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SLiid Christian ethics, 1854-99, and president of the institution, 1868-98. He preached his last annual baccalaureate sermon to the members of the graduating class of 1899 on June 4, and resigned the presidency after a service of thirty years as president and fifty as instructor and professor. He was a trustee of Brown luiiver-

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sity, 1870-74, and was made a fellow in 1874. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Brown university in 1856, and that of LL.D. from Richmond college, Va., and Denison imiversity in 1876. He is the author of: Life and Times of the Rev. Isaac Backus (1849); State of the Impen- itent Dead (1859); Miracles of Christ as Attested by the Evangelists (1864); Scriptural Laiv of Divorce (1866); God With Us (1872); Norvial Class Manual, Part I.: What to Teach (1873); State of Man after Death (1874); Religion and the State (1874); Doctrine of the Higher Christian Life Compared icith the Teachings of the Holy Scriptures (1876); Progress of a Century (1870); Manual of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics (1877); Commentary on the Gosj^el of John and the Epistles to the Galatians in An American Commentary on the New Testament (1885); Bibli- cal Eschatology (1888); Studies in Ethics and Religion (1891); Christian Teaching and Life (1895). He was also the translator(in part)of Life ofChrysostom(L854:); general editor of An Aineri- can Commentary on the New Testament (1881-90), and a frequent contributor for many years to the Christian Review; the Baptist Quarterly; Bibli- otheca Sacra; the Examiner and Chronicle; the Watchman; the Standard and other religious periodicals.

HOVEY, Alvin Peterson, governor of Indiana, was born in Posey county, Ind. , Sept. 6, 1821; son of Abiel and Frances (Peterson) Hove}'; grandson of the Rev. Samuel and Abigail (Cleve- land) Hovey; and a descendant of Samuel and Elizabeth (Perkins) Hovey, who resided in Windham, Conn., in 1743. His parents removed from Vermont to Indiana, where he was a brick- layer and gained his education without attending school. He began teaching school when nine- teen years old and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He was a delegate to the state consti-

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tutional convention of 1850; judge of the third judicial circuit, 1851-54; judge of the state supreme court, 1854-56; president of the Demo- cratic state convention, 1855, and U.S. district attorney for Indiana, 1856-58. He was defeated in 1858 for represen- tative in the 36th congress. He was colonel of the 24th Indiana volunteers, 1861-62; brigadier- general in the vol- unteer service, 1862- * »-^ 'V

64, and brevet major- general, 1864-65. In > ^^^^^ the civil war he com- 'X/v^^^^^^' manded the eastern district of Arkansas, 1863, and the district of Indiana in 1864-

65. He was credited by General Grant, in his official report, for the victory at Cliampion Hills, May 16, 1863, and in 1864 recruited 10,000 unmarried men to serve in the U.S. army. He was U.S. minister to Peru, by appointment of President Lincoln, 1865-70. He was a Repub- lican representative in the 50th congress, 1887- 89; governor of Indiana, 1889-91, and Republi- can candidate for U.S. senator in January, 1891. He died in Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 23, 1891.

HOVEY, Charles Edward, educator, was born in Thetford, Yt., April 26, 1827; son of Alfred and Abigail (Howard) Hovey; grandson of Amos and Emilia (Calkins) Hovey and of Abigail and Priscilla (Cushman) Howard: and a descendant of Daniel and Abigail (Andrews) Hovey, of Ipswich, Mass., 1637; and of Thomas Cushman and Mary Allerton, of the Mayflower. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1852, and studied law, but en- gaged in teaching. He was principal of the high school, Framingham, Mass., 1852-54; of the boys' high school, Peoria, 111., 1854-56; supei'intendent of the public schools of Peoria, 1856-57; president of the State Teachers' association, 1856; organizer and first president of the Illinois State Normal university. Normal, 111., 1857-61. He was colonel of the 33d Illinois by a vote of its members, 1861-62, and brigadier-general in the army, 1862- 63. He was forced by ill liealth to resign from the army in 1863 and " for gallantry and meri- torious conduct in battle, particularly at Arkan- sas Post, Jan. 11, 1863," was brevetted major- general of volunteers in 1865. He was admitted to the bar and practised in Washington, D.C., 1869-97, He married Harriette Farnham, daugh- ter of Farnham and Lydia (Coggeshall) Spofford, and had one son, Richard (q.v.). General Hovey died in Washington, D.C., Nov. 17. 1897.