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Old South church, which continued infer nuilly until 1883 when regular free courses of historical lectures for young people were established. In 1881 she establislied four annual prizes for high school pupils for the best essays on assigned topics of American history. Slie also established kitchen ganlens, sewing scliools. cooking scliools and the Boston normal school of gymnastics; contributed largely to the support of archaeo- logical exjieditions and explorations in the southwest, and to the funds of the American archieological institute; was the patroness of the Journal of American Ethnology and Ardutiolofjy; and gave generously to the Boston teachers' mutual benefit association. After lier death the trustees of her estate conveyed to the state board of education the "Boston Normal School of Household Arts "' established by her. wJiich was subsequently transferred to Framingham, Mass. Slie <lied in Boston. Mass.. March 6, 1894.

HEMPHILL, Charles Robert, clergyman, was born in Chester, S.C., April 18, 1852; son of James and Rachel (Brawley) Hemphill, grandson of the Rev. Dr. John and Jane (Lind) Hemphill, and a descendant of Col. John Nixon of South Carolina who was killed in the Revolutionary war. He entered the University of South Carolina in 1868, the University of Virginia in 1869 and the Colum- bia, S.C., theological seminary in 1871. In 1878 he was a fellow of Johns Hopkins university. He was tutor in Hebrew at Columbia theological seminary, 1874-78; professor of Latin and Greek in the Southwestern Presbyterian university, Clarksville, Tenn., 1879-82; professor of biblical literature, Columbia seminarj-, 1882-85: pastor of the second Presbyterian church, Louisville, Ky., 1885-99, and professor of New Testament exe- gesis in Louisville Presb}i;erian theological semi- nary after 1893. In 1895 he was moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States. He received the degree of D.D. from Central university and Davidson col- lege in 1884 and that of LL.D. from Hanover college in 1895. He is the author; of Christ's Tes- timony to (he Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch (1884); The Testimony of Christ and the Apostles to the Authorship of the Pentateuch (1889); and several other important essays.

HEMPHILL, James Calvin, journalist, was bom in Due AVest, S.C, May 18, 1850; son of the Rev. Dr. William Ram.sey and Hannah Smith (Lind) Hemphill. He was graduated at Erskine college, A.B., 1870, A.M., 1872; taught school in Kentucky in 1870; edited the Aljbeville Medium, 1871-80; was assistant editor on the Charleston Xeirs and Courier, 1880-88, and on the death of Capt. Francis W. Dawson, editor-in-chief and manager, in 1889, he was selected by the corpora- tion as his successor.

HEMPHILL, John, senator, was born in Chester district, S.C, Dec. 18, 1803; son of tit. Rev. Dr. John and Jane (Lind) Hemphill an. I grandson of the Rev. Matthew and Jane ( Fulton j Lind. His father was born in county Derry, Ire land, in 1760; landed in Philadelphia in 1783 and removed to Soutli Carolina in 1785. His grandmother, Jane Fulton, was a cousin of Robert Fulton. John Hemphill was graduated from Jef- ferson college, Pa., in 1825; taught scliool, 1826-28; was admit- ted to the bar in 1829; and practised law at Sumter. S.C, 1829- 38, and at Washing- ton, Texas, 1838-40. He was circuit judge in 1840; chief jus- tice of Texas. 1840-58, and U.S. senator from 1858 until 1861, when he resigned his seat and was later expelled from the senate bj- vote. He was then elected a representative from Texas in the Confederate congress and served 1861-62. Centre college, Kentucky, gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1856. He died in Richmond, Va., Jan. 3, 1862.

HEMPHILL, Joseph, representative, was born in Tiiornbury, Chester county. Pa.. Jan. 7, 1770; son of Joseph and Ann (Wills) Hemphill. He was graduated at the University of Pennsj'lvania A.B., 1791, A.M. 1794. He was admitted to the bar and practised in Chester county. He was a member of the Provincial assembly, 1797-1800; a representative in the state legislature, 1805; a representative from Chester county in the 7th U.S. congress, 1801-03; and from Philadelphia in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th congresses, 1819-26, and in the 21st congress, 1829-31. He was a rep- resentative in the state legislature. 1831-32. ami president judge of the district court of Pliiladel- phia, 1811-17, and 1817-1819. He married Mar- garet, daughter of Robert Coleman of Lancaster. He died in Pliiladeliihia. Pa.. May 29, 1842.

HEMPHILL, William Ramsey, educator, was born in Chester di.strict, S.C. March 11, 1806; •son of the Rev. Dr. John and Jane (Lind) Hemp- hill, and a brother of the Hon. John Hemphill. He was graduated from Jefferson college. Pa., in 1833, and from Allegheny tiieological seminary in 1837, being ordained in June, 1837. by the Second Associate Reformed Presbytery of the South. He was pastor at Cedar Spring and Long Cane, S.C, 1837-48, and a professor in Erskine college, 1848- 65. He was married, May 10, 1837, to Hannah Smith, daughter of the Rev. Jolm and Ann