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Hoadly, Charles Jeremy – Hobbs, Lewis Lyndon

Hoadly, Charles Jeremy

journalist, librarian, was born Aug. 1, 1828, in Hartford, Conn. In 1855 he assumed charge of the state library. He has edited the New Haven Colonial Records, in two volumes; and Colonial Records of Connecticut.

Hoadley, George

lawyer, jurist, governor, was born July 31, 1826, in New Haven, Conn. In 1851 he was elected a judge of the superior court of Cincinnati, and was city solicitor in 1855. In 1858 he succeeded Judge Gholson on the bench of the new superior court. In 1883 he was elected governor of Ohio.

Hoag, Charles E

lawyer, journalist, author, poet, was born Sept. 18, 1849, in Moultonboro, N. H. He is the editor and owner of the Peabody Recorder and the American Citizen of Boston, in which city he was at one time president of a corporation publishing one of the daily papers. He has published several prose works; and a volume of poems entitled Chords and Discords.

Hoard, Charles B

mechanic, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 28, 1805, in Springfield, Vt. He was post- 28, 1805, in Springfield, Vt. He was postmaster under Presidents Jackson and Van Buren; justice of the peace for several years; and a member of the New York legislature in 1838. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress; was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress.

Hobart, Aaron

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born June 26, 1787, in Abington, Mass. He served in the state senate; was a state counselor; was judge of probate; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1821 to 1827. He died Sept. 19, 1858, in East Bridgewater, Mass.

Hobart, Alvah Sabin

clergyman, author, was born March 7, 1847, in Canada. During 1879-88 he filled a pastorate in the baptist church of Cincinnati, Ohio; and since 1888 at Yonkers, N. Y.

He is the author of Corner Stones of the Baptist Church; Those Old Fashioned Christians; and Gifts of Fruits and Fullness.

Hobart, John Henry

bishop, author, was born Sept. 14, 1775, in Philadelphia. He was the third protestant episcopal bishop of New York, and a leader of church thought in his day. He was the author of Companion for the Altar; State of Departed Spirits; Festivals and Fasts; and Apology for Apostolic Order. He died Sept. 12, 1830, in Auburn, N. Y.

Hobart, John Henry

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 1, 1817, in New York city. He is an episcopal clergyman of author, was born Oct. 1, 1817, in New York struction and Encouragement for Lent; Church Reform in Mexico; and Mediæval Papal and Ritual Principles Stated and United States senator, was born in 1738, Fishkill, N. Y.

Hobbie, Selah R

lawyer, public official, congressman, was born March 10, 1797, in Newburg, N. Y. He was soon appointed district attorney and brigade major and inspector; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829. On the accession of General Jackson to the presidency he was apassistant postmaster-general, pointed He which position he held until 1850. died March 23, 1854, in Washington, D. C.

Hobbs, George Thompson

artist, was born Feb. 18, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. For twenty-five years he worked as an architect. He studied art in Paris, and has become prominent as a landscape and portrait painter.

Hobbs, Lewis Lyndon

educator, college president, was born 1849, in Guilford, N. C. For many years he was engaged in educational work; and was elected the first president of Guilford college in 1888.