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graduated at the University of Virginia in 1850, 

 and in 1853 was admitted to the bar. Afterward 

 he was district attorney for Charlotte County. 

 In the civil war he served in the Confederate 

 army. He settled in Richmond in 1873. He 

 served four terms in the Virginia Legislature, and 

 was president of the Virginia Historical Society. 

 He filled the same office in the American His- 

 torical Association in 1891, and was a trustee of 

 the Peabody Educational fund. In 1876 he de- 

 livered the oration at the Philadelphia Centen- 

 nial; and at the centennial of the laying of the 

 corner stone of the Capitol at Washington, in 1893, 

 he was the orator of the day. In 1898 he was a 

 delegate to the Congress of History at The Hague. 

 He devoted much time and labor to historical re- 

 searches, and published The Life, Correspond- 

 ence, and Speeches of Patrick Henry (his paternal 

 grandfather) ; Patrick Henry, the Earliest Advo- 

 cate of American Independence; The Rescue of 

 Captain Smith by Pocahontas; The Truth Con- 

 cerning George Rogers Clark ; A Defense of Cap- 

 tain John Smith's Narrative; Sir Walter Raleigh; 

 and many historical papers and addresses. 



Heywood, Joseph Converse, author, born in 

 Cumberland County, Maine, in 1834; died in Rome, 

 Italy, Dec. 19, 1900. He was graduated at Har- 

 vard University in 1855, and at the law school 

 three years later. After practicing law in New 

 York city ten years, he devoted himself for a 

 time to dramatic criticism and general literary 

 work, but in 1878 settled in Rome, which contin- 

 ued to be his home henceforth, the famous Tor- 

 Ionia palace there having come into his possession. 

 His writings comprise Salome, the Daughter of 

 Herodias (1862), reissued in 1867 as Herodias, to- 

 gether with two other dramatic poems, Antonius 

 and Salome; How Will it End? A Romance (1872) ; 

 How they Strike One, these Authors (1877); 

 Sfor/a: A Tragedy in Verse (1885) ; Lady Merton: 

 A Tale of the Eternal City (1891) ; and 11 Nano 

 Italiano: A Libretto (1892). 



Hill, Nathaniel Peter, metallurgist, born near 

 Montgomery, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1832; died in Denver, 

 Col., May 22, 1900. From the age of sixteen he 

 superintended his father's farm for five years. In 

 1853 he entered Brown University as a student of 

 applied chemistry suitable for agriculture, and he 

 was graduated there in 1856. He remained at 

 Brown as instructor in chemistry, and in 1859 was 

 made professor, which chair he occupied till 1864. 

 In that year he was sent by Boston capitalists to 

 investigate the mineral characteristics of Gilpin 

 County, Colorado; he became interested in the 

 processes of extracting gold and silver from the 

 unworkable ores, and after several trips abroad 

 he organized the Boston and Colorado Smelting 

 Company, and was made its general manager. 

 With an associate (a Mr. Pierce, from Wales), 

 he invented a process of extracting gold and silver 

 from matte which was really the foundation of 

 the great mining industries of Colorado, as previ- 

 ous to this invention all matte had been sent to 

 England. The headquarters of the company were 

 at Black Hawk, Col. In 1871 he was elected 

 mayor of Black Hawk, and in 1872-73 was mem- 

 ber of the Territorial Council. In 1879 he was 

 elected United States Senator. He was an advo- 

 cate of the free coinage of silver, and spoke fre- 

 quently on the subject. In 1891 he was one of the 

 three members of the International Monetary Com- 

 mission, and also served for a time as regent of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. In business life he had 

 been president of the United Oil Company, Colo- 

 i ado Smelting and Mining Company, and Demargo 

 Land Company, and proprietor of the Denver Re- 

 publican. 



Hinckley, Francis Edward, civil engineer, 

 born in Elmira, N. Y., March 14, 1834; died in 

 West New Brighton, X. Y., Sept. 6, 1900. He 

 was graduated at Knox College, and went to 

 Chicago in 1870, where he was engaged in bridge 

 building and railroad undertakings from 1875 till 

 1890. Later he became president of the Chicago, 

 Pekin and Southwestern Railroad, and acquired 

 large interests in other railroads. He was con- 

 nected with the Niagara Power and Development 

 Company, and a projector of a large steel company 

 in Canada. He was an incorporator of Chicago 

 University, and a generous contributor to it. 



Hinsdale, Burke Aaron, educator, born in 

 Wadsworth, Ohio, March 31, 1837; died in At- 

 lanta, Ga., Nov. 29, 1900. At the age of sixteen 

 he entered Hiram College, where he met James 

 A. Garfield, who was five and a half years his 

 senior, and they became fast friends. Prof. Hins- 

 dale began teaching in the public schools; later 

 he was principal in an academy, and in 1870 he 

 was made president of Hiram College. His presi- 

 dency of this institution covered a period of 

 twelve years. During this time he published his 

 first books: The Genuineness and Authenticity 

 of the Gospels (1872); The Jewish-Christian 

 Church (1878); Ecclesiastical Tradition (1879). 

 Some of his other papers written at this time were 

 afterward gathered into a volume entitled 

 Schools and Studies. From 1882 till 1886 he \\;i- 

 superintendent of the Cleveland public schools, 

 and in 1888 he was appointed to the chair of the 

 Science and Art of Teaching in the University of 

 Michigan. His other books are President Gar- 

 field and Education; The Old Northwest; The 

 American Government; How to Study and Teach 

 History; Teaching the Language Arts; Jesus as 

 a Teacher; and Studies in Education. He edited 

 The Works of James A. Garfield (2 vols.). 



Hitchcock, Hiram, hotel keeper, born in 

 Claremont, N. H., Aug. 27, 1832; died in New 

 York city, Dec. 30, 1900. He prepared for Dart- 

 mouth College at the Black River Academy, Lud- 

 low, Vt., but instead of entering college became 

 an instructor. In 1853, on account of failing 

 health, he went to New Orleans, where he entered 

 the office of the St. Charles Hotel. In 1859, with 

 Paran Stevens and Alfred B. Darling, he opened 

 the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. In 1866 he 

 retired from business and traveled extensively in 

 Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, Greeqe, and Italy. In 1871 

 he returned to Hanover, N. H., and in the follow- 

 ing year announced to the world the famous dis- 

 coveries of Gen. di Cesnola in Cyprus. He was 

 connected with many learned and scientific bodies, 

 and always took a deep interest in the explora- 

 tions in Egypt, Palestine, and South America, 

 and in the American School in Athens. In 1877 

 he represented Hanover in the New Hampshire 

 Legislature. In 1879 he resumed his connection 

 with the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He was trustee and 

 director in many educational and financial insti- 

 tutions, and was president of the company that 

 built the Madison Square Garden in New York. 

 He was president of the Nicaragua Canal Associa- 

 tion that obtained the concessions from Nica- 

 ragua and Costa Rica, and on the organization of 

 the Maritime Canal Company, in May, 1889, he 

 was elected its president. 



Hoadly, Charles Jeremy, librarian, born in 

 Hartford, Conn., Aug. 1, 1828; died there, Oct. 21, 

 1900. He was graduated at Trinity College in 

 1851, and was admitted to the bar in 1855, but 

 never practiced law. In 1854 he 'was appointed 

 librarian of Trinity College, and in April, 1855, 

 was made State Librarian of Connecticut, which 

 office he held until his death. He was the editor 





