598 



\M! 



rector struggled hard for the i 



h" means be lm<l aco^u 



organi/ing it. ami eiumging in literary ami other 

 pursuits to aid it. The modest building wa 

 Urged from tiim- to time. th, 



ish w . d and juick.-ii. .1. :ml at tin- time 



,.f th. :. -nth th- I toe church was 



free from debt ami there was an endowment <>f 

 $IIMMNN>. The parish has H free library 

 Chn- law for the instruction 



gtrb*. S Guild of working^ 



ed women. an altar *< 

 I 1 Guild. Matcri help- 



n ami their children, Missionary Aid 

 schools, and a children's sew- 

 hr. Houghtoii introduoed into 



:. church the Community 

 tin- Baptist, Whiofa undertakes tli. 

 f fall-n wiimt'ti. and was warden of tin- 

 that has carried on work at its Midnight Mi ion 

 and St. M Ix>"g 



before the Church of the Transfiguration attaitird 

 a world-wide celebrity and a new name its modest 

 r had made himself the friend of i-v, -\ -yliody. 

 He labored on the one spot for nearly fifty years, 

 refusing all jreferiin-nts of his church and tempt- 

 ing calls to service elsewhere. In l>ec.-mber. 

 when George Holland, the actor, died. a r..mr 

 of the old Wallack company. headed by Joseph 

 JefTcr-'u. waited on the rector of a fashionable 

 church on Fifth Avenue with the request that he 

 : rondiiet the funeral services. The rector 

 .ed. and referred Mr. Jefferson to "the little 

 church around the corner." Dr. Houston placed 



If and his church at the committee's di-: 

 and the body of Holland was received into the 

 u for Christian rites. Within a few davs the 

 detail- of the incident had spread khioagn the 

 country and prompted the song that was sung on 

 two con:. Qod bless the Little Church 



around the Corner." Since then the funerals of 

 actors who died in New York have generally been 

 held in this church. 



MOM \. ( h.irlex Kdward. lawyer, horn in Thet- 

 Orange Conn' prfl -j;. 1^.>7: died 



.- .. I. c.. Nov. 17. 1807. H.- WM 

 graduated at Dartmouth c..i!.-_-. in lvv.. and after 

 a service as principal of the high school in Frani- 

 inghatn, Mass., he removed to I'eoria. 111., and was 

 appointed principal of the boys' In-h school th* -n . 

 In 1856 he was appointed suiNTintemlcnt of the 

 newly organized public-school system <>f I'eoria, 

 and the same year was president -f th. State T. a ti- 

 ers' Association. .:. mi/at ion of the Illinois 



Normal I'niversity was largely due to his elL.rt-. 

 and he was its president : ; till tin U-gin- 



:..- civil war. In August, 1801, he was 

 commissioned colonel of the &M Illinois Infantry. 

 composed chieflv of college stud, i -;3 he 



was promoted brigadier general : and for gallantry 

 at Arkansas Post, Jan. 11. IH;:{. h- was hre vetted 



major general of volunteers. He served in the 

 operations around Vi -ksburg and contracted an ill- 

 ness that forced him top iv, 1863. S 



1869 he had practiced law in Washington. 



HOWI-. Ml. ion I'ariv ...idi.-r. U-rn in Stan.li-h. 

 i:!. IIH : die<l in Cambridge, Mass.. 

 A as gra<luate<l at the l'nit.-d 8 

 Military Academy and entered the army as 2d 

 lieutenant in the' 4th Artillery in 1841; was pro- 

 moted 1st lieutenant, June IH. 1846: captain. March 

 2,1855; major, Auc. 11. 1863; lieutenant colonel, 

 2d Artillery, April 10. is;;,; ,-,! ,.,,lonel. April H>. 

 1882; and was retired June 30 following. In the 

 volunteer service he was commissioned a brigadier 

 ral. June 11, 1862; brevet ted major general, 

 July 13, 1865; and mustered out of the : 



.Ian. 1". MMi. Du! ioe he was 



i. for nn-ritorioi,- 



duct intl. utreras and Churubusoo; 



major. July 1. istl'J. for Malvern Hill: lieiitenani 



colonel. M MI Height-; colonel. 



; fbllowinjl :-|>ahaniio. . ; and 



.d and major general. I'nited "~ 



gallant mid meritoriou- 



: i Profeei 



Mall, 



dm\ anil as Instructor at th.- 

 Artillery i? 



the ln-^innini: "| th.' 



artillery in the 



West Virginia in l^i'.l : oni-n.-mdeil a 



brigade of li-ht artillery in th 



MpaiL'tl of 1^'i'J: tool, 



in the l.allh- 'u Hill. Maim a>. South 



Mountain. Ant i. -tan i;inc-ll..r 



ville. (iettxslnn.'. ami liappaliallliock .station; and 

 was on dutv in Washington a> chief of artilli-rx in 



' 



Iliibhanl. Gardiner (.I.CIM philanthr 

 ln.ni in Iloston. Mas>.. ; died in 



iiiu'ton citv. Dei-, u. is!;. H. irata s..n ..f 



Ju>tice Samuel HuMiard and hi^ wife, .Mary Anne 

 <. daughter of ( iardim-r ( ireeiie. said to hav.- 



lieeli one of the three Wealthiest llien ill the I'nileil 



unt: Huhoard was graduated at : 

 mouth in 1M1. studied at Harvard law .scl ..... 1. 

 and in 1*4:1 was admitted to the liar ami I 

 practice in association with Benjamin U. Curii-. 

 <>n the appointment of Mr. Curtis to the United 



< 'oiirt Mr. Huliliard pra 



-oine y.-ars alone, but later lornifd a partner-iiip 

 with John M. I'inkerton. In 170 failing heallh 

 led him to abandon his profession, and in Iffl 

 removed to Washington, which thereafter \va- hi> 

 home. Meanwhile he had become active in the 

 affairs of Cambridge, which continued to be hi^ 

 summer residence, and he was president of a 

 railway connecting Cambridge with Boston, which 

 was the fir-t horse-car railway outside of N<-\\ York 

 city. About 1SIJO his daughter .Mabel I,,M her 

 hearing in con-'<|iience .f seven- illm-s-. and Mr. 

 Hubbard was led to study the means of pn-erving 

 h.-r -peech, for he was advised that she won'.-. 

 ..me dumb in three months He became satisfied 

 that deaf persons could be taught to speak, and for 

 that purport he opened u school, which he main- 

 tained at his own c\pen-e. The -ue'-os of the un- 

 dertaking and hi^ persistent urging t he matter upon 

 public attention resulted in the e-tabli^hii. 

 Clarke School for the Ii.af and Dumb, in North- 

 ampton. Mass., of which he WM a tru-lei- and ; 

 dent of the board from it- inception till his death. 



moval to Washing!. 

 practiced law, but in 1ST* he turned his attention 



tO the development of the telephone invented I 



son-in-law, Alexander (). Bell, and became th- 



lent of the American Bell Telephone Com- 



pany. It Was he wl, /"d the value of t he 



Berliner crude battery transmitter and pun-ha-.-d it 

 before any separate company could be f.-ni. 

 control it.' He went to Kuropc ami organi/c-: 

 eral telephone companies, among them the Inter- 

 national and the oriental. Valuable concr 

 were granted to him by t he Russian (iovernment. and 

 he repaid the empire by giving it one of the 

 telephone systems in Knmpe. In 187< 

 pointed a sfx-cial commissioner to inve-i igate t h<- 

 subject of railway mail transportation, and I 

 cam< advocate of Government ownership 



;-hs. Mr. Hubbard was a commi--ioner 

 from Massachus-tts to the World's Fair held in 

 Philadelphia in 1876, and was chief of the Jury of 

 Awards at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, 



