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Hiester, Isaac Ellmaker – Hilgard, Julius Erasmus

Hiester, Isaac Ellmaker

lawyer, congressman, was born about 1820, in Lancaster county, Pa. He was a member of the thirty-third congress, in which he expressed opinions upon the slavery question not in tion not in harmony with those of his and at the next election was defeated. He died Feb. 6, 1871, in Lancaster.

Hiester, John

congressman, was born April 9, 1746, in Bern, Pa. He April 9, 1746, in Bern, Pa. served in congress from 1807 till 1809. He He died Oct. 15, 1821.

Hiester, William

farmer, gressman, was born in Bern, Pa. He was elected to congress as a whig in 1831, serving until 1837, in which year he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. He died Oct. 14, 1853, in Lancaster county. cator, college president, author, was born

Higbee, Elnathan Elisha

edu- ELISHA, edu- March 27, 1830, in Saint George, Vt. In 1871 he was made president of Mercersburg college, and in 1881 appointed superintendent of public instruction for Pennsylvania.

Higby, William

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1813, in Essex county, N. Y. He was district attorney of Calaveras county, Cal., from 1853 to 1859; and in 1862 was a member of the state senate . In 1863 he was elected a representative from California to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth congresses.

Higginson, Francis

clergyman, author, was born in 1588, in England. He was a puritan clergyman of Salem who emigrated to America in 1629; and the author of True Relation of the Last Voyage to New England ; and New England's Plantation. He died Aug. 6, 1630, in Salem, Mass.

Higginson, Francis John

naval officer, was born July 19, 1843, in Boston, Mass. He became a lieutenant in 1862, lieutenant-commander in 1866, and commander in 1876, and in 1887 was in charge of the torpedo station at Newport, R. I.

Higginson, Stephen

congressman.

He was a delegate from Massachusetts to the continental congress in 1782 and 1783.

Higginson, Stephen

merchant, author, was born Nov. 28, 1743, in Salem, Mass. He was a merchant of Boston of note in his day as a political writer; and the author of Essays by Laco, reprinted as Ten Chapters in the Life of John Hancock; and Defense of Jay's Treaty.

He died Nov. 22, 1828, in Boston, Mass.

Hildreth, Ezekiel

educator, author, was born July 18, 1784, in Westford, Mass. He was an educator of Ohio and Virginia; and the author of Logopolis, a grammatical treatise; and A Key to Knowledge. He died March 15, 1856, in Wheeling, W. Va.

Hildreth, John

lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 18, 1851, in. England. He has been alderman of Holyoke, Mass.; and identified with the improvement of his city. He served as a representative to the general court of his state.

Hilgard, Julius Erasmus

civil engineer, author, was born in 1825 in Bavaria.

He was a civil engineer of note who was superintendent of the United States coast survey in 1881-85; and published many valuable professional papers. He died May 8, 1891, in Washington, D. C.