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professional work is shown by its influence 

 over a wide range of engineering practice in 

 mill-work, applications of steam, and sanitary 

 engineering, rather than in any massive struct- 

 ures that bear his name as builder. He held 

 various political offices of minor importance, 

 and was for seven years a member of the Mas- 

 sachusetts State Board of Health. Mr. Hoad- 

 ley was a member of several scientific associ- 

 ations, and a contributor of technical papers 

 to their transactions. One of the most impor- 

 tant of the latter was on "American Steam- 

 Engine Practice in 1884," read at the Montreal 

 meeting of the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, which was the first step 

 in the polemical engineering papers respecting 

 English and American railway practice. 



Hodge, Archibald Alexander, an American the- 

 ologian, born in Princeton, N". J., July 18, 1823 ; 

 died there, Nov. 12, 1886. He was the eldest 

 son of the eminent theologian and professor, 

 Charles Hodge, D. D., LL. D., who occupied 

 the chair of Theology in the College of New 

 Jersey for many years. He was graduated at 

 this college in 1841, was a student in the theo- 

 logical department from 1843 till 1847", and a 

 tutor from 1844 to 1846. He served three 

 years as a missionary in Japan, returning home 

 in 1850, and spent several years in pastoral 

 labor in Lower West Nottingham, Md. ; Fred- 

 ericksburg, Va. ; and Wilkesbarre, Pa. In 1864 

 he was appointed Professor of Theology in the 

 Presbyterian Seminary at Allegheny, Pa., and 

 during his incumbency he also officiated as 

 pastor of one of the churches in that city. In 

 1877 he was appointed associate of his father, 

 the Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theol- 

 ogy, at Princeton, and in the following year 

 succeeded him in that chair. He had been a 

 member of the Board of Trustees of the Col- 

 lege of New Jersey since 1881, and was for a 

 time one of the editors of the " Presbyterian 

 Review." Prof. Hodge was the author of sev- 

 eral works, the most notable being his " Out- 

 lines of Theology," which has been used as a 

 text-book in this country and in Great Britain. 



Hoe, Richard March, an American inventor, 

 born in New York city, Sept. 12, 1812; died 

 in Florence, Italy, June 7, 1886. He^was the 

 eldest of three sons of Robert Hoe, a native of 

 Lancashire, England, who came to New York 

 in 1803, married a sister of Peter Smith, of 

 "Westchester, the inventor of a hand printing- 

 press, engaged with the Smith brothers in 

 manufacturing the presses, and, on their death, 

 succeed ed to the entire business. Failing health 

 compelled the retirement of the elder Hoe in 

 1832, and the business passed into the hands 

 of his eldest son and Matthew Smith, a son of 

 his old partner. Like his father, Richard was a 

 skillful mechanic, and was possessed of strong 

 inventive genius. In 1837 he obtained patents 

 in the United States and in England on a new 

 method for grinding circular saws, and began 

 manufacturing them extensively. His atten- 

 tion was mainly given to the printing-press, 



however, and in 1846 he perfected a rotary 

 machine, which received the name of "the 

 lightning press." At first it had four cylin- 

 ders, but these were afterward increased to 

 ten, giving the press a capacity for making 

 20,000 impressions an hour on one side of the 

 sheet. The idea then occurred to him of print- 

 ing from a long sheet or web of paper and on 

 both sides of the sheet at one operation. The 

 result of many costly experiments was the Hoe 

 web perfecting-press, which is capable of print- 

 ing on a continuous roll of paper several miles 

 in length and on both sides of the roll at the 

 same time, and cutting off and folding ready 

 for delivery from 15,000 to 20,000 newspapers 

 in an hour, the paper being drawn through the 

 press at the rate of 1,000 feet a minute. Mr. 

 Hoe employed a large number of workmen, 

 established a thoroughly conducted school for 

 his apprentices in the works, endowed liber- 

 ally a relief association for the operatives, and 

 encouraged to the utmost any inventive ability 

 in the men about him. 



Home, David Donglas, spiritualist, born near 

 Edinburgh, March- 20, 1833 ; died in London, 

 England, June 22, 1886. He came to Amer- 

 ica when a child, and for many years enjoyed 

 considerable distinction as a spiritual medium, 

 claiming that marvelous phenomena had attend- 

 ed him from infancy. He won many friends 

 by his seances, who readily accorded him all 

 the wonderful powers he announced, even to 

 declaring that they had seen him float in mid- 

 air, materialize disembodied spirits, and raise 

 a piano several feet by simply placing a finger 

 upon it. In 1855 he went to Europe and was 

 well received in England, France, Germany, 

 and Russia, marrying twice, in the latter coun- 

 try, young ladies of high birth. He became 

 a Roman Catholic in 1856, and secretary of the 

 Spiritual Athenaeum in London in 1866. His 

 friends claimed that Queen Victoria had given 

 him several private sittings shortly after the 

 death of the Prince Consort, and there is hard- 

 ly a doubt that Napoleon III invited him twice 

 to exhibit his powers in the Tuileries. A few 

 years ago several of his alleged miracles were 

 exposed in London, since when he had appeared 

 but little in public. 



Howe, William ., an American lawyer, born 

 in East Chester, N. Y., in 1816; died in Sing 

 Sing, N. Y., Jan. 11, 1886. He completed his 

 education at Wells Academy, Sing Sing, and 

 engaged in teaching at Tuckahoe. In 1851 he 

 became editor of the "Hudson River Chron- 

 icle," and continued his connection with that 

 paper and the " Register," which succeeded it, 

 until within a year of his death. He had held 

 the office of justice of the peace continuously 

 for twenty-two years, and that of justice of 

 sessions for sixteen, besides serving as an asso- 

 ciate justice of the County and Supreme Courts, 

 as president of the village of Sing Sing, and as 

 president of its Board of Education. 



Hudson, Henry Norman, an American clergy- 

 man, born in Cornwall, Vt., in 1814; died in 



