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Ladd, Horatio Oliver

educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 31, 1839, in Hallowell, Maine.

He has held various positions as an educator and clergyman; was pastor and professor in the Olivet college, Mich.; principal of the State Normal school of New Hampshire; president of the First Incorporated university of New Mexico; and rector of Grace church, Jamaica, N.

Y. As an educator he was prominent in founding Indian schools in the southwest, supported by the United States government. He is the author of three books on American History-The War With Mexico; The Story of New Mexico; and The Founding of the Episcopal Church in Dutchess County, N. Y. He has been an editorial writer on The Churchman, and has contributed extensively to current literature.