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college.

He

died

March

20,

1772, in Virginia. Horry, Ellas, railruad

president, pliilun1743, in Cbarleaten thousand dollars to

waa born June 21

thropiat, ton, S.C.

He gave

,

luund a chair of moral and political philosophy in Charleston college. He was mayor of Charleston in 1815-18; and was afterward interested in the South Carolina railroad.

He

died Sept. 17, 1834, in Chsirleston,

S.C.

Horry, Peter, soldier, author, was born in South Carolina. He distinguished hiinselt in the revolutionary war; and wrm made a bripidier-gencral. In conjunction with Kev.

Mason L. Weems,

published a Life of Marion. He died in South Carolina. Homsey, Outerbridge, lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1777 in Somerset county, Del. He was for manv years attorney -general of the state; and in 1801»21 he was United States senator fmm Wilmington, Del. He died June 0. 1842, in lie

Needwood, Md. Horsfield, Thomas, naturaliHt. author, wax born in 1773 in Philadelphia. Ta. He was in the employ of the East India company; and liv"d in England after 1820. He was the author of Lepidopterous InseotH; and Zoological ReHearches in Java. 18.^0

in

He

Legends and Other Poems. She died Nov. 2."», 1855, m Cambridge, Mass. Horsky, Edward, lawyer, was horn June 12, 1873, in Helena, Mont. In 1895 he practiced law in Michigan; and afterward practiced in Montana. In 18U9 he was attorney of the United States circuit court of appeals at San Francisco, Cal. Horsmanden, Daniel, lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1091 in England. He was the autlior of The New York Conspiracy, or of the Negro Plot; and Letters to Governor Clinton. He died Sept. 28, 1778, in Flatbush, N.Y. Horstmann, Ignatius Frederick, priest, bishop, was born Dec. 16, 1840, in PhilaCompleting the prescribed delphia, Pa. course of studies, he was elevated to the priesthood in 18(i5. continued He the studieb in Rome, and a yeai later won the degree of doctor of divinity. In 1806 he

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waa

died in

London, England.

Horsford, Cornelia, nrclnrcdo^iHt. author. born Sept. 25, 1861, in Cauihridge.Mass. is the daughter of the late Professor Eb^'n Norton Horsford of Harvard university; and continued her father's arehtrological researches after Iiis death in 1S5<3. In 1893 she sent out an archueological expedition to Ireland to examine the niins of the Saga-Timr; also in the iJritlHh ImU-h in 1895-97 to examine ruins of orn July 27. 1818. in M<»8cow. N.Y. He was' a chemist of Cambridge; and was Rum ford pnifessor at Harvard university in 1847 -OS. He was the discoverer of acid phosphate; and one of the founders of the Lawrenci- scientific school at Harvard. He was the author of Theory and .Art of Breadniaking; The .Army Ration: ami Discovery of America by Northmen. He (lie<| Jan. i, 1803. in Cambridge, Mass.

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Horsford, Jedediah, soldier, farmer, congressman, was born March 8, 1791, in Charlotte, Vt. He participated in the defence of Burlington during the war of 1812; and in 1814 removed to the Genesee valley, where he served as a missionary among the Seneca Indiana. He was a memWr of the New York legislature, and in 1851-53 he was a" representative to the thirty-second congrew. He died .Tan. 14, 1874, in Livonia, N.Y.

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Mrs. Mary L'Hommediea, author, poet, waa born Sept. 27, 1824, in New York City. She was the author of Indian Horsford,

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up|Hiinted professor of logic, metaphysics and ethics, as well us of German

and Hebrew, in St. f Charles Borromeo's seminary of Philadelphia; and then in 187177 at Uverbrook. In 1877 he was appointed r«'ctor of St. Mary's church; in 1885 l>ecame '

chancellor; in 1892 was installed as Roman catholic bishop of Cleveland for diocese covering all of northern Ohio. He was an eloi|uent sfMiiker; a facile writer; genial and «leiiu»cratic in manners: generous to the poor: ami a thorough American in sentiment. He died May 13, 1!K)8, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Horstmann, William

H.,

manufacturer,

in-

ventor, w.is born in (Jermany. In 1815 he stablished himself in the manufacturing of

'

silk gcxxls.

He invented numerous machines

for fringe cutting, plaiting, braitling and otlu r brandies in the manufacture of silk. In 1824 he began using his .Tacguard loom;

which was

t!ie first introduced in this counHe die«l in 18.52 in Philadelphia, Pa. Horswell, Charles, ch'rgyinan. author, was horn Nov. 27. 1857, in Canada, He was a professor of Hebrew in the c«.llegc of liberal arts at the Northwestern university until 19(V2: and is now a pastor at Keni'lworth, 111. He is the author of Study of the Eng«

try.

lish

New

Testament.

Horton, Albert Howell, law ver. jurist, was March 12, IM7. in Br<io'kfieM. N,Y. In 1872 he wa.s! elected a memlier of the house of representatives of Kansas, In 1877-9.'? Ih' was chief justice to the supreme court of Kansas. Tie died Sept. 2. 1902, in Tol)orn

p<'ka,

Kan.