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Rh successful that she made busts of Gen. Grant, Revevdy Johnson, Albert Pike, John Sherman, and Thaddeus Stevens. Her larger works of this period include " The Indian Girl," a full-length figure cast in bronze. A design for a fountain, which she called " America," consisted of four fe- male figures, representing the points of the com- pass, with typical emblems of the four sections of the United States. She then made, in marble, I Miriam as she met the Children of Israel as they crossed the Red Sea." Her most important piece at this time was the marble statue of Abraham Lincoln, which was placed in the eapitol at Wash- ington. It was the first statue ordered by the government from a woman. Mrs. Hoxie spent three years abroad while making this statue, and produced medallions of Gustave Dore, Pere Hya- cinth, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, the Abbe Liszt, and Thomas Buchanan Read. On her return to the United States, she modelled a bust of Lincoln for Cornell university, a life-size statue of " Sappho," "The Spirit of the Carnival," and several ideal busts. Her later work includes a statue of Admi- ral Farragut, which was cast in bronze from metal obtained from the flag-ship " Hartford," and placed in Farragut square, Washington. She married, on 28 May, 1878, Capt. Richard L. Hoxie, of the U. S. corps of engineers.

HOYNE, Thomas, lawyer, b. in New York citv, II Feb., 1817: d. near Carleton Station, N. Y., 27 July, 1883. He began a mercantile life when he was thiileen years old, and went to Chicago in 1837, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was elected city clerk in 1840, and removed to Galena, 111., in 1842, but returned to Chicago in 1844. He was appointed U. S. district Attorney for Illinois in 1853, and in 1859 was made U. S. marshal for the northern district of Illinois. During the civil war he was a member of the Union defence committee. He was a delegate to the conservative convention held in Philadelphia in 1866. Mr. Hoyne took an active interest in the founding of the University of Chicago, and in recognition of his services the trustees established the Hoyne professorship of international and con- stitutional law. He was also active in establishing the astronomical observatory of Chicago, and was Connected with many scientific and literary bodies in that city. After the great fire of 1871 he pre- sided at a meeting to organize the free public libra- ry of Chicago, and was president of its first board of directors. In 1877 he prepared a history of the library up to that date. Mr. Hoyne was a presi- dential elector on the Van Buren ticket in 1848, and on the Greeley ticket in 1872, and in the latter year was mayor of Chicago. He was killed in a railroad accident while on an excursion.

HOYT, Benjamin Thomas, educator, b. in Boston, 18 Oct., 1820 ; d. in Greencastle, Ind., 24 May, 1867. He was graduated at Wesleyan seminary, Middletown, Conn., in 1846, and was principal of the high-school there from 1846 till 1849, and of Chelsea, Mass., from 1849 till 1852, when he became principal of the institute of Lawrenceburg, where he remained till 1856. He was then appointed principal of Indiana female college, in which he also taught mental and moral science, and remained till 1858. when he was professor of Latin in Indiana Asbury university till 1863, and then of literature and history in the same college till his death. He rendered great service to the cause of education in Indiana as superintendent of schools, president of the State teachers' associa- tion, and editor of the " Indiana School Journal." —His brother, Francis Southack, clergyman, b. in Lyndon, Vt., 5 Nov., 1822, was graduated at Wesleyan in 1844. From 1854 till 1860 he was president of Willamette university, Salem, Oregon, and from 1865 till 1872 was professor of bibli- cal theology and literature in Ohio Wesleyan uni- versity. In 1872-'81 he edited the " Western Chris- tian Advocate." He was a delegate to the gen- eral conferences of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1860, '76, '80, and '84, and since 1884 has held the office of presiding elder. He has edited a revised edition of Angus's " Bible nand-Book." — Another brother, Albert Harrison, editor, b. in Sandwich, N. H., 6 Dec, 1826, was graduated at Wesleyan in 1850, and studied law in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1852-'3 he was commissioner of common schools for Rockingham county, N. H., and from 1853 till 1856 clerk of the state court. In 1856 he was ad- mitted to the bar, and practised law in Portsmouth till 1862, during which time he served as city solicitor and president of the common council. He was a paymaster in the army in 1862-'6, with the rank of major, and was brevetted lieutenant- colonel in 1865. Since 1866 he has resided prin- cipally in Boston, where he has been engaged in business and literary pursuits. He edited the " New England Historical and Genealogical Register" from 1868 till 1876, and the fourth volume of the " Memorial Biographies " published by the New England historic - genealogical society (Boston, 1885). He has also published numerous papers on historical and genealogical subjects, among which are " Necrology of the New England Colleges " (1869-'70); "Captain Francis Goelet's Journal of his Visit to Boston, Salem, etc., in 1745-'50 " (1870) ; " Letters of Sir William Pepperrell, Bart." (1874) ; " History of the New England Historical and Ge- nealogical Register" and "Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Laws of New Hampshire " (1876): and "The Name Columbia" (1886).

HOYT, Epaphras, historian, b. in Deerfield, Mass., 31 Dec, 1765 ; d. there, 8 Feb., 1850. He held many civil and military offices, was major- general of the Massachusetts militia, and devoted his life to perfecting the volunteer militia system of the country. He published " Treatise on the Mili- tary Art "(1793); "Military Instructions," "Cav- alry Discipline " (1797) ; and " Antiquarian Re- searches " (1824) ; left completed, with maps, a work for publication entitled " Burgoyne's Cam- paigns," and had partly finished a history of the French and Indian wars.

HOYT, Henry Martyn, governor of Pennsylvania, b. in Kingston, Luzerne co., Pa., 8 June, 1830. His parents were natives of Connecticut and among the earliest settlers in the Wyoming valley. He was graduated at Williams in 1849, taught for a year in Towanda, Pa., and in 1851-'3 was professor of mathematics in Wyoming seminary. He then read law with Chief-Justice George W. Woodward, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. At the beginning of the civil war he was active in raising the 52d Pennsylvania regiment, of which he was appointed lieutenant-colonel. He served in the Army of the Potomac till January, 1863, was engaged in the siege of Morris Island under Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore, and was captured in a night attack on Fort Johnson, in which he successfully led a division of boats, landed, and entered the fort, which he was unable to hold by reason of the failure of his support to come to his aid. After being confined some time in Macon, Ga., he was taken back to Charleston and made his escape, but was recaptured. On his exchange he rejoined his regiment, with which he remained till the close of the war, when he was mustered out with the