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Conn.

He was

schuols;

the ciiniiiioii engaged in nianuiacturiut^

and was In 1852

)mrbuitii.

bury, Conn.

m

educutol

In

was mayor of Water-

lie

and

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l8yS

Ik-

wa«

a

member

ot Ui« Connecticut state legislaIn 1867*60 he was a repr««entativtt

ture. Iroui

runiK'cticiit

to

tlx-

thirtieth

cnnjrrcss.

died Lhx. 23, 187b, in MiddU lown, Lonn. Hott, Janwa WilUdn, clergymun, juui nalin 'ir1st, bihliop, author, was born in ginia. he was a clergyman ot tlit* Liiitvil brethren body; and became bishop. For

He

mail'.-

was

yi'arh

(alitor of a

n-ligioiiH jour-

was the author ot nal in Dayton. Ohio, •lourneying» in the Old World; ami TluMarvelous Conversion of Marshall O. Waggoner. He died Jan. 9, llHti, in Dayton, Uhio. Uouck, Henry, educator, public oilicial, waa born March 6, 1836, in Palmyra, Pa. Ho was educated in the public schools, at Annville academy, and at the Arcadian inatituie; and haa received the degrees oi A.M. and Litt.D. Sina; IS.")* he has been engaj^fed in educational work. In 1S.'>'J lie was appoiiited superintendent oi '^cIiouIh for Lebanon county, Pa.; and ;*ince iStUt he has been deputy slate suponntendenl ol s>'hools for the state of Pennsylvania. In 187'2 he was president of the Pennsylvania state teachers' ac^sociation; and in 1903 the teachers and educators of the >tatf |«re-t nti il bim with a purse of fifteen liundred dollars for an extended trip to Kui i*i« Asia and Africa. In May, 1907, he had charge of the department of internal atfairs. Honclc, Jacobs hiwyer, congressman, was bom in Schoharie, N.Y. For many years he was engaged in the practice ot law. In 1841-43 he was a representative from New York to the twenty>aeventh congress as a.

OF AMKKICAN BIOGKAPHY. 1880; and in 15MJ4 was advanced to the grade of brigadier-general of the United States army. Hough, Charles Merrill, lawyer, jurist, was born May 18, 1868, in Philadelphia, I*:i. In 18U2-08 he served in the New York navnl iiiiiiti.i. In 1883 he was admitted to the practice of law; and opened an otlice in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1006 he htis Imm'U judge of the I tiited States  tii|i. 1!. i- the atitlior of The Singing Mouse .stories; The Story of the Cowboy; The Girl at the Halfway House: The Mississippi Bubble; and the Way of a Man. Hough, Fraaklin Benjamin, phy^-lcian. aullior. Wiis born .July 2f). 1820, in Martinsburg, N.V, His later years were |tasse»| in Hcientilic and historical study. He was the author of Catalogue of Planli* in Lewis aiitl Franklin Counties; History of St. Lawrence
 * nd

Franklin Counties: riie Siege <«l' Charleston in 1780; Duty of Government in the Preservation of Forests; Report on For"stry; Element'* of Forestry; and .merican Constitutions. lie died June 6, 188.% in Lowville. N.Y. Hough, George Washington, •ducato inventor, author, was born <»et. 24. lS3ti, in Montgomery county. N.Y. In 18JS0-87 he was i'.strtmomer nf the Dearborn. Cincinnati,

Hough,

.lune

lii'iii

18i)o

democrat.

Dudley and DearlM>rn observatories,

Hovck, Leoaidt C* K^dier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June S. 1830, in

discovered over six hundred stars; and made a systematic study of the plan<-t •Tnpiter. He has invented many instruments liert:iinint.' to astronomy. In lS7r» 87 be wna

Sevier county, Tenn.

army

He

s»Tved

in 18(51-03, risin;; to the

in

the union

rank of

ct>lo-

He was

a member of the state constitutional convention of 1865; and was Judge ili'ontn judicial linuit in 18«'»<)ol t!i. 70. He then moved to Kuoxville, Tenn.; and was a delenrate to the republican nanel.

I

tional cnnvenfidTi of 1808. He was a pre?*idential elector in 1872 and 1870; and was a representative in the State legislature in iS72. a representative from Ten II*' was nessee to the tOrt y six t li. forty-seventh and lorty-lllllt

Houden,

ll

roii^;

Jean

1

— -I A.,

S.

sculptor,

artist,

w.i-.

born Marcli UK 1710. in 'ersailles. Fijince. He established himself for fourteen years
 * 8 a successful sculptor in Rome,

lie exiHriited the Atatues of Voltaire, Cicero and T ourville. He died July 16, 1828. in Paris, Frunte. Hough, Alfred Laoey, soldier, was liorn April 23, 1^20. in rSurliii^'*<»ii (oiiMt. X.I. He served in the civil war; and in 1.^74 Imv came captain in the thirteenth regiment United States infantry. He was retired in

lie

hns

a jirofessor of astronomy at the Chiraji^o university.- He is the author of Annals of the Dudley Oli-. r itMry. in two TOhimes.

Hough, June 23. beeaTfi.-

ogy

in

Jacob 1820. in

j»rofe'*soi-

jihvsician.

B.,

was Iwrn

Cam <>t

irgo. Pa. In 1S7.") be cliemistry and toxicol-

Miami medical coU^e'of Cincinnati,

Ohio.

Hough, John, soldier, wns born in New Hampshire. In 1861-65 he served in tlio civil Mrar: and In 1866 was brevetted colonel an'l brifjadier-general of volunteers, lit* died Sept. 22, 18JU. Hough, John Stocktoa, nhystcian. inventor, author, was horn Dec. 5. ISt.'i. in Y:irdley. V.. He was resident i)hysi< i!in t<» tlu' I'liihnlelphia hospital ISOK-C.n: in which he was a physician in Pliila«lelphi:i till 1874. He has invented a process of coii>.fi 'i^L' Inc-proof building's.

Hough, Lewis Sylvester, soldier, educator, lawyer, author, was born March 31, 1811). in Martinsbui^, N.T. He was a soMier in the