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330 which the latter were defeated. Though Husbands, pleading the pacific character of his sect, did not participate in the fight, he found it necessary to take flight first to Maryland and thence to Pennsylvania, and settled near Pittsburg. He was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1778, was concerned in the whiskey insurrection in western Pennsylvania in 1794, and was on the committee of safety with Albert Gallatin and others. For his connection with this uprising Husbands was imprisoned for a short time in Philadelphia, but was released by the advice of Dr. David Caldwell, and died on his way home. He published an account, of the Regulator movement (1771).

HUSKE, Ellis, journalist, b. about 1700; d. in 1755. He was a brother of Gen. Huske, who was in the battle of Culloden. Ellis was a resident of Portsmouth, N. H., previous to his becoming postmaster of Boston in 1734, and was a councillor of New Hampshire in 1733-55. He was superseded in the office of deputy postmaster-general of the colonies by Franklin and Hunter in 1753. He published the "Boston Weekly Post-Boy" from October, 1734, till 1755, and was the reputed author of " The Present State of North America " (London, 1755). — His son, John, merchant, b. in Portsmouth, N. H., about 1721 ; d. in England in 1773, was educated in Boston, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1764 he became a member of the British parliament from Maiden, Essex, and was re-elected to the succeeding parliament. For his share in bringing about the stamp-act, his effigy was hung with Grenville's on the liberty - tree, Boston, on 1 Nov., 1765. He was described as a flashy fellow, who by stock-jobbing and servility raised himself to a seat in parliament.

HUSS, Magnus, Swedish naturalist, b. in Upsala in 1752; d. in Stockholm in 1799. He was secretary in 1781 of one of the ministers that were sent by Spain to determine the boundaries between the Portuguese and the Spanish possessions in South America, according to the treaty of San Ildefonso,and during his sojourn of fifteen years in the country he made a chart of the province of Asuncion, which was considered until recently as a valuable one. He studied also the natural history of South America, and published among other works &ldquo;Reisa y Amerika och det indre Paraguay&rdquo; (Stockholm, 1796; translated into French as &ldquo;Voyage au Paraguay,&rdquo; 2 vols., Paris, 1798; and into English as &ldquo;A Relation of a Journey through South America in the Paraguay Province,&rdquo; London, 1800); &ldquo;Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des quadrupédes des provinces du Paraguay et de l'Uruguay&rdquo; (5 vols., Stockholm, 1797); &ldquo;Traité sur les reptiles de l'Amérique du Sud,&rdquo; which is yet considered as an authority (2 vols., Stockholm, 1799); &ldquo;Amerikanisk nationens Seder, Bruk, och Klædedrægter,&rdquo; a dissertation on the customs of South America; and &ldquo;Délimitation des frontières des possessions Espagnoles et Portugaises dans l'Amérique duSud, selon le traité de San Ildefonso&rdquo; (2 vols., with charts, Stockholm, 1799).

HUSSEY, Curtis Grubb, manufacturer, b. near York, Pa., in August, 1802. He is descended from Christopher Hussey, who, with others of the Society of Friends, bought the island of Nantucket as a place of refuge from persecution in 1658-'9. In childhood he was taken by his parents to Ohio, where he studied medicine at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson co. In 1825, and for some years after, he practised in Morgan county, Ind. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits and in the provision trade, and was a member of the Indiana legislature in 1829, but declined re-election. In 1848 he determined to explore and develop the Lake Superior copper region, and formed with others the Pittsburg and Boston mining company. Under his direction the first mining shaft was sunk in the vicinity of what is now known as Copper harbor. In the summer of 1845 regular mining operations were begun, and proved remunerative beyond his most sanguine expectations. The Pittsburg copper and brass rolling mills, owned by him, are the outgrowth of his successful mining enterprises. He was also the first person to succeed in making the best quality of all descriptions of crucible steel, and the establishment of Hussey, Howe and Co., Pittsburg, is engaged in this enterprise. He was one of the founders of the Alleghany observatory and of the School of design for women at Pittsburg.

HUSTED, James William, politician, b. in Bedford, Westchester co., N. Y., 31 Oct., 1833. He was graduated at Yale in 1854, and admitted to the bar in 1857. He was school-commissioner of Westchester. county in 1858-'60, deputy superintendent of the State insurance department in 1860-'2, harbor-master of the port of New York in 1862-'70, and state commissioner of emigration in 1870-'72. He has been for many years a member and also speaker of the assembly. In 1873 he was appointed major-general of the National guard of the state of New York, which office he still holds. He was president of the New York state military association in 1875-'6, and is popularly known as the "Bald Eagle of Westchester."

HUTCHINS, Charles Lewis, clergyman, b. in Concord, N. H., 5 Aug., 1838. He was graduated at Williams in 1861, and at the General theological seminary, New York city, in 1865, entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, and in 1871 and 1874 was assistant secretary of the general convention. In 1877 he was made secretary of the convention, which post he now (1887) holds. Since 1872 he has been rector of Grace church, Medford, Mass. He has published several collections of church music, among which are " Sunday-School Hymnal" (Buffalo, 1871); "Annotations of the Hymnal" (Hartford, 1872); "Church Hvmnal" (Medford, 1879) ; and " Sunday-School Hymnal and Service-Book" (Medford, 1880). From 1874 till the present time (1887) he has edited "The Parish Choir," a weekly publication.

HUTCHINS, Thomas, geographer, b. in Monmouth, N.J., in 1730; d. in Pittsburg, Pa., 28 April, 1789. Before he was sixteen he entered the British army as an ensign, and became paymaster and captain of the 60th Royal American Regiment. He was assistant engineer in the expedition of Gen. Henry Bouquet (q.v.) in 1764, and took part in the campaign against the Florida Indians. When he was in London in 1779 his known devotion to the cause of American independence caused his imprisonment for six weeks on a charge of maintaining correspondence with Benjamin Franklin, who was then in France. By this imprisonment he is said to have lost £12,000. He soon afterward went to France, and thence to Charleston, S.C., where he joined Gen. Nathanael Greene, and received the title of “geographer-general.” He furnished the maps and plates of Dr. William Smith's “Account of Bouquet's Expedition” (Philadelphia, 1765); and is the author of “A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina” (London, 1778); “History, Narrative, and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West Florida” (Philadelphia, 1784); three papers in the “Philadelphia Transactions” (1775-'6 and 1783); and one in the “Transactions of the American Society.”