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(urc in Ilunard in 1829, and publi^shed various seruiou-s. He died July 10, 1835, in t^Urling. Vt. Hildreth, Richard, journuliHt. atitlior. >vii(« bom June 22, 1807, in IX'erHeid. Mass. Hiwas a Boston journalist and historian wlm was cnnaul at Trieste in his later vear-*. Hp was the author of Arcliy .Mtates fioni the Discovery of the Continent to the Close of the Sixteeiitli ongress in 1820. a work which has few charms of style, though its general merit is •

He died Jjily II, ISil.j. in Florence. Italy. Hildreth, Samuel Prescott, physician, an llior, was lM)rn Sept. :10. I'H'.i, in Methuen. Mass. He was a physician once prominent in .Marietta. Oliio. win re lie settled in ISOd. He was the autlior of History of the Diseases and Clinuite of Southeastern tHiio; Live* of the Early Settlers of Ohio; Contributions to the Early History of the Xorthwest; Pioneer History of the Ohio uiiquostione«l.

alley; and Riographical and IIistori«>al -Memoirs of Early Pion<*er Settlers of Ohio He died .Inly 24.' ISO.I. in Marietta. Ohio. Hilsard, Eugene Waldemar, educator, author, was iMirn .fan. IHXi. in Ravaria. In lS.3.5-72 he was >tate geologist of .XMssis."j.

Aippi; was also professor of chemistry in the university of Mis sissippi. He has been a professor of agricul tnral chemistry at the university of California 'iiiee IS75. He is the author of ("Jeolog' ol Agrictilture and Mississippi; Ceology of l^. wer Tx>uisiuna Cotton Prr»duction in Stales: the Cnited and Climatic Features of the Arid Regions of the Pacific .Slope, .-'•w^lilgard, Julius Erasmus, civil en^itH>er

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born July 7. 1700, in fierniany. purchased n farm near Relb ville; and sides its general management gave much

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tention to viticulture. In-ing the first to introduce it in Illinois. ITe was the autlior of My TU'Col lections: and The Hundred Days, an Epic Poem. He died Feb. 14. 187:{. in

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Mich. IL- established a large business in Uimlering. manufacturing and shipping in Michig.in; for three terms was nniyor of Saginaw; and for live years was presid«-nt .,»• of iM>ard of education. Siin*e IHJin he has been a nienilN«r of the Michigan state ImkmiI iif forestry commissioners. In l!M(lmi lie uas regent of the university of Michiigan; ami was reelected for a full terra of years ending in 1014. eiglit He is the (ounder of four Saginaw high scIukiI fellow•<liips witii an annual income of two hundred ind fifty dollars each; and also Inrnght and pri'si iit4-d to the university «»f Michigan the forest f inn. a tract of eiglity acres Ann .rlH»r. for the purpose of facilitating forest rv at the university.

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Benjamin Harvey, lawyer. Cnited --en.itor, congri-ssman, author, was Sep'. 14. 182o. in Jasper county, Ga. In 1851. lS.-»n and I8»50 he was elected to the tJcrrgia state legislature. In 1875-77 was a representative from Georgia to lie lie forty-fourth congress t<» fill a vacancy. In ls77 82 lie was Cnitcil States senator. He was file author of Notes on the SituaHill, ^states

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