Hiscock, Frank – Hoag, Charles E
Hiscock, Frank
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 6, 1834, in Pompey, N. Y. He received an academic education; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced to practice at Tully, N. Y. He was elected district attorney of Onondaga county, serving in 1860-63; and was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1867. He was elected to the forty-fifth, fortysixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, fortyninth and fiftieth congresses; and was elected to the United States senate as a republican, to fill a vacancy, and took his seat March 4, 1887, for term of service expiring March 3, 1893.
Hise, Elijah
diplomat, congressman, was born July 4, 1802, in Kentucky. In 1866 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the fortieth congress. He died by his own hand May 8, 1867, in Russellville, Ky.
Hissey, Marion Winfield
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 27, 1859, in McConnelsville, Ohio. He received his education in the Scio College and School of Theology of the Boston university. He has been pastor of a number of churches; and is now pastor of the First Congregational church of Ashtabula, Ohio. He has lectured on Homiletics at the School of Theology of the university of Denver; and is a brilliant lecturer on various subjects.
Hitchcock, a. F
clergyman, poet.
He has filled pastorates in the congregational church of Sasium, Cal.; and is the author of a number of poems, some of which have been set to music.
Hitchcock, Alfred
physician, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 17, 1813, in Westminster, Vt. He was surgeon of Fitchburg, Mass., who published Christianity and Medical Science. He died March 30, 1874, in Fitchburg, Mass.
Hitchcock, Charles Henry
geologist, author, was born Aug. 23, 1836, in Amherst, Mass. He is the state geologist of New Hampshire, and the author of Natural History and Geology of Maine; New Hampshire Geological Survey; and The Geology of New Hampshire.
Hitchcock, David
author, poet, was born in 1773, in Bethlehem, Conn.
His principal poem, The Shade of Plato, is written with ease and smoothness, and closes with expostulations on the revolutionary principles in vogue at the beginning of the century. His other writings are The Social Monitor; and Christ Not the Minister of Sin, a controversy. He died after 1832.
Hitchcock, Edward
clergyman, geologist, college president, author, was born May 24, 1793, in Deerfield, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, state geologist of Massachusetts in 1833-1844, and president of Amherst college in 1845-54.
He was the author of Religion of Geology; Illustrations of Surface Geology; Fossil Footprints in the United States; Ichnology of New England; Dyspepsia Forestalled and Resisted; Religious Truth Illustrated from Science; Elementary Geology; and Reminiscences of Amherst College. He died Feb. 27, 1864, in Amherst, Mass.
Hitchcock, Edward
educator, author, was born May 23, 1828, in Amherst, Mass. He is a physician, professor of hygiene in Amherst college from 1861, and the author of Anatomy and Physiology.
Hitchcock, Enos
clergyman, author, was born March 7, 1744, in Springfield, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Providence once famous as a preacher, and the author of Treatise on Education; Sermons; and Catechetical Instruction for Children and Youth. He died Feb. 27, 1803, in Providence, R. I.
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen
soldier, author, was born May 18, 1798, in Vergennes, Vt. He was a general in the federal army during the civil war. He was the author of Alchemy and the Alchemists; Swedenborg, a Hermetic Philosopher; Christ the Spirit, an argument for the symbolic exposition of the Gospels; Remarks on the Sonnets of Shakespeare; Spenser's Colin Clout Explained; and Notes on Dante's Vita Nuova. He died Aug. 5, 1870, in Hancock, Ga.
Hitchcock, Henry Laurens
college president, was born Oct. 13, 1813, in Benton, Ohio. president of the Western Reserve college In 1855 he was elected and filled that position until 1871. He died July 6, 1873, in Hudson, Ohio.
Hitchcock, James Hall
lawyer, state senator, was born April 20, 1859, in Perry county, Ohio. He served as attorney of Johnson county, Neb., for three terms; and is now a state senator in the legislature of that state from the second district.
Hitchcock, James Ripley Well- Man
littérateur, author, was born July 3, 1856, in Fitchburg, Mass. He is a littérateur of New York city, and the author of The Western Art Movement; A Study of George Jenness; Etchings in America; Madonnas by Old Masters; Notable Etchings by American Artists; Some American Painters in Water Colors; and The Future of Etching.
Hitchcock, Peter
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 19, 1781, in Cheshire, Conn. In 1810 he was elected to the general assembly of Ohio; from 1812 to 1816 was a member of the state senate; and president of that body one session. He was a representative in congress from 1817 to 1819; and was then chosen judge of the supreme court of Ohio for seven years. He was re-elected to the same office in 1826. From 1833 to 1835 he was again a member of the state senate, and once again president.
He died May 11, 1853, in Painesville, Ohio.
Hitchcock, Phineas Warrener
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 30, 1831, in New Lebanon, N. Y. In 1861 he was appointed marshal of Nebraska territory, which office he held until his election from Nebraska as delegate to the thirty-ninth congress. In 1867 he was appointed surveyor-general of Nebraska; and was elected to the United States senate for the term ending in 1877. He died July 10, 1881, in Omaha, Neb.
Hitchcock, Robert Bradley
naval officer, was born Sept. 25, 1803, in Cheshire, Ohio. He was appointed midshipman in the United States navy in 1825, promoted lieutenant in 1835, commander in 1855, captain in 1861, and commodore in 1862. He died March 25, 1883, in New York city.
Hitchcock, Roswell Dwight
educator, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 15, 1817, in East Machias, Maine. He wasa successful clergyman of the congregational church; and filled the chair of ecclesiastical history in Bowdoin college. He was president of the Palestine Exploration society, and was president of the Union Theological seminary of New York city. He is the author of Life of Edward Robinson; Complete Analysis of the Bible; The New Testament, with Readings Preferred by the American Committee Incorporated into the Text; and Eternal Atonement. He died June 16, 1887, in Somerset, Mass.
Hitt, Robert Roberts
diplomat, congressman, was born Jan. 16, 1834, in Urbana, Ohio. He was first secretary of the American legation at Paris, France, from 1874 to 1881; and was assistant secretary of state of Illinois in 1881. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Hittell, John Shertzer
journalist, author, was born in 1825, in Pennsylvania. He is a journalist of San Francisco, and the author of Evidences against Christianity; Mining in the Pacific States; Brief History of Culture; History of San Francisco; The Spirit of the Papacy; History of Mental Growth of Mankind in Ancient Times; and Resources of California.
Hittell, Theodore Henry
lawyer, author, was born in 1830, in Pennsylvania. He is a prominent lawyer and historian of San Francisco. He is the author of Adventures of Captain Capen Adams; General Laws of California, commonly called Hittell's Digest; Codes and Statutes of California; and History of California.
Hizar, Julier Clyde
lawyer, was born Nov. 5, 1871, in Fort Ancient, Ohio.
He graduated from the National Normal university of Lebanon, Ohio, with the degrees of B. S. and A. B., and subsequently attended the Cincinnati Law school, and was admitted to the bar of California.
He has been city attorney of Coronado, Cal., and still holds that position.
Hoadly, Charles Jeremy
journalist, librarian, was born Aug. 1, 1828, in Hartford, Conn. In 1855 he assumed charge of the state library. He has edited the New Haven Colonial Records, in two volumes; and Colonial Records of Connecticut.
Hoadley, George
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born July 31, 1826, in New Haven, Conn. In 1851 he was elected a judge of the superior court of Cincinnati, and was city solicitor in 1855. In 1858 he succeeded Judge Gholson on the bench of the new superior court. In 1883 he was elected governor of Ohio.
Hoag, Charles E
lawyer, journalist, author, poet, was born Sept. 18, 1849, in Moultonboro, N. H. He is the editor and owner of the Peabody Recorder and the American Citizen of Boston, in which city he was at one time president of a corporation publishing one of the daily papers. He has published several prose works; and a volume of poems entitled Chords and Discords.