AMERICAN OBITUARY 757 



Frank Davis Hill, consular official, died at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, on May 23, 

 1912. He was born in Minnesota, May 28, 1862, and was educated at the University of 

 Minnesota, and at the Columbian and National Law Schools, Washington. He was ad- 

 mitted to the Bar in 1884, and became consul at Asuncion, Paraguay, in 1887, in Montevideo 

 (1890), La Guayra (1893), Santos (1896) and Amsterdam (1899). In 1907 he became consul- 

 general at St. Petersburg, in 1908 at Barcelona, and in 1910 at Frankfurt. 



Edward Hitchcock, physician and teacher of physical culture, died February n, 1911. 

 He was born at Amherst, Mass., May 23, 1828, a son of Edward Hitchcock (see E. B. xiii, 

 533). geologist and president of Amherst College. He graduated at Amherst College 

 1849 and later at the Harvard Medical School. From 1861 he was professor of hygienic 

 and physical education at Amherst, being the first physician in the United States to take 

 up this work. He was acting president of Amherst in 1898-99. He wrote Anatomy, Physi- 

 ology and Anthropometry (1860) and A Manual of Gymnastic Exercises (1884). 



Herman S. Hoffman, bishop of the Reformed Episopal Church since June 1903, died in 

 Philadelphia on November 23, 1912. He was born near Salem, N. C., on June 9, 1841, 

 studied in the Moravian theological seminary at Bethlehem, Pa., was [ordained to the Mora- 

 vian ministry in 1864, and founded five churches of that denomination in Philadelphia before 

 1881, when he became a member of the Reformed Episcopal Church. In 1905 he became 

 assistant bishop in charge of the New York and Philadelphia synods. He wrote Life Beyond 

 the Grave (1898). 



Edwin Eugene Howell, geologist and cartographer, died in Washington, D. C., April 16, 

 1911. He was born in Genesee county, N. Y., March 12, 1845, and studied at the Univer- 

 sity of Rochester under the geologist Henry A. Ward; was geologist of the United States 

 Geological surveys west of the Rocky Mountains in 1872-73, and was with the government 

 survey of the Rocky Mountain region under Powell in 1874. In 1870 he made a relief map 

 of the island of San Domingo, and in 1875 produced his famous relief map of the Grand 

 Canon of the Colorado, for the government. In his later years he devoted his time to the 

 manufacture of geological models and maps first in the Rochester Museum and then in an 

 establishment at Washington which he called the Microcosm. He wrote on meteorites, 

 and was a founder of the Geological Society of America. 



John Wesley Hoyt, administrator and author, died on May 23, 1912. He was born near 

 Worthington, Ohio, on October 13, 1831, graduated at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1849, 

 studied law and then medicine at the Eclectic Medical Institute (Cincinnati), where he taught 

 chemistry in 1853-57, an d was editor and publisher of an agricultural paper at Madison, 

 Wisconsin, in 1857-67. He was an early member of the Republican party and in 1878-82 

 was governor of the Territory of Wyoming. His interests and activities were varied: he was 

 president of the international jury of awards on education and science at the Vienna Exposi- 

 tion of 1873, at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 and at the New Orleans 

 Exposition of 1884, and special representative for foreign affairs at the World's Columbian 

 Exposition of 1893; worked for the founding of a National University; and wrote, besides 

 reports of the Wisconsin Agricultural Society (1860-72), of the same state's railway com- 

 mission (1874-75), an d Federal reports on education in Europe and America (1870), Studies 

 in Civil Service (1878) and histories (1893-95) of the universities of Bologna, Paris, Oxford 

 and Cambridge in the Middle Ages. 



Thomas Augustus Jaggar, Protestant Episcopal bishop, since May 1908, in charge of 

 American churches in Europe, died December 13, 1912. He was born in New York City 

 on June 2, 1839, was a bank clerk before entering the ministry in 1863, and held among other 

 charges one at Yonkers, N. Y., where he established St. John's Riverside Hospital. From 

 1875 to 1905 he was bishop of Southern Ohio. In 1900 he delivered the Bohlen lectures 

 (Church of Holy Trinity, Philadelphia) on the personality of truth. 



Edward Gamaliel Janeway, physician, died February 10, 1911. He was born in New 

 Jersey, August 3 1 , 1 84 1 . He left his medical studies at Columbia University to act as medical 

 cadet at the army hospital at Newark, New Jersey, during the Civil War, but took his degree 

 in 1864. His long connection with the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College 

 (from 1868) as curator and professor ended in 1905 with his retirement as professor of med- 

 icine and dean. He was a noted specialist on nervous diseases and in 1875-82 was health 

 commissioner of New York City. He was the author of Clinical Points in the Diagnosis 

 of Hepatic Affections. 



Tom Loftin Johnson, capitalist and administrator, died in Cleveland, O., April 10, 1911. 

 He was born at Blue Spring, Ky., July 18, 1854. He r was a street railway owner and 

 promoter in several large cities, including Detroit and Brooklyn. He became an ardent 

 believer in the "single tax" doctrines of Henry George, and did much towards spreading 

 them. He served as a Democratic representative in Congress in 1891-95 and was mayor 

 of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901-1909, in which office he was partially successful in establishing a 

 three-cent street railway fare (see E. B. vi, 5O4d). See his autobiography, My Story (New 

 York, 1911) and Carl Lorenz, Tom L. Johnson (ibid., 1911). 



Adrian Hoffman Joline, American lawyer, died October 15, 1912. He was born in Sing 

 Sing (nowOssining),N. Y., June 30, 1850, and graduated at Princeton in i87Oandat the Colum- 

 bia Law School in 1872. He was admitted to the bar in 1872, and became one of the best 



