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Hickok, Laurens Perseus
educator, clergyman, college president, author, , clergyman , college president, author, was born Dec. 29, 1798 , in Danbury, Conn.
He was a congregational clergyman who held several college professorships, and was president of Union college in 1866-68.
He subsequently lived at Amherst. He was the author of Logic of Reason; Moral Science; Science; Empirical Psychology; Rational Rational Cosmology; Creator and Creation; and Humanity Immortal. He died May 6, 1888, in Amherst, Mass.
Hickox, John Howard
librarian, author, was born in 1832, in New York. , was born in 1832, in New York.
He was the state librarian of New York in 1848-63, and subsequently employed in the congressional library. He is the author of Historical Account of American Coinage ; History of New York Paper Money; and Catalogue of United States Government Publications.
Hicks, Elias
controversialist, author, was born March 19, 1748, in Hempstead, born March 19 , 1748, in Hempstead, N. Y. He was a famous Quaker controversialist, and founder of the sect known as Hicksite Quakers . He was an early and very active opponent of slavery. He was the author of Observations on Slavery; Journal of Life and Religious Labors of Elias Hicks; and Doctrinal Epistle. He died Feb. 27, 1830, in Jericho, N. Y.
Hicks, Gwin
journalist, public official, was born Oct. 28, 1855, near Olympia, born Oct. 28, 1855, near Olympia, Wash. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools; and graduated from the university of California. He learned the printer's trade in his father's office; and subsequently filled the editorial chair on various publications in his state. He has been internal revenue collector; and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel by Governor Semple. He was elected to the state constitutional convention of Washington; was the author and promoter of the present primary election law of that state; and in 1897 was elected state printer.
Hicks, Henry George
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Jan. , jurist, state legislator, was born Jan. 26, 1838, in Varysburg , N. Y. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in company A, second Illinois regiment, and attained the rank of sergeant-major, and adjutant of the regiment. He was elected to the Minnesota state legislature in 1877, serving four consecutive terms. In 1887 he was appointed judge of the fourth district, and served until 1895. In 1897-98 he again served with distinction in the state legislature.
Hicks, Josiah D
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 1, 1844, in Chester county, Pa. During the war he served as a private in the Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. He has always been an active republican; served his party as county chairman and also as a member of the state committee . In 1880 he was elected district attorney district attorney of Blair county; and in unanimous renomination and was re-elected. In 1884 he formed a law partnership in Altoona with his former preceptor , Hon. Daniel J. Neff; this partnership continues at the present time under the firm time under the firm name of Neff, Hicks was elected to the fiftythird and re-elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. 18, 1823, in Newton, Pa. Among his port-
Hicks, Thomas
artist, was born Oct. artist, was born Oct. raits is that of Dr.
Kane in the Cabin of The Advance The Advance, and a large picture of The Authors of America, in which the figures are of life-size.
Hicks, Thomas Holliday
merchant, governor, United States senator, , governor , United States senator, was born Sept. 2, 1798, in Dorchester county, Mass. In 1836 he was a presidential elector; was also a member of the governor's council; and in 1838 was appointed register of wills. He frequently served in the legislature of the state; was governor from 1858 to 1862; and was appointed a senator in congress to fill a vacancy.
He died Feb. 13, 1865, in Washington city.
Hicks, Whitehead
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 24, 1728, in Flushing, L. I. born Aug. 24, 1728, in Flushing, L. I.
He was clerk of Queens county from 1752 till 1757; mayor of New York city from 1766 till 1776; and judge of the New York supreme court from 1776 till his death.
He died in October, 1780, in Flushing, L. I.
Hiestand, John A
lawyer, journalist, state senator, congressman, was born , state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 2, 1824, in Lancaster county, Pa. He was elected to the state house of representatives of Pennsylvania as a whig in 1852, 1853, and 1856. He was elected a state senator in 1860, for a term of three years; was a presidential elector in 1864, and was appointed by the electoral college the messenger to carry the vote to Washington. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.
HIESTER , DANIEL, congressman, was born in Berks county, Pa. He was a repin Berks county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from 1809 till 1811.
Hiester, Daniel
soldier, merchant, congressman, was born June 25, 1747, in Bern township, Pa.
He was a member of congress from 1789 till 1796, when he resigned and removed to Hagerstown, Md.
In 1801 he was again elected to congress.
He died March 7, 1804, in Washington, D. C.
Hiester, Isaac Ellmaker
lawyer, congressman, was born about 1820, in Lancaster county, Pa. He was a member of the thirty-third congress, in which he expressed opinions upon the slavery question not in tion not in harmony with those of his and at the next election was defeated. He died Feb. 6, 1871, in Lancaster.
Hiester, John
congressman, was born April 9, 1746, in Bern, Pa. He April 9, 1746, in Bern, Pa. served in congress from 1807 till 1809. He He died Oct. 15 died Oct. 15, 1821.
Hiester, Joseph
soldier, state senator, congressman, governor, was born , congressman, governor, was born Nov. 18, 1752, in Bern Nov. 18, 1752, in Bern township. He was , was captured and confined in the Jersey prison-ship. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1776 ; and of the state constitutional convention of 1790, and served five years in the house and four in the senate of Pennsylvania . In 1807 he was appointed one of the two major-generals to command the quota of Pennsylvania militia that was called for by the president.
He served in congress from 1797 till 1805, and again from 1815 till 1820, when he resigned. He was governor of Pennsylvania from 1821 till 1823. He died June 10, 1832, in Reading, Pa. con-
Hiester, William
farmer, gressman, was born in Bern, Pa. He was elected to congress as a whig in 1831, serving until 1837, in which year he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. He died Oct. 14, 1853, in Lancaster county. cator, college president, author, was born
Higbee, Elnathan Elisha
edu- ELISHA, edu- March 27, 1830, in Saint George, Vt. In 1871 he was made president of Mercersburg college, and in 1881 appointed superintendent of public instruction for Pennsylvania.
Higby, William
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1813, , congressman , was born Aug. 18, 1813, in Essex county, N. Y. He was district attorney of Calaveras county, Cal., from 1853 to 1859; and in 1862 was a member of the state senate . In 1863 he was elected a representative from California to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth congresses.
Higgins, Anthony
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 1, 1840, in New Castle , was born Oct. 1, 1840, in New Castle county, Del. He attended the Newark academy, Delaware college, Yale college, and the Harvard Law school. In 1864 he was appointed deputy attorney-general; was United States attorney for Delaware from 1869 until 1876; was chairman of the republican state committee in 1868; and received the votes of the republican members of the legislature for the United States senate in 1881. He was republican candidate for congress in 1884, and was elected to the United States senate as a republican, and took his seat March 4, 1889. His term of service expired March 3, 1895.
Higgins, James Wallace
physi cian, surgeon, was born March 31, 1845, , surgeon, was born March 31, 1845, in Chittenden county , Vt. He graduated in medicine from the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa. He has attained success as a prominent physician and surgeon of Laurens, Iowa, where he always has been prominently identified with the public affairs of his county and state. He has been chief medical examiner of the Equitable Life Assurance society of the United States; a member of the Northwestern Medical association of Iowa; and health physician of his city,
Higgins, Richard Thomas
physician, banker, state legislator, was born , banker, state legislator, was born June 9, 1842, in Beardstown, Ill. For nearly two years he was acting assistant surgeon of the United States army; and has served as United States pension surgeon. He was a member of the thirtyeighth general assembly of the Illinois house of representatives ; and since 1875 has been president of the Farmers' and Merchants' National bank of Vandalia, Ill.
HIGGINSON, MRS. ELLA [RHOADS], druggist, author, poet , was born in 1862, in Kansas. She is a druggist of New Whatcom, Wash., who has written poetry of a popular character, and The Flower that Grew in the Sand, and Other Stories.
Higginson, Francis
clergyman, author, was born in 1588, in England. He , was born in 1588 , in England. He was a puritan clergyman of Salem who emigrated to America in 1629; and the author of True Relation of the Last Voyage to New England ; and New England's Plantation. He died Aug. 6, 1630, in Salem, Mass.