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Albany, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1887. He was gradu- 

 ated at Amherst in 1830, and, after a two- 

 years' course in theology in the Andover 

 Theological Seminary, he took a two-years' 

 course in medicine at Yale. He went to Paris, 

 France, in 1835, began the study of Arabic 

 under De Say, and was ordained as a mission- 

 ary of the Eglise Reformee, being assigned to 

 the Turkish field. In the following year he 

 joined the American Board in Constantinople, 

 laboring there till 1850. He was then ap- 

 pointed assistant dragoman in the American 

 Legation to the Porte, holding the office for 

 three years, and acting as charge d'affaires 

 for one year. In 1853 he returned to the 

 United States, in 1854 was appointed assistant 

 librarian of the New York State Library at 

 Albany, and in 18G2, upon the death of Alfred 

 B. Street, the librarian, succeeded to the head 

 of the library staff. He was the author of nu- 

 merous books on oriental and historical sub- 

 jects, edited the papers of Govs. Clinton and 

 Tompkins and Sir William Johnson, translated 

 important Arabic and Persian works, and saw 

 the library increase from 30,000 to 135,000 

 volumes during his connection with it. He 

 received the degree of LL. D. from Columbia 

 College in 1873. 



Hope, James Barron, an American journalist, 

 born in Norfolk, Ya., March 23, 1827; died in 

 Norfolk, Va., Sept. 15, 1887. He was a grand- 

 son of Commodore James Barron and a nephew 

 of Commodore Samuel Barron, and was edu- 

 cated for the profession of law, which he fol- 

 lowed for several years, leaving it for a service 

 of three years as secretary to Ms uncle just 

 previous to the civil war. In 1861 he enlisted 

 in the Confederate army, in which he attained 

 the rank of captain. Immediately after the 

 war he became a newspaper editor, and was 

 connected with the Norfolk " Day-Book" and 

 the Norfolk " Virginian," till 1879, when he 

 established the Norfolk "Landmark," which 

 he published and edited until his death. Be- 

 sides his editorial labors, Mr. Hope had made 

 a reputation as a poet. He wrote the ode for 

 the unveiling of the statue of Washington in 

 Richmond, Va., in 1858, and that for the 

 Yorktown Centennial in 1881. A few days 

 before his deatli he finished a poem, written at 

 the request of Gov. Lee, to be read at the lay- 

 ing of the corner-stone of the Robert E. Lee 

 monument in Richmond on Oct. 27, 1887. 



Hovey, Charles M., an American pomologist, 

 born in Cambridge, Mass., in October, 1810 ; 

 died there Sept. 1, 1887. He began his active 

 work in the interest of pomology and flori- 

 culture when but twenty-one years old, and 

 founded the "Horticultural Magazine," of 

 which he was editor for thirty-five years. In 

 1833, by means of hybridization, he secured 

 the seeds from which he afterward raised "the 

 Boston pine" and " Hovey's seedling" straw- 

 berries; in 1835 he began the hybridization 

 of camellias; in 1838 that of Indian azalias; 

 and in 184-5 that of Japanese lilies, for all of 



which he obtained prizes from the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society. He began the 

 collection in 1844 of all kinds of cherry, plum, 

 peach, apple, and pear trees that were attain- 

 able, and in time the whole numbered over 

 1,500 of proved fertility. He was a member 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for 

 fifty-five years, an authority on fruits, flowers, 

 and agriculture generally, and the author of 

 " The Fruits of America" (begun in 1847), the 

 illustrations for which were made from his 

 own sketches. 



Howland, Robert Sonthworth, an American 

 clergyman, born in New York city Nov. 9, 

 1820; died in Morristown, N. J., Feb. 3, 1887. 

 He received a primary education in France, 

 was graduated at St. Paul's College, Long Isl- 

 and, N. Y., in 1840, and took a partial course 

 in the General Theological Seminary of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church, New York city, 

 which he left to assist Bi*hop Kerfoot, of the 

 diocese of Western Pennsylvania, in the organ- 

 ization of St. James College, Maryland. He 

 was employed in this task nearly a year, and 

 then, on being released by the bishop, went 

 abroad, spending a year and a half in travel, 

 much of it in the Holy Land. On his return 

 he resumed his theological studies, and was 

 graduated in 1845. Soon after this he was 

 ordered a deacon and in the following year a 

 priest, and became assistant to the Rev. Dr. 

 Forbes, New York. The congregation of the 

 Church of the Holy Apostles sprang from a 

 Sunday-school held in a private residence, its 

 growth attracted friends by whom a church- 

 edifice was erected in 1847, and Mr. Howland 

 was called to the rectorship. Under his guid- 

 ance during the ensuing twenty years the num- 

 ber of communicants increased from 20 to over 

 400, and the Sunday-school attained a mem- 

 bership of 450 children. In 1868 he was called 

 to the rectorship of the Church of the Heavenly 

 Rest, then being organized. The church edi- 

 fice and the adjoining houses were built under 

 his supervision, and largely from his personal 

 means, as he desired to have the architecture 

 of the latter harmonize with that of the church. 

 The new church was dedicated in 1869, with 

 himself as rector, and the Rev. J. K. Conrad as 

 assistant. A few years ago a stroke of paraly- 

 sis admonished him to withdraw from active 

 pastoral work, and from that time till his sec- 

 ond and fatal attack he sought to recover his 

 strength by travel and recreation. He received 

 the degree of D. D. from Columbia College, 

 New York city, in 1863. 



Hnssey, John, an American life-saver, born in 

 Castle Mnrtha, Ireland, in 1824; died in New 

 York city, June 21, 1887. He emigrated to 

 New York city in 1847, and, after following 

 several humble occupations for three years, 

 became a longshoreman. From 1850 till 

 within a few days of his death he was con- 

 stantly on duty along the water-front of New 

 York city. On April 17, 1852, he saved from 

 drowning Miss Ellen Dooney, whom he after- 



