Humes, Thomas William – Humphreys, Milton Wylie
Humes, Thomas William
clergyman, author, was born in 1815, in Tenn- He was an episcopal clergyman essee. and educator of Tennessee who published The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee.
He died in 1892.
Hummer, George Pierson
educator, business man, political economist, was born Dec. 25, 1856, in Belvidere, N. J.
After graduating from the Northern Indiana Normal school, he became superintendent of public schools of Holland, Mich., which position he filled for seven years.
He then organized and became the manager of the West Michigan Furniture company, one of the largest manufacturers of furniture in the United States. He took a leading part in behalf of bimetallism in the presidential campaign of 1896, and became a candidate for congress on the state ticket, but was defeated. He has always taken an active part in the political affairs of his state, and has gained a good reputation as a political economist.
Humphrey, Charles
congressman, was born about 1712, in Haverford, Pa.
He was a member of the provincial assembly from 1764 to 1774, and a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1776. He died in 1786 in Haverford, Pa.
Humphrey, Edward Porter
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 28, 1809, in Fairfield, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Louisville; and the author of Our Theology in its Development; and Sacred History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law. He died in 1887.
Humphrey, Elizabeth B
artist, was born about 1850 in Hopedale, Mass.
In 1882 Miss Humphrey was awarded two prizes in the competitive exhibition of L.
Prang and Company. Her illustrations include landscapes, still-life, and figures.
Humphrey, Heman
clergyman, author, was born March 26, 1779, in West Danbury, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman who was president of Amherst college in 1823-45; and the author of Tour in France, etc.; Domestic Education; Sketches and History of Revivals; Essays on the Sabbath; Life of Nathan Fiske; and Letters to a Son in the Ministry. He died April 3, 1861, in Pittsfield, Mass.
Humphrey, Herman L
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born March 14, 1830, in Candor, N. Y. He received his education in the public schools and at the academy of Cortland, N. Y. In 1854 he was admitted to the bar, and the following year was made district attorney of St. Croix county, Wis. In 1860 he was appointed county judge, and the following year was elected to that position for a term of four years. In 1861 he was elected a member of the Wisconsin state senate; and in 1865 was elected mayor of the city of Hudson, Wis.
In 1866 he was elected circuit judge of the eighth judicial circuit of Wisconsin for six years, and received the re-election in 1872. In 1876 he was elected a member of the forty-fifth congress, receiving the re-election to the forty-sixth and fortyseventh congresses. While a member of the United States congress he took an active part in the deliberations of that body, notably on the Geneva award, on which question he made a brilliant speech in the house of representatives on May 10, 1882.
Humphrey, James
educator, lawyer, congressman, born Oct. 9, 1811, in Fairfield, Conn. In 1838 he moved to the city of New York, where he practiced his profession. In 1858 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirtysixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He died June 16, 1866, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Humphrey, James M
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1819, in Holland, Ind. He was district attorney for Erie county in 1857-59; and was a member of the state senate from 1863-65. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fortieth congress as a democrat.
Humphrey, John
lawyer, state senator, was born June 20, 1838, in England. In 1870 he was elected to the general assembly of Illinois; and in 1876 was admitted to the bar. In 1884 he was again elected to the general assembly; was elected to the state senate in 1886, and re-elected in 1890 and in 1894. He was the author of the Humphrey bills.
Humphrey, Lyman Underwood
governor, was born July 25, 1844, in Ohio.
He served in the civil war and attained the rank of colonel. In 1884 he was elected a state senator, and in 1888 was nominated for governor and renominated in 1890.
Humphrey, Nelson G
business man, poet, was born May 17, 1845, in Wyoming county, N. Y. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Random Shots, of which the Cincinnati Enquirer says that any one of the poems contained therein is enough to stamp him as the most original singer of the day.
He constantly tributed prose and verse to the leading publications of Amerconica; and several of his poems have been included in Poets of America and other standard collections. He is a successful real estate and exchange broker of Le Roy, Ill., where he is prominently identified with the political affairs of his county and state.
Humphrey, Reuben
state senator, congressman. He was for four years a senator in the legislature of New York from Onondaga county; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1807 to 1809.
HUMPHREYS, man.
ANDREW, congress- He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy.
Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson
soldier, author, was born Nov. 2, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a general in the federal army during the civil war; and was subsequently chief of engineers of the United States army. He was the author of The Virginia Campaigns of 1864 and 1865; and From Gettysburg to the Rapidan. He died Dec. 27, 1883, in Washington, D. C.
Humphreys, David
soldier, statesman, author, poet, was born July 10, 1752, in Derby, Conn. In 1780 he became a colonel and aid-decamp to Washington, with whom he resided for a considerable time. In 1786 he was elected to the legislature of Connecticut; was minister to Portugal in 1791; to Algiers in 1793, and to Spain in 1796. He commanded two Connecticut regiments in the war of 1812; and acquired considerable fame as a writer, especially of poetry, and a collection of his writings was published in New York in 1804; and he also published a Life of General Putnam. He died Feb. 21, 1818, in New Haven, Conn.
Humphreys, David C
lawyer, jurist, was born in Alabama. He was appointed by President Grant from that state one of the judges of the supreme court of the United States for the District of Columbia.
Humphreys, Edward Rupert
educator, author, was born March 1, 1820, in England. He was an educator of Boston who came thither from England in 1859; and the author of Lessons on the Liturgy of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Education of Military Officers; The Higher Education of Europe and America; and Manual of Political Science.
He died in 1893.
Humphreys, Frederick
manufacturer, was born March 11, 1816, in Marcellus, N. Y. The specifics manufactured by the Humphreys Homœopathic Medicine company, which he founded, are now being produced upon an enormous scale and are known all over the world.
Humphreys, Hector
clergyman, educator, college president, was born June 8, 1797, in Canton, Conn. From 1831 till his death he was president of St.
John's college, Annapolis, and was also professor of history and philosophy. He died June 25, 1857, in Annapolis, Md.
Humphreys, Jacob
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1819 to 1821.
Humphreys, Joshua
ship-builder, was born June 17, 1751, in Haverford, Pa.
He was the first naval constructor in the United States, and has been called the father of the American navy. He died Jan. 12, 1838, in Haverford, Pa. was
Humphreys, Milton Wylie
soldier, educator, philologist, author, born Sept. 15, 1844, in Greenbrier county, W. Va. He entered the confederate army in March, 1862, as first gunner of Bryan's battery; served to the end of the war as gunner, and was promoted to corporal and sergeant. He discovered and calculated the effects of rotation of earth on projectiles when eighteen years of age; and fired the last round on Sept. 19, 1864, at Winchester. He then taught school; has filled the chairs of ancient languages in the Washington and Lee university durin 1867-75; of Greek in the Vanderbilt university in 1875-83; of Latin and Greek in the university of Texas during 1883- 87; and since 1887 has filled the chair of Greek in the university of Virginia.
In 1873 he was commissioner from Virginia to the Vienna exposition; and in 1882-83 was president of the American Philological association. He is the author of Clouds of Aristophanes; Antigone of Sophocles; and numerous minor works.