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 HOUSTOUN

HOVEY

the boimdary disputes with South Carolina. He protested against the decision of his fellow com- missioners and liis protest is published on page 666 of Mar bury and Crawford's Digest. In 1789 he was defeated iu the contest for governor by Edward Telfair and the same year was elected a justice of Chatham county. In 1790 he was elected mayor of Savannah. He was one of the original trustees of the proposed Franklin college, afterward known as the University of Georgia, and of the original tract of 40,000 acres of wild land conveyed in 1784 by the legislature to the governor and to certain trustees for the founda- tion and support of a college or seminary of learning, and he served as trustee of the same up to the time of his death. On Jan. 17, 1792, he was commissioned judge of the superior court for the eastern circuit of Georgia. He died at White Blutf. near Savaimah, Ga., July 20, 1796.

HOUSTOUN, William, delegate, was born probably in Savannah, Ga., about 1755; son of Sir Patrick Houstoun. He was educated in Eng- land and in 1776 was admitted to the Inner Tem-

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rs helping on the cause of the Rev- olution and he was a delegate to the Conti- nental congress, 1784-87. In 1785 he was a boundary commissioner in the disjiute between South Carolina and Georgia, and in 1787 he was a deputy from Georgia to the convention for revising the Federal constitution, but his name does not appear on the document then for- mulated. He was one of the original trustees of the land granted in 1784 to the proposed Franklin college, chartered in 1785 (University of Georgia), and resigned his trust in 1797. He is recorded as having been a successful lawyer and a worthy citizen. As the sessions of Continental congress were secret and no record of the proceedings preserved, there is little known of his public acts. It is a matter of tradition, however, that he was greatly offended by some remarks made by the Rev. James Manning, delegate from Rhode Island, which he construed as reflecting on the people of the south, and the next morning he appeared in congress armed with a sword. Ilis friends inter- vened to prevent a meeting, and persuaded the fiery young Georgian to send his sword back to his room by a servant, thus closing the incident. No record preserves the date of his death.

1785-1788.

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HOVENDEN, Thomas, artist, was born in Dun- manway, Ireland, Dec. 28, 1840. He studied art in the Scliool of Design in Cork, Ireland, and in 1863 made his home in America, where lie con- tinued his art studies at the National Academy of Design in New York city. He opened a studio in Baltimore, Md., in 1868, and studied under Cabanel in Paris, 1874-80. He was married in 1880 to Helen Corson, of Pennsylvania. He was elected an associate Academician in 1881. and an Academician in 1882. He was a member of the national jury for the admission of pictures at the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, in 1893. He was also a member of the Society of American Artists, of the American Water Color society, of the Pliiladelphia Society of Artists and of the New York Etching club. His more note- Avorthy works include: The Two Lilies (1874); Brittany Woman Spinning (1876); The Image Seller (Paris Salon, 1876); Neicsfrom the Con- script (1877); Tliinking of Somebody (1877); In Hoc Signo Vinces (1880); Elaine (1882); Last Moments of John Broivn (1884); Taking his Ease (1885). In trying to save a child from death at a railway crossing he was killed at Trent Cut-off near Norristown, Pa., Aug. 14, 1895.

HOVEY, Alvah, educator, was born in Greene, N.Y., March 5, 1820; son of Alfred and Abigail (Howard) Hovey; grandson of Amos and Emilia (Calkins) Hovey, and of Abijah and Priscilla (Cushman) Howard, of Thetford, Vt., and a descendant of Dan- iel and Abigail (An- drews) Hovey, resi- dents of Ipswich, Mass., as early as 1687. His parents came to New York state from Thetford, Vt., and after the birth of their son returned to their na- tive i)lace, where he spent his summers on a farm and his win- ters in attendance

at the district school until sixteen years of age. He was fitted for college in the academy at Brandon, Vt.; was principal of academies, at Derliy, Vt., 1841-43, and at New London, N. H., 1844-45; was graduated at Dai-tmouth in 1844, and from the Newton Theological institution, 1848. He was acting pastor at New Gloucester, Maine, 1848-49; was ordained to the Baptist ministry, Jan. 13,1850; was instructor in Hebrew in the Newton Theological institution, 1849-54; librarian, 1849-02 and 1863-66; professor of church history, 1853-55; professor of tlieology

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