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Rh HILLIARD, Francis, jurist, b. in Cambridge, Mass., about 1808 ; d. in Worcester, Mass., 9 Oct.. 1878. He was the son of William Hilliard, a pub- lisher of Boston. The son was graduated at Har- vard in 1823, and was admitted to the bar. He became judge of Roxbury police-court, commis- sioner of insolvency for Norfolk county, and served in the state legislature, but abandoned his practice, and devoted his attention to preparing legal works. He published " Digest of Pickering's Reports " (vols. viii. to xiv., inclusive, Boston, 1837 ; supple- ment, 1843); "Law of Sales of Personal Property" (New York, 1841) ; " American Law of Real Prop- erty," containing part of Cruise's digest (2 vols., 2d ed., Philadelphia, 1846; 3d ed.. New York, 1841 ; 4th ed., Albany, 1869) ; " American Juris- prudence " (2d ed., 1848) ; " Law of Mortgages of Real and Personal Property" (Boston, 1853; 3d ed., 1864); "Treatise on the' Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Real Property" (2 vols.. 1858; 2d ed., 1869); "Treatise on Torts" (2 vols., 1859; 2d ed.! revised, 1867) ; " The Law of Injunctions " (Philadelphia, 1864; 2d ed., revised, 1869); and "Law of New Trials and other Rehearings " (1866).

HILLIARD, Henry Washington, lawyer, b. in Fayetteville, N. C, 4 Aug., 1808. He removed with his parents to Columbia, S. C, at an early age, and was graduated at South Carolina college in 1826. He studied law and removed to Athens, Ga., where he was admitted to the bar in 1829, and practised two years. In 1831 he was elected to a professorship in Alabama univer- sity, Tuscaloosa, but resigned in 1834 and prac- tised law success- fully in Mont- gomery. Mean- while he was also a lay preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1838 he was elected to the Alabama legislature, {{missing image|| and in 1840 he was a member of the Harrisburg Whig convention. In answer to a series of articles upon the question of the sub-treasury, by Dixon H. Lewis, under the signature of " A Nullifier," Mr. Hilliard wrote six papers signed "Junius Brutus," which were published in a Whig journal of Mont- gomery county. From 1842 till 1844 he was charge d'affaires in Belgium. On his return he was elected to congress from Alabama, and served from 1845 till 1851. In 1846 he was a regent of the Smith- sonian institution. In congress he opposed the Wilmot proviso, and advocated the compromise measures of 1850. He was a candidate for elector on the Fillmore ticket in 1856, and in 1860 on the Bell-andrEverett ticket, visiting Mr. Everett in Boston, where he delivered an address in Faneuil hall. He opposed secession in 1861, but after the convention of Alabama had passed the ordinance he espoused the cause of the Confederacy. He was appointed by Jefferson Davis commissioner to Ten- nessee, and also accepted the commission of briga- dier-general in the provisional Confederate army, for which he raised 3,000 men. After the civil war he resumed his law practice in Augusta, and sub- sequently removed to Atlanta, where he now (1887) resides. In 1876 he was an unsuccessful candidate for congress, and he took an active part in the presidential canvass of 1872, advocating the elec- tion of Horace Greeley. In 1877 he was appointed U. S. minister to Brazil, where he remained till 1881. He has given much of his attention to litera- ture, and has published " Roman Nights," trans- lated from the Italian (Philadelphia, 1848) ; " Speeches and Addresses " (New York, 1855) ; and " De Vane, a Story of Plebeians and Patricians " (New York, 1865 ; 2d ed., Nashville, 1886).

HILLIARD, William Henry, artist, b. in Au- burn, N. Y., in 1836. He studied art in New York city, and, after attaining considerable proficiency, painted landscapes in the west until he was able to go to Europe. He sketched in England and Scot- land for a time, and then went to Paris, where he studied with Lambinet. After opening a studio in New York he removed to Boston, where he es- tablished himself permanently. Landscapes and marine views are his specialty. He has exhibited in many of the principal cities of the United States, and has received several medals. Among his best- known works are views of Maine, of the White and Franconia mountains, and of the Atlantic coast, including " Campton Meadows," " Castle Rock," and "Wind against Tide" (1878): "Battle-Field of Lookout Mountain " and " Allatoona Pass, Ga." The two last named were especially popular.

HILLIARD D'AUBERTEUIL, Michel Rene French author, b. in Rennes, France, 31 Jan., 1751; d. in Santo Domingo, W. I., in 1785. He practised law in Santo Domingo, and visited the United States during the Revolutionary war. On his return to France he published " Considerations sur l'etat present de la colonie francaise de Saint Domingue," which exposed official abuses and was suppressed (2 vols., Paris, 1776). He is said to have been assassinated or executed. His principal works are : " Nouvelles considerations sur Saint Domingue" (Paris, 1780); " Essais historiques et politiques sur les Anglo-Americains " (Brussels, 1782); and " Histoire de l'administration du lord North, depuis 1770 jusqu'en 1782, de la guerre de l'Amerique septentrionale " (Paris, 1784).

HILLIS, David, lieutenant-governor of Indiana, b. in Washington county, Pa., in 1789; d. in Jefferson county, Ind., 8 July, 1845. He went with his parents to Bourbon county, Ky., in 1791, was self-educated, and in 1808 removed to the new settlements in Jefferson county, Ind., where he engaged in farming and surveying, and served for several years as government surveyor. Early in 1812 he was active in raising a company of 100 men, and was commissioned 1st lieutenant. He was made captain in 1814, and in 1815 became colonel of militia. Soon after the organization of the state government in 1816, he was elected an associate judge of the circuit court, and in 1818 was chosen to the legislature, serving by successive annual re-elections, with one exception, till 1830. In 1831 and 1835 he was elected to the state senate, and in 1836-'40 was lieutenant-governor. In 1840 he was a commissioner to treat with the Indians, and from 1841 till his death served again in the legislature. Gov. Hillis was one of the most energetic and influential men in Indiana, and did much to develop internal improvements in that state. — His son, David B.. was colonel of the 17th Iowa regiment in the civil war, and received the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers.

HILLS, George, Canadian Anglican bishop, b. in Egthorne, England, in 1816. His father was a rear-admiral in the British navy. He was educated at Durham university, ordained a priest in