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Rh ter." In 1853 he arranged and indexed twenty- three folio volumes containing the papers of Gov. George Clinton. He was surveyor-general of the state in 1838, and during the last ten years of his life was employed in the office of the secretary of state of New York. He was the author of " De- scription of Citv of New York " (1847), and " Life of Franklin " (Boston, 1856).

HOLLIDAY, Ben, expressman, b. in Bourbon county, Ky., in 1819 ; d. in Portland, Oregon, 8 July, 1887. He became a pioneer in western Mis- souri, and afterward in Kansas, was an army con- tractor during the Mexican war, and in 1849-'52 established mercantile houses in Salt Lake City and San Francisco. A few years later he founded Holliday's mail and overland express, which for ten years was the connecting link between the western frontier states and the Pacific. He also established the fast pony-express, and a line of twenty-three steamers from Alaska to Mexico. He afterward invested in mining property, and with the proceeds of the Ophir mine in Nevada bought a tract of land in Westchester county, N. Y., which he called Ophir farm. Here he built a house that cost $1,000,000, where he entertained his friends in magnificent fashion, but the property was for many years in litigation, and it finally passed en- tirely out of his hands.

HOLLINGSWORTH, Levi, merchant, b. in Elkton, Md., 29 Nov., 1739 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 24 March, 1824. His great-grandfather, Valentine Hollingsworth, accompanied William Penn to Pennsylvania in 1682. Levi became a merchant in Philadelphia in 1760, and was a zealous and ac- tive supporter of the cause of American independ- ence. He suffered loss from supplies that he fur- nished the army, and served in the field as a mem- ber of the original troop of city cavalry. He was sent to Canada with the specie for the payment of Gen. Montgomery's army when it was investing Quebec, and was employed in many other special ervices. He was afterward one of the leaders of the Federal party in Philadelphia.

HOLLINS, George Nichols, naval officer, b. in Baltimore, Md., 20 Sept., 1799 ; d. there, 18 Jan., 1878. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1814, and served on the sloop-of-war " Erie " in her un- successful attempt to break the British blockade of Chesapeake bay. He was assigned to the frigate "President" under Stephen Decatur, was cap- tured by the British, and kept a prisoner of war at Bermuda until peace was established. He also served under Decatur in the Algerian war in 1815, and received from him a Turkish sabre for his bravery in the capture of an Algerian frigate. After serving on the " Guerriere," the " Columbus." the " Franklin," and the " Washington," he took command of an East Indian merchantman. In 1825 he was promoted lieutenant, and in 1844 com- mander. In 1855, while lying off the Mosquito coast of Nicaragua, the American residents of Greytown appealed to him for protection from the local authorities, by whom they alleged they had been injured. Hollins accordingly bombarded the city as a~ punishment to the authorities, and the property and lives of the English residents being imperilled, they declared he had encroached on British domain, as Nicaragua was under the pro- tection of that government. In consequence of his precipitate conduct, serious difficulties were apprehended between England and the United States. n 1861 he resigned his commission to join the Confederate navy, but the war department refused to accept it, struck his name from the rolls, and ordered his arrest. He eluded the authorities, went to the south, and was commissioned commodore in the Confederate navy. In October, 1861, he attacked the National blockading squadron at the passes of the Mississippi, and was appointed flag-captain of the New Orleans station for what was claimed as an important victory. In 1862 he was superseded by Com. William C. Whipple. After the war he became a crier in the city court of Baltimore.

HOLLIS, Thomas, benefactor, b. in England in 1659 ; d. in London, England, in February, 1731. He was for many years a successful merchant in London, and a bequest made to Harvard college in his uncle's will, of which he was a trustee, first at- tracted his attention to that seat of learning. After making two considerable donations to the college, he gave in 1721 the fund by which the Hollis pro- fessorship of divinity was constituted. He was a Baptist and a Calvinist, required his professor of divinity to be " of sound or orthodox principles," and stipulated that Baptists, who were then in no great favor in New England, should not be ex- cluded from the chair that he had established. In 1727 he also established a professorship of mathe- matics and philosophy, and his donations amounted at that time to £4.900 in Massachusetts currency. He also gave books for the library, and a set of Hebrew and Greek types for printing. — His broth- ers, John and Nathaniel, were also donors to the college. — His nephew and heir, Thomas, son of Nathaniel, d. in 1735, also gave money, books, and philosophical apparatus to the college. — Thomas, son of the second Thomas, b. in London, England, in 1720; d. in Corsecombe, Dorset, Eng- land, in 1774, followed literary pursuits, and did much to propagate the principles of civil and relig- ious liberty. Among his gifts to Harvard college was a donation of books that were valued at £1,400. He is said to have given away half his large fortune for benevolent purposes. He was a zealous pro- moter of the spirit of freedom in America, and aided in republishing the political treatises of ^lay- hew, Otis, and John Adams. His memoirs, com- piled by the Rev. Francis Blackburn, archdeacon of Cleveland, were published in 1780 in two quartos, with engravings, by Thomas Brand Hollis, also a benefactor of Harvard. — Other members of the Hollis family were also liberal donors to Harvard college, and one of the halls of that institution is named in their honor.

HOLLISTER, Gideon Hiram, author, b. in Washington, Conn.. 14 Dec, 1817; d. in Litchfield, Conn.. 24 March. 1881. He was graduated in 1840 at Yale, where he was class poet, studied law in Litchfield with Origen S. Seymour, and after a brief stay in Woodbury, Conn., practised in the former town. He was clerk of courts there in 1843-'52, and in 1856 was chosen to the state senate, where he was instrumental in procuring the election of James Dixon to the U. S. senate. President Johnson appointed him consul-general and U. S. minister at Hayti in 1868, and he served till 1869, when he removed to Stratford, Conn., and practised law in Bridgeport, but in 1876 returned to Litchfield. He was elected to the legislature in 1880, and made a speech on the New York boundary question that was published and attracted much attention. Mr. Hollister was an enthusiastic student of the English classics. The acting copyright of his tragedy " Thomas a Becket " is owned by Edwin Booth, but it was produced only three times. His poem " Andersonville " acquired considerable popularity during the civil war. He published "Mount Hope," an historical romance of King Philip's war (New York, 1851) ; a " History of Connecticut " (2 vols., New Haven, 1855) ; and