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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HATLESTAB HUMPHREYS.) 



Hatlestad, Ole J., clergyman, born near Stavanger, 

 Norway, Sept. 30, 1823 ; died in Uecorah, Iowa, Sept. 

 7, 1893. He emigrated to the United States in 1846, 

 and went to Muskego, Wis., where they joined a 

 small settlement of his countrymen. In 1847 he be- 

 came a teacher at Jefterson frame, Wis., and also 

 conducted devotional services on Sunday. In 1850 

 he removed to Racine, where, in company with his 

 brother-in-law, Hon. K. Langland, he published 

 " Nordlyset," the first Norwegian newspaper in this 

 country. He also organized there a Lutheran con- 

 gregation. In 1853 he was called to Leland, 111., and 

 in 1354 was ordained as a minister in the Lutheran 

 Church. lie was President of the Norwegian Augus- 

 tana Synod from 1870 to 1880, when he declined re- 

 election on account of feeble health 5 but in 1888 he 

 was again re-elected, and he served in that capacity 

 until 1890. when the synod was merged in the United 

 Norwegian Lutheran Church in America. In 1887 

 he published a " History of the Norwegian Augustana 

 Synod and the Lutheran Church in America," in the 

 Norwegian language. 



Hay, Charles Augustus, educator, born in York, Pa., 

 Feb. 11, 1821 ; died in Gettysburg, Pa., June 26, 1893. 

 He was graduated at Pennsylvania College, Gettys- 

 burg ; spent two years studying in Germany, and 

 became Professor of Hebrew, German, and New Tes- 

 tament Exegesis in the Gettysburg Theological Semi- 

 nary in 1845. In 1848-'49 he held a pastorate in Han- 

 over, Pa., and in 1850-'65 one in Harrisburg ; and was 

 Professor of Hebrew at Gettysburg from 1865 till his 

 death. He received the degree of D. D. from Penn- 

 sylvania College in 1859. His publications include 

 an individual translation of Luther's *' Commentary 

 on the Sermon on the Mount"; a translation, with 

 Prof. Dr. II. E. Jacobs, of Schmid's " Doctrinal The- 

 ology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church " (Phila- 

 delphia, 1875) ; and " Life of Captain Sees" (Harris- 

 burg, 1867). 



Hodgson, Telfair, clergyman, born in Columbia, Va., 

 March 14, 1840; died in Sewanee, Tenn., Sept. 11, 

 1893. lie was graduated at the College of New Jer- 

 sey in 1859 ; served through the greater part of the 

 civil war as a chaplain in the Confederate army ; was 

 rector of a Protestant Episcopal parish in Keyport, 

 N. J., in 1866-'71 ; professor in the University of Ala- 

 bama in 1871-'73; assistant in Christ Church, Balti- 

 more, in 1873-'74 ; rector of Trinity Church, Ilobpken, 

 in 1874-'78 ; and Vice-Chancellor of the University of 

 the South in 1878-'90. On resigning^ from the Univer- 

 sity he founded the " Sewanee Review " and became 

 its editor. He received the degree of D. D. from the 

 University of the South in 1878, and LL. D. from 

 Hobart College. His service in the University of the 

 South will long be remembered by reason of his gift 

 to it of the Hodgson Library. 



Holley, Sallie. philanthropist, born in Lyons, N. Y., 

 in 1817 ; died in New York city, Jan. 12, 1893. She 

 was the daughter of Myron Holley, a well-known re- 

 former of fifty years ago; spent her early life in 

 Rochester, N. Y. ; and was graduated at Oberlin 

 College in 1839. Soon afterward, in company with 

 an intimate associate. Miss Putnam, she began travel- 

 ing about the country and delivering antislavery 

 lectures. She continued this work till the beginning 

 of the civil war, and after its close she settled in West 

 Virginia and opened a school in Lottsburg for poor 

 colored children. Her first schoolhouse was burned 

 by indignant white citizens, but she bought a tract 

 of land, erected another building, and continued to 

 teach in it till within a few weeks of her death. Miss 

 Holley had written considerably in prose and verse. 

 Her last composition, a sonnet to " A Summer Dawn 

 in Virginia," was typical of the results of her labor in 

 the cause of humanity. 



Hooper, Lucy Hamilton Jones, author, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., Jan. 20, 1835 ; died in Paris, France, 

 Aug. 31, 1893. She began writing verse at an early 

 age, and contributing to " Godey's Lady's Book " ; 

 married Robert M. Hooper in 1854; and since his 

 appointment as United States vice-consul-general 



in Paris, in 1874, had resided in the French capital. 

 In 1864 she was associate editor of " Our Daily Fare," 

 a publication issued in connection with the United 

 States Sanitary Commission Fair in Philadelphia, and 

 published her first collection of poems, "Poems, with 

 Translations from the German." On the establish- 

 ment of " Lippincott's Magazine," in 1868, she be- 

 came its associate editor, and held the post till her 

 first trip to Europe, in 1870. Subsequently settling in 

 Paris, sne became the correspondent of several Ameri- 

 can periodicals, including the Philadelphia " Daily 

 Evening Telegraph," the Baltimore " Gazette," the 

 American issue of the "Art Journal," "Appletons' 

 Journal," and "Lippincott's Magazine." For eight- 

 een years she had never missed a weekly letter in 

 the Philadelphia " Telegraph," and in her lust, 

 written two days before her death, she bade farewell 

 to her American readers, saying that before they read 

 it she would have passed away. She published a sei-- 

 ond collection of " Poems " (1871) ; a translation of 

 Daudet's " Le Nabob " (1879) ; and a novel, " Under 

 the Tricolor" (1880). 



Hosford, Eben Norton, chemist, born in Moscow, Liv- 

 ingston County, N. Y., July 27, 1818 ; died in Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., Jan. 1, 1893. He was graduated at the 

 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1838 ; was Profess- 

 or of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in the Albany 

 Female Academy in 1.840-'44 ; spent two years in 

 Giessen in the study of analytical chemistry and in 

 experimental research in the Liebig laboratory ; and 

 on his return was elected Rumford Professor of Sci- 

 ence applied to the Arts in Harvard College. Soon 

 afterward he submitted to Abbott Lawrence a plan 

 for a department of analytical and applied chemistry, 

 which led to the establishment of the Lawrence Sci- 

 entific School in Cambridge. He remained at Har- 

 vard sixteen years, constantly making experiments, 

 putting new chemical ideas into practical use, and 

 taking out about thirty patents, more than one half 

 on chemical compound's of every -day utility. On re- 

 signing his chair in Harvard he engaged in business 

 as a manufacturing chemist 1 and became wealthy. 

 More than thirty years ago he published an account 

 of the result of many successful experiments for still- 

 ing waves by spreading oil on the surface of the water 

 in recent years had given much time to geographical 

 and arclueological studies : and among other works 

 published a complete lexicon of five Indian languages. 

 He was deeply interested in the cartography of New 

 England, and for many years carried on investiga- 

 tions which resulted in his announcement of the dis- 

 covery of the site and walls of the ancient city of 

 Norumbega, on Charles river, at Watertown, Mass., 

 and the erection of a memorial tower to mark the site 

 of the ancient fort in 1889. In the latter part of his 

 life he did much to promote the prosperity of Welles- 

 ley College, of whose board of visitors he had been 

 president since the organization of the institution, 

 and evidences of his generosity are seen in nearly 

 every department. 



Humphreys, Edward Bupert, educator, born in Eng- 

 land, March 1, 1820 : died in Boston, Mass., March 20, 

 1893. He was graduated at Cambridge University, 

 where he had included medicine among his studies, 

 and when twenty-four years old was appointed di- 

 rector of education of Prince Edward Island. In 

 1848 he resigned, to become headmaster in classics in 

 Merchiston Castle Academy, near Edinburgh, and 

 from 1852 till 1859 was headmaster in ancient lan- 

 guages in the Cheltenham Grammar School. While 

 in Scotland he was elected a fellow of the Educa- 

 tional Institute, and received the degree of LL. D. 

 from King's University and King's College ; and 

 while in Cheltenham was elected President of the 

 College of Preceptors of London. He removed to 

 Boston, Mass., in the early part of the civil war, and 

 spent the remainder of his life there, chiefly engaged 

 in literary work. Besides writings on Masonic sub- 

 jects, he published " Lessons on the Liturgy of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church" (Boston, 1860) ; " Es- 

 says on the Education of Military Officers" (1862); 



