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Hertzog", J. G., educator, born in Bechtheim, 

 Germany, Jan. 2, 1831; died in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 Sept. 12, 1901. He studied in the Universities of 

 Mannheim and Mainz, removed to the United 

 States in 1850, and was first employed on a Ger- 

 man newspaper in New York city. During the 

 years I860 and 1864 he was a teacher of lan- 

 guages in La Salle College, Philadelphia, and 

 at the same time Professor of German in Eden 

 Hall, Tornesdale. In 1877 he established a pri- 

 vate school, which he conducted till the time 

 of his death. He published a volume of his 

 poems. 



Hines, Cyrus C., jurist, born in Sandy Hill, 

 Washington County, N. Y., in 1840; died in In- 

 dianapolis, Ind., June 5, 1901. He removed to 

 Indianapolis in 1860, and at the outbreak of the 

 civil war enlisted as a private in the llth In- 

 diana Infantry, but soon was appointed an aid 

 to Gen. T. A. Morris. Afterward he became major 

 of the 24th Indiana, and later was made colonel 

 of the 57th Indiana Regiment. He was severely 

 wounded at the battle of Stone River, and in 1863 

 he. retired from the service on account of disabil- 

 ity from wounds. He practised law in Indianapo- 

 lis, and in 1866 was elected circuit judge of Hen- 

 dricks, Marion, Morgan, and Johnson Counties. 

 He retired from active professional life in 1887. 

 He was a founder of the Indianapolis Public Li- 

 brary. 



Hinton, Richard Josiah, journalist, born in 

 London, England, in 1830; died there, Dec. 20, 

 1901. He removed to the United States in the 

 year 1851, and at first worked at his father's trade 

 of mason. Later he became a topographical en- 

 gineer, and in turn a journalist, editor, lawyer, 

 and author. He became associated with John 

 Brown in Kansas in 1856, and was with Brown 

 at Harpers Ferry, where he narrowly escaped 

 death. Afterward he traveled through the South 

 in the character of an English sympathizer. He 

 made friends with the officers of the Confederate 

 army, saw Jefferson Davis inaugurated President 

 of the Confederacy, and took drawings of many 

 camps and fortifications. He was caught once in 

 Richmond, but escaped through the assistance of 

 a negro. He served through the civil war, and 

 he was one of the first officers to recruit negro 

 troops. Col. Hinton was a brigadier-general of 

 Cuban cavalry with Antonio Maceo in the up- 

 rising of 1871. He served at different times as 

 correspondent of the Boston Traveller and the 

 Chicago Tribune, and succeeded Henry George as 

 editor of the San Francisco Post. In 1886 he was 

 employed by the National Bureau of Labor as 

 an expert on labor matters, and he wrote and 

 spoke a great deal on labor questions. He was 

 an expert on the subject of irrigation, and wrote 

 much concerning it. He was author of English 

 Radical Leaders (1875), Handbook of Arizona 

 (1878), and Life of John Brown, and he performed 

 the difficult task of collecting the poems of Rich- 

 ard Realf and writing his life (1898). 



Hittell, John Shertzer, author, born in Jones- 

 town, Pa., Dec. 25, 1825; died in San Francisco, 

 Cal., March 8, 1901. He was graduated at Miami 

 University in 1843, studied law, removed to Otta- 

 wa, 111., in 1848, where he taught school, and in 

 the spring of 1849 began the journey overland to 

 California, walking 1,500 miles. After 1853 he 

 was engaged for the greater part of his life in 

 journalism in San Francisco. He published a 

 History of the Mental Growth of Mankind in 

 Ancient Times; Spirit of the Papacy; The Evi- 

 dences against Christianity (1855); History of 

 San Francisco (1878); The Resources of Califor- 

 nia (1860); Brief History of Culture (1875); Som- 



nambulism and Cramp, Iran , (! |', ur on 



Reichenbach's Sensitive Alm-H; 

 ing in the Pacific States. 



Hobson, Edward Henry, 

 Greensburg, Ky., .July II, ls^> ijj, 

 land, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1001. J|< 

 the Greensburg and Danville ( Ky.i 

 In 1846 he enlisted in the 2d KcntwUi Volun- 

 teers and was made a 1st JioutcrmnL li< 

 through the Mexican War and was musturcd 

 in June, 1847. He then returned to his hi: 

 interests in Greensburg. In 1861 he organized and 

 became colonel of the loth Kentucky (National) 

 Volunteers. He joined Gen. Buell's army in Feb- 

 ruary, 1862, and was made brigadier-general for 

 gallantry at the head of his regiment in the battle 

 of Shiloh. Before he received his commission he 

 took part in the siege of Corinth. He was present 

 at Perryville, and at Mumfordville, Ky., he pro- 

 tected the lines of communication, and instructed 

 about 10,000 new troops. In command of the 

 southern division of Kentucky troops, at Marrow- 

 bone, Ky., he watched the movements of John 

 Morgan's raiders, and after a slight engagement 

 he pursued Morgan through Kentucky, Indiana, 

 and Ohio, and finally captured him. Gen. Hob- 

 son was appointed to the command of Gen. Burn- 

 side's cavalry, but owing to failing health was not 

 able to serve. During the latter part of the war 

 he served in repelling raids at Lexington, Ky. His 

 commission as major-general was ready for the 

 President's signature when Lincoln was assassi- 

 nated. Gen. Hobson was mustered out in Septem- 

 ber, 1865, and afterward engaged in banking in 

 Greensburg, Ky., and in railroad business. He 

 was president of the Southern division of the 

 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. He was president 

 of the Mexican War Veterans' Association, and 

 in 1880 was vice-president of the Republican Na- 

 tional Convention. 



Hodge, John Aspinwall, clergyman, born in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., in 1831 ; died at Lincoln Uni- 

 versity, Chester County, Pennsylvania, June 23, 

 1901. He was graduated at the University of 

 Pennsylvania in 1851, and at Princeton Theolog- 

 ical Seminary in 1856. He was pastor of the First 

 Presbyterian Church, in Mauch Chunk, Pa., from 

 1856 till 1865, when he was called to the First 

 Presbyterian Church of Hartford, Conn., where 

 he remained till compelled by failing health to 

 resign in 1892. In 1888 he visited Brazil in be- 

 half of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis- 

 sions, and on his return to this country he was 

 elected a trustee of the college in Sao Paulo, Bra- 

 zil, supported by the Presbyterian board. Dr. 

 Hodge became interested in the Liberian Coloniza- 

 tion Society shortly after the civil war, and after 

 a year's rest in 1893 accepted the chair of English 

 Bible and Church Polity in Lincoln University, 

 which was founded before the war for the purpose 

 of educating negro missionaries for Africa. The 

 graduates now go principally to the Southern 

 States. Dr. Hodge was the author of What 

 is Presbyterian Law (1882); Theology of the 

 Shorter Catechism (1888); Recognition after 

 Death (1889); and The Ruling Elder at Work 

 (1892). 



Hoffman, Edward Morris, soldier, born in 

 Elmira, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1857; died in Albany, 

 N. Y., May 15, 1901. He enlisted in the New 

 York National Guard, Oct. 10, 1874, in the 110th 

 Battalion, receiving a 2d lieutenant's commission, 

 April 7, 1877. He was made 1st lieutenant of the 

 30th Separate Company, Nov. 29, 1881, and Dec. 

 6, 1884, he became a lieutenant-colonel and as- 

 sistant adjutant-general of the 7th Brigade, 

 was appointed inspector-general, Dec. 11, 1896, and 



