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Hooper, Johnson

lawyer, was born about 1815 in North Carolina. He was a lawyer of Alabama, and the author of Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; and Widow Rugby's Husband, and Other Alabama Tales. He died in 1863 in Alabama. was

Hooper, Robert Lettice

jurist.

He was chief justice of New Jersey from 1724 till 1728, and again from 1729 till his death in 1739. He resided in Perth Amboy and was a warden in St. Peter's church.

Hooper, William

clergyman, author, was born in 1702 in Scotland. In 1747 he was appointed rector of Trinity church of Boston, which post he occupied till his death. He published several sermons, including one with the title The Apostles neither Impostors nor Enthusiasts. He died April 14, 1767, in Boston, Mass.

Hooper, William

signer of declaration of independence, was born June 17, 1742, in Boston, Mass. In 1773 he was elected to the Massachusetts state assembly; was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1777, and signed the declaration of independence. He died in October, 1790, in Hillsborough, N. C.

Hooper, William H

merchant, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1813, in Cambridge, Md. In 1850 he removed to Utah; was a member of the legislature, and acting secretary of the territory. In 1859 he entered the thirty-sixth congress as a delegate from the territory of Utah, and was re-elected a delegate to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first and fortysecond congresses.

Hoopes, Josiah

botanist, author, was born Nov. 9, 1832, in West Chester, Pa.

In 1853 he established a nursery at West Chester, which is now one of the most extensive in the country. He has published Book of Evergreens, a treatise on the cone-bearing plants of the world, which is a standard authority.

Hoovis, James Alexander

public official, was born Dec. 3, 1863, in Washington county, Tenn. He graduated from the Vanderbilt university, and received the degrees of B. A. and B. L. During 1877-80 he was page in the Tennessee senate; was sergeant-at-arms in 1880-81; assistant clerk of the senate during 1881-87; chief clerk of the senate during 1887-93, and since 1893 has been comptroller of the state of Tennessee.

Hope, James

artist, was born Nov. 29, 1818, in Scotland. In 1853 he opened a studio in New York, was elected associate academician in 1865, and since 1872 has resided at Watkin's Glen, N. Y. His pictures include The Army of the Potomac; Rainbow Falls; The Gem of the Forest; and The Forest Glen.

Hope, James Barron

lawyer, journalist, author, poet, was born March 23, 1827, in Norfolk, Va. He was a lawyer and journalist of Norfolk, and the author of Leoni di Monti, and Other Poems; An Elegiac Ode; Under the Empire, or the Story of Madelon; and Arms and the Man, and Other Poems. He died Sept. 15, 1887, in Norfolk, Va.

Hopkins, Albert

educator, astronomer, was born July 14, 1807, in Stockbridge, Mass. In 1835 he began on his own responsibility the building of an astronomical observatory in Williamstown, the first that was ever established in connection with an American college. He died May 24, 1872, in Williamstown, Mass.

Hopkins, Albert C

merchant, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 1837, in Villenova, N. Y. He was elected from Pennsylvania to the fifty-second and fiftythird congresses as a republican.

Hopkins, Albert J

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 15, 1846, in De Kalb county, Ill. He was state's attorney of Kane county, Ill., from 1872 to 1876, and was a presidential elector in 1884. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.