HODGE, HUGH L. 



HOLLAND, HENRY. 



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member of Congress, and Chief-Justice of the 

 Supreme Court of Ohio. He was prepared for 

 college at Hudson, entered Yale College in 

 1829, and graduated thence in 1832. He taught 

 in Benton Academy for two years, entering 

 Lane Theological Seminary in 1835, and was 

 ordained in November, 1837, as pastor of the 

 Presbyterian Church in Morgan, Ohio. In 

 June, 1840, he was called to the pastorate of 

 the Second Presbyterian Church in Columbus, 

 Ohio, where he remained fifteen years. In 

 July, 1855, he was elected President of West- 

 ern Reserve College, at Hudson, and became, 

 at the same time, pastor of the College Church. 

 He continued in this position till 1871, and 

 was very successful in building up the inter- 

 ests of the college. He resigned in 1871, and 

 spent some time abroad, but returned, with his 

 health, which had been impaired, apparently 

 restored. He continued to reside in Hudson 

 till his death. Dr. Hitchcock was a man of 

 fine culture and thorough scholarship, and had 

 worked perseveringly in the face of great ob- 

 stacles and discouragements as President of 

 the Western Reserve College. He received the 

 decree of D. D., from Williams College in 1855. 



IKMHrK, limn LEXOX, M. D., LL.D., an 

 eminent physician and medical writer of Phil- 

 adelphia, born in that city, June 27, 1796; 

 died there, February 26. 1873. He was the 

 eldest son of Dr. Hugh Hodge, a distinguished 

 physician of Philadelphia almost a century ago, 

 anil brother of Prof. Charles Hodge, D. D., 

 LL. I)., of Princeton, N. J. He graduated 

 from Princeton College in 1814, with high 

 honors; studied medicine in the University 

 of Pennsylvania, and took his medical degree 

 in 1817. Having made the study and practice 

 of obstetrics a specialty, he achieved great dis- 

 tinction therein, and in 1835 succeeded the 

 eminent Dr. Dewees as professor in the nni- 

 ;y. This chair he retained until 1863, 

 when he felt compelled, by advancing years, 

 to resign it. On this occasion, the trustees 

 conferred npon him the degree and title of 

 Emeritus Professor. For a long while Dr. 

 Hodge was one of the editors of the North 

 American Medical and Surgical Journal. He 

 was also the author of " Hodge's System of 

 Obstetrics." and of a work on " The Diseases 

 peculiar to Women," both standard text-books 

 with the profession. Such was his reputation, 

 that patients flocked to Philadelphia from all 

 parts of the country, to put themselves under 

 his skillful care and advice, through a long se- 

 ries of years. He had published, in addition 

 to the works above named, numerous lectures, 

 addresses, pamphlets, and reports of eases, and 

 continued to write for the press till within a 

 week of his death. Professionally, socially, 

 and religiously, Dr. Hodge was a man univer- 

 sally esteemed, and his death was greatly la- 

 mented. 



HOLLAND, SirHeNBY, Bart., M. D., D.C.L., 

 F. R. S., an English traveler, author, nnd phy- 

 sician, born at Knutsford, Cheshire, England, 



October 27, 1788 ; died in London, October 27, 

 1873. He was at first destined for a mercan- 

 tile career, but, having spent two sessions in 

 the University of Glasgow, he became enam- 

 ored with the medical profession, a choice 

 which, at the close of his long life, he had 

 never regretted. He was educated for the 

 medical profession in the University of Edin- 

 burgh, which he entered in 1806, and from 

 which he graduated M. D. in 1811. Even be- 

 fore entering the Edinburgh University he had 

 made some successful attempts at authorship, 

 having published two metaphysical essays 

 one on "Liberty and Necessity," the other on 

 " The Passions in their Relation to the Intel- 

 lectual Nature of Man " before he had at- 

 taiued his seventeenth year, and a county re- 

 port to the Board of Agriculture on the " Agri- 

 cultural Condition of Cheshire," for which ho 

 received $1,000, before he was eighteen. In 

 1810, while a student at Edinburgh, he spent 

 four months in a visit to and a tour in Iceland ; 

 and, after receiving his medical degree, he de- 

 voted a year and a half to a tour through 

 Southern Europe, visiting Portugal, Spain, 

 Sicily, the Ionian Isles, Greece, and several of 

 the Turkish provinces. In 1814 he published 

 a narrative of a part of these travels, especial- 

 ly those in Albania and Thessaly; and the 

 same year commenced a journey through Ger- 

 many, Switzerland, and Italy, as medical at- 

 tendant on the Princess of Wales. In January, 

 1816, he settled in his profession in London, 

 and almost at once entered upon a largo prac- 

 tice, increased by his spending two months, 

 professionally, at a spa (Aix-la-Chapelle) at the 

 close of the London season, where he formed 

 the acquaintance and friendship of the emi- 

 nent Englishmen and foreigners who frequent- 

 ed that then celebrated watering-place. In 

 four years his practice had become so large and 

 profitable as to warrant his taking the large 

 and commodious residence in Brook Street, 

 where ho continued to reside till the clcse of 

 his long life. But, though enjoying such a 

 large and growing practice, he would not be 

 turned aside from a resolution which he had 

 formed before settling in London, to devote 

 at least two months of the autumn to foreign 

 travel. He maintained this resolution to the 

 close of life, in two instances only taking his 

 vacation in Scotland or Ireland; but, in the 

 course of his fifty-six or seven annual journeys, 

 he had visited the United States and Canada 

 eight times, traveling 26,000 miles on this con- 

 tinent; had visited the West India Islands 

 once; the East, including Constantinople and 

 the Holy Land, four times; Northern Africa, 

 the same number of times ; Russia, three 

 times; Sweden and Norway, several times; 

 Iceland, twice; Spain, Portugal, and Italy, 

 often; and the Canary Islands, Madeira, Dnl- 

 matia, etc., etc. His practice, meanwhile, 

 which in 1820 was worth $6,000 a year, and 

 rapidly increasing among the wealthy and 

 aristocratic classes, had, a few years later, 



