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the request of one of the northern clergy he called a convocation of the clergj- of Virginia and Jlary- land to be held at Williamsburg on May 4, 1771, to consider the subject of ai)]ilying for an Ameri- can episcopate. They adjourned to June 1, 1771,

WILLTAM AMP AAARr COLLECE.

but nothing was accomplished. His health failed in 1771, and he sailed for England with his wife, leaving John Camm to represent him as president of the college, the Rev. Mr. Willie as deputy to the bisliop and the Rev. Mr. Henley as minister of the Burton Parish church. He died in Oporto, Portugal, Marcli 20. 1772.

HORSEY, Outerbridge, senator, was born in Somerset county, Del., in 1777. He was educat- ed as a lawyer and practised in Wilmington. After serving as attorney-general of the state for several years he was elected U.S. .senator as suc- cessor to Samuel Wbite, who died Nov. 4, 1809. He was re-elected in 1814 for a full senatorial term ending March 3, 1821, when he retired to private life and was succeeded by Caesar A. Rod- ney. He died in Xeedwood, Md., June 9, 1842.

HORSFORD, Cornelia, arcliajologist, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 25, 1861; daughter of Prof. Eben Norton and Phujbe Dayton (Gar- diner) Horsford. She was educated in private schools in Cambridge and Boston, and after her father's death, in 1893, continued his archajolog- ical researches. She sent out an archaeological expedition to Iceland to examine ruins of the Saga-Time, in 1895, the report of which was pub- lished in 1898, under the title, " Ruins of the Saga- Time." Slie also sent expeditions to the British Isles in 189.5, 1896 and 1897 to examine ruins of the open-air amphitlieatres and forts, and to Nor- way in 1898 and 1899, and directed various re- searches among the works of the native races of North America, 1894-97, in connection with the investigations of the Norse discovery of America. She was elected a fellow of the American Asso- ciation for tbe Advancement of Science; a mem- ber of the National Geograpliic society and of the Prince Historical society; honorary vice-presi-

dent of the Viking club of London; and a mem- ber of the American Folk Lore, the Icelandic Anti- (luarian. ami the Irish Texts societies, and presi- dent of the Slielter Island public library. She is the author of: Graves of the Xorthmen (1893); Ah Inscribed Stone (1895); Dwellings of the Saga- Time in Iceland, Greenland and Vinland (1898); Vinland and Its Rains (1899), and various con- tributions to periodicals.

HORSFORD, Eben Norton, chemist and arch- aeologist, was born in;Moscow. N.Y., July 27, 1818: son of Jerediah and Cbarity Maria (Norton) Horsford. He attended the district scbool and Livingston County high school and while yet a boy was employed in the preliminary sur- ^r^ ^.^^^ ^

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was graduated at the Rensselaer Polytech- nic institute in 1838; was engaged with Professor James Hall in the geological sur- vey of the state of New Y'ork. 1838-40; was professor of mathematics and nat- ural science in the

Albany Female academy, 1840-44, and at the same time delivered a course of lectures on chem- istry at Newark college, Delaware. He was a student of chemistry under Liebig at Gies.sen, Germany, 1844-46, and Rumford professor of the application of science to tbe useful arts at Har- vard, 1847-63. He was married in 1S47 to Mary L'Hommedieu, daugliter of Samuel S. and Mary (L'Hommedieu) Gai'diner, of Shelter Island. N.Y., author of "Indian Legends and other Poems" (1855); and in 1857 to her sister, Plujebe Dayton Gardiner, who died in October, 1900. He re- signed his chair at Harvard in 1863 to devote himself to the production of chemical jjrepara- tions based on his inventions, covered by about thirty patents. In this connection he founded and was president of the Rumford chemical works in Providence, R.I. He selected the material for the service pipes of the Boston water works, for which the city of Boston presented him with a service of plate. He was a|>pointed by Gover- nor Andrew a member of the commission for the defence of Boston liarbor, ami lie jirepared the plans adopted for protection against tlireat- ened Confederate cruisers. lie devised a marcli- iiig ration for tbe use of soldiers in the fielil which reduced the cost of tranportation, and of which General Grant made large use. He

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