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* HOAK. 115 HOB ART. American ideals. During Iiis service in the House Mr. Hoar was one of the managers of tlie iielknap impeachment trial, and after his elec- tion to the Senate he was chairman of the committees on the judiciary and on privileges and elections, and a nieniber of the committees on engineering bills, civil service and retrench- ment, library claims, Nicaragua claims, and rules, as well as chairman of the select com- mittees on woman suffrage, and relations with Canada. Among the non-political olBces to which he was appointed are: Regent of the Smithsonian Institution (1880), president of the American Antiquarian Society, president of the American Historical Association, president of the Board of Trustees of Clark University (1900), and tntstee of the Peabody Fund. HOAR, Samuel (1778-1856). An American lawyer and legislator. He was born at Lincoln, Mass.; giaduated at Harvard in 1802; was ad- mitted to the bar in 180.5, and soon became a prominent lawyer. He was a State Senator in 1825 and again in 18.33, and was a Whig mem- ber of Congress from 1835 to 1837. In 1844 he was sent by the Massachusetts Legislature to South Carolina to dispute before the courts the constitutionality of certain laws of that State authorizing the imprisonment of free negroes coming into it. He was, however, not allowed to plead, but was forcibly expelled from Charleston by the public authorities, the South Carolina Legislature by special act authorizing the ex- pulsion. HOAEE, Sir Richard Colt (1758-1838). An English antiquary, born at Stourhead. in Wilt- shire. At twenty-five he married Lord L.yttel- ton's eldest daughter, and, after her death, two years later, traveled extensivel.v over Europe. He wrote descriptions of his travels in Ireland and in Italy; a translation of Giraldus Cam- hrcnsis (1808) ; and, most important among his works, a Ilisiori/ of Ancient Wiltshire (1821), succeeded by an incomplete History of Modern Wiltshire, dealing with the southern section only (1822 and 184.3). HOAR FROST. See Fro.st. HOARHOXJND. See HoBEnorxD. HOARSENESS. See Throat, Affections or. HO'BART. The capital of Tasmania, situ- ated on the Derwent, near its entrance into Storm Bay. on the south coast of the island (Map: Tas- mania. D3). Besides the Government official build- ings. Hobart has a college, a technical school, two cathedrals, hospitals, a free library, museum, and art galler.v. Its naturally excellent harbor and quay with three patent slips accommodate ships of the large-it size. It has considerable manufac- tures, a large export and import trade, railwa.v communication with Launceston, and steamship comnuinication with Sydne.v, Melbourne, New Zealand, and London. It is the seat of a United States consul and the see of .■ glican and Catho- lic bishops. With Blount Wellington as a pictur- esque background, regularly laid out and well- lighted streets, a good spring-water supply, street railroads, fine parks and drives, Hobart is a favorite summer resort for .Australians. The mean temperature for the year is 52.3°. being 42.1° in winter, and (i3.1° in summer. Popula- tion. 1891, 30,608; 1001, 31,317. It was founded in 1804. HOBART, Garret AuGUSTis (1844-99). An American lawyer and politician, Vice-President of the United States. He was born at Long Branch, N. .J.; graduated at Rutgers College in 1803; was admitted to the bar six years later,, and practiced his profession with success at Paterson, N. J., where he made his home until death. He was city counsel there in 1871: was a member of the State Assembly from 1873 to 1878, and of the State Senate from 1879 to 1885, presiding over both of those bodies. He was five times successively delegate-at-large from New Jerse.v to the Republican National Conven- tion; was nominated at Saint Louis in 1890 for Vice-President on the ticket with William Mc- Kinley, and was elected to that office. To a greater extent, perhaps, than any of his predeces- sors in the Vice-Presidency, he made that office one of real influence and power. He was the intimate friend and counselor of President Mc- Kinley, and exercised a strong inlluence on the conduct of public affairs. He was interested in many banking and other business corporations, and accumulated a large fortune. He died be- fore the expiration of his term of office, on No- vember 21, 1899. HOBART, John Hexry (1775-18.30). A Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York. He was born in Philadelphia, Pa., and was the descendant in the fifth generation of a Puritan family of New England, originally established by Joshua Hobart at Hingham, Mass. He was left fatherless in his first year and was carefully trained by his mother. He graduated at Prince- ton in 1793, and was tutor from 1795 to 1798, when he took orders in the Episcopal ministrj-. His first charges were in Philadelphia. Nev Brunswick, N. J., and Hempstead, L. I. In 1800 he was appointed curate of Trinity Church, New York; in 1801 was ordained priest, and after showing marked ability in parish work, in va- rious official capacities, and as the author of several ecclesiastical manuals, was elected As- sistant Bishop of New York in 1811, and assist- ant rector of Trinity Parish in the foUowinff year. In 1816 he became rector of Trinity and Bishop of the diocese. In 1821 he was appointed professor of pastoral theology and oratory in the New Y'ork General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which in- stitution he was one of the founders. Ill health caused a .suspension of his labors, and he spent the years 1824-25 in Europe, studying social, moral, and religious conditions. His return in 1826 was marked by renewed literary and pas- toral activity, and on his annual visitation he traveled 3000 miles, heedless of the scanty trans- portation facilities, in his anxious watchfulness, over the growing institutions of his ever-increas- ing diocese. The labors of his visitations, how- ever, at length proved too much for his declining health, and a sudden failure of his powers was followed by his death at Auburn. N. Y'.. Septem- ber 12, 1S30. Ilis writings, which went through many editions, include: Com/Wdioii for the Atlnr (1804): Festirals aiiit Fasts (1804): Clrrpu- vmn's Compiinion (1805); Cnniroversial Kssni/s (1806): Apoloftn for Apostotic Order (1807): The Christian's Manual (1814); The State of the Departed (IS14> : and .4 Comparison of the Vnited States With Enijland (1826). He also edited D'Oyley and Mant's "Family Bible" (2