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society. He was a nieinber of the board of trus- tees of the University of Mississippi, 1883-94, and received the degree of LL.D. from the university in \xm.

HOWRY, James Moorman, jurist, was born in Botetourt county. Va., Aug. 4, 1804; son of the Rev. Daniel and Fredrica (Wax) Howry. He received a limited education in the common school, read law in Tennessee with General Par- sons at Rogersville and with Ephraim S. Foster (q.v.), and in 182G was elected colonel of the Tennessee regiment in Hawkins county, Tenn. He subsequently served as clerk of the Tennessee senate, house of representatives and supreme court; and in 1836 was attorney-general for the circuit. He was married in 1834 to Narcissa, daughter of Charles Bowen. He removed to Mississippi in 1836 and was elected circuit judge in 1844. He was a charter trustee of the University of Mississippi, 1844-70; secretary and treasurer of the board, 1851-80; chairman of the executive committee of the board, 1845-51, and proctor of the university, 1848-56. He was a prominent Mason. He died in Oxford, Miss., April 14, 1884.

HOWS, John Augustine, artist, was born in New York city in 1S31; son of John William Stanhope Hows (1797-1871), professor of elocution in Cokiinbia college, 1843-57, editor, and author of dramatic literature. The son was graduated at Columbia, A.B., 1853, A. M., 1855. He studied theolog)', intending to enter the priesthood of the P.E. church, but abandoned it to study law. This he also abandoned and devoted himself to art. He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1863 and exhibited Van- itas Vanitatiun. An Adirondack Lake, and The Sanctuary of St. Alban's Church, Neio Yo7'k (1876); Paid Smith, St. Regis (1871). He was an illustrator on wood and among the first to illus- trate b<Joks in the body of the type page. He was an associate editor of The Chtirchman and of Tlie Home Journal. He died in New Y'ork city, Sept. 27, 1874.

HOXIE, Vinnie Ream, sculptor, was born in Mali.son, Wi.s., Sept. 23, 1846. Her father was a clerk in a government department at W^ashing- ington, D.C., and the girl was brought up in that city. She was graduated at Cliristian col- lege, Columbia, Mo., during the progress of the civil war, and returning to Wa.shington was among the first women appointed to a responsible government clerkship in the post-office depart- ment. Sl>e studied the .sculptor's art, and i)ro- duced the head of an Indian cliief that drew to her studio the art-critics of Washington and gave to her commissions for bu.sts of General Grant, Senator Reverdy Johnson, Gen. Albert Pike, Senator John Slierman and Representative Tliaddeus Stevens. Her full-length figure of

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" The Indian Girl " was cast in bronze, and her " America," a fountain composed of four female figures, representing tiie points of the compass, with typical emblems of the four sections of the union, was much praised. She pro- duced in marble "Miriam, as she met the children of Israel as they crossed the Red Sea; " and statue of Abra-£^ ham Lincoln,^ which wasj^lac- { ed in the nation- al capitol, she being the first] woman to re- ceive an order from the gov- ernment. While making this statue she spent three years in Europe studying ancient and modern statuary, and while abroad produced medallions of Gustave Dore, Pere Hyacinth, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, the Abbe Liszt and T. B. Read. She modelled a bust of Lincoln for Cornell university; a life-size statue of " Sappho; " " The Spirit of the Carnival," and several ideal busts. Later she secured in competition a commission from congress to make a statue of Farragut, which was cast in metal from the flagship Hartford, and placed in Far- ragut square, Washington. After her marriage, May 28, 1878, to Maj. Richard L. Hoxie, of the U.S. corps of engineers, she gave up her profes- sion, but lectured on the subject with demonstra- tions on the stage, in several large cities, in behalf of charities. She made her home in Washing- ton, D.C.

HOYNE, Thomas, lawyer, was born in New Y\nk city, Feb. 11, 1817; son of Patrick and Eleanor M. (Byrne) Hoyne. He was brought up as a merchant's clerk, went to Chicago in 1837, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was married, Sept. 17, 1840, to Leonora M., daughter of John T. Temple. He was city clerk, 1840-42, and practised law in Galena, III., 1842-44, and in Chicago, 1844-83. He was judge of probate in 1847; LT.S. district attorney for Illinois by ap- pointment of President Pierce, 1853-57; U.S. marshal for the northern district of Illinois by appointment of President Buchanan, 1859-61; member of the Union Defence committee of Cliicago, 1861-65, and delegate to the National Union convention of 1866. He was interested in the founding of the University of Cliicago in 1856-57, and the establishment of the Hoyne professorship of international and constitutional