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Homes, Henry Augustus

clergyman, author, was born March 10, 1812, in Boston, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman who was a missionary at Constantinople in 1836-50, and subsequently in the diplomatic service there. From 1854 he was employed as librarian in the State library at Albany. He was the author of The Need of Yezedees of Mesopo'tamia; Design and Import of Medals; Our Knowledge of California; The Palatine Emigration to England in 1709; and The Water Supply of Constantinople. He died Nov. 3, 1887, in Albany, N. Y.

HOMES, MRS. MARY SOPHIE (SHAW) (ROGERS), author, poet, was born about 1830 in Frederick, Md. She is a writer of New Orleans, and the author of Carrie Harrington, or Scenes in New Orleans; Progression, or the South Defended, a volume of verse; and A Wreath of Rhymes.