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their Relations to the Problem of Resumption " •was the first of a series of publications that led to the adoption of the policy by congress. He was secretary of the international monetary congress held in connection with the Paris exposition in 1878, and with William M. Evarts, Allen G. Thurman and Timotliy O. Howe, was a delegate to the International Monetary conference called jointly by the governments of the republics of France and the United States to meet in Paris, April 19, 1881, at which fourteen governments were represented. He was married at Lausanne, S%vitzerland, Aug. 28, 1877, to Blanche Hariot, daughter of William and Vittoria (White) Ly- diard. He was a member of the Cincinnati Literary club, the Central Republican association of Hamilton county, the Historical and Philo- sophical Society of Ohio, and vice-president of the Cincinnati Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. His published works in- clude: Silver and Gold, and their Relation to the Problem of Resumption (1876); Monetary Mala- ria: or, The Health of Natio7is (1877); Silver: An Issue of International Politics (iSSG); The Silver Pound and England's Monetary Policy Since the Restoration; together with the History of the Guinea, Illustrated by Contemporary Docu- vients (London, 1887); Silver in Europe (1890; enl. ed., 1892). and many magazine articles. He died in Washington. D.C.. Feb. 23, 1895.

HORTON, Valentine Baxter, representative, was born in Windsor, Vt.. Jan. 29, 1802. He was a student at Partridge's Military academy, Nor- wich, Vt., and a teacher in the school when it removed to Middletown, Conn, He was admitted to the bar in 1830 and practised at Pittsburg, Pa., 1830-83; at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1833-35, and en- gaged in mining and manufacturing at Pomeroy, Ohio, 1835-88. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1850; a representa- tive in the 34th and 35th congresses, 1855-59; trustee of Ohio university, 1848-88, and five times a member of the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church. He died in Pom- eroy, Ohio. Jan. 14, 1888.

HORWITZ, Phineas Jonathan, medical di- rector, was born in Balthnore, Md., Marcli 3, 1822; son of Jonathan and Deborah (Andrews) Horwitz, and grandson of Jonathan Horwitz and of Joseph J. Andrews. He was graduated at the University of Maryland and at Jefferson Medical college, and on Nov. 8, 1847, was commissioned as assistant surgeon in the U.S. navy. He had charge of the U.S. hospital at Tabasco, Mexico, 1846-47; was assistant to the bureau of medicine, 1859-65, and chief of the bureau, 1865-69; was promoted surgeon, April 19, 1861; med- ical director, June 30, 1873, and was retired with the relative rank of captain, March 8, 1884,

after twenty-two years' land and eight years' sea service. He projected and built the naval hos- pitals in Philadelphia and Mare Island, Cal., and made Philadelphia, Pa., his residence after his retirement.

HOSACK, Alexander Eddy, surgeon, was born in New York city, Ajuil 6, 1805; son of Dr. David and Mary (Eddy) Hosack, and grandson of Alexander and Jane (Arden) Hosack, and of James and Mary (Darragh) Eddy, of Philadelphia, Pa. He was graduated at the University of Penn- sylvania, M,D. in 1824, and studied in the hospitals of Paris, 1825-27. He directed liis practise to surgery and was the first practitioner in New York city to administer ether as an anaesthetic to a patient. He was the chief organizer of Ward's Island hospital, and made a special study of the modes of inflicting capital punishment in or- der to discover the most humane method. Sur- gical instruments invented by him as early as 1833 were far in advance of any in use and were generally adopted. He was for manj^ years sur- geon of the Marine hospital. He published: Ancesthesia, icith Cases, Being the First Instance of the Use of Ether in New York; and A Khdoryof the Case of the late John Kearney Rodgcrs, M.D. (1851). His Avidow left $70,000 to the New Y'ork Academy of Medicine as a memorial of her hus- band. He died in Newport, R.I., March 2, 1871. HOSACK, David, scientist, was born in New Y'ork city, Aug. 31, 1769; son of Alexander and Jane (Arden) Hosack. His father was a native of Moraj^ county, Scotland, who came to America as an artillery officer, serving in the caj^tm-e of Louisburg in 1758. His maternal grand- father, Francis Ar- den, was a pi-ominent citizen of New York city. .David was a student at Columbia college,, 1786-88, and was attacked by the " Doctors' Mob." He was graduated at the College of New Jer- sey, A.B., 1789, A. M., 1792; studied medicine with Drs. Post, Romeyn, Bard, Moore and Kissam, and received his M.D. degree from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1791 and from Edin- burgh in 1793. He was married to Catharine Warner, of Princeton, N.J., in 1791. He prac- tised medicine in Alexandria, Va.. 1791-92: was a student at Edinburgli and London, 1792-94; and professor of botany, 1795-1811, and of materia medica, 1796-1811, in Columbia college.

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