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it-appointed Jan. 1, 1897. Gen. Hoffman was ap- 

 pointed by Gov. Roosevelt as adjutant-general, 

 Jan. 1, 1900, and. was reappointed by Gov. Odell, 

 Jan. 1, 1901. He was one of the best known and 

 most popular officers of the National Guard. He 

 commanded the 3d New York Volunteers in the 

 war with Spain. He also saw service in the great 

 railroad riots of July, 1877, and at the switch- 

 men's strike in Buffalo in 18JV2. 



Hogan, John Baptist, clergyman, born at 

 Bodyke. County Clare. Ireland, June 24, 1839; died 

 in Paris, France, Sept. 30, 1901. At the age of 

 seventeen he went to France to study for the 

 Roman Catholic priesthood. In 1852 he was or- 

 dained, and, becoming a member of the Sulpician 

 community, taught in the departments of dog- 

 matic and moral theology until 1884. In that 

 year he wa* installed director of St. John's 

 Theological Seminary, at Brighton, Mass. In 

 1889 he was selected by the governing board of 

 archbishops for the head of the divinity school of 

 the Catholic university in Washington city. He 

 remained there five years, when he returned to his 

 former post at Brighton. Under Abbe Hogan's 

 management the Brighton seminary attained a 

 high standing, and students were sent to it from 

 all parts of the United States. His published 

 works include Clerical Studies and Daily Thoughts 

 for Priests. 



Holbrook, Zephaniah Swift, author, born 

 in Berea, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1847; died in Brookline, 

 Mass., Oct. 23, 1901. He studied at Yale, and 

 after his graduation at the Yale Theological 

 Seminary was pastor of the Oakland Congre- 

 gational Church of Chicago, and was associate 

 editor of the Alliance. In 1881 he engaged in 

 business in Chicago, and in 1898 removed to 

 Boston. He was sociological editor of the Bibli- 

 otheca Sacra, and a lecturer and a contributor to 

 literary publications. He published Lessons on 

 the Homestead Troubles, American Republic and 

 the. Debs Insurrection, and Christian Sociology 

 and other works. Although he was not graduated 

 with his class at Yale, he was made an honorary 

 graduate and received the degree of A. M. 



Holman, David Shepherd, inventor, born in 

 Milo, Me., in 1826; died in Bangor, Me., May 13, 

 1901. Prof. Holman, although to a great extent 

 self-educated, and without the advantage of a 

 scientific training, w r as a skilful microscopist, and 

 is widely known through the Holman life-slides 

 and other accessories to the microscope. He be- 

 came connected with the Franklin Institute, Phil- 

 adelphia, in 1870, and one year later was made 

 actuary of the society, which post he held till 

 1885. In this time he put forward many inven- 

 tions, lectured, and, foreseeing the great advan- 

 tages of the typewriting machine, established a 

 successful school of stenography and typewriting 

 at the institute. He afterward taught stenogra- 

 phy and typewriting at Girard College. After 

 leaving Franklin Institute he was employed in 

 the oil-testing laboratories of the Atlantic Refin- 

 ing Company, and while there devised his " visco- 

 simeter." He was a member of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences. 



Holmes, Nathaniel, jurist, born in Peterbor- 

 ough, N. H., July 2, 1814; died in Cambridge, 

 Mass., Feb. 26, 1901. He was graduated at Har- 

 vard University in 1837, and was admitted to the 

 Boston bar in 1839. Beginning practise in St. 

 Louis, he remained there until 1868, during which 

 time he had been circuit attorney for the city 

 and county of St. Louis, counselor of the North 

 Missouri Railroad, and justice of the Supreme 

 Court of Missouri, 1865-'68. After holding the 

 Royall professorship of Law at Harvard, 1868- 



72, he resumed practise in St. Louis, retiring 

 finally in 1883, since which time he had lived in 

 retirement in Cambridge. He was an ardent sup- 

 porter of the Baconian theory of the authorship of 

 Shakespeare's plays, and hi's discussion of the sub- 

 ject is altogether the ablest presentment of the 

 Baconian side of the question. His published 

 works are The Authorship of Shakespeare (1866 

 and 1886) and Realistic Idealism in Philosophy 

 Itself (1888). 



Hooker, John, lawyer, born in Farmington, 

 Conn., April 19, 1816; died in Hartford, Conn., 

 Feb. 12, 1901. He was graduated at Yale in 1837, 

 studied at the Yale Law School, and was admitted 

 to the bar. From 1858 to 1894 he was reporter 

 of judicial decisions by the Supreme Court of 

 Connecticut. The greater part of the Connecticut 

 law reports were prepared and published by him. 

 He reported under 7 chief justices. Mr. Hooker 

 was one of the original antislavery men of Con- 

 necticut. He was a member of the Legislature 

 in 1850. In 1841 he married Isabella Beecher, 

 daughter of the Rev. Lyman Beecher and sister 

 of Henry Ward Beecher and of Harriet Beecher 

 Stowe. Mrs. Hooker is widely known as a wom- 

 an suffragist, and her husband was in full sym- 

 pathy with the movement. He published his 

 Reminiscences in 1899. 



Hopkins, Samuel Miles, educator, born in 

 Geneseo, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1813; died in Auburn, 

 N. Y., Oct. 29, 1901. He was graduated at Am- 

 herst College in 1832, studied at Auburn and 

 Princeton Theological Seminaries, and was or- 

 dained in the Presbyterian ministry in 1840. After 

 brief pastorates in Corning, Fredonia, and East 

 Avon, N. Y., he was appointed Professor of Church 

 History and Ecclesiastical Polity in Auburn 

 Theological Seminary. He remained in active 

 service till 1893, when he was made professor 

 emeritus. In 1866 he was moderator of the Pres- 

 byterian General Assembly. He published A Man- 

 ual of Church Polity in 1878, and later a Liturgy 

 and Book of Common Prayer, as a contribution 

 of his interest in the movement to introduce pre- 

 composed forms of worship into the Presbyterian 

 Church. 



Houghton, Henry Clarke, physician, born in 

 Roxbury, Mass., Jan. 22, 1837; died in New York 

 city, Dec." 1, 1901. He was graduated at Bridge- 

 water Normal School in 1859, and from 1861 to 

 1863 he taught natural sciences in Yarmouth, Me., 

 Academy. He received his medical degree at New 

 York University in 1867. He was resident physi- 

 cian to the Five Points House of Industry from 

 1867 to 1869; Professor of Physiology in the New 

 York Homeopathic Hospital from 1868 to 1870; 

 and Professor of Otology from 1870 till his death. 

 He was Professor of Physiology in the New York 

 College for Women from 1869 to 1872. In 1868 

 he was appointed surgeon in the New York Oph- 

 thalmic and Aural Institute, and later became its 

 dean. Dr. Houghton was noted as a specialist in 

 diseases of the eye and the ear, and he was an 

 officer in many homeopathic medical societies. 

 He was the author of Lectures on Clinical- Otol- 

 ogy, and of many papers relating to his work as 

 an oculist and aurist. 



House, Edward Howard, journalist, born in 

 Boston, Mass., Sept. 5, 1836; died in Tokio, Japan, 

 Dec. 18, 1901. He was largely self-educated; 

 studied music from 1851 to 1854, composing or- 

 chestral pieces; and worked at the same time as 

 a bank-note engraver. He was part proprietor, 

 associate editor, and musical and dramatic critic 

 of the Boston Courier from 1854 till 1858; special 

 correspondent, associate editor, dramatic and 

 musical critic of the New York Tribune from 



