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Hillyer, William Silliman

soldier, lawyer, was born April 2, 1831, in Henderson, Ky. He served during the Tennessee and Vicksburg campaigns; and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865, and after the close of the war was appointed a revenue agent. He died July 12, 1874, in Washington, D. C.

HILPRECHT, HERMANN VOLLRAT, educator, journalist, author, was born July 28, 1859, in Germany. In the spring of 1887 he delivered, in the chapel of the university of Pennsylvania, a course of lectures on The Family and Civil Life of the Egyptians; and Egypt in the Time of Israel's Sojourn.