton’s American Biography; Henry Adams’s History of the Administration of Jefferson. Put.

Jeffrey, Mrs. Rosa Vertner [Griffith] [Johnson]. Mi., 1826-1894. A verse-writer of Lexington, Kentucky. Poems by Rosa; Florence Vale; The Crimson Hand, and Other Poems; Marah, a Novel; Woodburn, a Novel. Lip.

Jeffries, Benjamin Joy. Ms., 1833- ——. A prominent physician of Boston. Color Blindness: its Dangers and its Detection; The Eye in Health and Disease; Diseases of the Skin.

Jenkins, John Stilwell. N. Y., 1818-1852. A lawyer and journalist of Weedsport, New York. The Heroines of History; Lives of the Governors of New York; Lives of Jackson, Polk, and Calhoun; Political History of New York; History of the Mexican War; Generals of the Last War with Great Britain; Life of Silas Wright, include the larger part of his writings. Co.

Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple. Mch., 1856- ——. An educator, since 1891 professor of political, municipal, and social institutions at Cornell University. Henry C. Carey als National-ökonom; Road Legislation for the American State.

Jenks, John Whipple Potter. Ms., 1819-1894. A naturalist who was director of the museum of natural history at Brown University, 1872-94, and professor of agriculture and zoölogy there, 1875-94. Hunting in Florida; Jenks and Steele’s Zoölogy.

Jenks, William. Ms., 1778-1866. A once prominent Congregational clergyman of Boston who founded the American Oriental Society. Commentary on the Bible, long a popular work; Bible Atlas and Scripture Gazetteer.

Jenness, John Scribner. N. H., 1827-1879. A lawyer of New York city. The Isles of Shoals, an Historical Sketch; The First Planting of New Hampshire. He edited Transcripts of Original Documents relating to the Early History of New Hampshire.

Jennison, Lucy White. “Owen Innsley.” Ms., 1850- ——. A verse-writer who has lived mainly in Europe. Love Poems and Sonnets.

Jervey, Mrs. Caroline Howard [Gilman] [Glover]. S. C., 1823-1877. Daughter of S. Gilman, supra. A writer of fiction and verse. Vernon Grove; Helen Courtenay’s Promise.

Jervis, John Bloomfield. N. Y., 1795-1885. A civil engineer of New York who designed many important works, such as the Croton Dam and High Bridge. Railway Property; Labor and Capital. Bai.

Jessup, Henry Harris. Pa., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian missionary in Syria from 1856. The Women of the Arabs; The Children of the East; The Greek Church and Protestant Missions; Syrian Home Life, include his most important works. Do.

Jeter, Jeremiah Bell. Va., 1802-1880. A Baptist clergyman prominent in the South as a preacher and controversialist. Among his writings are, Campbellism Examined; Campbellism Re-Examined; The Seal of Heaven; The Christian Mirror; Recollections of a Long Life. See Life by W. E. Hatcher.

Jewett, Charles Coffin. Me., 1816-1868. A bibliographer who was the first superintendent of the Boston Public Library. Facts and Considerations Relative to Duties on Books; Notices of Public Libraries in the United States; Construction of Catalogues.

Jewett, George Baker. Me., 1818-1880. Brother of C. C. Jewett, supra. A New England educator whose principal works were Baptism versus Immersion; Critique on the Greek Text of the New Testament.

Jewett, Milo Parker. Vt., 1808-1882. An educator who was the first president of Vassar College. Baptism; The Relation of Boards of Health and Intemperance.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. Me., 1849- ——. A popular writer of quiet fiction whose life has been passed mainly at her birthplace in South Berwick, Maine, and in Boston. Her painstaking, accurate studies of phases of rural New England life and character have received much well-deserved praise. Old Friends and New; Play-Days; Country By-Ways; Deephaven; The Mate of the Daylight, and Friends Ashore; A Country Doctor; A Marsh Island; A White Heron, and Other Stories; The Story of the Normans, an historical work; The King of Folly Island, and Other People; Betty Leicester, a Story for Girls; Strangers and Wayfarers; A Native of Winby, and Other Tales; The Life of Nancy; The Country of the Pointed Firs. See Bibliography of Maine. Hou. Put.

Johnson, Alexander Bryan. E., 1786-1867. A prominent banker of Utica for nearly half a century. Treatise on Banking; The Philosophy of Human Knowledge; Religion in its Relations to the Present Life; The Physiology of the Senses; The Meaning of Words; Nature and Value of Capital; Encyclopædia of Instruction; Guide to the Right Understanding of Our American Union.

Johnson, Barton W——. Il., 1833-1894. A Campbellite minister and educator of Iowa. The Vision of the Ages; Commentary on John; The People’s New Testament; Young Folks in Bible Lands.

Johnson, Benjamin F., of Boone. See Riley, James Whitcomb.

Johnson, Charles Frederick. N. Y., 1836- ——. A professor of English literature in Trinity College. English Words, an Elementary Study of Derivations; Three Americans and Three Englishmen, lectures. Har.

Johnson, Clifton. Ms., 1865- ——. A writer and illustrator of Hadley, Massachusetts, best known by his photographic illustrations to White’s Selborne and other books. What They Say in New England; A Book of Country Clouds and Sunshine; The Country School in New England; The Farmer’s Boy; The New England Country; The Isle of the Shamrock. Ap. Le.

Johnson, Edward. E., 1600-1682. The principal founder of Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1640, and a prominent citizen of that town for the rest of his life. The Wonder-Working Providence of Zion’s Saviour in New England is a valuable account of New England “from the English planting in 1628 till 1652.” An edition, with Introduction and Notes by W. F. Poole, infra, appeared in 1867. See Tyler’s American Literature; Bibliography of Rhode Island.

Johnson, Edwin A——. N. Y., 1829- ——. A Methodist clergyman. Half-Hour Studies of Life; The Live Boy, or Charley’s Letters; Winter Greeneries at Home; The Lilyvale Club and its Doings. Meth.

Johnson, Francis Howe. Ms., 1835- ——. A Congregational clergyman in Andover, Massachusetts. What is Reality? an Inquiry as to the Reasonableness of Natural Religion, and the Naturalness of Revealed Religion. Hou.

Johnson, Frank Grant. Ct., 1835- ——. A physician and inventor of Brooklyn. The Water Metre and the Actual Measurement System; The Nicholson and Other Pavements; Health Lifts; Infected Air and Disinfectants.

Johnson, Franklin. 1836- ——. A Baptist clergyman, professor in Chicago University, and previously pastor of a church in Cambridge. Quotations of the New Testament from the Old; True Womanhood; The New Psychic Studies in their Relation to Christian Thought; Heine’s Lyrical Interludes, with introduction and notes; Dies Irae, and Stabat Mater, with introduction and notes. Bap. Fu. Lo.

Johnson, Mrs. Helen [Kendrick]. N. Y., 1843- ——. Wife of Rossiter Johnson, infra, and daughter of A. C. Kendrick, infra. She has edited Our Familiar Songs; Tears for the Little Ones; The Nutshell Series, and other works; and has written Raleigh Westgate, or Epimenides in Maine; The Roddy Books; Woman and the Republic. Ap. Ho. Hou. Put.

Johnson, Herrick. N. Y., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago, professor in McCormick Theological Seminary from 1880. Christianity’s Challenge; Plain Talks about Theatres; Forms for Special Occasions; Revivals. Rev.

Johnson, John Butler. O., 1850-1902. A professor of civil engineering in Washington University, at St. Louis, from 1883. Theory and Practice of Surveying; Modern Framed Structures; Stadia and Earth-Work Tables. Wil.

Johnson, Mrs. Laura [Winthrop]. Ct., 1825-18—. Sister of Theodore Winthrop, infra. A writer of New York city. Little Blossom’s Reward; Poems of Twenty Years; Eight Hundred Miles in an Ambulance. Lip.

Johnson, Oliver. Vt., 1809-1889. An editor and lecturer of New York city, successively managing editor of The Independent, editor of the Weekly Tribune, and editor of the Christian Union. William Lloyd Garrison and his Times. Hou.

Johnson, Richard W. Ky., 1827-1897. A brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War, brevetted major-general. A Soldier’s Reminiscences in Peace and War; Life of Major-General George H. Thomas.

Johnson, Robert Underwood. D. C., 1853- ——. A New York writer on the editorial staff of The Century Magazine from 1873. The Winter Hour and Other Poems. Cent.

Johnson, Mrs. Rosa V. See Jeffrey, Mrs.

Johnson, Rossiter. N. Y., 1840- ——. A writer of New York city who edited Appletons’ Annual Cyclopædia 1883-1902, and also edited Famous Single Poems; Play-day Poems; Little Classics; The Authorized History of the World’s Columbian Exposition, and other works. His original writings include, Phaëton Rogers, a Novel of Boy Life; History of the French War, Ending in the Conquest of Canada; History of the War of 1812-15; A Short History of the War of Secession, enlarged as Campfire and Battlefield; The End of a Rainbow, an American Story; Idler and Poet (verse); Three Decades (verse). Ap. Do. Ho. Hou. Scr.

Johnson, Samuel. Ct., 1696-1772. An Episcopal clergyman of Stratford, Connecticut, who was president of Columbia (then Kings) College, 1753-63. A System of Morality, republished by Franklin as Elementa Philosophia; English and Hebrew Grammar. An influential writer in his day. See Life and Correspondence by E. E. Beardsley; Life by T. B. Chandler, 1805.

Johnson, Samuel. Ms., 1822-1882. A Unitarian clergyman of radical views, pastor of an independent church in Lynn for many years. Oriental Religions; Lectures, Essays, and Sermons; The Worship of Jesus in its Past and Present Aspect. See Memoir by S. Longfellow, infra. Hou.

Johnson, Samuel William. N. Y., 1830- ——. A professor of chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University from 1856. Essays on Manures; Peat and Its Uses; How Crops Feed; Chemical Notation and Nomenclature, and several translations of German scientific works. Wil.

Johnson, Mrs. Sarah [Barclay]. Va., 1837-1885. Daughter of J. T. Barclay, supra. She lived for many years in Syria, where her husband was consul-general. The Hadji in Syria was her only published work.

Johnson, Thomas Cary. W. Va., 1859- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of ecclesiastical polity in Union Seminary, Virginia, from 1892. The History of the Southern Presbyterian Church.

Johnson, Virginia Wales. L. I., 1847- ——. A novelist who has resided in Europe since 1875, and mainly in Italy. The Neptune Vase is her finest effort. Her other works comprise, Joseph the Jew; A Sack of Gold; The Calderwood Secret; Two Old Cats; Miss Nancy’s Pilgrimage; A Foreign Marriage; An English Daisy Miller; The House of the Musician; Tulip Place; The Fainalls of Tipton; America’s Godfather. Est. Har. Hou. Scr.

Johnson, Walter Rogers. Ms., 1794-1852. A once prominent chemist of Boston and elsewhere. The Use of Anthracite; Report on Coals; Coal Trade of British America; Natural Philosophy; Memoir of L. D. von Schweinitz, infra.

Johnston, Alexander. L. I., 1849-1889. A professor of political economy at Princeton College, 1883-89. The Genesis of a New England State; History of the United States for Schools; The United States, its History and Constitution; History of Connecticut; History of American Politics. Ho. Hou. Scr.

Johnston, Henry Phelps. 1842- ——. A professor of history in the College of the City of New York. Loyalist History of the Revolution; The Campaign of 1776 around New York; The Yorktown Campaign; Yale and her Honor Roll in the American Revolution; Observations on Judge Jones. Har.

Johnston, John. Me., 1806-1879. An educator who was for many years professor of natural science in Wesleyan University. Manual of Chemistry; Manual of Natural Philosophy; Primer of Natural Philosophy; History of the Towns of Bristol and Bremen in Maine.

Johnston, Joseph Eggleston. Va., 1807-1891. A famous general in the Confederate service who surrendered to General Sherman on April 26, 1865. He published a Narrative of Military Operations, a spirited defence of his military policy. See Life of, by R. M. Hughes. Ap.

Johnston, Richard Malcolm. Ga., 1822-1898. A Baltimore writer and educator whose humourous writings are very distinctly original. Life of Alexander Stephens, infra (with W. H. Browne, supra); Dukesborough Tales; Old Mark Langston; Two Gray Tourists; Mr. Absalom Billingslea and Other Georgia Folk; Ogeechee Cross-Firings; Studies, Literary and Social; The Primes and Their Neighbors; Mr. Billy Downs and his Likes; Widow Guthrie, a Novel; The Chronicles of Mr. Bill Williams; Mr. Fortner’s Marital Claims; Little Ike Templin, stories for young people; English Classics: a Historical Sketch. Ap. Har. Lip. Lo.

Johnston, William Preston. Ky., 1831-1899. An educator of Louisiana, president of Tulane University from 1884. He was the son of the Confederate general, Albert Sidney Johnston. Besides a life of his father he wrote The Prototype of Hamlet. Ap.

Johonnot, James. Vt., 1823-1888. An educator of Illinois and Missouri. Principles and Practice of Teaching; Glimpses of the Animate World; Book of Cats and Dogs; Friends in Feathers and Fur; Some Curious Flyers, Creepers, and Swimmers; Schoolhouses; Schoolhouse Architecture. Ap.

Jones, Alexander. N. C., c. 1802-1863. A New York journalist who was a physician in the earlier portion of his career. Cuba in 1851; Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph, 1852; The Cymri of Seventy-Six.

Jones, Amanda Theodosia. O., 1835- ——. An educator and inventor of Chicago. Her writings in verse comprise Ulah, and Other Poems; Atlantis; A Prairie Idyl.

Jones, Charles Colcock. Ga., 1804-1863. A Presbyterian clergyman of Georgia. Religious Instruction for Negroes; History of The Church of God.

Jones, Charles Colcock. Ga., 1831-1893. Son of C. C. Jones, supra. A lawyer and archæologist of Augusta, Georgia. Ancient Tumuli in Georgia; Antiquities of the Southern Indians; The History of Georgia; Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast; Biographical Sketches of the Delegates from Georgia to the Continental Congress; The English Colonization of Georgia. Ap. Hou.

Jones, George. Me., 1800-1870. An Episcopal chaplain in the United States navy. Sketches of Naval Life; Life Scenes from the Gospels; Life Scenes from the Old Testament; Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.

Jones, Horatio Gates. Pa., 1822-1893. A lawyer of Philadelphia who published many local histories and biographies, among the latter being Andrew Bradford, Founder of the Newspaper Press in the Middle States.

Jones, Hugh. E., 1669-1760. An Episcopal clergyman, for sixty-five years rector of parishes in Virginia and Maryland. He was author of The Present State of Virginia, a work much valued by collectors of colonial literature.

Jones, James Athearn. Ms., 1790-1853. A journalist of Philadelphia and elsewhere. Traditions of the North American Indians; Haverhill, a novel.

Jones, Jenkin Lloyd. W., 1843- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Chicago, editor of Unity from 1880. Practical Piety; The Faith that Makes Faithful.

Jones, Joel. Ct., 1795-1860. A jurist of Philadelphia who wrote much on theological topics, and was the first president of Girard College. Manual of Pennsylvania Land Law; Jesus and the Coming Glory; Knowledge of One Another in a Future State, are among his works.

Jones, John Beauchamp. Md., 1810-1866. A journalist whose books enjoyed considerable popularity at one time, but have very little literary merit. A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary; Wild Western Scenes; Border War; Love and Money; Life and Adventures of a Country Merchant; War Path; Freaks of Fortune; The Rival Belles, are some of them. Lip.

Jones, Joseph. Ga., 1833-1893. Son of C. C. Jones, 1st, supra. A physician, professor in Tulane University, New Orleans, from 1869. Among his writings are, Sanitary Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion; Surgical Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion; Hospital Construction and Organization; Medical and Surgical Memoirs.

Jones, Joseph Huntington. Ct., 1797-1868. Brother of Joel Jones, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The Effects of Physical Causes on Christian Experience; Life of Ashbel Green, supra; Revival of Religion.

Jones, Joseph Seawell. N. C., c. 1811-1855. A Southern writer who published Defence of the Revolutionary History of North Carolina; Memorials of North Carolina.

Jones, Joseph Stevens. 1811-1877. An extremely prolific playwright of Boston, among whose best known productions are, Solon Shingle; Eugene Aram; The Silver Spoon; The Liberty Tree; Moll Pitcher.

Jones, Leonard Augustus. Ms., 1832- ——. A lawyer of Boston, editor of The American Law Register. Personal Property; The Law of Mortgages of Real Property; On The Law of Pledges; Pledges and Collateral Securities; Corporate Bonds and Mortgages; Chattel Mortgages; Liens; Real Estate in Conveyancing; Forms in Conveyancing. Hou.

Jones, Samuel Porter. Al., 1847- ——. A noted and eccentric revival preacher. Sam Jones’s Sermons; Music Hall Sermons; Sam Jones’s Own Book. Meth.

Jones, William Alfred. N. Y., 1817-1900. A critic and essayist of Norwich, Connecticut. The Analyst; Essays upon Authors and Books; Characters and Criticisms; Literary Studies.

Jordan, Mrs. Cornelia Jane [Matthews]. Va., 1830- ——. A Virginia writer of verse whose volume, Corinth, and Other Poems of the War, was publicly burnt on its appearance in 1865, by order of General Terry, as an objectionable and incendiary publication. Her other works are, Flowers of Hope and Memory; Christmas Poem for Children; Richmond, her Glory and her Graves; Useful Maxims for a Noble Life.

Jordan, David Starr. N. Y., 1851- ——. A noted naturalist who became the first president of Leland Stanford Junior University. Besides a great number of scientific papers and monographs, he has published A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States; Scientific Sketches; Contributions to American Ichthology; The Factors in Organic Evolution. Gi. Mg.

Jordan, Mrs. Dulcie [Mason]. N. Y., 1835-1895. A journalist and verse-writer of Richmond, Indiana, who published Rosemary Leaves, a volume of uneven but often pleasing verse.

Jordan, John Woolf. Pa., 1840- ——. A Philadelphia antiquarian, editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History. Friedensthal and its Stockaded Mill; A Red Rose from the Olden Time; Something about Trombones; Occupation of New York by the British.

Jordan, Thomas. Va., 1819-1895. A Confederate officer, editor of The Mining Record. The South, its Products, Commerce, and Resources (1861); Campaigns of Lieutenant-General Forrest.

Jouin, Louis. P., 1818-1899. A Jesuit educator of note, professor at St. John’s College, Fordham. Elementa Philosophiæ Moralis; Compendium Logicæ et Metaphysicæ; Evidences of Religion.

Joyce, Robert Dwyer. I., 1836-1883. An Irish journalist who came to America in 1866 and settled in Boston. Ballads, Romances, and Songs; Deirdrè, a Poem; Ballads of Irish Chivalry; Irish Fireside Tales; Legends on the Wars in Ireland; Blanid; The Squire of Castleton, an historical novel. Rob.

Judd, Sylvester. Ms., 1789-1860. An antiquarian of Northampton, Massachusetts. Thomas Judd and his Descendants; History of Hadley. See Memorials of, by A. Hall, supra.

Judd, Sylvester. Ms., 1813-1853. Son of S. Judd, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Augusta, Maine. His greatest work is the remarkable story of Margaret: a Tale of the Real and the Ideal. Other works of his include, Philo, a religious poem; Richard Edney, a novel; The Church, a series of sermons. See Nichol’s American Literature; Lowell’s Fable for Critics. Rob.

Judson, Edward Z—— C——. Pa., 1822-1886. A writer of sensational non-literary stories for weekly papers which gave him a large income. He was also a temperance lecturer. Among his stories are, Red Ralph the Ranger; The Sea Bandit; Buffalo Bill; The White Cruiser.

Judson, Mrs. Emily [Chubbuck]. “Fanny Forester.” N. Y., 1817-1854. A once popular writer who was the third wife of the famous Baptist missionary, Adoniram Judson. Alderbrook, a collection of stories; Trippings in Author Land; An Olio of Domestic Verses.

Judson, Harry Pratt. N. Y., 1849- ——. A professor of political science in the University of Chicago. Europe in the Nineteenth Century; The Growth of the American Nation; Cæsar’s Army, a Study of the Military Art of the Romans. Gi. Fl.

Judson, L—— Carroll. 18— - ——. Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution; The Moral Probe, a collection of Essays. Le.

Julian, George Washington. Ind., 1817-1899. An Indiana statesman, surveyor-general of New Mexico in 1885. Speeches on Political Questions; Political Recollections from 1840-72; Life of Joshua Giddings, supra. Mg.

June, Jennie. See Croly.

Junkin, David Xavier. Pa., 1808-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago and elsewhere. The Good Steward; Life of General Hancock (with F. H. Norton); The Oath a Divine Ordinance. Ap.

Junkin, George. Pa., 1790-1868. Brother of D. X. Junkin, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman once prominent among leaders of the Old School party. He was the founder of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, and was twice its president. His more important works include, Commentary on Hebrews; Political Fallacies; The Great Apostasy; Sanctification; Justification; The Tabernacle. See Biography by D. X. Junkin.

Junkin, Margaret. Daughter of G. Junkin, supra. See Preston, Mrs.

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Kaler, James Otis. Me., 1846- ——. A journalist of New York city who has written much for juvenile readers. The Boy Captain; Under the Liberty Tree; A Short Cruise; The Boys’ Revolt; Toby Tyler; Left Behind; Mr. Stubbs’s Brother; Tom and Tip; Raising the Pearl; Silent Pete; The Castaways; Little Joe; Stories of American History; Jerry’s Family; Jenny Wren’s Boarding-House. Cr. Est. Har.

Kalisch, Isidor. P., 1816-1886. A Jewish clergyman who came to the United States in 1849, and was rabbi of congregations in Cleveland, Milwaukee, and elsewhere. He published Sketch of the Talmud, and several important translations from the German and Hebrew.

Kane, Elisha Kent. Pa., 1820-1857. A surgeon in the United States navy who was famous as an Arctic explorer. The United States Grinnell Expedition of 1850; Second Grinnell Expedition. See Lives by Elder and Schmucker.

Kane, Thomas Leiper. Pa., 1822-1883. Brother of E. K. Kane, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia, and a brigadier-general in the Federal army in the Civil War. The Mormons; Alaska; Coahuila.

Kautz, August Valentine. G., 1828-1895. An officer in the United States army who served in the Civil War and in several subsequent Indian campaigns, and became a colonel and brevet major-general. The Company Clerk; Customs of Service for Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers; Customs of Service for Officers. Lip.

Keating, John Marie. Pa., 1852-1893. A Philadelphia physician. With General Grant in the East; Mothers’ Guide for Management of Infants; Maternity, Infancy, and Childhood; Diseases of the Heart (with W. A. Edwards), include his principal writings. Lip.

Kedney, John Steinfort. N. J., 1819- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in Seabury Divinity School at Faribault, Minnesota, from 1871. Mens Christi, and Other Problems in Theology; Catawba, and Other Poems; The Beautiful and the Sublime, an Analysis of the Emotions; Hegel’s Æsthetics; Christian Doctrine Harmonized. Put. Sc.

Keeler, Charles Augustus. Wis., 1871- ——. An ornithologist and verse-writer of California. Evolution of Color in North American Land Birds; A Light through the Storm.

Keeler, Ralph. O., 1840-1873. A journalist of California and New York. Gloverson and his Silent Partner; Vagabond Adventures.

Keen, William Williams. Pa., 1837- ——. An eminent Philadelphia surgeon, professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College from 1889. Reflex Paralysis; Gunshot Wounds; Clinical Chart of the Human Body; Complications and Sequels of Continuous Fever; Early History of Practical Anatomy.

Keenan, Henry Francis. N. Y., 1849- ——. A journalist and novelist formerly of Rochester, New York. The Money-Makers, a Social Problem; Trajan, the History of a Sentimental Young Man; The Aliens; One of a Thousand; The Iron Game. Ap. Cas.

Keep, Josiah. Ms., 1849- ——. An educator of California. Common Sea Shells of California; West Coast Shells.

Keep, Robert Porter. Ct., 1844-1904. An educator of Norwich, Connecticut. Stories from Herodotus; Essential Uses of the Moods in Greek and Latin; Greek Lessons. Har.

Keith, Alyn Yates. See Morris, Mrs.

Keller, Joseph Edward. Bv., 1827-1886. A Jesuit educator, president of St. Louis University. Life and Acts of Pope Leo XIII. (1880).

Kelley, Hall Jackson. N. H., 1790-1874. An educator of Boston who organized the first Sunday-school in New England, and made an unsuccessful attempt to colonize Oregon in 1830. Geographical Description of Oregon; Letters from an Afflicted Husband; History of the Settlement of Oregon.

Kelley, James Douglas Jerrold. N. Y., 1847- ——. A lieutenant-commander in the United States navy. The Question of Ships; Our Navy; A Desperate Chance, a story. Scr.

Kelley, William Darrah. Pa., 1814-1890. A jurist of Philadelphia who was in Congress from 1860, and was very prominent as an abolitionist and a protectionist. Speeches, Addresses, and Letters on Political Questions; Letters from Europe; Lincoln and Stanton; The Old South and the New. Bai.

Kellogg, Alfred Hosea. Pa., 1837- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Detroit. Abraham, Joseph, and Moses in Egypt, an attempted solution of the Exodus problem.

Kellogg, Elijah. Me., 1813-1901. A Congregational clergyman of Harpswell, Maine, from 1844. He wrote many popular juvenile books, including Elm Island Series; Forest Glen Series; Good Old Times Series; Pleasant Cove Series; Whispering Pine Series, but perhaps is best known as the author of the Address of Spartacus to the Gladiators. See Bibliography of Maine. Le.

Kellogg, Samuel Henry. L. I., 1839-1899. A Presbyterian missionary to India. Grammar of the Hindi Language; The Jews, or Prediction and Fulfillment; The Light of Asia and the Light of the World; From Death to Resurrection; The Genesis and Growth of Religion. Mac.

Kellogg, Warren Franklin. N. Y., 1860- ——. A Boston publisher. Recent French Art; Hunting in the Jungle, adapted from “Les Animaux Sauvages.” Est.

Kelton, John Cunningham. Pa., 1828-1893. A brigadier-general in the United States army. New Manual of the Bayonet; Fencing with Foils; Pigeons as Couriers; Information for Riflemen.

Kendall, Amos. Ms., 1789-1869. A once famous journalist, politician, and philanthropist of Washington. Life of Andrew Jackson; Autobiography (edited by W. Stickney). Le.

Kendall, George Wilkins. N. H., 1807-1864. A journalist of New Orleans. The War between the United States and Mexico; The Texan Santa Fé Expedition. Ap.

Kendrick, Asahel Clark. Vt., 1809-1895. A noted Greek scholar who was professor of Greek at Rochester University from 1850. Echoes: metrical translations from the Greek and German; The Moral Conflict of Humanity and Other Papers; Life of Mrs. Emily Judson, supra; A Child’s Book of Greek; Introduction to the Greek Language, are among his writings. He was one of the Revisers of the New Testament, published independent commentaries and translations, and edited Our Poetical Favorites. Bap. Hou.

Kenly, John Reese. Md., 1822-1891. A captain and major of volunteers in the Mexican War, and brigadier-general in the Federal army in the Civil War. Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer in the Mexican War.

Kennan, George. O., 1845- ——. A noted traveller who made a careful investigation of the Russian exile system for The Century Magazine, and drew world-wide attention to the subject. Tent Life in Siberia; Siberia and the Exile System. Cent. Put.

Kennedy, Crammond. S., 1842- ——. A lawyer of Washington. James Stanly, a Sunday-school tale; The Liberty of the Press; Corn in the Blade, a book of verse; Close Communion or Open Communion.

Kennedy, John Pendleton. Md., 1795-1870. A once famous novelist who was a prominent Maryland politician and secretary of the navy in 1852. Annals of Quodlibet; At Home and Abroad; Swallow Barn; Horse-Shoe Robinson; Rob of the Bowl; Life of William Wirt. See Life by H. T. Tuckerman, infra. Put.

Kennedy, William Sloane. Pa., 1822-1861. A Congregational clergyman of Ohio. Messianic Prophecies; Life of Christ; History of the Plan of Union; Sacred Analysis.

Kennedy, William Sloane. O., 1850- ——. A littérateur of Belmont, Massachusetts. Lives of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier; Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway; Poems of the Weird and Mystical; Reminiscences of Walt Whitman; Art of Life, a Ruskin Anthology; Whittier, the Poet of Freedom; In Portia’s Gardens; Bibliography and Literary History of Leaves of Grass. Fu. Lo. Mer. Wn.

Kenrick, Francis Patrick. I., 1797-1863. The Roman Catholic archbishop of Baltimore, 1851-63. An active controversialist and a biblical scholar of distinction. Theologia Dogmatica; Theologia Moralis; The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated; Vindication of the Catholic Church; End of Religious Controversy Controverted, are among his many works. He also published a translation of the Scriptures with commentary.

Kenrick, Peter Richard. I., 1806-1896. Brother of F. P. Kenrick. The first Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Louis. In the Ecumenical Council of 1870 he actively opposed the dogma of papal infallibility. The Holy House of Lorretto; Anglican Ordinations; Concia in Concilio Vaticana.

Kent, James. N. Y., 1763-1847. A jurist of eminence who was chancellor of New York, 1814-23, and professor of law at Columbia College, 1793-1798, and again on retiring from the chancellorship of the State. His famous Commentaries on American Law, a work of the highest authority, reached a 13th edition in 1884, that of Holmes and Barnes. He published also a treatise On the Charter of New York City. See Duer’s Discourse on Life of Kent; Memoirs of, by W. Kent, 1898. Lit.

Kenyon, James Benjamin. N. Y., 1858- ——. A Methodist clergyman of Syracuse who has written much verse of a pleasing if not very striking kind. Out of the Shadows; The Fallen, and Other Poems; Songs in All Seasons; In Realms of Gold; At the Gate of Dreams; An Oaten Pipe. Lip.

Ker, David. E., 18— - ——. A journalist of New York city. The Broken Image, and Other Tales; On the Road to Khiva; The Wild Horseman of the Pampas; The Boy Slave in Bokhara; From the Hudson to the Neva; Lost Among White Africans; Into Unknown Seas; The Lost City, or the Boy Explorers in Central Asia; The Wizard King. Har. Lip. Lo.

Kerr, Orpheus C. See Newell, R. H.

Kerr, Robert Pollok. Ms., 1850- ——. Presbyterianism for the People; History of Presbyterianism; Hymns of the Ages; Voice of God in History.

Ketchum, Mrs. Annie [Chambers]. Ky., 1824-1904. An educator and lecturer. Lotos Flowers (verse); Christmas Carillons, and Other Poems; Botany for Academies and Colleges; The Teacher’s Empire; Nellie Braden, a novel; Rilla Motto, a romance. Lip.

Key, Francis Scott. Md., 1780-1843. A lawyer of Washington whose miscellaneous poems were collected and published after his death. The Star-Spangled Banner, composed in 1814 during the bombardment of Fort McHenry by English forces in whose hands the author was a prisoner, is his only poem of note. See Boyle’s Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Marylanders.

Keyes, Edward Lawrence. S. C., 1843- ——. Son of E. D. Keyes, infra. A physician of New York city. The Tonic Treatment of Syphilis; Venereal Diseases; Genito-Urinary Diseases. Ap.

Keyes, Emerson Willard. N. Y., 1828-1897. A lawyer of New York. New York Court of Appeals Reports; History of United States Savings Banks; Laws of New York Relating to Common Schools, with Comments.

Keyes, Erasmus Darwin. Ms., 1810-1895. A major-general in the Federal army in the Civil War, who resigned in 1864. Fifty Years’ Observation of Men and Events. Scr.

Keyser, Peter Dirck. Pa., 1835-1897. A surgeon of Philadelphia who has published Operations for Cataracts, and other works on diseases of the eye.

Kidder, Daniel Parrish. N. Y., 1815-1891. A Methodist clergyman of prominence who held professorships in several theological institutions. Homiletics; The Christian Pastorate; Mormonism and the Mormons; Sketches of a Residence in Brazil; Helps to Prayer; co-author with J. C. Fletcher, supra, of Brazil and the Brazilians. Meth.

Kidder, Frederick. N. H., 1804-1885. A Boston merchant among whose historical monographs are, The Boston Massacre; The Expeditions of Captain John Lovewell.

Kiddle, Henry. E., 1824-1891. An educator who was superintendent of the schools of New York city, 1870-79. Text-Book of Physics; Elements of Astronomy; Dictionary of Education, include his most important works.

Kieffer, Henry Martyn. Pa., 1845- ——. A German Reformed clergyman of Norristown, and subsequently of Easton, Pennsylvania. The Recollections of a Drummer Boy. Hou.

Kilbourne, Payne Kenyon. Ct., 1815-1859. A journalist of Connecticut. The Skeptic and Other Poems; History of the County of Litchfield; Chronicles of Litchfield.

Kilgore, Damon Young. 1827-1888. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Dangers which Threaten the Republic; Questions of the Day.

Kimball, Arthur Lalanne. N. J., 1856- ——. A professor of physics at Amherst College from 1891. The Physical Properties of Gases. Hou.

Kimball, Harriet McEwen. N. H., 1834- ——. A religious verse-writer of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Swallow Flights of Song; Hymns; The Blessed Company of All Faithful People; Complete Poems (1889). Ran.

Kimball, James William. Ms., 1812-1885. A religious writer educated for the ministry, but whose life was spent in commercial pursuits. Heaven my Father’s Home; Friendly Words with Fellow Pilgrims; Encouragements to Faith; How to See Jesus; The Christian Ministry.

Kimball, Richard Burleigh. N. H., 1816-1892. A lawyer of New York city who founded the town of Kimball in Texas, and built the first railroad in that State. His novels and other writings at one time enjoyed considerable popularity. They include St. Leger; Undercurrents of Wall Street Life; Letters from Cuba; Letters from England; Cuba and the Cubans; Was He Successful?; To-day in New York; Stories of Exceptional Life; Henry Powers, Banker, a Novel; Romance of a Student Life Abroad.

King, Mrs. Anna [Eichberg]. Sd., 1853- ——. A Boston writer of short stories. Brown’s Retreat, and Other Stories; Kitwyk Stories. Cent. Rob.

King, Charles. N. Y., 1844- ——. A United States army officer, retired in 1879 with the rank of captain, whose military novels and other works have been very popular. Among his many publications are, Famous and Decisive Battles; Between the Lines; Campaigning with Crook; Stories of Army Life; Cadet Days; The Colonel’s Daughter; The Deserter; A War Time Wooing; Kitty’s Conquest; Under Fire; Waring’s Peril; Foes in Ambush; Fort Frayne; Noble Blood. See Bibliography of Wisconsin. Har. Lip. Ne.

King, Clarence. R. I., 1842-1901. A geologist for a number of years in the government service. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada; Systematic Geology.

King, Dan. Ct., 1791-1864. A Rhode Island physician. Life and Times of Governor Dorr; Quackery Unmasked; Tobacco: What it Is and What it Does.

King, David Bennett. Pa., 1848- ——. A lawyer of New York city. Latin Pronunciation; The Irish Question. Scr.

King, Edward. Ms., 1848-1896. A journalist who lived in Paris as correspondent for American journals. The Gentle Savage; The Golden Spike; French Leaders; My Paris, or French Character Sketches; Kentucky’s Love; The Great South; Echoes from the Orient, a volume of poems; Europe in Storm and Calm; A Venetian Lover, a Poem; Joseph Zalmonah; Under the Red Flag. Co. Hou. Le.

King, Grace Elizabeth. La., 1859- ——. A popular writer of New Orleans. Monsieur Motte; Tales of a Time and Place; Earthlings; New Orleans, the Place and the People; Jean Baptiste Lemoine, Founder of New Orleans; Balcony Stories. Cent. Do. Har. Mac.

King, Henry Melville. Mo., 1838- ——. A Baptist clergyman. Early Baptists Defended; Mary’s Alabaster Box, a collection of homilies; Our Gospels. Bap.

King, Horatio. Me., 1811-1897. An attorney in Washington who was postmaster-general in 1861. Sketches of Travel, or Twelve Months in Europe; Turning on the Light, a Survey of the Administration of Buchanan. Lip.

King, Horatio Collins. Me., 1837- ——. Son of H. King, supra. A journalist of New York city. Guide for Regimental Courts Martial; The Brooklyn Congregational Council; The Plymouth Silver Wedding.

King, James Wilson. Md., 1818- ——. A naval engineer, chief of the bureau of steam engineering, 1869-73. European Ships of War; The War Ships and Navies of the World.

King, Jonas. Ms., 1792-1869. A Congregational missionary in Greece who lived at Athens from 1831. He was a profound Oriental scholar, and his various works were written in Modern Greek, Classical Greek, French, and Arabic. The Defence of Jonas King; Exposition of an Apostolic Church; Hermeneutics of the Sacred Scriptures; Sermons; Synoptical View of Palestine; Miscellaneous Works. See Life, 1879.

King, Rufus. O., 1817-1891. A prominent lawyer of Cincinnati. History of Ohio. Hou.

King, Mrs. Sue [Petigru]. See Bowen, Mrs.

King, Thomas Starr. N. Y., 1824-1864. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, 1845-56, and of San Francisco for the remainder of his life. He was largely instrumental in securing the wavering allegiance of California to the general government at the opening of the Civil War, and as a religious writer his influence was widely felt. Substance and Show; Christianity and Humanity, with a Memoir by E. P. Whipple; The White Hills, a volume of travel in the White Mountains; Patriotism, and Other Papers. Hou.

King, William Basil. P. E. I., 1859- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of New York. The Daily Song: Thoughts on the Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer; Griselda, a novel. S.

King, William Rufus. N. Y., 1839- ——. An engineering officer in the United States army. Torpedoes, their Invention and Use; Materials for Defensive Armor.

Kingsley, Calvin. N. Y., 1812-1870. A Methodist bishop. The Resurrection of the Dead; Round the World.

Kinney, Coates. N. Y., 1826- ——. An Ohio lawyer and journalist. Keuka, and Other Poems; Lyrics of the Real and Ideal. The Rain upon the Roof is his most familiar poem. Clke.

Kinney, Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine [Dodge] [Stedman]. N. Y., 1810-1889. Mother of E. C. Stedman, infra. A verse-writer of Newark, New Jersey, but resident in Italy, 1850-65. Felicitá; Poems; Bianca Capello: a Tragedy. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.

Kinzie, Mrs. Juliette Augusta [Magill]. Ct., 1806-1870. A novelist of Chicago. Wau-bun, or the Early Day in the Northwest; Walter Ogilby; Mark Logan. Lip.

Kip, Leonard. N. Y., 1826-1901. Brother of W. I. Kip, infra. A lawyer of Albany. California Sketches; The Volcano Diggings; Ænone, a Roman Tale; The Dead Marquise; Hannibal’s Man, and Other Tales; Under the Bells, a romance; Nestlenook, a novel; At Cobweb and Crusty’s; Thalöe; The Puntacooset Colony; Three Pines; A Tale of the Incredible.