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whom he had grown tired. It was believed at the 

 time of the trial that Mr. Hoffman, before consenting 

 to act as Eobinson's counsel, had made him reveal 

 the actual facts of the murder, and also confess his 

 guilt. Mr. Hoffman's success in defending the client 

 who had confessed his guilt arose from his attacking 

 the credibility of the witnesses with all the eloquence 

 and ability he could command, and the acquittal of 

 the prisoner produced a sensation that is still remem- 

 bered. Eobinson soon disappeared, and his counsel, 

 whose manner of defense had been warmly criticised 

 in the periodicals and by members of the bar, re- 

 moved to California, and settled in San Francisco iir 

 1850. In the following year he was appointed judge 

 of the United States district court for the Northern 

 District of California, and he held the office con- 

 tinuously till his death. 



Hopkins, John. Henry, clergyman, born in Pittsburg, 

 Pa., Oct. 28, 1820 ; died near Hudson, N. Y., Aug. 13, 

 1891. In 1831, when his father became Bishop of 

 Vermont, the family removed to Burlington in that 

 State, and the son was graduated at the University of 

 Vermont in 1839. He was a tutor in the family of 

 Bishop Elliott at Savannah, Ga.,from 1842 to 1844, and 

 in 1850 was graduated at the General Theological 

 Seminary in New York city, and ordained deacon 

 the same year. He founded the " Church Journal " 

 in February, 1853, and continued its editor and pro- 

 prietor till May, 1868. In 1872 he was ordained 

 priest, and he was for four years rector of Trinity 

 Church, Plattsburg, N. Y. In 1876 he became rector 

 of Christ Church, Williamsport, Pa., an office which 

 he filled for eleven years. In 1887 he was elected to 

 the chair of the Evidences of Kevealed Eeligion in the 

 General Theological Seminary. He was the author 

 of many hymns and carols, among them ix very popu- 

 lar one entitled " We Three Kings of Orient are," 

 and many pamphlets and reviews. His latest work 

 was done for the " Church Keview." He published 

 a life of his father (1868) ; " The Canticles noted" 

 (1866) ; " Carols, Hymns, and Songs" (4th ed., 1881): 

 " Poems by the Wayside " (1883). He also edited his 

 father's " The Pope not the Antichrist " (1868) ; " The 

 Collected Works of Milo Mahan, with a Memoir" 

 (3 vols., 1875) ; and Bishop Young's " Great Hymns 

 of the Church "(1887). 



Hopkins, Robert, clergyman, born in Bourbon County, 

 Ky., in April, 1798 ; died in Sewickley, Pa., March 3, 

 1891. He was apprenticed to a cooper when thirteen 

 years old, was soon afterward with his parents driven 

 by the Indians into Ohio, where he was educated ; 

 and in 1825 joined the Pittsburg Conference of the 

 Methodist Ep'iscopal Church. He served as presiding 

 elder for nineteen years; came within one vote of 

 being elected bishop, despite his protests, in 1845; 

 was five times a delegate to the General Conference 

 of the Church; and was familiarly known as "Bish- 

 op " Hopkins. He was a pioneer in American Meth- 

 odism, and his first charge was the Grand Eapids 

 circuit, which was about 200 miles in extent, and re- 

 quired a month to travel it. He preached every day, 

 and received for the first three years of his ministry 

 $63 in cash, a wagon, a scarf, and a pair of socks. 



Horton, Nathaniel Augustus, journalist, born in Salem, 

 Mass., April 16, 1830; died there, Dec. 14, 1891. He 

 was graduated at the English High School, Salem, in 

 1846 ; was apprenticed to the printer's trade in the of- 

 fice of the " Salem Gazette " ; was admitted to part- 

 nership in the publishing firm and became chief 

 editor in 1854; and with his son, William A. Horton, 

 formed the firm of N. A. Horton & Son in 1888. He 

 was originally a Whig, and on the organization of the 

 Republican party he espoused its mission and was 

 faithful to it till death. In 1861-'62 he was a mem- 

 ber of the Salem Common Council ; in 1860, 1879, and 

 1880 of the State House v of Representatives; and in 

 1881-'82 of the State Semite. He was also a delegate 

 to the National Kepublican Convention in 1880. Mr. 

 Horton was a founder and for two years President of 

 the Massachusetts Press Association, an original and 

 life trustee of the Salem Public Library, president 



for many years of the Essex Conference of Liberal 

 Christian Churches, and a member of the Essex In- 

 stitute and the Essex Agricultural Society. 



Houghton, George Washington Wright, poet, born in 

 Cambridge, Mass., Aug. lii, 1850; died in Yonkers, 

 N. Y., April 1, 1891. He was educated at the Cam- 

 bridge High School and the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, and from 1869 till his death was edi- 

 tor of " The Hub," a New York journal devoted to 

 the carriage-making interests. He was a frequent 

 contributor to periodicals, and published " The Le- 

 gend of St. Qlafs Kirk" (Boston, 1881); "Niagara 

 and other Poems " (1883) ; and, under the pen-name 

 of Chauncey Thomas, a story called " The Crystal 

 Button, or Adventures of Paul Prognosis in the Fortv- 

 ninth Century" (1891). 



Houk, Leonidas Campbell, lawyer, born in Sevier 

 County, Tenn., June 8, 1836; died in Knoxville, 

 Tenn., May 25, 1891. He had less than three months' 

 schooling, and not only educated himself, but read 

 law for the prescribed term while working at the 

 cabinet-maker's trade. He was admitted to the bar 

 when twenty -three years old, practiced with success 

 till the opening of the civil war, was a delegate to the 

 Loyal East Tennessee Convention early in 1861, and 

 in August following entered the national army as a 

 private. The same year he was promoted to lieuten- 

 ant in the 1st Tenne_ssee Infantry, and in February, 

 1862, he was commissioned colonel of the 3d Tennes- 

 see Infantry. In April, 1863, he was compelled by 

 failing health to resign, and was then connected with 

 the loyal press till July, 1864. In 1864 he was a 

 candidate for presidential elector on the Eepublican 

 ticket; in 1865 was a member of the State conven- 

 tion that amended the Constitution and provided for 

 the reorganization of the State government ; in March, 

 1865, he was elected judge of the 17th Judicial Cir- 

 cuit of Tennessee, and he held the office for four 

 years; and then settled in Knoxville and resumed 

 his law practice. Subsequently he held an office 

 under the Southern Claims Commission. In 1868 he 

 was a delegate to the National Eepublican Conven- 

 tion, and in 1872 he was presidential elector-at-large. 

 In the latter year, also, he was elected to the Legis- 

 lature, and was defeated for Speaker by a single vote. 

 He was a presidential elector in 1876, and delegate- 

 at-large to the National Republican Conventions of 

 1880, 1884, and 1888. In 1878, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1886, 

 1888, and 1890 he was elected to Congress from the 

 2d Tennessee District as a Eepublican, and in his 

 last term he was a member of the committees on Elec- 

 tions, on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi 

 Eiver, and on Militia. Judge Houk was the last sur- 

 vivor of a remarkable quartet of public men in Ten- 

 nessee, Horace Maynard, William G. Brownlow, and 

 Andrew Johnson having been associated with him in 

 upholding the cause of the Union in that State at a 

 time when loyalty called for the exercise of extreme 

 prudence, and required the most unflinching moral 

 and physical courage. He died from poison, acci- 

 dentally self-administered. 



Houseman, Julius, merchant, born in Leckendorf, 

 Bavaria, Germany, Dec. 8, 1832; died in Grand 

 Eapids, Mich., Feb. 8, 1891. He received a common- 

 school and commercial education; removed to Grand 

 Eapids, Mich., in 1851, and engaged in mercantile 

 business and the manufacture of lumber. He_ was a 

 city alderman in 1861-'70 ; member of the Legislature 

 in 1871-'72 ; Mayor of Grand Eapids in 1873-'75 ; was 

 defeated as Democratic candidate for Lieutenant- 

 Governor of Michigan in 1876; and was member of 

 Congress from the 5th Michigan District in 1883-'85. 

 While in Congress he served on the Committee on 

 Eivers and Harbors. 



Hovey, Alvin Peterson, lawyer, born in Mt. Vernon, 

 Ind., Sept. 6, 1821 ; died in Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 

 23, 1891. He was apprenticed to the brick-maker's 

 trade, and so improved his meager opportunities for 

 study that when nineteen years old he began teach- 

 ing, and when twenty-one was admitted to the bar. 

 He was commissioned 1st lieutenant in the army for 



