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ton, L.I., N.Y. On Jan. 11, 1798, he was elected by the legislature U.S. senator to succeed Gen. Philip Schuyler, resigned, and resigned his judge- ship in February to take ids seat in the senate. He resigned from the senate May 5, 1798, to accept the appointment as judge of the U.S. district court for New York, which office lie held until his death. He received the degree of LL.D. from Yale in 1793. He was married in 1764 to Mary Greenill. He died in New York city, Feb. 5, 1805.

HOBBS, Lewis Lyndon, educator, was born at New Garden, N.C., May 17, 1849; son of Lewis find Phebe (Cook) Hobbs. He attended the Guil- ford county public schools, and the Friends school, New Garden. N.C.. and was graduated from Haverford college. Pa., in 1876. He was principal of the New Garden boarding school, 1878-88, when it was incorporated as Guilford college, and he was made its president. He visited England in the interest of the college in 1891, and was chosen"a member of the North Carolina state board of examiners of public schools in 1897.

HOBBS, William Herbert, educator, was born in Worcester, Mass.. July 2, 1864; son of Capt. Horace and Mary (Parker) Hobbs, and grandson of George and Katharine (Stuart) Hobbs, and of Timothy and Lois P. Parker. His ancestor, Jo- siah Hobbs, emigrated from England to the United States in 1671 and settled in Boston. Mass. William attended the public schools of Worcester and Auburn. Mass., and was graduated from the Worcester Polytechnic institute, S.B., in 1883. He attended Johns Hopkins university, 1884-86 and 1887-88; Harvard university, 1886-87, and the University of Heidelberg, 1888-89. He was curator of the geological museum at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin, 1889-90; instructor in mineral- ogy, 1889-00: assistant professor of mineralogy and metallnrgy and curator of the geological museum. 1890-99, and was elected professor of mineralogy and petrology in 1899. He became connected with the U.S. geological survey in 1886, and was commissioned assistant U.S. geolo- gist in 1896. He was elected a fellow of the Geological Society of America in 1891; secretary of Section E of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1893; was secretary and librarian of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences. 1892-98, and was elected a life member of the academy in 1893. He was married, June 23, 1892, to Sarah Kimball Sale. The degrees of A.^l. and Ph.D. were conferred on him by Johns Hopkins university in 1888. He was the editor on mineralogy for the American Naturalist, 1894- 95; editor-in-chief of the bulletin of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin from its foundation in 1894, and editor of v^olumes 8 and 9 of the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences. He is the

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author of some thirty-five scientific papers pub- lished in the principal German and American geological and mineralogical journals.

HOBSON, Edward Henry, soldier, was born in Greensburg. Ky., July 11, 1825; son of Capt. William and Lucy Ann (Kertly) Hobson, and

grandson of William and (Pattison) Hobson,

and of James and Judith (Lewis) Kertly. His parents and grand- parents were Virgin- ians, and his ances- tors came from Eng- land and Wales, and landed at Jamestown, Va.. where they par- ticipated in the early troubles with the In- dians. He was edu- cated at the Greens- burg and Danville, K\-., schools, and en- gaged in mercantile pursuits in his native

place. As a lieuten- &'c<^*^^^i^/'(^. /(^ e/Zr^ e,^y\ ant in the 2d Ken- tucky regiment he seiVed in the Mexican war, and distinguished himself at Buena Vista. He was a director in the Greensburg bank, 1853-61, and its president, 1857-61. Upon the breaking out of the civil war he joined the Union party in Kentucky and recruited the 13th regiment of Kentucky volunteers, drilling them at Camp Hob- son and receiving his commission as colonel. He joined General Buell's army in February, 1862, and for his conduct at Slnloh, where he was wounded, he was made brigadier-general of volun- teers, receiving his commission after he had gained greater honors at the siege of Corinth and at Perry ville, where he commanded a brigade. The condition of his men at the close of that indeci- sive battle relieved the regiment from active ser- vice and he was ordered to Munford ville, K}., to drill 10,000 new recruits. He was then placed in command of the southern division of Kentucky, with headquarters at Munford ville, and was chief commander of the force engaged in the pvirsuit of Morgan, nine hundred miles through Kentuck}- into Indiana and Ohio, having two brigades in addition to his o wn. He was wounded in an encounter with Morgan at Kellass's Bridge, Ky., and finally drove him back into the interior of the state. He also broke up the forces of Gen. Adam Johnson on the Cumberland and obtained control of sovithwest Kentvickj'. He was made commander of the cavalry corps b}^ Burnside. but ill healtli prevented his taking active command and he established headquarters at Lexington, Ky., from where he engaged in repelling raids. At the close of the war he I'esumed his banking