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* HILL. 77 and from 1885 until the year of his death of the Middle Georjj;ia Military and Agricultural Col- lege. His publications include: Elements: of Al- yebra (1858) ; a number of religious tracts; and several articles in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (Johnson and Buel, editors. New York, 1887). HILL, David Bennett (1843—). An Ameri- can ]ii]litician. He was born at Havana, X. V.; was admitted to the bar in 1804, and practiced Jaw at IClniira, N. Y. He was a Democratic member of the New York Assembly from 180!) to 1H71, and was elected Mayor of Elmira in 1882. He early became prominent in State and Na- tional politics, and was chairman of the Demo- cratic State Convention in 1877, and again in 1881, and in the following year was elected Lieu- tenant-Governor on the ticket with Grover Cleve- land, upon whose resignation in 1885, prepara- tory to assuming the duties of the Presidency, he became Governor. He continued to hold this position until 1891, when he succeeded William M. Evarts as a member of the United States Senate, where he took a prominent part in the debates, especially in those concerning the Wil- son Tariff Bill in 1894. During his Senatorial term he opposed various measures approved by President Cleveland, and was instrmuental in preventing the confirmation by the Senate of lli» nominations of William B. Hornblower and Wheeler H. Peckham as justices of the United Slates Supreme Court. He was a prominent candidate for the Presidential nomination before the Democratic National Convention of 1892, and was defeated for Governor of New Y'ork in 1894 by Levi P. Morton. After the expiration of liis term in the Senate (1897), Mr. Hill practiced law in Albany, though he continued to take an active part in politics. HILL, David Jayne (18.50—). An American author and educator, especially well known for his Avritings on rhetoric. He was bom at Plain- field, N. J. ; was educated at Bucknell L'niversity (then Lewisburg), where he was professor of rhetoric (1877-79), and then president. Tn 1888 he was made president of Rochester University. After resigning his office he spent three years in the study of public law and diplomacy in Europe, and was subsequently called to the office of Assistant Secretary of State in Washing- ton, In 190.3 he was appointed United States Minister to Switzerland. Diiring his residence in Washington he held the professorship of Euro- jican <li]iIomacy in the School of Comparative .Ju- risprudence. His works include: Tlir firicnce of llhctoric (1877) ; The Elements of Tthctnric and Composition (1879) ; Life of 'Washinqlon Ininq (1879) ; Life of William Ciillen Briiant (ISSO)': Principles and Fallacies of Socialism (1885): The Elements of Psiicholor/i/ (1887) : The f<orial Influence of Christianit;/ (1887): Genetic Phi- losopin/ (1893) ; and an edition of .Jevons's Logic (1884). HILL, Georoe Birkheck (18351903). An English author, born at Tottenham, ^fiddlesex, and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. From 1859 to 1S70 he was head master of the Bruce Cnstle School ; in the latter year he resigned to devote himself to literature. He is best known as a .Tnhnsonian scholar and editor. His numer- ous published works include: Dr. Johnson: His Friends and His Critics (1878); Life of Sir HILL. Ron land Hill (1880) ; Colonel Gordon in Central Africa (1881) ; Wit and Wisdom of Ur. Johnson (1888); Footsteps of Ur. Johnson in Scotland (1890); Writers and Headers (1892); Harvard Colkye, by an Oxonian (1894); Talks About .lutoyruplis (1890); Johnsonian .Miscellanies (1897); Life of Edward Gibbon (1900). He edited: Hosucll's Correspondence (1879): Hos- u-ell's Life of John.ton ( 1880) ; h'assclas ( 1888) ; Select Essays of Dr. Johnson (1889) ; Letters of Johnson (1892) ; J^etlers of Dante Gabriel liosset- ti (1897); Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift (1899). HILL, George William (1838—). An American astronomer, born in New York, and educated at Rutgers College. He became an as- sistant on the staff' of the American Ephemeris and of the Xautical .Umanac in 1801, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1874, and was awarded a gold medal by the London Royal Astronomical Society in 1887, for his work on the lunar theory. He wrote largely on celes- tial mechanics and mathematics, and contributed to the governmental .Xstronomical Papers (espe- cially 1882, 1890, 1891, 1895), to the Year Hook of the Agricultural Department (1898), and to the publications of the Washington Bureau of Navigation. His most valuable work is A Xeio Theory of Jupiter and Saturn (1890). HILL, Henry Barker (1849-1903). An Ameri- can chemist, son of Thomas Hill, president of Harvard (1802-08), and born at Waltham, Mass. He was educated at Harvard and the University of Berlin. He was assistant in the chemical laboratory at Harvard (1870). assistant profes- sor ( 1874), full professor ( 1884) , and director of the chemical laboratory (1894). and was elected to the National Academy of .Sciences in 1883. He contributed to its Proceedinys ( 1881 sqq, ) , to the American Journal of Chemistry, to Silliraan's American Journal, and to the Berichte der deutschen ehemischen Gesell-schaft (vols, ixt- xxxiii.), and wrote "Xotes on Qualitative Analysis (1874), HILL,, Tames J. (1.8,38—). . .raerican rail- way promoter, born near Guclph, Ont. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and left his father's farm for a business career in Minnesota. In 1870 he formed the Red River Transportation Company, which was the first to open communica- tion between Saint Paul and 'innipeg. Eight years afterwards he helped to form the syndicate which, under another name, ultimately built the Canadian Pacific Railway. From 1883 to 1893 he intcrcsled himself in the building of the Great Northern Railway, extending from Lake Superior to Puget Soinid. with northern and southern branches and a direct steamship connection with China and .Tapan. Mr. Hill gave .$.500,000 txiward the estalilishment of a Roman Catholic theolog- ical seminary in Saint Paul, Minn. HILL, .John Henry (1791-1882). An .meri- can educator, chiefly identified with teaching and missionary work in Greece. He was born in New Y'ork City, graduated at Columbia College, and was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1830. In the same year he went as a missionarv to Greece, and at Athens he and his wife established a girls' school, after- wards a school for boys, and also a high school for the training of teachers. His work at first received little encouragement, but prospered after