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the high school at HoUiston, Mass.; was gradu- ated from Pliillips Audover academy in 1S69 ; and from Yale, A.B., 1873 ; A.M., 1889. He was prin- cipal of the preparatory department of Olivet college, Michigan, and instructor in Latin and Greek, 1873-75 ; tutor in Latin at Yale in 1876 ; professor of English language and literature in the Imperial university at Tokio, Japan, 1877-82 ; student at Berlin university, Germany, 1882-83 ; assistant professor of English and rhetoric in the University of the City of New Y^ork, 1884-89, and associate professor of Latin, 1889-92 ; and was elected professor of Latin in Bowdoin college, Brunswick, Maine, in 1892. He was elected a member of the American Philological associa- tion in 1892, of the American Archaeological society in 1898, and of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome in 1897. He married, July 11, 1876, Char- lotte Johnson Morris, daughter of De "VVitt Clin- ton and Charlotte Augusta (Law) Johnson Mor- ris, of New Haven, Conn., and a descendant of Governor Lewis Morris, chief justice of New York and first governor of New Jersey.

HOUK, Qeorge Washington, representative, was born in Cumberland county. Pa., Sept. 2.j, 1825 ; son of Adam and Catharine (Knisley) Honk, grandson of Adam and Salome (Line) Houke, and a descendant of Adam Houk, a Dutch farmer who settled in Pennsylvania about 1725. He removed with his parents to Dayton, Ohio, in 1827, where he attended school, taught school, studied law with the Hon. Peter P. Lowe, was admitted to the bar in 1847, and formed a law partnership with his preceptor. He was a repre- sentative in t'ae state legislature from Montgom- ery county, 1852-53, and served through his term as chairman of the judiciary committee. He was married Dec. 25, 1856, to Eliza P., daughter of Robert Alexander and Marianna (Phillips) Thrus- ton, sister of Gen. Gates P. Thruston and grand- daugliter of Judge Buckner Thruston and of Horatio Gates Phillips. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention in 1860, where he supported Stephen A. Douglas for the presidency ; and also a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1876. He was in active law prac- tise in Dayton, Ohio, 1847-91 ; was defeated in a hopeless contest for judge of the circuit court in 1884, and was district elector on the Democratic presidential ticket in that j-ear. He was Demo- cratic representative from the third Ohio district in the 52d and 53d congresses, 1891-94. He died at Washington, D.C., Feb. 9, 1894.

HOUK, John C, representative, was born at Clinton, Anderson county, Tenn., Feb. 26, 1860 ; son of the Hon. Leonidas Campbell Houk (q.v.). He removed to Knoxville with his father in 1870 ; was graduated from the University of Tennessee,

and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He acted as private secretary to his father, 1879-91, and was clerk of the war claims committee of the house of representatives of the 47th congress, having in charge the original papers covering over one hundred million of dollars in claims for property destroyed by the U.S. troops during the war. Entering politics at an early age he held many responsible party positions, being president of the Republican club of Knox county, Tenn., for eight years, chairman of the county Repub- lican central committee for two years, and its secretary for several years ; chairman of the congressional Republican committee for two years, and its secretary for ten j-ears ; and secre- tary of the state Republican committee for four j'ears. He received all the Republican votes of the legislature in 1884 for state treasurer ; and was assistant doorkeeper of the house of repre- sentatives in the 51st congress. He was a Repub- lican representative in the 52d and 53d congresses, 1891-95.

HOUK, Leonidas Campbell, representative, was born in Sevier county, Tenn., June 8, 1836. His parents were very poor and while a boj' he learned the trade of cabinet-making. He read law in the evenings and was admitted to tlie bar in 1859. He was active in the presidential cam- paign of 1800 as an advocate of Bell and Everett, and was a delegate to the two East Tennessee Union conventions in 1861. In August, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the 1st Tennessee infantry, a regiment composed of East Tennessee loyalists who had fled across the mountains to Kentucky, and the regiment was incorporated into the Federal army in the state of Kentucky. He was promoted lieutenant and quartermaster, and was elected colonel of the od Tennessee infantry in 1863. He resigned from the armj- in April, 1863, on account of ill health ; was presidential elector on the Lincoln and Johnson ticket in 1864; was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1865 ; was judge of the circuit court for the seventeenth circuit, 1866-69 ; was a delegate to the Rej^ublican national conventions of 1808, 1880, 1884 and 1888 ; was a representative in the state legislature, 1873-75, and was a Re- publican representative in the 46th-52d con- gresses, 1879-91. At the Republican national convention of 1880 he was one of the 306 dele- gates who persistently supported ex-President Grant as the Presidential nominee. He died in Knoxville, Tenn.. :\ray 25. 1S91.

HOUSE, Edward Howard, journalist, author and musici;ui, was born in Boston, Mass^, Sept. 5, 1836; son of Timothy (q.v.) and Ellen Maria (Child) House. Edward's education was chiefiy self-directed. He learned the engraver's art from his father, and was employed by the Ne%v