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Hockaday, John A

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 6, 1837, in Callaway county, Mo. He received his educa- tion at the Westminster college of Fultion at the Westminster college of Fulton, Mo.; of which city ne is a prominent lawyer. He has been city and county atlawyer. He has been city and county attorney; was delegate to the national peace convention at Philadelphia in 1866; and elected to the state senate of Missouri in 1867. In 1872 he was a presidential elector on the Greeley ticket; and in 1888 on the Cleveland ticket. For two years he was attorney-general of Missouri; for twelve years a member of the board of managers of the state lunatic asylum; for six years of the school for the deaf and dumb; and curator of the Missouri university for one year. During 1879-80 he was again a member of the state senate; and revised the laws of Missouri. In 1887 he was a delegate to the constitutional centennial at Philadelphia; and in 1888 became permanent president of the democratic state convention. Since 1890 he has been judge of the ninth judicial circuit of Missouri. N. H. In 1832 he was a delegate to the Baltimore presidenator, was born in October, 1800, in Weare, N. H. In 1832 he was a delegate to the Baltimore presidential convention; was a member of the executive council in In 1846 he was electwas appointed land agent for the state.

In 1846 he was elected to the state senchosen president of ona term chosen president of that body. He resigned this position was to become nominee for governor of the state of Maine. In 1853 he moved to public schools. president of the board of directors of the that city in 1859; and for some years was president of the board of directors of the public schools.

HODGE, ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, clergyman, author, was born July 18, 1823, in Princeton, N. J. terian clergyman, and professor of the- He was a presbyology at Princeton college since 1877. He was the author of Outlines of Theology; and Popular Lectures on Theological Commentary on the Confession of Faith; and Popular Lectures on Theological Themes. He died Nov. 11, 1886, in Princeton, N. J.

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