Houston, John – Howard, Fred W
Houston, John
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Aug. 31, 1744, in Waynesboro, Ga. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1775 to 1777, and was a member of the first naval committee. He was a member of the state council in May, 1777; governor of Georgia from 1778 to 1784; and in 1787 was commissioner for settling the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina. In 1792 he was appointed first judge of the supreme court of Georgia. He died July 20, 1796, in Savannah.
Houston, John W
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Sussex county, Del. He was secretary of state in 1841; and a representative in congress from Delaware from 1845 to 1851. In 1856 he was appointed judge of the supreme court of Delaware; and was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861.
Houston, Sam
soldier, statesman, was born March 2, 1793, in Rockbridge county, Va. His mother removed with her family to the banks of the Tennessee, at that time the limit of civilization.
He served for a time as clerk to a country trader, and taught school. In 1813 he enlisted in the army and served under General Jackson in the war with the Creek Indians; distinguished himself on several occasions, and, at the conclusion of the war, had risen to the rank of lieutenant. He commenced the study of law at Nashville; and after holding several minor offices in Tennessee, he was, in 1823, elected to congress, and continued a member of that body until 1827, when he became governor of Tennessee.
In 1829, before the expiration of his gubernatorial term, he resigned his office, and went to take up his abode among the Cherokee Indians in Arkansas. A militia was organized, and Austin, the founder of the colony, was elected commander-inchief, in which office he was shortly after succeeded by General Houston. He conducted the war with vigor, and finally brought it to a successful termination by the battle of San Jacinto, which was fought in 1836; in May, 1836, he signed a treaty acknowledging the independence of Texas, and in October of the same year was inaugurated the first president of the republic; and at the end of his term of office, as the same person could not constitutionally be elected president twice in succession, he became a member of the Texas congress. In 1841, however, he was again elevated to the presidential chair; during the whole time that he held that office it was his favorite policy to effect the annexation of Texas to the United States. In 1846 Texas became one of the states of the union, and General Houston was elected to the United States senate, of which body he remained a member until 1859. In 1859 he was elected governor of Texas; in a letter that he addressed to the compiler of this volume he said, in his characteristic manner, that he had risen from a sergeant up to president of a republic, and down to a senator of the United States. His name was Samnot Samuel, as generally printed. He died July 25, 1863, in Huntsville, Texas.
Houston, William
congressman.
He was a delegate from Georgia to the continental congress from 1784 to 1787; and was a member of the convention which framed the federal constitution, but did not sign the instrument.
Houston, William Churchill
educator, congressman, was born in 1740 in Cabarrus county, N. C. He was a professor of mathematics in Princeton college. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress from 1779 to 1782, and again in 1784 and 1785. He died Aug. 12, 1788, in Frankfort, Pa.
Housworth, William Eugene
educator, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 7, 1853, in Selin's Grove, Pa. He learned the printer's trade; then took up educational work for about twelve years; and in 1880 was admitted to the bar. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems; and is known in central Pennsylvania as the bard of the Susquehanna.
Hovey, Albert G
merchant, banker, state senator, was born July 11, 1824, in Londonderry, N. H. In 1862 he was elected a senator of the Oregon legislature; served three sessions; and in 1888 was made mayor of his city.
Hovey, Alvah
clergyman, educator, college president, author, was born March 5, 1820, in Greene, N. Y. He is a baptist clergyman; professor in Newton Theological seminary from 1849; and since 1868 its president. He is the author of The Miracles of Christ; The Scriptural Law of Divorce; Life of Isaac Backus; State of the Impenitent Dead; Christian Teaching and Life; God with Us; Systematic Theology; Biblical Eschatology; and Studies in Ethics and Religion, which include his principal works.
Hovey, Alvin Peterson
soldier, was born Sept. 6, 1821, in Posey county, Ind. He entered the volunteer service during the rebellion as a major; served with distinction as colonel and brigadiergeneral at Shiloh, Corinth, Champion Hill and Vicksburg; and was made a brevet major-general.
Hovey, Charles Edward
soldier, educator, lawyer, college president, was born April 26, 1827, in Thetford, Vt. He assisted in organizing the Illinois normal university in Normal, of which he was president from 1857 till the civil war; and on the organization of a system of public schools in that city in 1856 he was appointed superintendent, and assisted in forming the state teachers' association, of which he was president in 1856. In 1862 he was promoted to the rank of brigadiergeneral.
Hovey, Charles Mason
horticulturist, journalist, author, was born Oct. 26, 1810, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a noted horticulturist of Cambridge, editor of Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture, which reached its thirty-fourth volume, and author of Fruits of America. He died Sept. 2, 1887, in Cambridge, Mass.
Hovey, Harriette Spofford
educator, was born on the island of Nantucket. She is now, and has been for thirteen years, in charge of the division of correspondence and records in the national bureau of education at Washington, D. C.
Hovey, Horace Carter
clergyman, author, poet, was born Jan. 28, 1833, in Fountain county, Ind. He is a congregational clergyman of Bridgeport, Conn.; and the author of Celebrated American Caverns.
He has delivered a series of lectures on Caverns, Mountains and Tornadoes, which are brilliantly illustrated with wonderful views. He is a most popular clergyman of his denomination; and a successful lecturer.
Hovey, Richard
author, poet, was born in 1864 in Illinois. He is a versewriter of Washington; and the author of The Laurel, an Ode; Launcelot and Guinevere, a Poem in Dramas, republished as The Marriage of Guinevere; Seaward, an Elegy on the Death of Thomas William Parsons; Gandelfo, a tragedy; and Songs from Vagabondia, and More Songs from Vagabondia.
How, Samuel Blanchard
clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 14, 1790, in Burlington, N. J. In 1823 he became pastor of the Independent church in Savannah, Ga., whence he was called in 1830 to the presidency of Dickinson college, Pennsylvania. In 1832 he became pastor of the First Reformed Dutch church of New Brunswick, N. J., continuing in this charge until failing health induced his resignation in 1861. He published a volume entitled Slaveholding not Sinful. He died Feb. 29, 1868, in New Brunswick, N. J.
Howard, Ada Lydia
college president, was born Dec. 19, 1829, in Temple, N. H. In 1875 she was elected the first president of Wellesley college, resigning in 1881 on account of ill-health.
Howard, Benjamin
soldier, congressman, governor, was born about 1760 in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1807 to 1810 when he was appointed governor of Indiana territory. He was appointed brigadier-general in the United States army in 1813. He was once governor of Missouri territory. He died Sept. 18, 1814, in St.
Louis, Mo.
Howard, Benjamin Chew
soldier, congressman, governor, was born Nov. 5, 1791, in Baltimore county, Md. He commanded a volunteer company at the battle of North Point in 1814. He was a presidential elector in 1828; and was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1829 to 1833, and again from 1835 to 1839.
From 1835 to 1850 he was a general of militia; was a reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the United States from 1843 to 1862; and was democratic candidate for governor of Maryland. in 1861. He was also a delegate to the peace congress of 1861. He died March 6, 1872, in Baltimore, Md.
Howard, Blanche Willis
author, was born July 21, 1847, in Bangor, Maine.
She is the author of One Summer; One Year Abroad; Aunt Serena; Guenn; Aulnay Tower; and other works.
Howard, Bronson
dramatist, author, was born Oct. 7, 1842, in Detroit, Mich. He is a prominent dramatist of New York city; and the author of Saratoga, produced in London as Brighton, and in Berlin as Eine Erste und Einzige Liebe; Diamonds; The Banker's Daughter; Old Love Letters Young Mrs. Winthrop; One of Our Girls; The Henrietta; Shenandoah; Aristocracy; Moorcroft; Hurricanes; Wives; Met by Chance; and Greenroom Fun.
Howard, Charles J
lawyer, legislator, was born March 26, 1862, in Barnesville, Ohio. He has served as city solicitor and member of the school board of his native town. He served with distinction as a member of the seventy-second and seventy-third general assemblies of Ohio.
Howard, Frank T
capitalist, was born May 31, 1855, in New Orleans, La.
He owns the celebrated Quitaque ranch of 160,000 acres in the northern part of Texas, and has numerous other investments of various kinds.
Howard, Fred W
poet. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems which have appeared in the leading newspapers and magazines of Minnesota. Ce