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 HOP WOOD

HORNBLOWER

HOPWOOD, Josephus, educator, was born in Montgoiuei-y county. Ky., April 18, 1843; son of William Combs and Permelia (Fox) Hopwood. His parents were natives of Kentucky. His fatlier was descended from the Virginia Hop- woods of Fairfax county, and his mother's family were natives of Loudoun county, Va. He was taken by his parents to McDonough county. 111., in 1853 and in September, 1861, joined the 7th Illi- nois cavahy. After three years' service, including four mouths' confinement in the Cou federate prison on Belle Island, Va., he was discharged in 1864. He taught scliool in Iowa and Missouri, 1864-67; attended Abingdon college. 111., four years between 1867 and 1873, and the University of Kentucky the intervening years. He was grad- xiated from Abingdon college, A. B., 1873; A.M., 1883. He was licensed to preach in 1873; was principal of an academy at Sneedville, Tenn., 1873-74; and of Buffalo academy, near Johnson City, Tenn.. 187.5-82. He obtained for it a college charter as Milligan college in May, 1883, when lie was made president and business manager. He was editor and manager of the Pilot at Nashville, Tenn., 1894-96; and the prohibition candidate for governor of Tennessee in 1896. In canvassing the state he advocated prohibition, public owner- ship of all national monopolies and a final Chris- tian social commonwealth. He was elected a member of the Civic Federation in 1890. He was married, Aug. 19, 1874, to Sarah Eleanor La Rue, of Hardin county, Ky.

HORNADAY, William Temple, naturalist, was born near Plainfield, Ind., Dee. 1. 18.54; son of William and Martha (Varner) Hornaday. He was educated at the Iowa Agricultural college, and in 1873 entered the natural science establishment of

Prof. Henry A. Ward at Rochester, N.Y, In 1874-75 he was sent as a collecting natur- alist to the Bahama Islands, Cuba and Florida; and in 1876 he visited the West Indies and South America. During the years 1876-79 he made a trip around the world, also for Pro- fessor Ward, in the course of which he visited India, Ceylon, the Malay peninsula and Borneo, and made exten- sive collections of mammals, large birds, rep- tiles, fishes and invertebrates. In 1880 he aided in founding the Society of American Taxider- mists, which exerted an important and perma-

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nent influence toward elevating taxidermy to a rank with the five arts. He introduced many new and important methods in the mounting of mammals, and won numerous prizes in competi- tive exhibitions. He was cliief taxidermist of the U.S. National Museum at Washington, 1882-89. In 1886 he was sent by the Smitlisonian Institu- tion to Montana to collect a series of specimens of the American bison, and the large group now in the National Museum is composed of specimens shot and mounted by him. In 1887 Mr. Horna- day proposed to Prof. Spencer F. Baird that steps be taken to establish in Washington, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, a na- tional zoological garden, and in 1888, under the direction of Dr. G. Brown Goode, the plan was inaugurated, on the lines proposed by Mr. Hor- naday, by the creation of a department of living animals at the National Museum. Subsequently, in 1889, the National Zoological Park was estab- lished by congress, and Mr. Hornaday was ap- pointed its superintendent. In 1890 congress appropriated $92,000 for the first year's improve- ments, and the park was placed unreservedly under the control of the secretary of the Smith- sonian Institution, Immediately following this, Professor Langley ordered changes from the orig- inal plan so radical that Mr. Hornaday resigned rather than carry them into effect. He went to Buffalo, N.Y., and engaged in real estate opera- tions, 1890-96. In 1896 he accepted the position of director of the New York Zoological Park, then about to be founded by the New York Zoological society. He is the author of: Tico Years in the Jungle (ISSr,); Free Run on the Congo (1888); Hie Extermination of the American Bison (1889); Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting (1892): The 3Ian Mlio Became a Savage (1896); Guide to the Xeiv York Zoological Park (1899), and contribu- tions to periodicals,

HORNBLOWER, Joseph Coerten, jurist, was born in Belleville, N.J., May 6, 1777; son of Josiah (1729-1809) and Elizabeth (Kingsland) Hornblower, His education was acquired at home. He was admitted to the bar in 1803 and entered into partnership with David B. Ogden, who had been his preceptor in law. He was a presidential elector, 1821; chief justice of New Jersey, 1832-46; a member of the state constitution- al convention of 1844; professor of civil law in the College of New Jersey. 1847-55; vice-president of the Republican national convention at Phila- delphia, 1856; president of the electoral college of New Jersey, 1861; an original member of the American Bible society, and president of the New Jersey Historical society, 184.5-64. He received from the College of New Jersey the honorary degree of A.M. in 1823 and that of LL.D. in 1841. He died in Newark, N.J., June 11, 1864.