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 IIORNBLOWER

HORNER

HORNBLOWER, Josiah, .l.h-ate. was bmn in

Statfoiilsliiie. Eiiglaiul. Feb. 23. 1729. He was a civil engineer and a master machinist in the erec- tion of steam pumping-engine.s in the Cornwall mines, being associated with hi.s elder iirother. an eminent engineer, with whom he went to Corn- wall in 174.") to pnt up steam pumping-engines at the mines. He tlius became an expert in all that related to mining and machinery, including lire- engines. He came to America in 17.");! at the in- stance of Col. John Schuyler, bringing with him the first steam-engine ever brought to America, wiiich was ust d for pumping water at the copper mines near Belleville, N.J., of which mines he was superintendent, 1754-59. He was a captain in the militia during the French and Indian war. He opened a store in 17('>0. and became compara- tively wealthy. At the outbreak of the Revolu- tion he esiwused the cause of the patriots and worked earnestly for the colonial forces. He was a representative in the New Jerse}' legislature 1776-80. and speaker, 1780. He was elected to the state council in 1781 and the same year the British troops made a desperate but unsuccess- ful effort to abduct him on account of his in- tense jiatriotism. He was a member of the state council till 1785, and a delegate to the Con- tinental congress, 1785-86. He was appointed judge of the Essex common pleas in 1790 and held the office until failing health obliged him to resign. He was married to Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Col. William Kingsland, of New Bar- badoes, N. J. He died in Newark, N.J., Jan. 21, 1809.

HORNBLOWER, William Butler, lawyer, was born in Paterson, N.J., May 13, 1851; son of the Rev. Dr. William Henry and Matilda (Butler) Hornblower; grandson of Chief-Justice Joseph Coerton Hornblower and great-grandson of Josiah Hornblower, delegate to the Continental congress, 1785-86. He was prepared for college in the collegiate school of George P. Quackenbos, in New York city; was graduated at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, A. B., 1871; A.M. 1874; and at Columbia Law school, LL.B., 1875, and practised in New York city. In 1890 Governor Hill appointed him a member of a commission to propose amendments to tiie judiciary articles of the state constitution. He was nominated by President Cleveland, Sept. 19, 1893. as associate justice of the supreme court of the United States to fill the place made vacant by the deatli of Mr. Justice Blatchford, but the senate refused to confirm the nomination. Jan. 15, 1894, by a vote of 30 to 24. on account of political opposition by the New York senators. He was elected presi- dent of the Princeton Alumni association, and secretary of the executive committee of the New York Bar association. He received the degree of

LL.D. from Princeton in 1895. He contributed to the law journals, and published addresses: Is Codijication of the Law E.vpedient (1888); Lcurful Status of the Indians (1891). and numerous other addresses and articles.

HORNBLOWER, William Henry, clergyman, was luini in Newark. N.J.. Man-li 21, 1820; son of Chief-Justice Jt)seph Coerton and Mary (Burnet) Hornblower. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, A.B., 1838; A.M., 1841, and from Princeton Theological semi- narj' in 1841. He was a missionary in "Pines," N.J., 1843; was ordained by the Presbytery of Elizabethtown, Jan. 30, 1844; was pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Paterson, N.J., 1844-71, and professor of sacred rhetoric, church government and pastoral theologj' at the Western Theological seminary, Allegheny, Pa., 1871-83. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Rutgers college in 1860. He is the author of numerous articles and addresses on theological subjects, and was an assistant editor of the Ameri- can edition of Lange's Commentaries. He died in Allegheny, Pa.. July 16, 1883.

HORNER, John Scott, governor of Michigan Territory, was born in Warrenton, Va., Dec. 5, 1802: son of Dr. Gustavus Brown and Frances Hammel (Scott) Horner, and grandson of Robert Horner, of Ripon, England, who settled in Mary- land and was a prosperous merchant. Dr. Gus- tavus B. Horner was an assistant surgeon in the American army during the Revolutionary war. John Scott Horner was graduated at Washington college. Pa., in 1819, and practised law at War- renton, 1825-35. He was an advocate of the aboli- tion of slavery and emancipated the slaves he in- herited. He was secretary and acting governor of the territory west of Michigan, including Wiscon- sin, by appointment of President Jackson, 1835- 36; register of the land office. Green Bay, Wis., 1836-49, and judge of probate court. Green Lake, Wis., 1850-52. He was married Oct. 24. 1833, to Harriet Love, daugliter of James Watson, of Washington, D.C. He founded the city of Ripon and practised law there, 1852-80. He died at Ripon, Wis., Feb. 2, 1883.

HORNER, Junius Moore, first missionary bishop of Asheville and 187th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Oxford, N.C., July 7, 1859; son of Janies Hunter and Sophronia (Moore) Horner; grandson of William and Julia (Parker) Horner and of Stephen and Lucy (Butler) Moore, and a descendant of Col. Jolm Moore, of New York. He was a student at the Oxford School for Boys, of which his fatlier was principal, attended the University of Virginia, 1879-80. and was instructor in Latin and Greek at his father's school, 1890-9?. lie was graduated from Johns Hopkins university in