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"Wasliington, D.C. He received the degree of Ph.D. He was the editor or autlior of many works, including: .-1 Catalogue of Plants in Lewis and Franklin Counties, X.Y. (1847); His- toi'y of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, X. Y. (1853); Plan for Seizing and Carrying to New York, William Goffe, the Regicide (ISoS); Papers Relating to Cromwell County, KY. (1856); Pro- ceedings of the Commissio7i of Lidian Affairs (1861); Military and Hospital Camps (1862); History of Duryeas Campaign (1864); Washing- toniana (1865); The Siege of Charleston (1867); The Duty of Government in the Preservation of Forests (1873); American Biographical Notes (1875); Report on Forestry {\Si:9r-S(y). See Biblio- graphy, prepared by Jolin H. Hickcox (q.v). He died in Lowville. N.Y., June 11, 1885.

HOUGH, George W., publicist, was born in Loudoun county, Va., April 17, 1808; a descend- ant of Ricliard Hougli. who came from Cheshire, England, to Pennsylvania under the auspices of ■\Villiam Penn in 1683. Ricliard's grandson, John Hough, removed from Bucks county. Pa., to Loudoun county, Va., about 1750, and there married Sarali Janney. George was married in 1833 to Mary C., daughter of Cornelius and Mary (Maine) Shawen. In 1838 they removed to Mis- souri, settling in Jefferson City, where lie en- gaged in merchandising until 1854. when he retired from business. He was a representative in the Missouri legislature, and in 1854 was the candi- date of the Democratic party for representative in congress, but was unsuccessful. In conjunc- tion with Judges William B. Napton, "William Scott and Carty Wells he participated in framing the famous Jackson resolutions introduced by Claiborne F. Jackson in the Missouri legislature in 1849. These resolutions pledged Missouri to co-operation with the Southern states in the event of conflict between North and South. In 1854 Mr. Hough was appointed by Governor Price a member of the board of public works of Missouri. He was a curator of Missouri State university, 1854-56, and one of the founders of the Historical Society of Missouri. Of his chil- dren, Warwick became a prominent lawyer and jurist in Missouri; Cliarles Pinckney, a physician, practising in Salt Lake City, and Arthur M.. a lawyer, at Jefferson City, Mo. Mr. Hough died at Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 13. 1878.

HOUGH, George Washington, astronomer, was born in Trih.s Hill. N.Y., Oct. 24, 1836; son of William ami Magdalene (Selmser) Hough, and grandson of George Hough. He was graduated at Union college in 1856 and was astronomer and director of the Dudley observatory, Albany, N.Y., 1860-74. Here he devoted himself to merid- ian observation of zone stars and to meteorology. He was director of Dearborn observatory,

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Chicago, 111., 1879-87, and in 1887 became profes- sor of astronomy at Xorthwestern university and continued as director of the Dearborn observa- torj-. Here he made micrometrical measure- ments and discovery of double starb, and j^hys- ical observations on the planet Jupiter. He discovered over six hundred difficult double stars and cat- alogued them for publication. He in- vented a star-chart- ing machine in 1862; an automatic regis- tering and printing barometer in 1865, and applied the same device to the ther- mometric and other meteorological ap- paratus in 1866, as used in the U.S. signal service; a thermograph and barograph for recording meteorological phe- nomena at definite intervals in 1869; a printing chronograph in 1871, which he remodelled iu 1885, the only printing chronograph in the world; a recording chronograph in 1879; an observing seat for equatorial telescope in 1880; a sensitometer and exposing case and plate-holder in 1884; an astronomical dome in 1888, and a storage cell in 1898. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical society, Jan. 19, 1872, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1874. He re- ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. from Union college in 1891. He published: Annals of Dudley Observatory (2 vols., 1806-71); Annual Report of Dearborn Observatory (1880-86), and various monographs.

HOUGH, Walter, ethnologist, was born at Morgantown, Va., April 23, 1859; son of Ly- curgus Stephen and Annie (Fairchild) Hough; grandson of Dr. Robert Robinson and Sarah (Donohoe) Hough and of the Rev. Ashbel Green and Eliza (McDougall) Fairchild; and a de- scendant of Richard Hough, of Macclesfield, Cheshire county, England, who came to Penn- sylvania in 1688 and was a counsellor of William Penn; and also a descendant of Abner Fair- child, of Morris county, N.J.. who served in the Revolution. He was prepared for college at Monongalia academy and at West Virginia Agricultural college; was graduateil from West Virginia university in 1883, and received from there diplomas for special work in geology and chemistry in 1884, also the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. He became connected with the Smithsonian Institution as assistant curator of