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Three Villages (Shirley, Lexington, (JnadenhUtten); Mtxlern Italian i'oetH; A Doy'n iown; Tusean CitieH; My Year in a Log Cabin; Criticism an<l Fiction; and My Literary PaHsions.

Howey, Benjamin F., soldier, merehant. manufacturer, eongn-ssinan, was Ixirn March 17, 1828, in Pleasant Meadows. N.<l. Ho was He a captain in the union army in 1SU2. was elected sheriff in 1878. ' In 1883 85 he was a representative from New Jersey to the lie lorty-eighth congrc'is as a republican, died Feb. 0, 181);i, in I^untield. X..I. Kowey, Mrs. Laura E. She is secietnr and librarian of the historical ami miscellaneous department of the Montana state

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Howie, William Clarence, lawyer, public was lx)in on Nov. 27, 1800, in the lie Kouthern part of Davis county, Iowa, was educated at the Southern Iowa nornnil olHcial.

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of itliH)mlield, Iowa. has attaine8 he ent«'r«'d the service of the I nited States navy; and was as>igned to the frigate Wabash. In I8UI he was promoted lieutenant; and in 1804 comman«led the Bienville. In 18H| h<> «)rgani7:ed a gunnery training si'h«K)l on tKiard the frigate .Minnesota. In
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admiral; anil in l8iHl was retired. Howison, Robert Reia, lawyer, elergmau, jiuIIhu", was lK)rn .lun«> 22. 1820, in Freder* ieksbiirg, Va. He was a presbyterian clergyman. In 1840-70 In* was a lawyer of KicliMiond, a. He was the autlior of History III V irginia; History of the American Civil War; Fredericksburg; Lives of dcnerals .Morgan. .Marion, tJates; and CJod and Crea He died in PJOti in Richmond, Va. Howk, George Vail, jurist, state senator, was lM)rn .Vi>t. 21, 1824, in Charlestown, Ind. In 1857 he was judge of the court of common pleas of Floyd county. In 1803 he was a representative in the house; and in 18titi 70 in the state senate of Indiana. He was chosen one of the supreme judges of Indiana at the general state election, and sened in 877 89; and was chief justice several terms, lie died in Indiami. Howland, Alfred Cornelius, landscape painter, was born Feb. 12. 1838, in W'alpole, N.I I. In 1882 he In-came a meml>er of the national academy of design. His works are in Yah* university, l^eighton art gjillery of .Milwaukee, and in many galleries of America ami Knglantl. Howland, Albert Franklin, genealogist, author, was born in 1843 in Rhode Island, lie is a well known giMiealogist of Acuslinet, .Mass. He is the author of The Howlands of America. tion.

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Howison, George Holmes, edm-utor, auwas btnti Nov. 21». 1S:{4, in MonlgomHe was edticated in MariV, Md.

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of Cincins u b s e nati. hio; (piently studied in the university of Berlin; and reeeiv«' 71 he was si»nior master in the Knglish high school of Boston, Ma>s and in 1S7I-71> was professor of logie and the pliiliwuphy of science in the In Massaehusetts institute of teehnologj'. 1SS:{ S4 he was a leeturer on Ingie an<l metaphysics in the university of Michigan; and hince 1884 has been .Mills professor of p!iilosophy at the tiniversity of California. He is the edilitr of the IMiiloMi|)hical publieaHons of the university of (.'aliforniii and aUo editor of the publications ockport, N.Y. She writes under the pen mime of Kenyon West. She has been dramatic correspondent an«l critic of the San Francisco Call; and other papers. She is the author of Broken Bonds: Oiiwnrd; and several translations. Howland, Frederick Hoppin, journalist, anllior. was born .Ian. 10, 1871, in New Bed lord, .Mass. In 18!I8-91> he was a New York eorrespomlent and in 1!>00 served with the British forces in South Africa as a war cor respondent. He is the author of The Case KbiMle Island.

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••ducator of Illinois; president of the slate He is the iiu lioard of education in 1882. Ihor of tirammar of the Knglish Language; Little Voices, a lH)ok of vers*-; an hexameter translation of the .Kneid; and Practical IlitilH for the TeacluTs of Public Schools.

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