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Rh (1742). — His son, William, signer of the Declara- tion of Independence, b. in Boston, Mass., 17 June, 1742 ; d. in Hillsborough, N. C, in October, 1790, was graduated at Harvard in 1760. He studied law under James Otis, and in 1767 settled in Wil- mington, N. C. He soon attained a high legal rep- utation, held many important public offices, and was noted for his social qualities and hospitality. In 1770 he took an active part in be- half of the gov- ernment against the insurgents that were known as " regulators," a body composed of the lowest class, who finally attempted to seize the govern- ment. By William Hooper's advice the militia of the province were called out, and after a severe battle succeeded in quelling the rioters, who num- bered about 3,000. Hooper represented Wilming- ton in the general assembly of 1773, in which he signalized himself by his opposition to the arbitrary measures of the crown, and published a series of successful essays under the signature of " Hampden," opposing one of the government's bills. He was elected to the Continental congress of 1774, and placed on two important committees, that to draw up a statement of colonial rights, and that to examine and report the statutes affect- ing trade and manufactures. He was again elect- ed to congress in 1775, was appointed chairman of a committee to report an address to the inhabitants of Jamaica, and served on various important com- mittees. In January, 1776, he was associated with Franklin and Livingston on the committee that recommended the erection of a monument to Gen. Montgomery. During the spring of 1776 he was speaker of the conventions of Hillsborough and Halifax, N. C, and wrote an eloquent address to the British people. After signing the Declaration of Independence on 4 July, 1776, and serving on the committees for regulating the post-office, the treasury, secret correspondence, appeals from the admiralty courts, and the laws relating to captures, he was again elected to congress, but resigned his seat on account of the embarrassed condition of his private affairs. He resided at his country- seat at Masonboro sound, about eight miles from Wilmington, until he was compelled to seek safety in flight, owing to the occupation of that place by the British. After the evacuation in November, 1781, he returned, but shortly afterward removed to Hillsboro. In 1786 he was appointed by con- gress one of the judges of a special commission, to settle a boundary dispute between New York and Massachusetts. He also filled public offices in the state until he retired from active life in 1787.

HOOPER, William Henry, merchant, b. in Cambridge, Dorchester co., Md., 25 Dec, 1813. He received a common-school education, and for several years was a merchant on the eastern shore of Maryland. He emigrated to Illinois in 1835, and until 1849 he engaged in mercantile pursuits on the Mississippi. In 1850 he removed to Utah, where he was a member of the legislature, and act- ing secretary of the territory. He was a delegate to congress from 1859 till 1861. and was elected U. S. senator from Utah under the proposed state organization of " Deseret " in 1862. He again was a delegate to congress in 1865. and served until 1873, after which he engaged in mercantile pur- suits in Salt Lake Citv.

HOOPES, Josiah, botanist, b. in West Chester, Pa., 9 Nov., 1832. He was educated in the public and private schools of Philadelphia, and in 1853 he established a nursery at West Chester, which is now one of the most extensive in the country. He has travelled much at home and abroad in search of new and rare plants, and was one of the found- ers, and for seven years president, of the Horticul- tural association of Pennsylvania, is a member of numerous scientific societies, and was a trustee of the West Chester state normal-school for thirteen years. He has published " Book of Evergreens," a treatise on the cone-bearing plants of the world, which is a standard authority (New York, 1868), and has been for many years a correspondent of the New York " Tribune " and the Philadelphia " Press."

HOPE, James, artist, b. near Abbotsford, Scot- land, 29 Nov., 1818. He accompanied his father to Canada when a boy, and was brought up on a farm. After his father's death James went to Fair Haven. Vt., in 1840 was a student and afterward a teacher in Castleton, Vt., seminary, and in 1848 decided to become an artist. In 1853 he opened a studio in New York, was elected associate acade- mician in 1865, and since 1872 has resided at Wat- kin's Glen, N. Y. His pictures include " The Army of the Potomac," " Rainbow Falls," " The Gem of the Forest," and " The Forest Glen."

HOPE, James Barron, poet, b. in Norfolk, Va., 23 March, 1827 ; d. there, 15 Sept., 1887. He was educated at William and Mary, and previous to 1861 was a lawyer and commonwealth attorney in Elizabeth City county. He had won some literary distinction from a series of poems that he published in a Baltimore periodical under the pen-name of " the late Henry Ellen, Esq." After serving throughout the civil war as quartermaster and captain in the Confederate army, he settled in Norfolk, Va., was superintendent of public schools, and edited the Norfolk " Landmark," a daily newspaper. On the one hundredth anniversarv of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, 19 Oct., 1881, Mr. Hope, on the invitation of a joint committee of the U. S. senate and house of representatives, delivered an address entitled "Arms and the Man," after- ward published with other poems (Norfolk, 1882). His writings include "Leoni di Monota" (Phila- delphia, 1857); "Elegiac Ode, and Other Poems" (Norfolk, 1875) ; and " Under the Empire " (1878).

HOPE, Matthew Boyd, clergyman, b. in Mifflin county, Pa., 31 July, 1812 ; d. in Princeton, N. J., 17 Dec, 1859. After a course of study at Jefferson college, Pa., he was graduated at Princeton theological seminarv in 1834, and in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. In April of the latter year he was ordained as an evangelist, and sent by the board of missions of the Presbyterian church to Singapore, India. Failure of health necessitated his return after two years, and in 1838-9 he was corresponding secretary of the Pennsylvania colonization society of the Presbyterian church. He was secretary of the Presbyterian board of education till 1842. and its corresponding secretary from 1842 till 1846, when he was elected professor of rhetoric at Princeton, and in 1854 was given in addition the chair of political economy, in which he continued until his death. He was a contributor to the religious press, and is the author of a "Treatise on Rhetoric."