OIJITTAKIKS, AMI-UK AN. (IllLL-HoKKMA.v.) 



h iiiinil l.-i-> on I'm ilegl - .iii.l I-.!. . M..II-. and 



mi Pen-inns. Ho wan a monibor of the Mat- < 

 tutional Convention iii 1*77, uinl then retired. 



Hill, Thomaa, clciv\ man, ex President ol Harvard 

 l'ni\er-.in, li.n-ii in' New Krmisu irk, N. .1., .Ian. 7, 

 Isls; .lii-i'l in Walthum. U ^, l v .'l. Hi: was 



t' English parentage, i""' "as l-ft an orphan when 

 "iniir. \\ln-ii he was twel\ e \ ears old lie win* 

 apprenticed to a printer for three years, lie then at- 

 tended Lower Dublin Academy , near I'liiladrlpli ill, tor 

 i>!i- \>-ar, and was nc\t apprenticed t<> a New linnis- 

 wick apothecary, lie was graduated at Harvard ill 

 .ml at the divinity school in 1M.>. The Mime year 

 inn- ]>a.st<>r ot a I'liitarian ehureh in \\altliam, 

 \vlii-re lie remained fourteen S ears. In Is.V.I lie fol- 

 lowed Horace Mann as President of Antioch Colli-ire, 

 Ohio, and was at tin- same time in charge of the 

 ( 'hmvh i'l the Redeemer, at ( "meiimaii. In lsr,-_> he was 



made President of Harvard, but lie resiirmd in 1868 



on account. <>!' tailniir health and removed to \Val- 

 tham. In Is71 he aeeoni[>anied I.ouis Agassi/. <>n his 

 urvey expedition to South America, and on his 

 return accepted the charirc <it' the I'nitarian ehureh 

 ut Portland, Me., whieli 1m Jit-Id until his death. In 

 thine 1, Isvl, he delivered a course ot lectures at 

 Meailville, 1'a., Theological School, and \vhile then- 

 he contracted the disease that resulted in his death. 



While President of Uarranl he advocated the elect- 

 ive s\stem, the first steps toward adoption of which 

 were made at that time. Ho was a noted mathema- 

 tician, and aiiMHiir several mathematical machines 

 that In- invented is the occultator, by which occulta- 

 tions visililc west of the Mississippi were calculated 

 for publication in tho American Nautical Almanac 

 ral vt-ars. From Harvard he received the de- 

 gree of 1). f). in LSIKI, and from Yule LL. D. in 1863. 

 His talents were many and varied, and, in the opinion 

 of those wlio knew him intimately for many years, 

 lie was capable of attaining almost 'the highest excel- 

 lence in tne exercise of any one that inigJit have 

 claimed the full employment of his powers. He de- 

 livered Phi Beta Kappa addresses at Harvard on 

 ' Liberal Education," 1858, and at Antiocli on "The 

 Opportunities of Life," 1860. He edited Eberty's 

 The Stars and the Earth," 1849 (new editions, Boston, 

 1874 and 1882). He was author of u CJiristmas, and 

 Poems on Slavery" (1843); "Arithmetic" (1845); 

 "(icometrv and Faith" (New York, 1849; revised 

 editions, 1874, Boston, 18852); "Curvature" (1850) : 

 " First Lessons in Geometry" (1854) ; "Second Book 

 in (icometry : (Isc.-j); u Jesus the Interpreter of Na- 

 ture and other Sermons" (1859) j "Statement of 



' In the Woods and Kl sew here," verse (Boston, 1888J. 



Hitchcock, Robert 8., educator, born in Newport, R. I., 

 in 1818; died in llollidaysburg, Pa., April 6, 1891. 

 lie was irratluatcd at Aniherst College in 1848, 

 studied at Andover TJieological Seminary, and after 

 being ordained lield pastorates in New Bedford and 

 Boston, Mass. On retiring from his Boston charge 

 he applied himself to educational work. He con- 

 ducted tor some time a classical seliool in Baltimore, 



served during the civil war as chaplain ot the St ml 



Maryland Ucgimcnt, and immediately after the war 

 opened a classical school for boys in Lexington, Ky. 

 In Js77 he was elected Professor of Latin in Center 

 College, Danville, Ky., and in ISM l,,.,. a mc principal 

 ot' the EEollidayabora Female Seminary and a mem- 

 ber of the Huntingdon Presh\ tcry, with both of 

 which he remained till his dcatii. 



Hobbs, Alfred Charles, manufacturer, born in < 'harles- 

 towii, Mass.. Oct. 7. IM-J; died in 1 1 rid gcport, Conn,, 

 Nov. r,. ISHL He passed his early boyhood on a 

 farm; undertook in turn to become a clerk, wood 

 carver, carriage-maker, sailor, tin-plate worker for 

 coach and harness trimmings, and irlass cutter; antl 

 about IMn removed to New York city and opened a 

 store for the sale of Itx-ks and tire-proof safes. Dur- 

 ing the eight years of his work at v'luss cutting he 



. r kti'ilm, mid [ nti ntd 



method of tuM<-llin/ the kllolm ill tl,. 



which they were attached to the }< k-. I: 

 that the bank and \ault liH-kwol the duv w i. 

 ive, he designed a 1'x-k which lie claime.l i.,uld u.,t 

 be picked, and, to show at one.- tin- ii. , < .-jf, : 

 the utility o| it. he made him-i It u liii' .-. r 

 lor opening vaults and Mile, and \i.-ii-d th- 

 banks and publii- oilici - to UStfodOM hk Own looL, 

 His first call was at a bank in Suunfoni. Conn., whom 



ollici/rs pniini.M-d to buy <,||e of liin liK-kw if I 

 cecdcd III opening the' lock* on the .lit>iid- of tin- 

 bank door and those on the vault d<Hir in two hour*. 

 He opened the out.-ide d'K.r and three lo<-kn "ii tin- 

 vault iloor in tw,nt\ thru- minutex, and tujlil Inn 

 first lock. This I. at lie shrewdly advertise.l, and 

 from that time, January, 1-17, till'ls'd. he i.|x-nt liin 

 whole time in visiting banks and proving the in- 

 security of their locks. In IM 1 * a Mr. W.x.dbrid'.'i-. 

 of Perth Amboy. N. J., published an offer of > 

 any one who would open liis lK-k, then on on,- ..t 

 Herriiiir's safes in the reading-room of the Mei 

 Exeliange, New York city, witliin thirty da\ -. Mr. 

 Hobbs came directly to New York, be^un examining 

 tlie lock at '.> o'clock in the evening, mastered its 

 secret at 1 !.::<> o'clock, rei|iiested Mr. \\oodbiidge to 

 be present with witnesses the next morning at 10 

 o'clock, and at tJie time appointed inserted a wire and 

 opened tlie lock immediately. In April, lx">l,hc went 

 to London, in answer to a published oiler of ^>o 

 guineas to any one wJio could open without a key u 

 wonderful lock made by Brahma. In the piv.- n.-, 

 of a large committee Mr. Hobbs spent tityy-one Jiours 

 in working on tJie lock, and then, with a quick move- 

 ment of one of his tools, tlirew the bolts and opened 

 the door. Later he examined a lock made for a safe 

 in the banking office of Brown, Shipley A: < '>., w hicJi 

 it was believed could only be opened by a person 

 knowing the special combination of letters indicated 

 on a dial on the door. Mr. Hobbs desired to try it, 

 and after the door had been locked, placed himself 

 with his back to tJic dial, and with one hand behind 

 him unlocked the safe while Mr. Brown was explain- 

 ing why it could not be done. His success in open- 

 ing locks in London gave him such tame that he 

 found it advantageous to open a factory for the manu- 

 facture of liis own locks there, and'he soon com- 

 manded a handsome business. He remained in 

 London till 1860, tlien took charge of the Howe Sew- 

 ing Machine Works in Bridgeport, mid in 1*66 be- 

 came superintendent of the Union Metallic Cartridge 

 Works in the same city, with wliieJi he remained 

 until Jiis death. Mr. Ilobbs received the Tclford 

 medal awarded by the English Institute of Civil En- 

 gineers for his successful liK-k-pickiiiir in London, 

 and was elected a member of the Society of A Its. 

 Hodge, Caspar Wistar, educator, born in Princeton, 



N. J., Feb. _'!, Is.-ld; died there, Sept. L'7. IM'l. He 



was a son of the late Kc\. l>r. Charles Hodge; was 

 graduated at Princeton in IMs. and at the Theologi- 

 cal Seminary in 1853; and was a tutor in the colK-ire 

 in 1850-'51, and a preparatory teacher in Princeton 



1860 he was appointed Pi 

 of New Testament Literature ami Biblical 11 reek in 

 Princeton Theological Seminary, and he held tlie 

 chair till his death. He had prepared for use in Jiis 

 class-room, brt not for publication, valuable courses 

 of lectures on (iospel History " and " Ai-'stoUc His- 

 tory," and commentaries on BooUUM and .!osian. 

 besides other works of ii like character. 



Hoffinan, Ogden, jurist, born in New York oil 

 !'.. 1 >_'_'; died in' San Francisco. Cal.. Aiiir. '.'. ls;l. 

 He was irraduatcd at Columbia College, and admitted 

 to the bar, and became well known for his eloquence 

 and success as a criminal lawyer. While pm 

 in New York city, his most famous ca.- 

 tense of a NouiiiT society man named Robinaon, nw 

 the DBUrder of the pretty but trail ElU-n Jeu 



