Read, Hollis
missionary, author, was born Aug. 26, 1802, in Newfane, Vt.
He was a presbyterian foreign missionary, who after 1835 was settled over various New Jersey parishes. He was the author of Journal in India; The Hand of God in History, a very popular book at one time: The Palace of the Great King; India and Its People; The Coming Crisis of the World; The Negro Problem Solved; and The Devil in History. He died April 7, 1887, in Somerville, N. J.
READ, J., congressman. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress in 1787 and 1788. con-