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South Carolina and Georgia that Gen. Benjamin Lincohi superseded him and he joined Wasliing- ton's army on the Hudson, where he commanded West Point in 1780 and quelled the mutiny of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey line in 1781. He received for this service the thanks of Wash- ington, In 1783 he quelled another attempted mutiny of the ti-oops in Philadelphia. In 1785 congress appointed him an Indian commissioner, and on his return to North Carolina he was elected to the state legislature, but died before taking his seat. During his absence his planta- tion had been raided and his buildings and stock destroyed by order of Lord Cornwallis. He died in Brunswick county, N.C., Nov. 12, 1785.

HOWE, Samuel Gridley, educator, was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 10,1801; son of Joseph N. and Patty (Gridley) Howe, and grandson of Edward C. Howe. He was graduated at Brown in 1821 and at Harvard Medical school in 1824. He at once joined the patriot army in Greece, serv- ing 1824-30, being surgeon-in-charge of the Greek fleet, 1827- 30, and visiting the United States in 1827 in order to raise funds for the relief of the famine prevailing in that country. He founded a colony on the Isthmus of Cor- inth and in 1830, be- ing prostrated by swamp fever, he re- turned to the United States, where he be- came interested in the blind and souglit better methods for their education. In order to further this design he visited Europe in 1831. While in Paris he sympathized with the Polish patriots and was elected president of the committee formed for their relief. While engaged in carry- ing funds to a detachment of the Polish army he was arrested by the Prussian authorities, impris- oned for six weeks and then taken to the French frontier and liberated. He returned to the United States in 1832 and opened the first school for the instruction of the blind in Boston at his father's house, the foundation of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, of which institution he was superintendent until his death. His success as the instructor of Laura Bridgman, the blind deaf-mute, gave rise to the rapid multipli- cation of institutions for the blind in the United States. He also founded an experi- mental school for the training of idiots, the result of which was the organization in 1851

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of the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Youth, and he was its superintend- ent, 1848-75. His first appearance as an anti- slavery agitator was as the Free-soil candidate for representative in the 30th congress in 1846. He was defeated in the election by Robert C. Winthrop, Democrat. He was connected with the U.S. sanitary commission and the Freedman's relief association during the civil war, and in 1867 went to Greece to carry supplies to the Cretans in their struggle against the Turks. In 1871 he was one of the commissioners appointed by the U.S. government to report on the question of annexation, and championed the measure as a. civilizing expedient. He was a member of the Massachusetts board of education; president of the Massachusetts board of charities, and trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and of the McLean Asylum for the Insane. He was married in 1843 to Julia, daughter of Samuel and Julia (Cutler) Ward. He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown in 1868. He edited The Com- monwealth, 1851-53; The Cretan, 1868-71; pub- lished reports of various institutions and is the author of: Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolu- tion (1828), and Reader for the Blind, printed in raised characters (1839). His widow, Julia Ward Howe, published Memoirs of Dr. Samuel G. Hoice (1876). His name in " Class C, Educators," re- ceived nine votes for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York university, Octo- ber. 1900. He died in Boston, Mass., Jan. 9, 1876. HOWE, Timothy Otis, statesman, was born in Livermore, Maine, Feb. 24, 1816. He attended the common school, was brought up on a farm, and was graduated at Readfield academy. He became a lawyer in 1839, practised in Readfield, Maine, and was a state representative in 1845. He removed to Green Bay, Wis., in the lat- ter part of 1840, and in 1848 he was the un- successful Whig can- didate for representa- tive in the 14th con- gress. He was judge of the 4th circuit, and ex officio of the su- preme court, 1851-53, and for a time served as chief justice of the state. He was an ac- tive campaign speak- er for Fremont and Dayton in 1856. In the judicial contest to determine the election of governor of Wisconsin that year. Mr. Howe appeared for Coles Bashford, and defeated his contestant, William A. Barstow. He was U.S. senator for three terms,

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