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Rh HICKCOX, John Howard, librarian, b. in Albany. N. Y., 10 Aug., 1832. He was educated at the Albany academy, and in 1848 became assist- ant librarian of the state library in that city, where he remained till 1863. From 1874 till 1882 he was employed in the Congressional library at Washington, D. C. He has contributed to peri- odicals, and published " An Historical Account of American Coinage," with plates, of which only two hundred copies were printed (Albany, 1858) ; " His- tory of the Bills of Credit, or Paper Monev, issued by New York from 1709 to 1789 "(1866); ""Bibliog- raphy of the Writings of Dr. Franklin B. Hough " (1886) ; and " Catalogue of United States Govern- ment Publications " (3 vols., Washington, 1885-'7).

HICKENLOOPER, Andrew, engineer, b. in Hudson, Ohio, 31 Aug., 1837. He was educated at Woodward college, Cincinnati, but was not graduated, and in 1855 became city surveyor of that city, afterward conducting the government survey of Indian lands at Little Travers Bay. He was made captain of the 5th Ohio independ- ent battery on 31 Aug., 1861, and was afterward chief of artillery and chief engineer of the 17th corps, Army of the Tennessee, till after the cap- ture of Vicksburg. He was then judge-advocate- general and afterward chief of artillery of that army, and was finally given command of a brigade in the 17th corps. He was engaged in the princi- pal battles of the Army of the Tennessee from Shiloh to Sherman's campaign through the Caro- linas, and on 13 March, 1865, was brevetted briga- dier-general of volunteers. After the war he was U. S. marshal for the southern district of Ohio in 1866-'70, elected city civil engineer of Cincinnati in 1871, and in 1877 became president of the Cin- cinnati gas-light and coke company, of which he had been vice-president since 1872. In 1880 he was chosen lieutenant-governor of Ohio. He has published "Competition in the Manufacture and Delivery of Gas (1881), and " Incandescent Elec- tric Lights for Street Illumination " (1886).

HICKEY, Thomas, conspirator, d. in New York city, 27 June, 1776. When Gen. Howe set out from Halifax to attack New York city in June, 1776, Gov. Tryon, with the aid of bribes, ar- ranged a conspiracy to blow up the magazine and murder the American generals, or at least to abduct Washington and deliver him to the Brit- ish. Among 500 persons that were seduced were two of Washington's guard. One of these was Hickey, who was immediately arrested, with a dozen others. He was convicted by the unani- mous decision of a court-martial, and hanged in the presence of twenty thousand spectators near the Bowery lane. This was the first military execution in New York.

HICKMAN, John, lawyer, b. in Chester county, Pa., 11 Sept., 1810 ; d. in West Chester, Pa., 23 March, 1875. He was educated by private tutors, read law in West Chester, and was admitted to the bar there in 1832. He acquired reputation at the bar and as a political, speaker, and in 1854 he was elected to congress as a Democrat in a strong Whig district. He was re-elected in 1856. changed his views on the slavery question, was again elected in 1858 as a Douglas Democrat by a large major- ity over both the regular nominees, and became a leader on the side of the north, acquiring a na- tional reputation through his brilliant speeches. In 1860 he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the vice-presidency. He was again elected to congress in 1860 as a" Republican, and was the first to propose in congress the freeing of the slaves and the enlisting of negro soldiers. At the close of his fourth congressional term he de- clined a re-election, and with the exception of a single term in the legislature passed the remain- der of his life at his home in West Chester.

HICKMAN, Robert S., b. in 1813 j d. in Wash- ington. D. C, 2 Sept., 1873. He was a native of Virginia or Maryland, went to Washington about the time of the Mexican war, and there soon be- came noted for the elegance of his dress and man- ners, acquiring the name of "Beau" Hickman. He was on familiar terms with many public men, and in later life entertained many visitors in Washington with his reminiscences and anec- dotes, and subsisted by means of trifling sums that he pretended to borrow from his hearers.

HICKMAN, William, clergyman, b. in King and Queen county, Va., 4 Feb., 1747; d. in Kentucky in 1830. He was educated as an Episcopa- lian, but united with the Baptist church in 1773, was licensed to preach in 1776, after visiting Ken- tucky earlier in the year, where he preached the first sermon delivered in the new settlement. In 1784 he settled in Fayette county, Ky., and founded many churches in Kentucky. — His son, Paschal, soldier, killed at the battle "of the River Raisin, 22 Jan., 1813, led a party of spies under Gen. Wayne in 1794-'5. was captain of Kentucky volunteers under Col. William Lewis in 1812, and was wounded in the action with the British and Indians at Frenchtown. and killed in the massacre that took plage three days afterward. Hickman county, Ky.. was named in his honor.

HICKOK, Laurens Perseus, clergyman, b. in Danbury, Conn., 29 Dec, 1798; d. in Amherst, Mass., 6 May, 1888. He was graduated at Union col- lege in 1820, studied theology, and was pastor suc- cessively at Newtown, Kent, and Litchfield, Conn., where he succeeded Dr. Lyman Beecher. In 1836 he was elected professor of theology in the Western reserve college, Ohio, where he remained eight years. In 1844 he became professor of the same branch in the Auburn theological seminary, and in 1852 removed to Schenectady, N. Y., to become professor of mental and moral science and vice- president of Union college. He assisted Dr. Nott in the government of the college for eight years, had sole charge for the succeeding eight years, and became president of the college on 1 March, 1866, which post he resigned 20 July, 1868, when he removed to Amherst, Mass. He published "Ra- tional Psychology, or the Subjective Idea and Objective Laws of all Intelligence" (Auburn, 1848) ; " System of Moral Science " (Schenectady, 1853) ; " Empirical Psychology, or the Human Mind as given in Consciousness" (1854); "Rational Cos- mology, or the Eternal Principles and the Neces- sary Laws of the Universe" (New York, 1858): " Creator and Creation, or the Knowledge in the Reason of God and His Works " (Boston, 1872) ; " Humanity Immortal, or Man Tried, Fallen, and Redeemed " (1872) ; and " Rational Logic, or True Logic must strike Root in Reason " (1875). His collected works have been published (Boston, 1875).

HICKS, Elias, minister of the Society of Friends, b. in Hempstead, N. Y., 19 March, 1748; d. in Jericho, N. Y., 27 Feb., 1830. His youth was passed in carelessness and indifference to religious subjects, but not without frequent checks of conscience for his neglect of duty. At the age of about twenty years the subject of religion deeply affected his mind, and wrought a thorough change in his conduct. He became interested in the principles and testimonies of the society of which he was a member, and when about twenty-seven years of age he began his ministry, soon became an