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removing to San Francisco, and later to Oakland, Cal. In 1892 he was elected as a Republican a representative in the 52d congress to fill the un- expired term of the Hon. Joseph McKenna, appointed U.S. circuit judge, and at the same time was elected to the 53d congress. He was re-elected to the 54th and 55th congresses, serv- ing 1892-99. He was a member of the National Geographic society. He was married to Luana, daughter of Jonathan Root, of Herkimer, N.Y. He died at Washington. D.C., April 19. 1899.

HILDEBURN, Charles Swift Riche', bibliog- rapher, was born in Philadelphia. Pa., Aug. 14, 1855; son of Joseph Emlen Howell and Rosina Margaretta (Riche) Hildeburn; grandson of Charles Swift Riche and of Samuel Hildeburn, and a descendant of John Averv, who was in Maryland prior to 1658. He received his educa- tion in private schools, and was librarian of the Philadelphia Athenajum, 1876-92. He is the editor of: The Inscriptions in St. Peter's Church- yard (1879); Charlemagne Tower Collection of American Colonial Laivs (1890): author of: The Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania (1685-1784; 2 vols., 1885-86); Sketches of Printers and Print- ing in Colonial Xew York (1895); and editor of: Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania, Prior to ISOO (Vols. H. and HI., 1896; Vol. IV., 1897; Vol. V., 1898); and Provincial Laws of Pennsylvania.

HILDRETH, Hosea, clergyman, was born in Chelmsford. Mass., Jan. 2, 1782: a descendant of Richard Hildreth, who came from Cambridge, England, to New England, in 1643. His boyhood was passed on his father's farm in Henling, Vt., and he was graduated from Harvard in 1805. He taught school in various places, 1805-11, and was professor of mathematics and natural philo- sophy in Phillips academy, Exeter, N.H., 1811-25. In 1825 he entered the Congregational ministry as pastor of a church in Gloucester, Mass. He resigned in 1833, and the following year accepted a pulpit in Westborougli, Mass. He was a promi- nent member and the agent of tiie Massachusetts Temperance societj'. Dartmouth college con- ferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1817. He is the author of several published ser- mons. He died in Sterling. Vt.. July 10, 1835.

HILDRETH, Richard, historian, was born in Deerfield, Mass.. June 22, 1807; son of the Rev. Hosea Hildreth (1782-1835). He was graduated from Harvard in 1826; was admitted to the bar in 1832. and practised law for two years in New- buryport and Boston. He was connected with the Boston Atlas, a daily newspaper, 1832-40. as co-edifcor, with the exception of the year 1837-38, when he was Washington correspondent. In the columns of the Atlas he championed the politi- cal aspirations of C:deb Gushing, Rufus Choate and other rising young men of Massachusetts.

He opposed the annexation of Texas, and in 1840 advocated the election of Gen. William H. Harrison, whose biography he prepared. He went to Demerara, B.G., for his health, in 1840, and while there he edited The Guiana Chronicle and The Royal Gazette and a compilation of the colonial laws of British Guiana. He advocated the abolition of slavery in the province. After his return to the United States he did editorial work on the New York Tribune and on the American Cyclopedia. President Lincoln ap- pointed him U.S. consul at Trieste, in 1861. He published: Ttie Slave, or Memoir of Archy Moore (1836); History of Banks (1857); Theory of Morals (1844); TJieory of Politics (1853); Despot- ism in America (1854): Japan as it Was and Is (1855); History of the United States (6 vols., 1849- 56); and pamphlets, translations and compila- tions. He died in Florence, Italy, July 11, 1865.

HILDRETH, Samuel Prescott, physician, was born at Methuen, Mass., Sept. 30, 1783, a descend- ant of Richard Hildreth, who came from Cam- bridge, England, to New England, in 1643. He attended an academy, and later studied medicine under Dr. Thomas Kittridge, of Andover. Mass., receiving the degree of M.D. in 1805. He prac- tised at Belpre (afterward Marietta, Ohio), 1808- 63. He was a representative in the 9th and 10th general assemblies from Washington and Athens counties, 1810-12. and in 1837 served on the state geological survej'. He was interested in the natural sciences and accumulated a large and valuable scientific library and rare collections in natural history and conchology, which he pre- sented to Marietta college. He was president of the Cleveland Medical society. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Ohio university in 1825, and that of LL.D. from Marietta college in 1859. Besides numerous contributions to scien- tific periodicals, he is the author of: History of the Diseases and Climate of Southeastern Ohio (1837); Pioneer History (1848); Early Settlers of Ohio (1852); Contribidions to the Early History of the Xorthicest (1804); and Eesidts of Meteorological Observations made at Marietta in 1S26-59 (1870). He died in Marietta. Ohio, July 24. 1863.

HILGARD, Eugene Woldemar, chemist and geologist, was born in Zweibriicken. Bavaria, Jan. 5, 1833; son of Theodore Erasmus Hilgard, jurist, publicist, and poet. He came with his parents to America in 1835, and received his early education under instruction from his father at Belleville, 111. He returned to Germany, studied at the Royal mining school, Freiberg, and at the University of Zurich, and graduated at Heidelberg, Ph.D., in 1853. He was assistant state geologist of Mississippi, 1855-57: chemist in charge of the laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and lecturer on