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Hovey, Horace Carter

clergyman, author, poet, was born Jan. 28, 1833, in Fountain county, Ind. He is a congregational clergyman of Bridgeport, Conn.; and the author of Celebrated American Caverns.

He has delivered a series of lectures on Caverns, Mountains and Tornadoes, which are brilliantly illustrated with wonderful views. He is a most popular clergyman of his denomination; and a successful lecturer.

Hovey, Richard

author, poet, was born in 1864 in Illinois. He is a versewriter of Washington; and the author of The Laurel, an Ode; Launcelot and Guinevere, a Poem in Dramas, republished as The Marriage of Guinevere; Seaward, an Elegy on the Death of Thomas William Parsons; Gandelfo, a tragedy; and Songs from Vagabondia, and More Songs from Vagabondia.

Howard, Ada Lydia

college president, was born Dec. 19, 1829, in Temple, N. H. In 1875 she was elected the first president of Wellesley college, resigning in 1881 on account of ill-health.

Howard, Benjamin

soldier, congressman, governor, was born about 1760 in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1807 to 1810 when he was appointed governor of Indiana territory. He was appointed brigadier-general in the United States army in 1813. He was once governor of Missouri territory. He died Sept. 18, 1814, in St.

Louis, Mo.

Howard, Blanche Willis

author, was born July 21, 1847, in Bangor, Maine.

She is the author of One Summer; One Year Abroad; Aunt Serena; Guenn; Aulnay Tower; and other works.

Howard, Bronson

dramatist, author, was born Oct. 7, 1842, in Detroit, Mich. He is a prominent dramatist of New York city; and the author of Saratoga, produced in London as Brighton, and in Berlin as Eine Erste und Einzige Liebe; Diamonds; The Banker's Daughter; Old Love Letters Young Mrs. Winthrop; One of Our Girls; The Henrietta; Shenandoah; Aristocracy; Moorcroft; Hurricanes; Wives; Met by Chance; and Greenroom Fun.

Howard, Charles J

lawyer, legislator, was born March 26, 1862, in Barnesville, Ohio. He has served as city solicitor and member of the school board of his native town. He served with distinction as a member of the seventy-second and seventy-third general assemblies of Ohio.

Howard, Frank T

capitalist, was born May 31, 1855, in New Orleans, La.

He owns the celebrated Quitaque ranch of 160,000 acres in the northern part of Texas, and has numerous other investments of various kinds.

Howard, Fred W

poet. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems which have appeared in the leading newspapers and magazines of Minnesota. Ce

Howard, George

governor, was born in Maryland. He became acting governor in 1831; and in 1832 was elected governor of Maryland, remaining in office until 1833.

Howard, Henry

merchant, state legislator, governor, was born April 2, 1826, in Cranston, R. I. He served a number of years in the state legislature; and was a presidential elector in 1872. In 1873 he was elected governor of Rhode Island; and was re-elected in 1874, declining a renomination for 1875.

Howard, Jonas G

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in Floyd county, Ind. He was elected a representative to the state legislature in 1862, and again in 1864; and was a presidential elector in 1868, and again in 1876. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.