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Houseman, Julius

merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1832, in Germany. He was a representative in the Michigan state legislature in 1871 and 1872; and was elected a representative from Michigan to the fortyeighth congress as a democrat.

Houser, Jesse P

lawyer, jurist, was born March 2, 1864, in Columbus, Ind. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and graduated from the state normal school of Kirksville, Mo.

He has attained prominence as an able lawyer; was elected mayor of Mount Vernon, Wash., in 1894, for a term of two years; and in 1896 was elected judge of the superior court of the state of Washington for a term of four years.

Houston, Daniel Franklin

educator, author. He is a professor of political economy in the university of Texas; and the author of A Critical History of Nullification in South Carolina.

Houston, David Crawford

civil engineer, was born Dec. 5, 1835, in New York city. During the civil war, as first lieutenant of the engineer corps, he aided. in constructing the defences of Washington, D. C. In 1865 he was brevetted colonel for gallant and meritorious services during the rebellion.

Houston, James

lawyer, jurist, was born in Maryland. In 1806 he was ap-- pointed United States judge for the dis-- trict of Maryland.

Houston, John W

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Sussex county, Del. He was secretary of state in 1841; and a representative in congress from Delaware from 1845 to 1851. In 1856 he was appointed judge of the supreme court of Delaware; and was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861.

Hovey, Albert G

merchant, banker, state senator, was born July 11, 1824, in Londonderry, N. H. In 1862 he was elected a senator of the Oregon legislature; served three sessions; and in 1888 was made mayor of his city.

Hovey, Alvah

clergyman, educator, college president, author, was born March 5, 1820, in Greene, N. Y. He is a baptist clergyman; professor in Newton Theological seminary from 1849; and since 1868 its president. He is the author of The Miracles of Christ; The Scriptural Law of Divorce; Life of Isaac Backus; State of the Impenitent Dead; Christian Teaching and Life; God with Us; Systematic Theology; Biblical Eschatology; and Studies in Ethics and Religion, which include his principal works.

Hovey, Alvin Peterson

soldier, was born Sept. 6, 1821, in Posey county, Ind. He entered the volunteer service during the rebellion as a major; served with distinction as colonel and brigadiergeneral at Shiloh, Corinth, Champion Hill and Vicksburg; and was made a brevet major-general.

Hovey, Charles Edward

soldier, educator, lawyer, college president, was born April 26, 1827, in Thetford, Vt. He assisted in organizing the Illinois normal university in Normal, of which he was president from 1857 till the civil war; and on the organization of a system of public schools in that city in 1856 he was appointed superintendent, and assisted in forming the state teachers' association, of which he was president in 1856. In 1862 he was promoted to the rank of brigadiergeneral.

Hovey, Charles Mason

horticulturist, journalist, author, was born Oct. 26, 1810, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a noted horticulturist of Cambridge, editor of Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture, which reached its thirty-fourth volume, and author of Fruits of America. He died Sept. 2, 1887, in Cambridge, Mass.

Hovey, Harriette Spofford

educator, was born on the island of Nantucket. She is now, and has been for thirteen years, in charge of the division of correspondence and records in the national bureau of education at Washington, D. C.