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successful works. He was elected an associate National Academician in 18fi5. Among his paint- ings are: The Army of the Potomac (1864); The Forest Glen (1865); The Gem of the Forest (1867); Eainbow Falls, Watki7is Glen (18T2). The last work of his life comprises five large canvases illustrative of the battle of Antietam, from sketches made at the battle: (1) Looking South (1889), (2) Looking West (1889), (3) Looking North (1890), (4) The Burnsicle Bridge (1890), (5) After the Battle. Bloody Lane (1891). He died in AYatkins. N.Y., Oct. 20, 1892.

HOPE, James Barron, poet, was born in the Gosport navy yard, Norfolk, Va., March 23, 1829, at the residence of Commodore James Barron, the younger; son of Wilton and Jane (Barron) Hope; grandson of George and Rebecca (Mere- dith) Hope, and of Commodore James and Eliz- abeth (Armistead) Barron and nepliew of Commodoi'e Sam- uel Barron, U.S.N. His father, Wilton Hope, of " Bethel," Elizabeth City coun- ty, was a gifted man and a landed pro- prietor. James Bar- ron Hope began his education in German- town, Pa., and later studied under John B. Cary at the acad- emy at Hampton, Va. He was gradu- ated at the College of William and Mary, A.B., in 1847, and settled as a lawyer at Hampton, Elizabeth City county, Va. He served as secre- tary to his uncle, Commodore Samuel Barron, on the Pennsylvania in 1851, and was transferred to the Cyane, in which he made a cruise to the West Indies, 1852. He became commonwealth's at- torney to Elizabeth City county in 1856. Al- ready as "Henry Ellen" he had contributed to various southern publications, notably the Liter- ary Messenger. In 1857 " Leoni di Monota and Other Poems" was publislied, and in the same year he wrote and recited the ode which celebrat- ed the 250th anniversary at Jamestown. In 1858 he recited and published the Washington Me- morial poem. At the outbreak of the civil war he was among the first in his state to take vip arms, and he served as quartermaster in the Con- federate army with the rank of captain through- out the war, 1861-65. After the war he settled in Norfolk, Va., as journalist and as editor of the Day Book, 1866. He also edited the Norfolk Vir- ginian, 1869-73, and in October, 1873. founded the Norfolk Landmark, which he edited until his

death. He delivered the poem at the unveiling of the monument raised to Annie Lee by the ladies of Warren county, N.C., in 1866, and one at the centennial celebration of the founding of Lynchbm-g, Va., in 1886. He also read memorial odes in Warrenton, Va., about 1874, Norfolk, 1884, and Portsmouth, 1886, and at the Virginia Military institute, 1871, and delivered important addresses on "Virginia — her Past, Present and Future" in Washington, Richmond and other cities, 1880-81, and " The Press and the Printer's Devil " in several cities, 1879-80. By invitation of the joint committee of congress he delivered an ode entitled " Arms and the Man " at the Ceu' tenn^al celebrationof the surrender of CornwalliS at Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1881. This he also de- livered in 1881-82 in Richmond, Washington and Philadelphia. The "Lee Memorial Ode," called by many his masterpiece, was recited at the lay- ing of the corner-stone of the monument to Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., in October, 1887, after the death of the poet. He was mar- ried in Hampton, Va., in 1857, to Annie Beverly Whiting, daughter of Kennon and Anne (Wythe) Whiting. His published volumes comprise the following: Leoni di Monota and Other Poems (1857); Little Stories for Little People (1874); Elegiac Ode and Other Poems (1875); Madelon: Under the Empire, a novel (1878); Arms and the Man and Other Poems (1882); and Virginia Bay Leaves (1895), containing the "Lee Memorial Ode " and other poems, selected and edited by his eldest daughter, Mrs. Janey Hope Marr (q.v.) He died in Norfolk, Va., Sept. 15, 1887.

HOPE, flatthew Boyd, educator, was born in Mifilin county. Pa., July 31, 1812; son of Richard and Mary (Boyd) Hope. He was graduated at Jefferson college. Pa., in 1830, and at Princeton Theological seminary, in 1834, and for two years studied medicine, having decided to become a missionary in India, receiving his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. He was ordained an evangelist by the presbytery of Huntingdon, Aj^ril 7, 1836, and was a missionary, A.B.C.F.M., atSingapore, Asia, 1836-38. He was obliged to return to America bj^ reason of illness caused by a sunstroke, and was corresponding sec- retary of the Pennsylvania Colonization society, 1838-39; financial secretary of the board of educa- tion, 1839-42, and its corresponding secretary, 1842-46. He was professor of belles-lettres and political economy in the College of New Jersey, Princeton, 1846-59; an editor of the Biblical Be- positoi-y and Princeton Revieiv, 1840-48. and in charge of the financial affairs of the liublication, 1840-56. He was married to Agnes C., daughter of Matthew L. Bevan. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Washington college. Pa., in 1849. He is the author of: Plan for the Endowment