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HOVEY, Charles Mason, horticulturist, \vas born in Cambridge, Mass.. Oct. 2G. ISlO. He was graduated at the Cambridge academy in 1824, and on leaving school devoted his attention to horticulture. He became a member of the Massa- chusetts Horticultural society in 1831, received many premiums at its exhibitions, and was presi- dent of the society, 1863-G7. His grounds in Cambridge contained 168 varieties of trees, all planted previous to 1860. He was elected a member of the various horticultural societies of America, and corresponding and honorary mem- ber of the Royal Horticultural societies of London in Edinburgli. He originated the Hovey straw- berry, which marked the beginning of profitable strawberry culture in the United States. His brother, Phineas Brown Hovey (1803-1885), was also a prominent horticulturist. Charles Mason Hovey was editor of the Gardener's Magazine (1835), and the Magazine of Horticulture (1835- 63). He prepared Fruits of America with col- ored plates drawn by himself (2 vols., 1854), and contributed to the agricultural and horti- cultural journals and to the magazines. He died in Cambridge. Mass., Sept. 2, 1887.

HOVEY, Edmund Otis, clergyman and geolo- gist, was born at Hanover, N.H., July 15, 1801; son of Roger, Revolutionary soldier, and Martha (Freeman) Hovey; grandson of Edmund and Margaret (Knowlton) Hovey, and of Edmund, founder of Hanover, X.H., and Martha (Otis) Freeman; and a descendant of Daniel Hovey, who came from England and settled in Ipswich, Mass., where he was a proprietor in 1637, and where he built the Hovey wharf, the first of the region. Edmund Freeman, the immigrant ancestor on the maternal side, was one of the original colonists of Plymouth, and was also the founder of Sandwich, Mass., and it is recorded that he "gave the men of Saugus twenty coats of armor." Edmund Otis Hovey was fitted for college at the Tlietford academy, Vermont, under the care of the Rev. John Fitch. He taught school at Tlietford, Nor- wich, and Hanover, thus getting the means to support himself in Dartmouth college, where he was graduated with honor in 1828. He was grad- uated from Andover Theological seminary in 1831, having meanwliile done vacation mission-work in Vermont and Canada. He was ordained by the presbytery of Newbury port at Bradford, Mass., in company with six other home mission- aries, Sept. 26, 1831, and went at once to Fountain county, Indiana, where he labored for two years. He was one of the founders of Wabash college, Crawfordsville, Ind., Nov. 21, 1832, was one of its trustees, 1832-77; its treasurer, 1832-57, and professor of geology and chemistry, 1834-77. As financial agent he raised the first $100,000, and also secured the services of the first three presi-

dents — Baldwin. White and Tuttle. He founded the Hovey museum, on whose shelves he placed 25.01)0 specimens of scientific interest. His cata- logue of 10,000 specimens was still in manuscript in 1000. He was married, Oct. 5, 1831, to Mary

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Carter, daughter of Ezra and Martha (Ellsworth) Carter, of Peacham, Vermont. Mr. Carter was the first principal of the Caledonia county gram- mar school. They had two children: Horace Carter Hovey (q.v.); and Mary Freeman Hovey, who was a professor in the Kansas Agricultural college, taught in New Haven, Conn., and was for years the principal of a school for young ladies at Crawfordsville, Ind. Dr. Hovey was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science in 1895, and contributed oc- casional papers to their proceedings. He received the degree of D.D. from Dartmouth in 1869. He published: History of Wabash College (1857); a few special sermons, and contributed for the magazines and newspapers. He died at Craw- fordsville, Ind., March 10, 1877.

HOVEY, Horace Carter, clergyman, was born at Rob Roy, Ind., Jan. 28, 18-33; son of Edmund Otis and Mary (Carter) Hovey; grandson of Roger and Martha (Freeman) Hovey, and of Ezra, and Martha (Ellsworth) Carter; and a descend- ant of Daniel and Abigail (Andrews) Hovey, who settled at Ipswich, Mass., in 1635, and of Thomas and Mary Carter, who settled at Salis- bury, Mass., prior to 1638. His grandfather, Roger Hovey, and his great-grandfather, Ephraim Carter, were soldiers in the Revolutionary arm}'. He was graduated from Wabash college. Ind.. A.B., 1853; A.M., 1856, and from Lane Theological seminary, Ohio, in 1857. Ho was licensed b}' the presbytery of Crawfordsville in July. 1857; was ordained a minister by the presbytery of Madison, April 10, 1858; and was a home missionary in Indiana, 1857-59, and in Michigan, 1859-62. He was pastor of the Congregational church. Flor- ence, Mass., 186.3-66; of the Second Presbyterian church. New Albany, Ind., 1866-69: of the Ful- ton Street Presbj'terian church, Peoria. 111.. 1869- 73; of the First Presbyterian church, Kansas City, Mo., 1873-75; of the Second Congregational church. Fair Haven, Conn., 1876-83; of the Park