Page:Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography - volume 3.pdf/197

 IIF.HHINUSUAW'S LIBKAKV OK AMERICAN BIOORArHT. for

asfiociatioii

icu'iice,

Hodges, Mrs. Louise Threete, uuthor, poet, «iis horn in Athiiita, Ua. She h the ailihor of

Tli<>uj,'ht lilussom>>

From

the

JSoutli.

Hodges, Silas Henry, hiwyer, public olliWHS bovn Jan. 12, 18Ut, iu Clarciiduli, Vt. In 1S45-50 he was auditor of accounts Inr fnin)iit. He was eoin mi Sii loner of patI'UU iu 1852-53; aud in 18((l-75 woti examtiier-in-chicf in the U. S. patent-office. He cial,

^7'k in a-hiii;;! on, D.C.

A|)ril -M.

, in d'ah'sburg. Mich, in 18S7-01) lie was secretary of the Itardsen Pbper company of Otsego, Mich.

dtfnt

was president

In IDOO-OG he

of the Snpcrioi

Paper cumpauy of Kalania/oo; and iu 1UU8 11 was president of the Watervliet Papi'i «-onipany and was one of the originators and promoters of these two sm-eessfnl e7 ii.- was n ]joricr with the Atlanta Constituliou aud with the New York Evening Telegram. Ho is now secretary, treasurer and director of Aie Empire State Chemical company; and a member of the Hod0»n Cotton company. Ill' is 1,11-1 ee of the university of Georgia ; and ki nH inlxr of the executive c8 he ha.s been engaged iu educational work; and since 1887 has k'en professor of history and political econ-

omy

Hodgson, Francis, ih-rgyman, author, was burn Feb. I'S, 1805, in Englaud. He was a uietliodist minister in Pennsylvania and other states. He was tlic author of Kani' ination into tiie Systt.m of New Divinity:

oniK'il

lawyer and jurist

T.,

was born

111.,

Hill,

111.

Feti.

ot

1852,

21,

He graduated from

in

the

Michigan

university with the dcgroe of bachelor of laws. He has attained .sneee*H in the practice of law and since 1877 ha**

campaigned

Illinois

publican speaker.

many times as a re lie has been ahlrnuan.

auorncy aud connty judge; and ha-* held various other positions of trunt and city

Study in United States History, Indiann and the Nation; and joint author of a Study of the American Common wualtli. Hodgkias, Howard Liacolii, edneator and M-ientist of 18:? T nt.. Washington. D.C. was born .Jan. 2;{, 18(i2, in Klgin, 111. He received the de grees of A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. from the Ci'eorge Washington nniversily; ami

honor in his city and state. Ho^ Sober t, manufacturer, was born <»et. 29, 1784, in Englaud. The Hoe prcws was brought out by him, and built from ideas that were obtained from the Engli-Ii ii l«>d cylinder presses. He i» said to hae been the first American machinist to employ stiam as a motor for hi.s machinery.

has been dean of the scientific scIuk)!, dean of the university, and siner iwr> lUan oT ilir wllrpe of engineering in that in.'itilution. In 1882-92 he was spreijil eomputor of the nau-

He

I

ieui

abnanae

ollh

.

Hodgkina, Louise Manning, educator, auwas bom Aug. 184(5, in Ipswich, Mm--, ^lu' was professor of |j>^'li-h litera

thor,

."»,

lure iu Wellesiey college in 187(}-81. She the author of Nineteenth Century AwIhois; Webster's First J5uuker Tlill Ora lion; and Study of the English Language. Hodgkina, William Candler, civil engineer, giiihigist, author, was born Oct. 21, 1854, in liosti>n, Mass. In 187 1 he entered service as flssistflut engineer in the United Staten coast and geodetic survey. In 1802 he re lorrit"il tile eirctilar iKinndarv beteen Penn in

-.l:ini;i

and Dehiware; and in 181)5 re the boundary between Iowa

hH-ated part of

He is the author of An Hiu toriial .er-onnt of the Honndary Line Between Penn-ylvania and Dehiware. Hod^kinson, John, a« t«»r, nnthor, was born nuil Missouri.

in

IT(>»!

in

Ent'liMid.

Ili^

ir.il

name was

Miadoweraft. He played in Pliiladelphia and Boston; and was the manager of .several

theater-

He died

Washington, D.C.

Sept. 12, 1805, in

ll

tchester county.

Hoe, Richard March, nuuuifacturcr, inven tor, was born Sept. 12, 1812, in New York City. He was one of three sons i>f tlif original founder of the house of Robert Inc. These three sons, with Richard as liead of the firm, in IS 17 g:ive to the world the first rotary printing press and later Uic web perfecting printing machines, which have madr the cheap ii< v-pa]>ers a po-sibility. and com pletely revolutionized the wuild of printing. He died June 7, 1886, In Ttaly. Hoe, Robert, nmnufacturer, was born I

1815, in New York City. He was aswith his father and elder brother the niannfaetnre of printing press.-s II.was one of the founders of the National aea<lemv of de-ign. and a patron of youii;; artists.' He died Sept. 13, 1884, in tarry, 19.

$.ociated in

town, X.Y.

Hoecken, Christian, founder, was I'pi.-r

bom

in

T?rabai«f.

In 184:? ii.- fnun-l.-d Hie Ignatius among the Kalis bnili a eburch thirty miles above

mission of St. pells.

the

He

month

of

('lark

river:

nTu]

cnnvivtiil

mosi of the tril)f. at the same time leael» ing them to build log houses and sow ((rain, lie was well acquainted with many of I hi*