OHITI'.MMKS. AMKKK AN. ,11.,.-.. KIN. ll..w M.I..I 



551 



.- miiii<li-'l tli' 1 steamers " Endeavor " ami "(led 



I tin- I niti-.l States Coast Survey; wa> e\ec 

 iffieer of the "Supply " at the Pans Exiraition 

 in IS'x lighthouse inspector in 18H8-'90; ami during 

 (fa summer of 1891 was mi duty in I'M rii. 



Hodgkins, Thomas G., philanthropist, born in England 

 in IM'-J ; died in Sctauket, I .mi-,' Island, N. Y., Doc. 1. 

 Mi- came to the Unitod States in IN;;;;, engaged 

 to the manufacture of candy in New Yrk city, and 

 : from business wealthy in iN.V.i. IK- hail since 

 lived in strict retirement on a farm at Sctauket, 

 -pending his time studying science. In lv.il h<- made 

 a cash irift <>f $200,000 to the Smithsonian Institution, 

 half "I" which was to be used in tho general mainte- 

 nance nf the institution, and tho other half for the dif- 

 fusion of more exact knowledge in regard to the 

 properties of air and its relation to tho physical and 

 intellectual welfare of mankind. In October, 1892, he 

 gave $100,000 to tho Royal Institute of Great Britain, 

 to promote scientific research. At other times he 

 had established a free library in Setauket. given 

 $100,000 each to the American Society for the Pre- 

 vention of Cruelty to Animals and the Society for the 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and personally 

 disposed of more than $500,000 in cash. His will 

 originally irave all his personal estate to the United 

 States Cm eminent, but a codicil gave it to tho 

 Smithsonian Institution. For many years it was hia 

 habit to give to the poor all the products of his large 

 farm, excepting the little he required for himself. 



Hoey, John, expressman, born in Drogheda, Ireland, 

 in Is-Ji; died in New York city, Nov. 14, 1892. He 

 tended his father's sheep till ten years old, then ran 

 away from home and came to the United States, and 

 for some years was a newsboy in New York city. He 

 made- many friends while selling papers in the office 

 of the express company then recently established by 

 Alvin Adams, and invested his savings in a boat, and 

 u>ed to row out to incoming steamers and sell his 

 papers before the newsboys on shore had a chance to 

 get at the passengers. Mr. Adams, noting the boy's 

 enterprise, engaged him at a salary of $1.50 a week 

 as porter in the New York office. The success of the 

 extension of tho line to Boston led Mr. Adams to ex- 

 tend it further, first to Philadelphia, and then to 

 Washington, and this suggested to young Hoey to 

 establish a branch line on his own account extending 

 from Washington to various cities in the South, 

 which became known as Hoey's Charleston Express. 

 In 1854 the Adams, Hamden, Western, and Hoey's 

 express lines were consolidated, and Mr. Hoey was 

 made treneral manager of the company. He held his 

 oilier for thirty-four years continuously, and on tho 

 death of William II. biusmoiv, President of the. Ad- 

 ams Hxpress Company, in 1888, Mr. Hoey was unani- 

 mously elected his successor. In the autumn of 1891 

 Mr. Hoey retired from tho presidency of the company 

 in consequence of charges of official misconduct. 

 The investigation conducted by the company resulted 

 in Mr. llo.-y's turning over to tho company money 

 and securities to the extent of about $500,000. Ho 

 maintained during the investiiration, in all tho pro- 

 rccdings in court, and otherwise till his death, that 

 in- had been Crossly misrepresented in the matter of 

 the transactions lending to his withdrawal from tho 

 presidency, and claimed that his conduct had been 

 entirely proper and in the interest of the company. 

 Mr. Hoey had established an elegant estate, called 

 Hollywood Park, near Long Branch, which was al- 

 ways open to the public. 



Holden, William ^orth, journalist, born in Raleigh, 

 N. ('., in IMs; died tlu'-iv. .March 1. 18!f_'. He was 

 apprenticed to the printing trade, and at an early age 

 established the ' IJaleiirh Standard.' 1 which for 

 twenty-five years was one of the most influential 

 newspapers in the South. Prior to the civil war he 

 advocated secession, and after the fate of the Confed- 

 eracy became evident he urircd the acceptance of 

 peace on any terms. A Georgia regiment mobbed 

 and sacked hisotlice and burned him in elliiry, when 

 he ik-d to the residence of Gov. Vance. In 1865 he 



was appointed by Pn-sident Johnson provisional Gov- 

 ernor of North Carolina, and in 1868 he was elect- 

 ed to the oilier as Republican Hccoiii-truction candi- 

 date by a large majority. During his latter term he 

 declared several count .u- of in-m 



because of Kuklux outrages. He raised a consider- 

 able military force to suppress the disturbances, and 

 his life was frequently threatened in consequence. 

 In 1*71 he was impeached by the Legislature for high 

 crimes and misdemeanors, and alter trial was r- 

 from oiliee and forew-r debarred from holding any 

 office in the State, lie then removed to Washington, 

 and became editor of the "Chronicle." While there 

 he was offered by President ' Grant tue mission to 

 Peru, but declined it, and he afterward held the office 

 of postmaster at Raleigh. He made ineffectual at- 

 tempts to have the Legislature remove his political 

 disabilities. 



Holly, Henry Hudson, architect, born in New York 

 city in 1834; died there. Sept 5, 1892. He studied 

 architecture at home and in England, and was a mem- 

 ber of the American Institute of Architects almost 

 from its foundation, in 1857. His designs were prin- 

 cipally confined to churches and country houses. He. 

 designed the buildings of the Virginia Military In- 

 stitute, and those of the University of the South at 

 Sewanee, Tenn. He published " Country Seats, con- 

 taining Designs for Cottages, Villas, and Mansions 

 (New York, 1864); Church Architecture (Hartford, 

 1872) ; Modern Dwellings in Town and Country " 

 (New York, 1878). 



Hope, James, painter, born near Abbotsford. Scot- 

 land. Nov. 29, 1818; died in Watkins, N. Y., Oct 20, 

 1892. He removed to Canada in youth, was brought 

 up on a farm there, subsequently went to Fair Haven, 

 Vt, and became a student and tutor in Castleton 

 Seminary. In 1848 he began studying painting, and 

 in 1853 opened a studio in New York city. He was 

 elected an associate of the National Academy of De- 

 sign in 1865, and since 1872 had lived in Watkins. 

 His paintings include: " Army of the Potomac," 

 " Rainbow Falls," " The Gem of the Forest," and 

 " The Forest Glen." 



Hopkins, Stephen T., merchant, born in New York 

 city, March 25, 1849; died near Atlantic City, N. J., 

 1892. Ho was a descendant of Stephen Hopkins, of 

 Rhode Island, one of the signers of the Declaration 

 of Independence, was educated at the Anthon Gram- 

 mar School, and became on iron merchant In 1885- 

 '86 he was a member of the Legislature of New York 

 and chairman of the committees on Appropriations 

 and on Banks ; and in 1886 he was elected to Congress 

 as a Republican from the 17th New York District, 

 where he served on the committees on Manufactures 

 and on Indian Depredation Claims. In the early part 

 of his official life he was very painstaking and 

 laborious, but toward the close he became the victim 

 of an ungovernable appetite. Shortly before his 

 death he Became a voluntary patient at the Keeley 

 Institute at White Plains, N. Y., where his genial 

 manners led his associates to elect him President of 

 the Biehloride-of-Gold Club. Ho was found dead 

 in a ditch near Atlantic City, N. J., on March 3. 



Howell, John Gumming, naval officer, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa,, Nov. 24, 1819; died ut Folkestone, Eng- 

 land, Sept 12, 1892. After studying at Washington 

 College, Pa., he was appointed a' midshipman in the 

 United States navy, June 9, 1836 ; was promoted oassed 

 midshipman, July 1, 1842; master, Feb. 21, 1849"; lieu- 

 tenant, Aug. 2 following; commander, July 16, 1868; 

 captain, July 25, 1866; commodore, Jan. 29, 1872; and 

 rear-admiral, April 26, 1877 ; and was retired, Nov. 24, 

 1881. During his naval career he had been OUM 

 ice twenty-four years, three months ; on shore or other 

 duty, eighteen years, one month ; and was unemployed 

 thirteen years, three months. He commanded the 

 steamer ""Tuhnmo," of the Eastern Gulf Blockading 

 Squadron, in 1 s.;-_>-V.S, and the " Neveus," of the North 

 Atlantic Squadron, in 1864-'65 ; was highly commended 

 by Admiral Porter for gallantry in the two attacks on 

 Fort Fisher in 1864-'6 ; was fleet captain and chief 



