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British yoke. In 1777, when the enemy threat- ened his own state, he vacated his seat in con- gress and gave his services to North Carolina until 1779. when lie again entered congress. He attended the sessions until Oct. 29, 1779, when he left the liall for the last time. He was the only signer of the Declaration who died at the seat of government while attending to public duty. His funeral was attended by General Washington and a large delegation from congress, and was conducted with civil and military ceremonies. He left no cliihlren. His death occurred in Philadelphia. Pa.. Nov. 10. 1779.

HEWETT, Edwin Crawford, educator, was born in Sutton, Mass., Nov. 1, 1828; son of Tim- otliy and Levina (Leonard) Hewett, and grand- son of Timothy Hewett and of Daniel and Sibyl (Davis) Leonard. He attended the "Worcester academy and was graduated at the i\Iassacluisetts State normal school at Bridgewater in 1852. He taught school at Pittsfield, Mass., and at Bridge- water normal school, and was principal of Thomas grammar school at "Worcester, Mass. In 18.58 he became pi'ofessor of history and ge- ography in the Illinois State Normal university at Normal, of which institution he was president, 187G-90. He was editor of The niinois School- master, 1871-7.5, and was treasurer of the National Educational association, 188G-90. Shurtieff col- lege conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1878. He is the author of Pedagogy for Young Teachers (1883); Elements of Psychology (1889), and a series of aritliuietics (189G).

HEWETT, Waterman Thomas, educator, was born in Miami, ^lo., Jan. 10, 1846; son of Water- man Thomas and Sarah Woodman (Parsons) Hewett, gi-andson of Col. Henry R. Parsons, of South Paris,!Maine, and a descendant of the Hewetts of Plymouth and Marshfield. He was graduated at the Maine State seminary in 1864, at Amherst college, A.B., 1869, A.M., 1872, and at Cornell university, Ph.D., 1879. He studied modern Greek in Athens and the German lan- guage in Germany, 1809-70; was assistant pro- fessor of German in Cornell university, 1870-81, and in 1881 was elected full professor of German language and literature. He visited Europe dur- ing vacation seasons of 1877-78, 1881, 1887-88 and 1896 for study in the universities of Leipzig, Ber- lin and Leiden. He was married in June, 1880, to Emma, daughter of George and Mary (Pelton) McChain, who died in Wasliington, Conn., Sept. 18. 1883; and .secondly, Dec. 18, 1889, to Katha- rine Mary Locke, of New Orleans, La., editor of Freytag's Verlorene HaiuJsschrift. He was elected a member of the American Philosopliical society, the American Philological society, the Modern Language Association of America and the Goethe Society of Weimar; foreign member of

the Netherland Society of Literature, of the Society of the Frisian Language and Literature of Holland, and of the Frisian Society of His- torical Antiquities and Philology. He is the author of The Frisian Language: A Historical Study (1879); The Aims and Methods of Collegiate Instruction in Modern Language (1884); The Mutual Relation of Colleges a7id Academies (1886); introduction to Life and Genius of Goethe {ISSQ); contributions to Poetry and Philosophy of Goethe (1887): an edition of Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea (1892); History of Cornell University (1894); an edition of Uhland's Poems (1896); Sources of Goethe's Printed Text (1898); A Ger- man Reader {18d9), and editorial contributions to Americana Germanica.

HEWINS, Caroline Maria, librarian, was born in Roxbury, JMass., Oct. 10, 1840; daughter of Charles Amasta and Caroline Louisa (Chapin) Hewins: a descendant on her father's side of Jacob Hewins, of Dorchester, and John Alden, of Plymouth, and on her motlier's, of Samuel Chapin, one of the original settlers of Spring- field, and of John Fiske and other founders of Watertown. She attended the high schools in Boston and received a library training in the Boston Athenaeum; was a private school teacher for several years, and took a special course at Boston university for one year. She was libra- rian of the Hartford Library association, 1875-92, and of the Hartford public library from 1892. She was a councillor of the American Library association, 1885-88, and again from 1893-99; vice-president of the same in 1891; secretary of the Connecticut Library association, 1891-93, and was elected secretary of the Connecticut public library committee in 1893. She did editorial work for the Literary News, Library Journal, Babyhood and Our Little Folks, and interested herself specially in the reading of young peojde. She is the author of Books for the Yoting (1882), and Boi>ksfor Boys and Girls (1897).

HEWIT, Augustine Francis, author, was born at Fairfield, Conn., Nov. 27, 1820; son of the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel and Rebecca W. (Ilillhouse) Hewit, and grandson of James Hillhouse, U.S. senator from Connecticut. He was baptized Nathaniel Augustus, by his father; was prepared for college at Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated at Amherst, A.B. 1839; A. M. 1842. He studied law but relinquished the pro- fession for theology and studied at the Theo- logical Institute of Connecticut, East Windsor, of which his father was one of the founders in 1834. He was licensed to preach in 1842 as a Congregationalist, but renounced Calvinism in 1843 and was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church. He was refused missionary appointment, the comjuittee deciding his beliefs