Hilliard, Francis – Hinds, Herbert C
Hilliard, Francis
lawyer, jurist, author, was born about 1808, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a jurist of Boston, and the author of The Law of Taxation; The Law of Vendors and Purchasers; The Law of Mortgages; The Law of Torts; Law of Injunctions; Law of New Trials; Law of Contracts; Law of Bankruptcy; American Jurisprudence; and American Law, a Comprehensive Summary. He died Oct. 9, 1878, in Worcester, Mass.
Hilliard, Henry W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Aug. 4, 1808, in Fayetteville, N. C. In 1838 he was elected to the Alabama state legislature, and in 1840 a presidential elector. In 1842 he was appointed minister to Belgium. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1843 to 1851.
During the civil war he served in the confederate army, and subsequently practiced law in Atlanta, serving as minister to Brazil in 1877-81. He was the author of Speeches and Addresses; De Vane, a Story of Plebeians and Patricians; and Politics and Pen Pictures. He died Dec. 17, 1892, in Atlanta, Ga.
Hilliard, William Henry
artist, was born in 1836, in Auburn, N. Y.
Among his best known works are views of Maine, of the White and Franconia mountains, and of the Atlantic coast, including Campton Meadows; Castle Rock; and Wind against Tide; Battle-Field of Lookout Mountain; and Allatoona Pass, Ga.
Hillis, David
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, lieutenant-governor, was born in 1789, in Washington county, Pa.
In 1831 and 1835 he was elected to the state senate, and in 1836-40 was lieutenant-governor. He died July 8, 1845, in Jefferson county, Ind.
Hillis, David B
soldier, was born in Indiana. He was colonel of the seventeenth Iowa regiment in the civil war; and received the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers.
Hillis, William J
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 14, 1850, in Albany, N. Y.
In 1872 he graduated from the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y., and has since attained prominence as an able lawyer of his native city. He is the author of A Metrical History of Napoleon Bonaparte, and other works.
Hills, Frederick Clark
soldier, railroad president, was born Jan. 22, 1842, in Bethersden, Kent, Eng. In 1849 he moved with his parents to Oneida county, N. Y. He received his education in the district schools, and at the academy of Vernon, New York. During the civil war he served as a soldier in company E, one hundred and seventeenth regiment New York infantry; and has been past post commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. He has been general freight and passenger agent, general traffic manager, and superintendent of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad company and other roads during 1868-81.
He has also been the general manager and president of the Sioux City and Northern Railroad company; and of the Sioux City, O'Neill and Western Railway company.
He served two terms as president of the Sioux City board of education; and has filled various other public positions of trust in his county and state.
Hills, George Morgan
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 10, 1825, in Auburn, N. Y. He was an episcopal clergyman, rector of St. Mary's church, Burlington, N. J., in 1870-90, and the author of History of the Church in Burlington; John Talbot, the First Bishop in North America; Church of England Missions in New Jersey; and Transfer of the Church from Colonial Dependence to the Freedom of the Republic. He died in 1890.
Hills, Lucius Perry
lawyer, poet, elocutionist, was born June 16, 1844, in Bennington, N. Y. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the tenth regiment New York cavalry and served three years in the civil war. In 1871 he graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan; and since 1875 has practiced his profession in Atlanta, Ga. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled When Patti Sang; and as a poet humorist of Georgia has given successful elocutionary entertainments in various parts of the United States.
Hills, William Henry
journalist, was born June 6, 1859, in Somerville, Mass. In 1888 he became sole owner and proprietor of The Writer, a monthly magazine; and since 1890 has been editor of the Journal and president of the Somerville Journal company.
Hillyer, Edgar Winters
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Dec. 3, 1830, in Granville, Ohio. He served in the war for the union, and rose to the rank of colonel. In 1865 he became acting judge advocate for the department of the Pacific. He was elected to the state legislature in 1862; and in 1866 was elected attorney for Storey county, holding the office until 1869, when he was appointed judge of the United States court for the district of Nevada.
Hillyer, Junius
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 23, 1807, in Wilkes county, Ga. In 1834 he was elected solicitor-general for the western district of the state; was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1851 to 1855; and in 1857 was appointed solicitor of the United States treasury, remaining in office until 1861.
Hillyer, William Silliman
soldier, lawyer, was born April 2, 1831, in Henderson, Ky. He served during the Tennessee and Vicksburg campaigns; and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865, and after the close of the war was appointed a revenue agent. He died July 12, 1874, in Washington, D. C.
Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrat
educator, journalist, author, was born July 28, 1859, in Germany. In the spring of 1887 he delivered, in the chapel of the university of Pennsylvania, a course of lectures on The Family and Civil Life of the Egyptians; and Egypt in the Time of Israel's Sojourn.
Hilson, Ellen Augusta
actress, was born in 1801, in England. At five years of age she first appeared on the stage, reciting in costume the ballad of Little Red Riding Hood; and in 1817 she became a member of the company of the Park theatre. She died April 2, 1837, in New York city.
Hilson, Thomas
actor, was born in 1784, in England. He first appeared in this country at the Park theatre in New York city, in 1809, as Walter in The Children of the Wood. He died July 23, 1834, in Louisville, Ky.
Himan, Edgar H
lawyer, jurist, banker, was born Dec. 16, 1846, in Randolph, Ohio. He received his education at the Oberlin college, and graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan. He has been justice of the peace; mayor of North Amherst, Ohio; and for fifteen years was probate judge of Lorain county. For seven years he was chairman of the Lorain county republican executive committee. He is now the president of the Elyria Savings and Loan association, and a director of the National bank of Elyria.
Himebaugh, Matthias
educator, clergyman, philanthropist, was born Aug. 31, 1819, in Erie county, Pa. In 1850 he moved to Wisconsin; and was instrumental in placing on a sound foundation the Lawrence university of Appleton, for which he secured fifty thousand dollars.
He has traveled nearly a half million miles by railroads, rivers, and lakes in the prosecution of his work. He now occasionally preaches in Oshkosh, Wis.
Himes, Charles Francis
educator, author, was born June 2, 1838, in Lancaster county, Pa. In 1865 he was appointed professor of chemistry and physics in Dickinson, which chair he held for twenty years. He has published Tables for Qualitative Analysis, translated and edited; Leaf-Prints, or Glimpses at Photography; and Flame Reactions.
Himes, Isaac Newton
physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 4, 1834, in Shippensburg, Pa. During the civil war he was assistant surgeon of the third Ohio volunteer infantry, and shortly afterward commissioned surgeon of the same regiment. In 1871 he settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was connected with the Cleveland Medical college as professor of pathology until his death.
Hinckley, Thomas
statesman, was born about 1618, in England. He was a deputy in 1645; a representative in 1647; and a magistrate and subsequent governor of Plymouth. He died April 25, 1706, in Barnstable, Mass.
Hindman, Thomas Carmichael
soldier, congressman, was born in November, 1818, in Tennessee. He served as second lieutenant of the Mississippi volunteers in the Mexican war; was a representative from Arkansas to the thirtysixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress, but when the rebellion broke out he entered the confederate service; and was at once made a brigadier-general, and subsequently a major-general. He died Oct. 22, 1868, in Helena, Ark.
Hindman, William
congressman, United States senator, was born April 1, 1743, in Dorchester county, Md. He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress; was a representative in congress from 1792 to 1799; and was a senator in congress during the years 1800 and 1801. He died Jan. 19, 1822, in Baltimore, Md.
Hinds, Herbert C
clergyman, was born June 22, 1857, in Cossayuna, N. Y.
He graduated from Union college, and then entered the Princeton Theological seminary, and was ordained in 1885. He then went abroad, and on his return became pastor of the First presbyterian church of Amsterdam, N. Y.; and there established a second presbyterian church, which was christened Emmanuel. In 1887 he became pastor of the Second Reformed church of Schenectady, N. Y.; and since 1891 has been pastor of the Ninth presbyterian church of Troy, N.
Y. In 1889 Union college honored him with the degree of A. M.