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lucational institutions, museums, etc. In 185!' he 

 loved to New York city, where he carried on the 



ineralogical part of his early business till his 

 leath. He brought with him his collection of 

 minerals, which is believed to have been the first 

 imported into the United States. In 1857, at the 

 Crystal Palace Exhibition, he received the competi- 

 tive medal for the best, display of mineral speci- 

 mens and cabinets of minerals for schools. Prof. 

 Herrmann was also an accomplished linguist. 



Herter, Robert Johnson, painter, born in 

 Stuttgart, Germany, in 1874; died in Nesles-la- 

 Vallee, France, April 20, 1898. He was educated in 

 his native city; came to New York in 1888, and, 

 joining the Art Students' League, studied a year 

 witli Kenyon Cox; and continued his art studies in 

 Stuttgart' with Robert Hang, head of the Royal 

 Academy there. In 1892 he again came to New 

 York, where he established a studio, and produced 

 promising genre canvases. Subsequently he opened 

 a studio in Paris. Two days before his death his 

 parents, in New York, received a letter from him 

 saying that his latest painting, a scene in the 

 American civil war, had just been accepted for ex- 

 hibition in the Paris Salon. He was an enthusias- 

 tic worker, and had given evidence of high artistic 

 merit. 



Hieronymo, Mother. See O'BRIEN, VERONICA. 



Hoagland, Cornelius Nevius, physician, born 

 in Xeshanic, Somerset Co., N. J., Nov. 28, 1828; 

 died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 24, 1898. He re- 

 moved with the family to Piqua, Ohio, in 1884 ; was 

 graduated at the medical department of Western 

 Reserve University in 1852 ; served four years as 

 auditor of Miami County: and was surgeon of the 

 71st Ohio Infantry from 1861 till 1866. He took 

 part in important engagements, and was wounded 

 in the battle of Nashville. After the war he en- 

 gaged in business pursuits, removed to Brooklyn in 

 1868, and retired from active business in 1876. In 

 1888 he founded the Hoagland Laboratory with a 

 gift of $150,000. Shortly before his death he gave 

 the laboratory $24,000 ; the Brooklyn Eye and Ear 

 Hospital, $14.000; and the Brooklyn Free Kinder- 

 garten Society, $20,000. One of the 16 kindergar- 

 tens established by the society was named for him 

 and wholly maintained by him. 



Holt, Homer A., jurist, born in Parkersburg, 

 Ya, (now W. Va.), April 27, 1881 ; died in Lewisburg, 

 W. Va.. Jan. 7, 1898. He was the son of a pioneer 

 Methodist missionary in the central part of what is 

 now West Virginia, and was educated at Rector 

 College, Pruntytown. and at the University of Vir- 

 ginia, leaving the latter in 1851. He taught in 

 Weston while studying law, was admitted to the 

 bar in 1853, and settled in Braxton Courthouse to 

 practice. In 1854-'56 he was deputy surveyor for 

 Braxton and Nicholas Counties. He was arrested 

 as a Confederate sympathizer early in 1862 and 

 sent to Camp Chase, Ohio ; was ordered to be taken 

 to Vicksburg for exchange in 1868 ; and was after- 

 ward held prisoner at Camp Douglas, Chicago, and 

 City Point. Ya. After being exchanged at the lat- 

 ter point he joined the Confederate army at Salem, 

 Va.. and served to the close of the war. lie was on 

 t lie Judiciary and Land Titles Committees of the 

 State Constitutional Convention in 1872, and the 

 same year was elected judge of the 8th Judicial 

 Circuit of West Virginia for a term of eight years. 

 In 1880 he was elected judge of the newly created 

 10th Circuit ; in 1890 was appointed a justice of 

 the Supreme Court of the State to fill a vacancy : 

 and in 1892 was elected to the same post to fill out 

 the unexpired term that ended Jan. 1, 1897. 



Hotto, Henry, comedian, born in New York city, 

 in 1883 ; died there. Dec. 4, 1898. He was employed 

 a boy by Goodyear Brothers, and was alter- 





ward apprenticed to a wood engraver ; but he liad 

 a stubborn liking for the theater, and became a. 

 player in the celebrated company of juvenile actors 

 known as "The Marsh Troupe." After traveling 

 over the country with this organization for a short 

 time, during which he became noted for his perform- 

 ances of old men in the Shakespearean and other 

 standard plays, he returned to New York, and for a 

 time filled subordinate places in different theaters. 

 In 1852-'53 he was engaged for the Albany Theater 

 stock company to play old men. He was associated 

 in this company with the late James Lewis, and 

 they became known as "the two young old men." 

 After two seasons in Albany, Mr. Hotto was engaged 

 for the Pittsburg Theater to play comedy and old 

 men. He remained several years in Pittsburg and 

 was very popular as an actor of amusing and ec- 

 centric characters. He attracted the attention of 

 Laura Keene, and was engaged by her as the come- 

 dian of her theater in Washington. At the expira- 

 tion of a season he was engaged by John T. Ford, 

 who maintained stock companies in both Washiqg- 

 ton and Baltimore, to fill the leading comedy roles 

 in his Baltimore company. For four years Mr. 

 Hotto popularly sustained this appointment, playing 

 frequently in Washington, where he was as great a 

 favorite as in Baltimore. From Baltimore he moved 

 to the New Bowery Theater, New York, and became 

 a favorite of the metropolis during the years of the 

 civil war. In 1865 he became the comedian of the 

 first stock company organized in New Orleans after 

 the war. When the era of traveling combinations 

 began, Mr. Hotto remained content with a subordi- 

 nate place in support of more ambitious comedians, 

 and for many years was associated with Frank 

 Chanfrau, Maggie Mitchell, and Minnie Palmer, as 

 a comedian of the first rank. From 1882 to 1891 

 he played the parts created by James Lewis in the 

 successive tours of the country made by the plays 

 from Augustin Daly's theater. Four years ago, 

 while playing in Boston, he was seriously injured 

 by persons who attempted to rob him. II is retire- 

 ment from acting, and ultimately his death, were 

 caused by this injury. He had amassed and inher- 

 ited considerable property in New York city, and 

 was little known to the stage during the last six 

 years of his life. 



Howard, Blanche Willis (Tenffel), author, 

 born in Bangor, Me.. July 21, 1847; died in Munich, 

 Germany, Oct. 7, 1898. 'Her first book, "One Sum- 

 mer " (Boston, 1875), wus a breezy story full of 

 humor and made an immediate success. Very soon 

 after its publication she removed to Stuttgart, Ger- 

 many, where for several years she edited a magazine 

 printed in English. About 1890 she married Prof. 

 Von Teufl'el. Her books include "One Year 

 Abroad" (1877); "Aunt Serena" (1880); "Guenn, 

 a Wave on the Breton Coast" (1882); " Aulnay 

 Tower " (188(5) ; " The Open Door " ; " Seven on the 

 Highway"; "No Heroes": and, with William 

 Sharp, "A Fellowe and his Wife." 



Howlett, Thomas Rosling. clergyman, born in 

 Cambridgeshire, England, March 19, 1827 ; died in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 22, 1898. He came to the 

 United States in early youth, and was graduated at 

 Madison University in 1856, and at its seminary in 

 1858. During his active career he held Baptist 

 pastorates in New Brunswick, N. J., Albany, N. Y., 

 Trenton, N. J., Washington, D. C., Hudson, N. Y., 

 and Plainfield, N. J. Besides many articles in 

 secular and religious periodicals, he was author of 

 " Anglo-Israel and the Jewish Problem, with Sup- 

 plement," a work that attracted much attention 

 and criticism ; " The Bible a Sealed Book ; Why f " 

 "Songs of Israel " ; and " Baptismal Souvenir." 



Hoyt, Charles S.. physician and philanthropist, 

 born 'in Ridge field, Conn., June 8, 1822; died in 



