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Hodges, James L – Hoffman, Murray

Hodges, James L

state senator, congressman. He was a state senator in 1823 and 1824; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1827 to 1831. He died March 8, 1846.

Hodgkin, Louise Manning

educator, author, was born in 1846, in Massachusetts. She is an educator who was cator, author, was born in 1846, in Massafrom 1876 to 1891 professor of English literature in Wellesley college. She is from 1876 to 1891 professor of English the author of Guide to the Study of Nineteenth Century Literature.

Hoey, Josephine

actress, was born in June, 1824, in England. In 1839 she appeared in small parts at the National theater in New York, and thereafter became a stock actress in other places .

Hoff, Henry Kuhn

naval officer, was born in 1809, in Pennsylvania. He . He was appointed a midshipman from South Carolina in 1823, and became a commodore. He died Dec. 25, 1878, in Washington, D. C.

Hoff, J. Wallace

journalist, author, was born July 7, 1867, in Rahway, N. J. He studied law and subsequently entered journalism. For several years he was connected with the State Gazette of Trenton, N. J.; and in 1895 founded the Mercer Review. He has written numerous local historical sketches; and is the author of a volume of short stories, and a work entitled Two Hundred Miles on the Delaware River.

Hoffer, John

merchant, was born Feb. 4, 1860, in Bonham, Texas. He received his education in the common schools, and at the Texas Military Institute of Austin. He was corresponding clerk of the school land department, and filled various other public positions in Armstrong county, Texas. He has attained success as a wholesale and retail merchant of Clarendon, Texas.

Hoffman, L.vid

educator, lawyer, author, was born Dec. 25, 1784, in Baltimore, Md. He was a lawyer who was professor of law in the university of Maryland, and the author of A Course of Legal Study; Legal Outlines; Legal Legal Hints; Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men and Things; Chronicles Selected from the Originals of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew; and Viator, a Peep into My Notebook. He died Nov. 11, 1854, in New York city.

Hoffman, Henry W

congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857. In 1861 he was appointed collector of the port of Baltimore.

Hoffman, John N

clergyman, author, was born in 1804, in Pennsylvania. He was a lutheran clergyman of Lebanon, Pa., and the author of Evangelical Hymns, Original and Selected; A Collection of Tests; and The Broken Platform, a Defence of the Symbolical Books of the Lutheran Church. He died in 1857.

Hoffman, John Thompson

lawyer, governor, was born Jan. 10, 1828, in Sing Sing, N. Y. He was elected recorder of New York city in 1860 and 1863; and was elected mayor in 1865, and re-elected in 1867. He was chosen governor in 1869, serving until 1872. He died March 24, 1888, in Germany.

Hoffman, Michael

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1788, in Clifton Park, N. Y. He was elected to congress in 1824, and continued a member for eight years. He was appointed a canal commissioner for the state of New York, wrote several able reports, and resigned the office in 1835. In 1841 he went into the house of assembly from Herkimer county. He died Sept. 27, 1848, in Broonlyn.

Hoffman, Murray

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 29, 1791, in New York city. He was a prominent jurist of New York city, and the author of Office and Duties of Masters in Chancery; Estate and Rights of the Corporation of New York as Proprietors; Law of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; Ecclesiastical Law in the State of New York; and Law and Practice as to He died May 7, 1878, in References.

Flushing, L. I.