Hopper, William Tatom – Hornibrook, Edward
Hopper, William Tatom
journalist, legislator, was born May 8, 1872, in Georgia. He has been county school examiner, and is now president of the Citizen Printing and Publishing company of Mountain Home, Ark., and is also the editor-in-chief of the Citizen. He has served with distinction as a member of the Arkansas state legislature.
Hoppin, Augustus
artist, author, was born July 13, 1828, in Providence, R.
I. He is the author of On the Nile; Ups and Downs on Land and Water; Jubilee Days; Hay Fever; Recollections of Auton House, a novel; A Fashionable Sufferer; Two Compton Boys; and Married for Fun, a romance.
Hoppin, James Mason
educator, author, was born Jan. 17, 1820, in Providence, R. I. He is a congregational clergyman, professor of homiletics at Yale university in 1861-79, and subsequently of the history of art. He is the author of Notes of a Theological Student; Old England; Life of Admiral Foote; Memoirs of Henry Armitt Brown; Homiletics; Pastoral Theology; Office and Work of the Christian Minister; Sermons on Faith, Hope, Love, etc.; The Early Renaissance; and Greek Art on Greek Soil.
Hoppin, William Warner
governor, was born Sept. 1, 1807, in Providence, R. I. After serving in the municipal boards of Providence he was sent to the state senate in 1853, and in 1854 was elected governor. He was re-elected in 1855 and 1856, and was nominated for a fourth term, but declined. He died April 19, 1890, in Providence, R. I.
Hopson, Winthrop Hartly
clergyman, was born April 26, 1823, in Christian county, Ky. In 1841 he graduated from the Missouri State university, and entered the ministry of the christian church. In 1843 he received the degree of M. D. from the McDowell college of St. Louis, Mo., and mediciné practiced for six years, not ceasing in the meantime from his ministerial work. He gave much attention to the founding and nurturing of schools and colleges, and was mainly instrumental in building up a flourishing female academy at Palmyra.
After the war he filled pastorates in Richmond, Va., and in Louisville, Ky. In 1874 he returned to Missouri, and a year later became president of the Christian university of Canton. In 1877 he was prostrated by disease and died.
Hof Wood, Josephus
clergyman, educator, college president, was born April 18, 1843, in Montgomery county, Ky. He attended the Eureka college of Abingdon, Ill., and the Kentucky university of Lexington. During the civil war he he served as a union soldier in the seventh Illinois cavalry, was twice captured, and spent four months on Belle Island, Va. After the war he went to college, and subsequently attained success as a clergyman and educator. He has been president of the Milligan college of Tennessee since its founding in 1882; was managing editor of The Pilot of Nashville in 1895, and in 1896 was the prohibition candidate for governor of Tennessee. He has also attained prominence as a lecturer on prohibition and reform subjects.
Hopwood, Robert F
lawyer, business man, was born July 24, 1856, in Uniontown, Pa. He received a thorough education, has taught school and in 1879 was admitted to the bar. He has since attained prominence as a successful lawyer in his native city; has twice received the nomination for district attorney, and in 1894 was endorsed for congress. He is interested in the public schools; president of the School Directors' association of Fayette County, and a trustee of Allegheny college of Meadville, Pa. He is interested in a number of business enterprises at home and in the state of West Virginia.
Hord, Francis T
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 24, 1835, in Maysville, Ky.
After receiving his education he studied law, and became school examiner for Bartholomew county in 1857-58; and in 1858-60 was district attorprosecuting ney. During 1862-66 he served with distinction as a member of the Indiana state senate. During 1868- 72 he was city attorney for the city of Columbus; and for twenty years was county attorney for Bartholomew county. In 1876 he was a delegate to the national democratic convention, and in 1880 was a candidate for presidential elector. In 1882 he was elected attorney-general for the state of Indiana; and in 1884 received the re-election to the same position. In 1892 he was elected to the high office of circuit judge for the ninth judicial district of Indiana, and still holds that position.
Horn, Charles Edward
composer, was born June 21, 1786, in London, England. His best known compositions are I Know a Bank Whereon the Wild Thyme Blows; Cherry Ripe; Through the Wood; and I've Been Roaming. He died Oct. 21, 1849, in Boston, Mass.
Horn, Edward Traill
clergyman, author, was born June 10, 1850, in Easton, Pa. He is a lutheran clergyman of Charleston, and the author of The Christian Year; Old Matin and Vesper Services of the Lutheran Church; Outlines of Liturgies; and The Evangelical Pastor.
Horn, Henry
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1831 to 1833.
Horn, John C
educator, lawyer, clergyman, missionary, was born Sept. 22, 1849, in Butler county, Ohio. Since 1876 he has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He has filled the chairs of languages, mathematics, science, history, philosophy and elocution in several colleges; has been president of the McGee college, and also president of the Lewis college, from which latter institution he received the degree of A. M. He has traveled extensively in Europe, and for several years was a missionary in South America. He now fills a pastorate in Cripple Creek, Col., in which state he is also a member of the bar.
Hornaday, William Temple
naturalist, author, was born Dec. 1, 1854, in Plainfield, Ind. He is a naturalist of Washington, for eight years chief taxidermist of the National museum, and the author of Two Years in the Jungle; The Buffalo Hunt; Canoe and Rifle on the Orinoco; Free Rum on the Congo; and Taxidermy and Zoölogical Collecting.
Hornbeck, John W
lawyer, congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a member of the house of representatives in congress from Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1848. He died Jan. 16, 1848, in Allentown, Pa.
Hornblower, Joseph Coerton
lawyer, jurist, was born May 6, 1777, in Belleville, N. J. He was elected by the joint meeting of the legislature of New Jersey chief justice of that state in 1832, and re-elected in 1839, making his full term on the bench fourteen years. He died June 11, 1864, in Newark, N. J.
Hornblower, Josiah
civil engineer, jurist, was born Feb. 23, 1729, in England. He was several years in the state legislature, serving as speaker. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1785 to 1786; was justice of the peace for a long period and in 1798 was appointed judge of Essex county court, which position he held until his death.
He died Jan. 31, 1809, in Newark, N. J.
Hornby, John
railroad president, was born in 1838 in Jamaica, N. Y. Since 1889 he has been president of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande railroad.
Horne, a. R
educator, journalist, was born March 24, 1834, in Pleasant Valley, Pa. For forty years he was engaged in educational work, and became president of the East Texas university. He is the editor and founder of The National Educator of Allentown, Pa.
Horner, Frederick
surgeon, journalist, lecturer, author, was born June 26, 1828, in Berry's Ferry, Va. He has been a surgeon in the United States navy in squadrons on the coast of Brazil and Gulf of Mexico; at the hospital at Norfolk, Va., and other places. He is the author of Autographs of the University of Virginia; History of the Blair, Braxton and Banister Families, and a Biography of the Physicians and Surgeons of Virginia.
Horner, John Scott
governor, was born Dec. 5, 1802, in Warrenton, Va.
In 1835 he was appointed secretary and acting governor of the territory of Michigan, inclusive of the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa. He died Feb. 2, 1883, in Ripon, Wis.
Horner, William Edmunds
physician, educator, author, was born June 3, 1793, in Warrenton, Va. He was a physician of Philadelphia, professor of anatomy in the university of Pennsylvania in 1819-53, and the author of Special Anatomy and Histology; United States Dissector; Anatomical Atlas; and Pathological Anatomy. He died March 13, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Hornibrook, Edward
physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 28, 1838, in Ontario, Canada. He received his education in the public schools, the university of Toronto, and the university of Victoria college. He has served as dean of the medical college of Sioux City, Iowa, and professor of gynæcology in that institution. He was the first vice-president of the Iowa State Medical society; has served as consulting physician and surgeon of the Iowa hospital for the insane of Independence; and during 1891- 96 was trustee of the State Insane hospital. He is one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of Iowa, and now practices his profession at Cherokee.