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 HOWISON

HOWISON

(1873) ; A Chance Acquaintance (1873) ; A Fore- gone Conclusion (1875) ; Sketch of the Life and Character of Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) ; The Parlor Car (1876) ; A Day's Pleasure (1876) ; Out of the Question (1877) ; A Counterfeit Present- ment (1877) ; The Lady of Aroostook (1879) ; The Undiscovered Country (1880) ; A Fearful Respon- sibility (1881) ; Doctor Breens Practice (1881) ; A Modern Instance (1882) ; A Woman's Reason

(1883) ; The Sleeping Car (1883) ; The Register

(1884) ; Niagara Revisited (1884) ; Rise of Silas Lapham (1884) : Three Villages (1884) ; A Little Girl among the Old Masters (1884) ; Indian Sum- mer (1885) ; The Elevator (1885) ; The Garroters (1886) ; Tuscan Cities (1886) ; Poems (1886) ; The Minister's Charge (1887) ; Modern Italian Poets, Essays and Versions (1887) ; A Sea Change, or Love's Stowaways (1888) ; April Hopes (1888) ; Annie Kilburn (1889) ; TJie 3Iouse Trap (1889) ; A Hazard of Neic Fortunes (1890) ; The Shadoio of a Dream (1890) ; A Boy's Town (1890) ; TJie Albany Depot (1891) ; Criticism and Fiction (1891) ; A Little Swiss Sojourn (1892) ; An Im- perative Duty (1892) ; A Letter of Introduction

(1892) ; The Quality of Mercy (1892) ; My Year in a Log Cabin (1893) ; The Unexpected Guests

(1893) ; Hie Coast of Bohemia (1893) ; Evening Dress (1894) ; Christmas Every Day (1893) ; The World of Chance (1893) ; A Traveller from Altni- ria (1894) ; My Literary Passions (1895) ; StoiJS of Various Quills (1895) ; A Parting and a Meet- ing (1896) ; The Day of Their Wedding (1896) ; Impressions and Experiences (1896) ; A Previous Engagement (1897) ; The Landlord at Lion's Head (1897) ; Ragged Lady (1899) ; many plays and farces and over twenty books which he either edited or to which he prominently contributed.

HOWISON, Qeorge Holmes, educator and philosophical writer, was born in Montgomery county, Md., Nov. 29, 1834 ; first son of Robert and Eliza (Holmes) Howison, and grandson of Stephen and Mary (Wood) Howison, of Prince "William county, Va., and of John and Mary (Abercrombie) Holmes, of Montgomery, Md. He was graduated from Marietta college in 1853, and from Lane Theological seminary in 1855. He was princi- pal of the preparatory department of Marietta college, 1855-58 ; teacher in the public high school at Chillicothe, Ohio, 1858-59 ; principal of the high school at Portsmouth, Ohio, 1859-60 ; superintendent of public schools at Harmar, Ohio, 1861-62, and principal of the high school at Salem, Mass., 1862-64. He held the assistant pro- fessoi'ship of mathematics in Washington univer- sity, St. Louis, Mo., 1864-66, and was Tileston professor of political economy there, 1866-69. He was master in the English high school in Boston, Mass., 1869-71 ; professor of logic and the philosophy of science at the Massachusetts Insti-

tute of Technology, Boston, 1871-79 ; lecturer on ethics at Harvard university, 1879-80, and lec- turer on speculative philosophy at Michigan uni- versity, 1883-84. During the years 1880-82 he was a student of philosophy in Europe, principally at the University of Berlin. In 1884 he became Mills professor of intellectual and moral pliiloso- phy and civil polity in the University of Califor- nia. He received the degree of LL.D. from Marietta college in 1883. He contributed to the leading ijhilosophical journals, was editor of the publications of the Philosophical union of the University of California, and one of the co- operating editors of the Psychological Revieiv. He prepared the new edition, revised and en- larged, of Richard Soule's " Dictionary of Eng- lish Synonyms" (1886), and was a member of the committee of fifty on disputed pronuncia- tions and disputed spellings for the " Standard Dictionary of the English Language " (1893). He is the author of : a Treatise on Analytic Geometry (1869), and a joint author of T/ie Coacepjtion of God (1897).

HOWISON, Henry Lycurgus, naval officer, was born in Washington, D.C., Oct. 10, 1837; son of Henry and Julia Virginia Howison, and grandson of Stephen Howison, of Prince William county, Va. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval academy from In- diana and was grad- uated in 1858. He was warranted as midshipman, June 11, 1858, attached to the steam frigate Wa- bash, Mediterranean squadron, 1858-59 ; to the sloop Pocahontas, Gulf squadron, in 1860, and was trans- ferred to the sloop Paivnee and returned home for examina- tion. He was pro- moted passed mid- shipman, Jan. 19, 1861, and master, Feb. 23, 1861 ; was present at the surrender of Fort Sum- ter, April 13, 1861 ; served on the Pocahontas in the Chesapeake bay and Potomac river, convey- ing troops to Washington, and was promoted lieutenant, April 19, 1861. He was executive officer of the Augusta, in Commodore DuPonfs squadron in October, 1861, and took part in the capture of Port Royal, S.C, Nov. 7, 1861, and in the engagements with Confederate gunboats and with the forts oflf Charleston. 1862-63. He was ordered as executive officer of the monitor Xan- tucket in June, 186B, and was present at the en- gagements with Forts Moultrie and Sumter,

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