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the Rev. James Hillliouse, was graduated in arts and theology at the Uuiversity of Glasgow, Scot- land; was ordained by the Presbytery of London- immigrated to Amer- ica in 1717, and was pas- tor at Derry and London- deri-j', N.H., 1719-22, and had charge of the sec- ond parish, New Lon- don, Conn. 1722 - 1740.' His brother, James Abra- ham (born, 1730; Yale, assistant " or in 1775. Will-

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1749; lawyer in New Haven; ' senator, 1772-75); died childless iam was educated for the law and practised in his native town. He was married in 1750 to Sarah, sister of Matthew Griswold, the first governor of Connecticut, 1784-86; was a rep- resentative in the Colonial legislature by semi- annual elections, 1755-84; member or "assist- ant " of the council, 1784-1808, in the meantime serving as judge of the county court for many years; a delegate to the Continental congress, 1783-86, and major of the 2d Connecticut cavalry in the war of the Revolution. In 1808, when eighty years of age, he declined renomination to the council and withdrew from public life. Six of his seven sons and two of his three daughters lived to maturity and most of them to old age. HediedinMontvilIe,Conn., Jan. 12, 1816.

HILLIARD, Henry Washington, diplomatist, was born in Fayetteville, N.C., Aug. 4, 1808. His parents removed to Columbia, S.C., and he was graduated from the South Carolina college with high honors in 1826. He then read law in Athens, Oa., with Judge Augustine Smith Clayton (q. v.). He practised law in Athens, 1829-31; was professor in the University of Alabama, 1831-34; a repre- sentative in the state legislature of Alabama, 1838^0; a lawyer in Montgomery, Ala., 1834-61; and cliarge d'affaires at Belgium, 1842-44. He was a brigadier-general in the provisional Con- federate army, 1861-65, and raised 3000 troops. He was a lawyer in Augusta, Ga., 1865-67; in Atlanta, Ga., 1867-77; and U.S. Minister to Brazil, 1877-81 . He was an occasional lay preacher in the Methodist church. In 1838 he answered Dixon H. Lewis ("A Nullifier '") in six papers signed " Junius Brutus," opposing Calhoun's sub- treasury scheme. In 1840 he was a delegate to the Whig national convention, Harrisburg, Pa.

President Tyler appointed him U.S. charge d'affaires to Belgium in 1842, which position he resigned in 1844. He was a representative from Alabama in the 29th, 30tli and 31st congresses, 1845-51. He supported the compromise measures of 1850 and opposed the extreme states' rights policy of the south. He was on the Fillmore electoral ticket of 1856 and on the Bell and Ever- ett ticket of 1860. He opposed secession and met William L. Young in joint debate in a can- vass of Alabama, 1860-61. When Alabama se- ceded he gave to the state his loyal support; was made a brigadier-general in the provisional army, raising 3000 men in Alabama, and was appointed by Jefferson Davis commissioner to Tennessee. After the war he advocated the election of Horace Greeley in 1872; was an unsuccessful candidate for representative from Georgia in the 45th congress, 1876; and was appointed by Presi- dent Hayes U.S. Minister to Brazil, serving 1877- 81. He helped forward the emancipation move- ment in Brazil by reciting the advantages a similar movement had been to the people of the southern states of the United States, and when the emancipation of one million and a half of slaves in Brazil was accomplished he was given a public banquet and his letter and speech on eman- cipation were published in the official Blue Book of Great Britain by Lord Granville. He is the author of: Roman Nights (1848); Speeches and Addresses (1855); De Vane, a Story of Plebeians and Patricians (1865); Politics and Pen Pic- tures (1892). He died in Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 17, 1892. HILLIS, Newell Dwight, clergyman, was born at Magnolia, Iowa, Sept. 2. 1858; son of Samuel and Margaret Hester (Reichte) Hillis, and of Scotch-English and German ancestry. He attended the high school at Magnolia and Grinnell acade- my, and was grad- uated at Lake Forest university in 1884, and at McCormick Theological seminary in 1887. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Peoria, 111., 1887-90, of the First Presby- terian church, Evan- ston. 111., 1890-94, and of Central church, Chicago, 111., 1894-99,

where he was successor to Prof. David Swing. On Jan. 22, 1899, he accepted a call to the pas- torate of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, N.Y., to succeed the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott. In April, 1900, he resigned from the Presbyterian body

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