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the Protestant Episcopal cluircli. He was asso- ciate editor uf llie Voire of tlm Fmjitice, a weekly- paper published at Windsor. Canada. 185'2-olJ, and principal of a public school in Butfalo, N.Y., in 1854. He then studied theology and was or- dained deacon June 17, 1855, and priest Jan. 2, 1856. He was rector of St. Luke s church, New Haven, Conn.. 185G-GI : missionary to Haiti, 1861- 74. and consul from Liberia at Port-au-Prince, 1864-74. He was consecrated bishop of Haiti, Nov. 8, 1874. by Bisliops Smith. Lee, Potter, Stev- ens, Coxe, Kerfoot, and Courtenay of Kingston. He was a delegate to the Lambeth conference in 1878. and administered the affairs of the Protes- tant Episcopal church in Haiti with success. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He received the degree of D.D. from Harvard university in 1874, and tiiat of LL.D. from Liberia college, Mon- rovia, in 1882.

HOLMAN, Jesse Lynch, jurist, was born in Mercer county, Ky., Oct. 22, 1783. His father, a pioneer settler, was killed by the Indians while defending a blockhouse in which his family had

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taken refuge. He was brought up by liis mother, a devout Baptist, and when quite young displayed unusual literary skill. He studied law with Henry Clay and practised in Frankfort, 1805-11. He then removed with the family to tlie territory of Indiana and located at Veraestaii, upon a hill overlooking the Ohio river, below Aurora, to which city he gave its name. Governor Harrison commissioned him district attorney of the terri- tory for Dearborn and Jefferson coimties, and in 1814 he was a representive \n the territorial legis- lature and was chosen presiding oflficer by a unanimous vote. He was appointed presiding judge of his district, serving 1814-16, and when the territory became a state in 1816 he was ap- pointed presiding judge in the second and third districts. He was a presidential elector in 1817 ; judge of the supreme court of the state, 1810-30 ;

unsuccessful candidate for U.S. senator in 1831, being defeated by one vote ; and judge of the U.S. district court of Indiana. 1835-42, having been appointed by President Jackson. He was ordained a Baptist clergyman in 1834 ; was vice- president of the American Sundaj- School union and president of the Western Baptist Publication and Sunday School society. He was president of the Baptist state convention ; of the Indiana Baptist Education society, and one of the found- ers of the Indiana college and of Franklin col- lege. He published : Errors of Education, a novel (1805), and left a large mass of manuscript. He died at Veraestaii, near Aurora. Ind., March 28, 1842. HOLMAN, William Steele, representative, was burn in Veraestau. Ind., Sept. 6. 1822; son of Judge Jesse Lyncli Holman. He was educated in the common school and for tow years at Franklin college, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1843. He was judge of the court of pro- bate, 1843-46 ; prose- cuting attorney, 1847- 49 ; a member of the state constitutional convention of 1850 ; a representative in the state legislature, 1851 ; judge of the court of common pleas, 1852-56 ; a rep- resentative in the 36th, 37th and 38th congresses, 1859-65, and was chairman of the committee on Revolutionary claims. He was defeated for the 39th congress, but elected to the 40th and succeeding congresses, including the 44th, 1867-77 ; was defeated for the 45th and 46th congresses, but elected to the 47th-53d, inclu- sive, 1881-95 ; was defeated for the 54th. but was elected to the 55th congress in 1896. He became widely known as " The Watch Dog of the Treas- ury " and as " The Great Objector." He was in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the civil war, and at its close advocated liberal pensions to the soldiers. He was a persistent and uncompromis- ing enemy to all forms of class legislation, and Vice-President Hendricks estimated his services to the United States government while a repre- sentative in congress to be worth $25,000,000 a year. He favored the free coinage of silver and a heavy income tax and was opposed to the issue of bonds in order to keep up the treasury reserve. He was married in 1842 to Abigail Knapji, and their son. William Steele. Jr.. became a la\\-yer in Aurora and a director of Franklin college. He died in W^ashington, D.C., April 22, 1897.

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