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 IIEKUINOSIIAWS I.IUttAUV UK AMKRH'AN structiou of the Furniiiigtoii and IIaiui>8liire cunul; and was chosen In-usurrr nf Vale college iu 1782. He died Dec. 2'J, ISU2, iu

Nfw Haven,

^'inm.

Hillhouse, James Abram, uutlior, poet, Sept. 20, 1781), iti New Haven, His principal draniu.s are I'erey's Conn. He was .Mii»4|ue; Hadad; and Denietria. also the author of DraiuaH, Disi-ournos, and 1S41, in New Other I'itees. He died Jan.

was born

.'>,

Haven, Conn. William,

Hillhouse,

lawyer,

jurist,

was

1728, in .lonl villi-, Conn. He ronnei-licut legislature in 177o-8o; was judge ol tiie court of couiinon pleUit for about forty yi*ars; and a major in the Connecticut cavalry in the Kevolution. In 178.'i-86 lie was a delegate from Connecticut to ihe CJiilinental congrer*;*. Ho died Jan. 12, 1810, in Montville, Conn. Hillard, Francis, lawyer, jurist, author, wjvs born about 1808 in Cambridge, .Ma->s. He was the author of The l^w of Taxation; The l^w of Vendors nnd l'urclias«rs ; The Law of .Mortgages; The Ijiw of Torts; Law of Injunctions; Law of New Trials; Law of Contracts; Ijiw of Bankruptcy; .Xmcrieait

born Aug.

bervetl

in

2d,

the

.Jurisprudence; and Anieriiun Law, a Com prehensive Summary. He died Oct. U, 1878, in Worcester, .Mass.

HiUiard, Robert Cochran, actor, playwright, was born in 1857 in New York City. He was educated in the public and private schools of his native city. Hi- i-ntt-red the «iramalic profession in his own theater, the Criterion of BrtMiklyn. as a star in False Shauie, Kngnged and Li-(1 A-^lray; andstoek SjM^rting Life. He is the author of u play entitled .drift; and other works. in

.Adrift

i-ieid

Lixikout

.lountain.

David, soldier, lawyer, jurist, state lit-uienanl governor, Vfum born in In 1809 i;8l», in Wa^limgton county, I'a. he removed to .leiterson county, Intl.; and in 1831 and 1835 waa elecU'd to the slate >enate. In l83ti-40 he was lieutenant-governor. He died July 8, 1845, in Jellersou t-ouiity,

Hiliis,

Indiana.

lud.

David Burke,

He

soldier,

was born

in

wiia colonel of the seveiiteeiilli

the civil war; and re ceived tiie brevet of brigadier general of volunteers. He died Sept. U, lUOU. Hillis, Newell Dwij^t, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 2, 1858, iu Magnolia, Iowa. He is pastor of Plymouth church of Brooklyn, N.Y. He is the author of The Investment of Inlluence; Mau'b N'aluu to Society; How the inner Light Failed; Fore lokens of Immortality; and other works. Hillis, William J., lawyer, author, was born S«-pl. 14, 185U, in Albany, N.Y. He He is the is an able lawyer of Albany, N.Y.

Iowa regiment

in

A

author of A .Metrical History of Napoleon Bonaparte. Hillquit, Morris, lawyer, author, was born Aug. 1, 18G'J, in Kuasiai. Since 1803 he ban practiced law in New York City; and since H)02 has been committeeman of the national socialist party for New York City, lie is the author of History of S4K:ialism in the United States. Clarence, educator, author, 1807, in Arliuglon, HI. 2, he was than ot lloUins college in Florida; and since 1902 has been proless«)r of modem languages at the Colorado Hills,

Elijah

was burn July Ill

18:J0 l!>01

He is the author of Canadian French; Hills-Ford Spanish Grammar; New.Mexican Spanish; and other works. (« appointed minister to Belgium. In 184r)-.'»l he wa^. a representative from Alabama to the twenty-ninth, thirtieth and thirty-first rongr<-sses. During the civil war he si'rved in the confe [Htin III IS'Mi in Aul>urn, N.Y. l>est paintings are White and Fianconia Caslle iuouiiiains; ^Meadows; Lainpton Koek; and Wind .Against Hide; and BattluHilliard,

In 1849 he moved Kent, England. with his parents to Oneida county, N.Y. During the civil war he served as a soldier company £, one in hundred nnd seven

regiment

New

infantry; been pa.<«t

post

ti-enth

York has

and

commander of the grand army of the republic. He was general

freight and paaagent, general

s«ng--r

manager and superintendent of tinSioux City and Pacific railroad ciim|iaiiy and other roads in 1808-81 He lia-i also been general manager and prcideiit of the Sioux City and Northein railroad cointrallic