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HACK, ELIZABETH JANE MILLER (MRS. OREN S.): 1878-
Elizabeth Jane Miller , daughter of Timothy and Samantha West Miller, was born Aug. 17, 1878, on a farm near New Ross, Ind. Her parents farmed during the summer months and taught school in the winter. In 1883 the Millers moved to Indianapolis in order to give their children a better opportunity for higher education, and Elizabeth attended the public schools, Manual Training High School, and Butler University. While at Butler she began writing verse, contributing to the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, and in 1904 published her first novel, The Yoke. On June 16, 1908, she married Oren S. Hack, Indianapolis attorney, who died in 1942.
Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans, >Vol. III, and the Indianapolis Public Library.
-
The Yoke, a Romance of the Days When the Lord
Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
. Indianapolis, 1904.
- Saul of Tarsus. Indianapolis,
1906.
- The City of Delight: a Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of
Jerusalem. Indianapolis, 1907.
-
Daybreak, a Story of the Age of Discovery
. New York, 1915.
- The Science of Columbus. Greenfield,
Ind., 1921.
HADLEY, CHALMERS: 1872-
Chalmers Hadley , leader in the field of library science, was born in Indianapolis , Sept. 3, 1872, the son of Dr. Evan and Ella Quin Hadley. He received the B.L. degree from Earlham College in 1896 and from the New York State Library School, Albany , in 1906.
During the years from 1898 to 1905 he engaged in newspaper work at Philadelphia and at Indianapolis . After 1906 he devoted himself to library work, being successively secretary and state organizer for the Indiana Library Commission, director of the Indiana Summer Library School, secretary and executive officer of the American Library Association, and librarian at the Denver Public Library. He became librarian of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1924, retiring in 1946.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Notes on the Quaker Family of Hadley.
Denver, 1916.
- Library Buildings; Notes and Plans.
Chicago, 1924.
- John Cotton Dana, a Sketch.
Chicago, 1943.
HADLEY, JOHN VESTAL: 1842-1915.
John Vestal Hadley , son of Jonathan and Ara Hadley, was born in Hendricks County, Ind., on Oct. 31, 1842, attended Northwestern Christian (now Butler) University from 1859 to 1861, and studied at Indiana Law School in 1886. He married Mary J. Hill on Mar. 15, 1865.
During the Civil War he served in the Union Army for three and one-half years. He was twice wounded in battle, was captured on May 5, 1864, and escaped from Columbia, S. C., to Knoxville, Tenn., on Dec. 10, 1864.
From 1869 to 1872 Mr. Hadley was a member of the Indiana Senate. He was a circuit judge in 1888-89 and a justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana from 1899 to 1911.
A resident of Danville, Ind., he died on Nov. 17, 1915.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Seven Months a Prisoner. New
York, 1898.
- History of Hendricks County, Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1914.
HAGERTY, JAMES EDWARD: ?-
James Edward Hagerty , son of John and Jane E. Crilly Hagerty, was born in LaPorte County, Ind., and graduated from Northern Indiana Normal School in 1888 and Indiana University in 1892. In 1900 he received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He also studied at the University of page: 128[View Page 128] Chicago, the University of Wisconsin, and in Germany . On Oct. 26, 1907, he married Lucille Joyce.
Following his graduation from college he taught mathematics for four years in LaPorte High School and in 1901 joined the faculty of Ohio State University as assistant professor of economics and sociology, later serving as professor, acting head of the department, director of the School of Social Administration, and professor of social administration. In 1916 he organized the College of Commerce and Journalism and was its dean from 1916 to 1926.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Mercantile Credit. New York,
1913.
- The Training of Social Workers. New
York, 1931.
- Twentieth Century Crime–Eighteenth Century Methods
of Control. Boston, 1934.
HALE, LOUISE CLOSSER (MRS. WALTER): 1872-1933.
Louise Closser , daughter of Joseph and Louise Paddock Closser, was born in Chicago on Oct. 13, 1872, and was educated in the public schools of Indianapolis . On Aug. 17, 1899, she married Walter Hale. Author and actress, she made her first stage appearance in Detroit in 1895. She died on July 26, 1933.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- A Motor Car Divorce. New York,
1906.
- The Actress: Novel. New York,
1909.
- The Married Miss Worth: a Novel. New
York, 1911.
- Her Soul and Her Body. New York,
1912.
- Motor Journeys (withWalter Hale). Chicago, 1912.
- We Discover New
England
. New York, 1915.
- We Discover the Old Dominion. New
York, 1916.
- An American's London. New
York, 1920.
- Home Talent. New York, 1926.
- The Canal Boat Fracas. New York,
1927.
HALE, WILLIAM BAYARD: 1869-1924.
William Bayard Hale , son of William Hadley and Anna Bunting Hale, was born in Richmond, Ind., on Apr. 6, 1869.
He was educated at Boston University, Harvard University and the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Cambridge, Mass., and received the honorary S.T.D. from Hobart College in 1896 and the LL.D. from St. John's in the same year.
He was a clergyman until 1909, when he took up journalism. He married Olga Unger on Oct. 5, 1909.
Mr. Hale died in April, 1924.
Information from the Richmond Public Library.
- An Address in Memory of Phillips Brooks.
Cambridge Mass., 1893.
- The Eternal Teacher. New York,
1895.
- Making of the American Constitution. New
York, 1896.
- The New Obedience; a Plea for Social Submission to
Christ. New York, 1897.
- A Week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt.
New York, 1908.
- Woodrow Wilson: The Story of His Life.
Garden City, N. Y., 1912.
- American Rights and British Pretensions on the Seas; the
Facts and the Documents, Official and Other, Bearing Upon the Present
Attitude of Great Britain Toward the Commerce of the United States.
New York, 1915.
- The Story of a Style. New York,
1920.
HALL, ARNOLD BENNETT: 1881-1936.
Arnold Bennett Hall , son of Columbus Horatio and Theodosia Parks Hall, was born in Franklin, Ind., on July 22, 1881, and graduated from Franklin College in 1904, receiving the J.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1907. He later received the honorary LL.D. degree from Franklin College, the University of California, and the College of Puget Sound. On June 15, 1911, he married Grace Stafford Carney.
Admitted to the Indiana bar in 1907, he taught at the University of Chicago (1907-09), Northwestern (1909-10), and the University of Wisconsin (1910-26). From 1926 to 1932 he served as president of the University of Oregon, and from 1933 until his death he was associated with the Brookings Institution, Washington, D. C.
He died on June 1, 1936.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Outline of International Law.
Chicago, 1915.
- The Monroe Doctrine and the Great War.
Chicago, 1920.
- Dynamic Americanism.
Indianapolis, 1920.
- The Past, Present and Future of the Monroe Doctrine.
New York, 1920.
- Popular Government; an Inquiry Into the Nature and Methods of
Representative Government. New York, 1921.
HAMMOND HALSTEAD, WILLIAM RILEY: 1848-1931.
William Riley Halstead , son of Reuben and Louisa Brown Halstead, was born in Vigo County , Ind. , Mar. 19, 1848. After graduating from Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University in 1871, he was ordained to the Methodist ministry and held pastorates throughout his life in a number of Indiana towns and cities. For one year (1880-81) he was president of De Pauw College at New Albany, Ind. During the latter part of his life he lived in Terre Haute, Ind., where he died Dec. 19, 1931. He was married three times: first to Candace Kennedy, who died in 1873; then to Martha Taylor, who died in 1902; and in 1906 to Mrs. Ella B. Pegg.
Information from Who Was Who in America; De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920; and the Emmeline Fairbanks Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Ind.
- Future Religious Policy of America.
Cincinnati, 1877.
- Civil and Religious Forces.
Cincinnati, 1890.
- Life on a Backwoods Farm; or, the Boyhood of Reuben Rodney
Blannerhassett. Cincinnati, 1894.
- Christ in the Industries.
Cincinnati, 1898.
- A Cosmic View of Religion.
Cincinnati, 1913.
- The Tragedy of Labor: a Monograph in Folk Philosophy.
New York, 1919.
- Some Social Aspects of Religion. 1919.
- Creative Ideas in Religion. 1926.
- Christ in the Universe. New
York, 1929.
HAMILTON, JAMES HENRY: 1861-
James Henry Hamilton , son of Robert A. and Susan Saunders Hamilton, was born in Greensburg, Ind., on Oct. 31, 1861. He graduated from Hanover College in 1885, received the LL.B. degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1887, A.M. from Indiana University in 1894, and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1896.
From 1896 to 1903 he was professor of sociology at Syracuse University, and from 1903 to 1909 he was connected with the University Settlement in New York . After 1909 he was mainly engaged in investigating social conditions in European countries. During the first World War he served with the American Red Cross in France . Mr. Hamilton wrote on economic and sociological subjects. He established post-graduate fellowships for students in Romance languages at Grenoble, Besançon, Florence, and Seville .
Information from Who's Who in America.
- The Relation of Postal Savings Banks to Commercial
Banks. Philadelphia, 1898.
- Savings and Savings Institutions. New
York, 1902.
HAMILTON, JOHN SHERMAN: 1870-
John Sherman Hamilton , son of Jonathan and Sarah Anderson Hamilton, was born in Ada, O., on Dec. 20, 1870. He received the A.M. degree from Ohio Northern University in 1895 and studied at Wooster University and the Princeton and McCormick Theological Seminaries.
He married Agnes Laughlin on July 27, 1898, and was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in the same year. In 1904 he took up evangelistic work, in which he continued, with residence at Winona Lake, Ind.
Information from Who's Who in America.
-
Is Jesus Coming Again?
- Home, How to Make It Happy.
- The Christian and Amusements.
HAMMOND, MATTHEW BROWN: 1868-1933.
Matthew Brown Hammond , son of Seth and Sarah Longley Hammond, was born in South Bend, Ind., on June 13, 1868, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1891, receiving the M.L. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1893 and the Ph.D. from Columbia in 1898. He also studied in Germany . On July 2, 1902, he married Sunie Butler Denham.
He served as principal of Versailles (Mo.) Institute, acting assistant professor of economics at the University of Missouri , instructor and assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois, and in 1904 joined the faculty of Ohio State University as assistant professor of economics, later becoming an associate professor and professor. He died on Sept. 28, 1933.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The Cotton Industry: an Essay in American Economic
History. New York, 1897.
- The Southern Farmer and Banking Reform. New
York, 1898.
- Railway Rate Theories of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Cambridge, Mass., 1911.
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- Minimum Wage in Great Britain and Australia.
Philadelphia, 1913.
- British Labor Conditions and Legislation During the
War. New York, 1919.
HANLY, JAMES FRANKLIN: 1863-1920.
Born in St. Joseph, Ill., on April 4, 1863, J. Frank Hanly (the style he used during his political career) son of Elijah and Anna E. Calton Hanly, had little formal education. In 1879 he went to Williamsport, Ind., where he worked on a farm, sawed wood, and had six months' schooling in a district school. From 1881 to 1889 he engaged in school teaching while reading law, and in 1889 he was admitted to the bar. He practiced in Williamsport and Lafayette, Ind., until 1905. His natural gift of oratory soon gave him a start in politics. He was a member of the state Senate in 1890, a member of the 54th Congress from 1895 to 1897, and a candidate for the U. S. Senate in 1899. In 1905 he was elected governor of Indiana .
Indiana and Indianans, Vol. II, reports that his career as governor was a stormy one because of his determination to govern with a strong hand. He did not believe in compromising or conciliating, and he attacked publicly abuses in his own party, forcing the resignations of several officeholders.
He became interested in the cause of temperance and served as president of The Flying Squadron, a temperance organization founded in 1915. In 1916 he was the nominee of the Prohibition Party for president. He practiced law in Indianapolis and for a time was editor of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and the INDIANAPOLIS DAILY COMMERCIAL.
He married Eva A. Simmer in 1881 and died on Aug. 1, 1920.
Information from Who Was Who in America and Dunn– Indiana and Indianans, Vol. II.
- Occasional Addresses. [Lafayette,
Ind., 1904.]
- Patriotism of Peace; Public Addresses and State Papers of
Governor J. Frank Hanly of Indiana; Compiled by George B. Lockwood.
Marion, Ind., 1906.
- Dedicatory Address; Unveiling of Morton Monument, July 23,
1907. Indianapolis, 1907.
- Indeterminate Sentence, an Address Delivered Before
… the National Prison Association… September 16, 1907.
n.p., n.d. My Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ: an Address Delivered Before the
Fifty-First Ohio State Sunday School Convention.
Indianapolis, 1910.
- County Option in Indiana. Westerville,
O., 1910.
- Battle of Gettysburg from "The World
Disarmed."
New York, 1912.
- Andersonville. New York, 1912.
- Vicksburg. New York, 1912.
- A Day in the Siskiyous; an Oregon Extravaganza.
Indianapolis, 1916.
- Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination.
Chicago, 1916.
- The Conqueror of the World.
Indianapolis, 1918.
- Robert G. Ingersoll; Richard W. Thompson; Abraham
Lincoln. n.p., n.d.
HANNA, GUY CARLETON: 1879-
Guy Carleton Hanna , son of John Wilson and Mary Banta Chilcott Hanna, was born in White County, Ind., on Feb. 15, 1879, and graduated from Indiana State Teachers College in 1905. He also studied at the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota, receiving his A.B. degree from the latter in 1922.
From 1907 to 1909 he was head of the teachers' training department at Marion College (Marion, Ind.), from 1909 to 1911 superintendent of training schools at Indiana State Teachers College, and from 1911 to 1917 superintendent of the Indiana Boys' School, a correctional institution. From 1917 to 1928 he was in Minnesota serving as superintendent of the Minnesota School for Feeble Minded and Colony for Epileptics, and later became an employee of the U. S. Treasury Department. On Aug. 12, 1899, Mr. Hanna married Clara Perry.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- The Trouble with Agriculture.
- Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Virginia.
- Institution Service.
- The Juvenile Criminal in a State Correctional
Institution. Plainfield, Ind., 1915.
- The Menace of the Feeble Minded. n.p., n.d.
- Occupational Efficiency of the Mentally Defective; a Survey
of the Inmates of the Minnesota School for Feeble Minded and Colony for
Epileptics, Faribault. Minneapolis, 1924.
HAPGOOD, NEITH BOYCE (MRS. HUTCHINS): 1872-
Neith Boyce Hapgood , whose writings were published under her maiden name of Neith Boyce, was born on Mar. 21, 1872, in Franklin, Ind., the daughter of page: 131[View Page 131] Henry H. and Mary E. Smith Boyce. She married Hutchins Hapgood, author, in June of 1899.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Songs by Neith Boyce; with Drawings by Ethelwyn Wells
Conrey. Boston, 1893.
- The Forerunner. New York, 1903.
- The Folly of Others. New York,
1904.
- The Eternal Spring. New York,
1906.
- The Bond. New York, 1908.
- Enemies (withHutchins Hapgood). New York, 1916.
- Proud Lady. New York, 1923.
- Harry. New York, 1923.
HARBERT, ELIZABETH MORRISSON BOYNTON (MRS. WILLIAM S.): 1845-1925.
Born in Crawfordsville, Ind., on Apr. 15, 1845, Elizabeth Boynton Harbert , daughter of William and Abbey Upton Sweetser Boynton, graduated from Terre Haute Female College in 1862 and received the Ph.D. degree from Ohio Wesleyan University. She was married to William Soesby Harbert on Oct. 18, 1870.
For eight years she was editor of "Woman's Kingdom, " a department of the CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN and for one year editor of THE NEW ERA. She also contributed to THE ARENA, THE COMING AGE, WOMAN'S JOURNAL, and other periodicals. She was a prominent clubwoman, lecturer, and worker for woman's suffrage. She died Jan. 19, 1925.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The Golden Fleece. Boston, 1867.
- Out of Her Sphere. Des Moines,
Ia., 1871.
- Social Economy of Illinois. 1879.
- Amore. New York, 1892.
HARDEN, SAMUEL: 1831-?
Born in Hamilton County , Ind. , in 1831, Samuel Harden went to California in 1852 but returned in 1855 and settled at Markleville, Ind., where he was postmaster for a time. He served in the Civil War. In 1897 he was living in Anderson, Ind.
Information from the Barry Ms.
- History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to
1874. Markleville, Ind., 1874.
- Early Life and Times in Boone County, Indiana, Giving an
Account of the Early Settlement of Each Locality, Church Histories, County
and Township Officers from the First Down to 1886; Histories of Some of the
Pioneer Families of the County. Biographical Sketches of Some of the
Prominent Men and Women. Communications from Well-Informed Citizens
Throughout the County; List of Soldiers Who Went to the Late War of
1861-5 (withJohn Spahr). Lebanon, Ind., 1887.
- Those I Have Met; or, Boys in Blue; in Which Is Remembered
Those I Have Met Along the Road of Life ….
Anderson, Ind., 1888.
HARDING, CAROLINE HIRST BROWN (MRS. SAMUEL B.): ?-
Caroline Hirst Brown was born in Bloomington, Ind., and attended Indiana University, receiving the A.B. degree in 1890. In the same year she married Samuel B. Harding. She is listed, in 1904, as a resident of Bloomington . Her writing was apparently all in collaboration with her husband.
Information from The University Libraries, Indiana University, and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Stories of Greek Gods, Heroes, and Men: A Primer of the
Mythology and History of the Greeks (withS. B. Harding). Chicago, 1897.
- The City of the Seven Hills: a Book of Stories from the
History of Ancient Rome. Chicago, 1898.
HARDING, GEORGE CANADY: 1829-1881.
Born near Knoxville, Tenn., on Aug. 26, 1829, George C. Harding was the son of Jacob Harding, a lawyer, and Love Nelson Harding. He was one of thirteen children. He spent his childhood and early youth in Tennessee and Illinois , and he supplemented a very limited formal education by extensive reading.
He began his newspaper career as a printer with Judge Conard of Terre Haute , publisher of the COURIER, and was soon writing for the paper. When his father started a newspaper, the PRAIRIE BEACON, in Paris, Ill., young George worked for him and also contributed articles to a literary weekly of Cincinnati , the GREAT WEST. During the Mexican War he enlisted but saw no action, since he spent most of the time in a hospital. His first editorial experience was on the Charleston, Ill., COURIER, which he made a Republican paper, despite the pro-slavery sentiments of the former Kentuckians who had settled the neighborhood. From this time until the Civil War he worked page: 132[View Page 132] on various papers in Cincinnati and in Texas, and when the war broke out he enlisted in the 21St Indiana Regiment, from which he resigned in 1864 as a second lieutenant.
Six months after leaving the army he came to Indianapolis , where with one or two interruptions he spent the rest of his life in newspaper work, being connected at different times with the INDIANAPOLIS HERALD, (from which he retired as editor, after seven years' service, in 1880) the JOURNAL, the SENTINEL, and the MIRROR.
Mr. Harding was twice married, (first to Jennie Reeves and, in 1861, to Julia C. Bannister), and had seven children. While at the height of his success he met with an accident and died of blood poisoning on May 8, 1881.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I, and the Indianapolis Public Library.
-
The Miscellaneous Writings of George C.
Harding
(published posthumously by his wife).
Indianapolis, 1882.
HARDING, LEWIS ALBERT: 1880-1944.
Lewis Albert Harding , son of James Lancaster and Eliza Hanking Harding, was born near New Point, Decatur County , Ind. , on Feb. 1, 1880. Following his graduation from Indiana University in 1909, he spent two years (1909-11) as head of the English department of Wichita (Kan.) High School.
For two terms, beginning in 1912, he served as prosecuting attorney for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court of Indiana , and during this time he became known as a lecturer and historian. He later practiced law in Spokane, Wash., and taught elocution at the University of Louisiana.
Mr. Harding returned to Indiana and practiced law in Indianapolis , where he was active in Democratic politics. He died at Indianapolis on Sept. 9, 1944.
Information from Mrs. Clara Miller, Greensburg, Ind.
- The Preliminary Diplomacy of the Spanish-American War, with
an Introduction by Amos S. Hershey, Given at Greensburg, Indiana, November
2, 1912, Before the Athenaeum. Indianapolis,
1912.
-
The Call of the Hour
. Wichita, Kan., 1913.
- The History of Decatur County, Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1915.
- A Few Spoken Words: the Consecration of the Sixties.
Indianapolis, 1915.
HARDING, SAMUEL BANNISTER: 1866-1927.
Samuel Bannister Harding , son of George Canady and Julia Cora Bannister Harding, was born in Indianapolis on July 29, 1866. He graduated from Indiana University in 1890 and received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1894 and 1898, respectively. From 1895 to 1918 he was associate professor of history at Indiana University, from 1919 to 1921 managing editor of Compton's Encyclopedia, and from 1921 until his death was professor of history at the University of Minnesota.
He was twice married-first to Caroline Hirst in 1890, with whom he collaborated in many of his writings, then to Margaret Snodgrass in 1918. He died in Minneapolis Jan. 29, 1927.
Dr. Harding was author and co-author of many textbooks.
Information from Who Was Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- American History, 1781-1829. Albany, N.
Y., 1892.
- The "Minimum" Principle in the Tariff of
1828 and Its Recent Revival. Philadelphia,
1895.
- Party Struggles Over the First Pennsylvania
Constitution (withWilliam Fletcher Harding). Philadelphia, 1895.
- The Contest Over the Ratification of the Federal Constitution
in the State of Massachusetts. New York, 1896.
- Stories of Greek Gods, Heroes, and Men: a Primer of the
Mythology and History of the Greeks (withMrs. C. H. Harding). Chicago, 1897.
- The City of the Seven Hills: a Book of Stories from the
History of Ancient Rome (withMrs. C. H. Harding). Chicago, 1898.
- The Story of the Middle Ages.
Chicago, 1901.
- Essentials in Mediaeval and Modern History (withA. B. Hart). New York, 1904.
- Life of George R. Smith, Founder of Sedalia,
Missouri. Sedalia, Mo., 1904.
- Essentials in Mediæval History (withA. B. Hart). New York, 1909.
- Story of England (withWilliam Fletcher Harding). Chicago, 1909.
- Study of the Great War; a Topical Outline with Copious
Quotations and Reading References.
Philadelphia, 1918.
- Geography of the War; Containing Thirteen Pages of Maps and
Charts and Eight Outline Maps. Philadelphia,
1918.
HARLAN HARLAN, JACOB WRIGHT: 1828-?
Jacob Wright Harlan , who was born and reared in Indiana and who became a California pioneer, was the son of Samuel Harlan. He was born on Oct. 14, 1828, in Wayne County , Ind.
Jacob Harlan's mother died when he was about two years old, and his father married a second wife. The stepmother did not get along well with the boy, and his father was persuaded to place him as a bound boy with an uncle. This uncle was reported to have worked his own son to death; he almost killed Jacob, also, before a severe illness rendered the boy unfit for farm work and he was transferred to the custody of another uncle, George Harlan of Niles, Mich.
On Oct. 14, 1845, George Harlan, his family and a party of relatives and neighbors started for California . They wintered on the frontier and on Apr. 6, 1846, started west as a part of a great emigrant train led by Judge Moran of Missouri . The ill-fated Donner party was a unit of this train.
Jacob Harlan was seventeen and his departure with his uncle for the West coincided very nearly with that of at least three other Hoosier young men who had, or who developed, literary talents and became historians of the westward movement-Overton Johnson, William H. Winter and Joel Palmer.
The Harlan party separated from the Donner party and successfully reached California in the late summer of 1846. Jacob joined Company F of Fremont's company, under Capt. L. W. Hastings, at San Jose and traveled to southern California . He was discharged in Los Angeles in April, 1847. Returning to San Jose , he found work scarce, so went into the redwoods on the present site of Oakland and cut out shingles, which he sold to William A. Leidesdorff at $5.00 per thousand. During the summer of 1847 he fenced some sixteen lots in Yerba Buena for Leidesdorff.
On Nov. 22, 1847, he married a daughter of William Fowler, Sr., of the Napa Valley, and shortly afterward moved to San Francisco , where he established a livery stable. It was while running the stable that he received a letter from his uncle, Peter Wimmer, about the gold discovery at Coloma, and he immediately set out with a stock of goods and set up a store at the site of the discovery. He sold out on Oct. 22, 1848, to L. W. Hastings and returned to San Francisco , but in March, 1849, he took a stock of goods to the southern mines and did some mining at Columbia , later returning to livery business in San Francisco .
Purchasing cows from his uncle, George Harlan, he went into the milk business. Selling milk at $4.00 per gallon, he soon gave up his livery business (June 15, 1850). In October he sold his milk business. Buying some land at San Jose mission he started farming, but it was a dry year and he lost so much money that he was obliged to sell his land. Joining with others, he formed a squatters' group which settled on an area of land claimed by both Castro and Estudillo, moving into his newly erected house Nov. 1, 1851. The next November he sold all his land, house and property for $9,300, and leaving his wife and family with relatives on the north side of the Bay, he left California on the SS Golden Gate for the eastern states via Panama.
Landing in New York , he paused long enough to buy himself a fine broadcloth suit, a stock, a silk hat and calf boots, entrained on what is now the New York Central Railroad and, after the necessary few days' ride, arrived in Goshen, Ind., a picture of far-western prosperity.
After visiting in Indiana and Michigan he started for California overland on Jan. 12, 1953, with over 200 head of cattle of a good milk-producing strain. Arriving on the San Joaquin River on Sept. 27, 1853, with 187 of his cattle, he bought land near the river and sent for his family. Buying more land adjoining, he thus acquired a half interest in Slocum's (later Johnson's) Ferry, the lowest on the San Joaquin River. Later he became sole owner of the ferry and was in a fair way to becoming wealthy, but for health reasons he was ordered by his doctor to leave the river. He traded his ferry for cattle, which he took to the Cholama Valley, San Luis Obispo County. He bought a squatter claim in Alameda County. On July 1, 1866, his wife died. His cattle had been lost in the great drought or had been run off by thieves from the Cholama Valley.
Depressed and anxious to begin a new type of life, he bought a hotel in Calistoga in January, 1872, but soon found that he was unsuited to hotel-keeping. Giving it up at the end of a year, he went to work for wages on a farm near San Leandro . He then took up 160 acres north of Livermore , where he remained until 1877. Selling out, he bought another small claim in the Tasajera Valley, while his eldest son bought the claim adjoining. They remained there until the fall of 1883, when both sold out. Jacob moved into Livermore and bought some rental property at auction.
Shortly afterward he became a policeman in Livermore , a job he held until his health failed in the fall of 1886. Much against his will and at a great sacrifice of pride he finally entered the County Infirmary. But Jacob Harlan's enterprise was not yet extinguished. In the Infirmary he began his memoirs–and those of page: 134[View Page 134] California–and when his manuscript was completed, it was published by The Bancroft Company, a highly reputable San Francisco publishing house. According to his cousin, Mary Harlan Smith, who survived at least until 1905, the proceeds of the sale of the book made his last years comfortable.
Information from the California State Library; Mr. C. W. Harlan, Lafayette, Ind.; and Peter Decker–Catalog of the Collection of George W. Soliday, Pt. I, No. 94; Pt. 11, No. 499.
- California, '46 to '88.
San Francisco, 1888.
HARNEY, WILLIAM WALLACE: 1831-1912.
William Wallace Harney , son of John H. and Martha Wallace Harney, was born in Bloomington, Ind., on June 20, 1831, and moved with his family to Kentucky when he was a child. He received his preparatory education under private tutors.
Following his graduation from Louisville College in 1855 he became principal of the Louisville High School for one year, then from 1856 to 1858 he was professor of belles-lettres at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. From 1858 to 1869 he was associate editor of the LOUISVILLE DEMOCRAT. He spent the latter part of his life in Florida , where from 1883 to 1886 he edited a paper in Kissimmee and later contributed verse and prose to magazines and newspapers. Mr. Harney married Mary St. Mayer Randolph in 1868; she died in 1869, he in 1912.
Information from Who's Who in America and Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana .
- Spirit of the South. Boston,
1909.
HARPER, IDA HUSTED: 1851-1931.
" Ida Husted Harper (Feb. 18, 1851-Mar. 14, 1931), journalist and author, prominent in the woman's suffrage movement, was of New England ancestry, born in Fairfield, FranklinCounty, Ind., the daughter of John Arthur and Cassandra (Stoddard) Husted. When she was about ten years old her parents moved to Muncie, Ind., where she was graduated from the high school. She then entered Indiana University but spent only a year there, becoming at the age of eighteen principal of the high school in Peru, Ind. On Dec. 28, 1871, she was married to Thomas W. Harper, a young lawyer, and as long as they lived together their home was in Terre Haute . Harper died in 1908, having married again in 1890 …
"During her residence in Terre Haute , Mrs. Harper began her career as a journalist, contributing to the papers of that city and of Indianapolis . For twelve years she conducted a department known as 'A Woman's Opinion' in the Terre Haute SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, and for a short time was managing editor of the Terre Haute DAILY NEWS. She also wrote political articles for the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. In 1883 she became a contributor to the FIREMAN'S MAGAZINE, later called the LOCOMOTIVE FIREMAN'S MAGAZINE, under the editorship of Eugene V. Debs …, and in May 1884 was put in charge of its woman's department … For a considerable period her home was in New York , where she was for some time a department editor of the SUNDAY SUN and of HARPER'S BAZAAR, as well as a contributor to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, and Chicago papers.
"She was a sturdy champion of the woman's suffrage movement and closely associated with its leaders. In 1899 she went to London as a delegate to the International Council of Women, and thereafter attendea practically all the European meetings of the Council and of the International Suffrage Alliance. Her ability as a writer and her journalistic experience enabled her to give much aid to the suffrage campaign through the press, and in the years immediately preceding the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution she had charge of publicity for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She wrote The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony at Miss Anthony's request, the first two volumes, published in 1899, being written in the reformer's home at Rochester, N. Y. The third volume appeared in 1908. She also assisted Miss Anthony in preparing the fourth volume (1902) of The History of Woman Suffrage. In 1922 she published two more volumes, bringing the history down to 1920. Her last days were spent in Washington , where she died from a cerebral hemorrhage at the Homeopathic Hospital. Her body was cremated and the ashes were sent to Muncie, Ind., for interment."
Condensed from H. E. S., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. VIII.
- The Associated Work of the Women of Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1893.
- Suffrage a Right. New York,
1906.
- Woman Suffrage Throughout the World. New
York, 1907.
- page: 135[View Page 135]
- History of the Movement for Woman Suffrage in the United
States. New York, 1907.
- The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Including Public
Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty
Years. Indianapolis, 1898-1908. 3 vols.
- Suffrage Snapshots. Washington, D.
C., 1915.
- A National Amendment for Woman Suffrage.
Washington, D. C., 1915.
- A Brief History of the Movement for Woman Suffrage in the
United States. New York, 1917.
- Woman Suffage; a Collection of Newspaper and Magazine
Articles, Leaflets and Miscellaneous Matter (1896-1917) … Collected and
Arranged by Her. 13 vols.
- Story of the National Amendment for Woman Suffrage.
New York, 1919.
- The History of Woman Suffrage. (Vols. V and VI of the work
begun by Susan B. Anthony.)
New York, 1922. (Also
co-author with Susan B. Anthony of Vol. IV, Rochester, N.Y., 1903.)
- Life of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. 1927.
HARRIS, BRANSON L.: 1817-1901.
Born Apr. 21, 1817, in Green township, WayneCounty, Ind., Branson L. Harris arrived on the Indiana scene in time to experience all the hardships and pleasures of the first pioneers. His parents were James and Naomi L. Harris, farmers.
He married Martha, Young in 1839 and survived her by less than a year, the couple having lived together sixty-one years.
Harris was elected to the Indiana State Legislature in 1853 and again in 1875 and 1877. He died in 1901.
Information from the Indiana State Library and the Richmond Public Library.
- Some Recollections of My Boyhood.
Indianapolis, 1907.
HARRIS, LEE O.: 1839-1909.
Lee O. Harris , teacher, editor and poet, was the son of Samuel and Mary Harris. He was born in ChesterCounty, Pa., on Jan. 30, 1839. His father was a minister of the Methodist Church. The family later lived in Washington County, Pa., until 1852, when they came to Indiana , and settled at Andersonville. Lee Harris was educated in schools and seminaries in that place. Extensive travel in the U. S. and Canada , including an overland trip to Oregon and Washington Territory in 1856-57, supplemented the young man's education.
For a time he studied medicine, but in 1858 he gave up the idea of becoming a doctor and went into the teaching profession, which he followed, working also as a newspaper editor, until 1880.
In 1860 he went to Greenfield, Ind., to publish the CONSTITUTION AND UNION, a Republican journal, and at the outbreak of the Civil War joined the Eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. He later transferred to the Fifth Indiana Cavalry, but sickness compelled his resignation from the army. In 1864 he again entered the service and remained in the army until the close of the war, when he returned to Greenfield and resumed teaching.
He was one of James Whitcomb Riley's early teachers and is generally credited with stimulating young Riley's interest in verse in the latter's more mature years.
Mr. Harris began writing as a boy. Before he was fifteen years old he had written poetry, and at twenty he was a regular contributor to the New York MERCURY. After 1880 he devoted all of his time to writing.
On Mar. 14, 1861, he married America Foster. He died in 1909.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I, and the Greenfield Public Library.
- The Man Who Tramps: a Story of Today.
Indianapolis, 1878.
- Interludes. Indianapolis, 1893.
HARRIS, THOMAS LEGRAND: 1863-1941.
Thomas LeGrand Harris , son of Greene and Jane Wilson Harris, was born in HamiltonCounty, Ind., on Apr. 8, 1863. He was educated at Indiana University (A.B., 1892; A.M., 1895) and at Harvard (A.M., 1899). In 1922 he received his Ph.D. degree from Indiana University.
After teaching in country schools and high schools of Indiana , he became an instructor in history at Indiana University in 1905, and in 1912 went to Baker University as professor of history and head of the department. He also taught history during a number of summers at Denver University. On Aug. 14, 1913, he married Adah Shafer. After his retirement from teaching he lived at Greencastle, Ind., where he died on Aug. 23, 1941.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
page: 136[View Page 136]- The Trent Affair; Including a Review of the English and
American Relations at the Beginning of the Civil War.
Indianapolis, 1896.
- America and England in 1861. Baldwin City,
Kan., 1928.
HARRISON, BENJAMIN: 1833-1901.
" Benjamin Harrison … twenty-third president of the U. S. , was descended from Benjamin Harrison …, signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia . His son, William Henry Harrison, established his home in Ohio on an extensive estate on the Ohio River just below Cincinnati ; here he was residing in 1840 when elected president. On an adjoining farm lived his eldest son, John Scott Harrison, congressman for two terms. His second wife, Elizabeth Irwin, was the mother of Benjamin.
"Private tutors and typical country school teachers prepared Benjamin Harrison for Farmer's College. He finished his college course with distinction in 1852 at Miami University. On Oct. 20, 1853, he married a college friend, Caroline Lavinia Scott, daughter of Dr. John Scott, president of the Oxford Female Institute; to them two children, Russell and Mary, were born. From 1852 to 1854 he read law in the offices of Storer and Gwynne, prominent attorneys in Cincinnati . In 1854, he settled in Indianapolis … His active interest in politics began during the first year of his law practice, when the struggle over slavery was at white heat … In 1858 he served as secretary to the Republican state central committee of Indiana ; he was elected city attorney in 1857, and in 1860 and 1864 reporter of the Supreme Court of Indiana .
"… In 1862, he helped raise the 70th Indiana Infantry and was appointed its colonel by Gov. Oliver P. Morton. The regiment was hurried to Bowling Green, Ky., to assist in stopping Bragg, even though its colonel knew practically nothing of war and its rank and file knew less. Fortunately it was given the prosaic duty of guarding the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Two years of devotion to duty and study changed the untrained colonel into a seasoned brigade commander. Harrison soon became unpopular, however, because he insisted on turning raw recruits into disciplined soldiers. In 1864, his command was attached to Sherman's army and participated in the bloody battles of the Atlanta campaign, during much of which Harrison was in command of his brigade … After the capture of Atlanta, Harrison returned to Indiana at Governor Morton's request to help combat Copperhead influence in the political campaign of 1864. This service prevented his participation in the march through Georgia, but he rejoined his command in the Carolinas and led it in the grand review in Washington . On Mar. 22, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general 'for ability and manifest energy and gallantry.' Three years of war had fully matured him.
"Returning to the practice of his profession, Harrison was immediately recognized as one of the ablest lawyers in his state …
"His active interest in public affairs and local philanthropy continued after the war … In 1872, Morton, who had developed an antipathy for Harrison, prevented his receiving the Republican nomination for governor. In 1876, however, Orth, the Republican candidate, was forced off the ticket in the middle of the campaign by an effective Democratic attack on his previous financial transactions. In this predicament, the Republican state committee persuaded Harrison, with his unsullied reputation, that it was his duty to his party to accept the nomination which he had previously declined. A bitterly fought campaign followed. Harrison appealed strongly to the old soldiers and to the cities. The Democratic candidate, James Douglas Williams, called 'Blue Jeans,' was a well-to-do farmer who had some of Lincoln's rugged honesty, simplicity of manner, and homely appearance. The Democrats capitalized these points further by speaking of Harrison as 'Kid-glove' Harrison; and portraying him as being as 'cold as an iceberg.' From this charge he was to suffer as long as he was a candidate for or an occupant of public office. The Democrats carried the state by 5,139 majority. Harrison regretted the defeat of his party, but personally preferred to give his time to law … In 1879, Hayes appointed him a member of the newly created Mississippi River Commission. This office he held until 1881. During the national railroad strike in 1877, Governor Williams appointed him a member of the citizens' committee to settle the strike in Indianapolis and also placed him in command of the state troops there …
"While senator (1881-87), as chairman of the important committee on territories, Harrison successfully guided through the Senate a bill to grant civil government to Alaska and a bill to admit Dakota as a state, though the latter did not pass the House… He generally aligned himself with the moderate, progressive group of his party. Meantime, the Democrats had carried Indiana in 1884, gerrymandered the state, and defeated him for re-election in 1886 by a margin of one vote, after a dramatic campaign …
"As early as 1883, Wharton Barker, a wealthy Quaker banker of Philadelphia, had surmised that the bitter hostility between Blaine and Arthur would cause page: 137[View Page 137] the defeat of either if nominated for the presidency and had suggested to independent Republican leaders in the East that Harrison would unite all elements of his party and carry the doubtful state of Indiana . Harrison attended the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1884 and was seriously considered as a possible 'dark horse' candidate. That his name was not presented was due to his own unwillingness to launch a personal campaign … Beginning in 1887, Harrison's friends carried on a quiet but well-organized campaign to secure his nomination in 1888. Though he was fourth on the first ballot at Chicago , he was nominated on the eighth. A spectacular, spirited campaign followed with the tariff as the chief issue … Harrison set a precedent by conducting an effective 'front porch' campaign, making a large number of short speeches to visiting delegations. The archaic electoral college gave him 233 votes and Cleveland 169, in spite of the fact that the American people indorsed Cleveland's administration by a popular plurality of 100,000 …
"Harrison appreciated the new forces which were sweeping the U. S. onward into imperialism. He took great pride in the new navy of steel ships being built under Secretary Benjamin F. Tracy and saw his policy of developing a merchant marine auspiciously begun…
"By the second year of Harrison's term, Quay, Platt, Alger, 'Czar' Reed, and others had begun to form an anti-Harrison wing in the Republican party to prevent his renomination … The implacable hostility of the 'bosses' increased as 1892 approached until its virulence is hard to overestimate. Harrison's friends rallied under the leadership of L. T. Michener and renominated him over Blaine and McKinley, but in the election he was overwhelmingly defeated by Cleveland …
"Harrison returned to his home in Indianapolis to engage in writing and in the practice of law … During the campaign of 1894, Harrison spoke for his party; in 1896, he again took a leading part in the campaign, though he had little admiration for Mark Hanna and McKinley… No other ex-president resumed the bona-fide practice of law on such a large scale and so successfully as did Harrison …
"On Apr. 6, 1896, Harrison married Mrs. Mary Scott (Lord) Dimmick, a niece of his first wife; to them a daughter, Elizabeth, was born … He died of pneumonia on Mar. 13, 1901 …
"Condensed from A. T. V., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. VIII.
NOTE. During his candidacy for, and term as, President of the U. S. , speeches and essays by Benjamin Harrison were printed and reprinted officially and unofficially to such an extent as to make their identification, verification and listing far beyond the limitations of this work. Here, therefore, are listed only those publications deemed by the editors to be most significant.
- The Speeches of President Harrison on His Recent Trip from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. Kansas City, Kan.,
1891.
- Thirty Days with President Harrison; Containing All of His
Speeches in Full on His Recent Vacation-Trip Through the Country; Also, a
Full and Graphic Account of All the Receptions and Banquets Tendered
Him. New York, 1891.
- Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-Third President of the
United States. New York, 1892.
- Public Papers and Addresses. Washington, D.
C., 1893.
- Legal Aspects of the Controversy Between the American
Colonies and Great Britain; a Lecture.
Indianapolis, 1894.
- "No Mean City"; a Response by …
at a Dinner … Indianapolis April 21, 1897.
Indianapolis, 1897.
- This Country of Ours. New York,
1897. (Republished in England, 1897, as The
Constitution and Administration of the United States of America.)
- Views of an Ex-President: Addresses and Writings on Subjects
of Public Interest Since the Close of His Administration.
Indianapolis, 1901.
- The Correspondence Between Benjamin Harrison and James G.
Blaine, 1882-1893; Collected and Edited by Albert T. Volwiler.
Philadelphia, 1940.
HARRISON, JOHN SMITH: 1877-?
John Smith Harrison was born at Orange, N. J., Feb. 3, 1877, the son of William Ogden and Lottie Ann Smith Harrison. He was educated at Columbia University, where he received the degrees of A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. In 1907 he married Elisabeth Shepard Southworth.
During his career as an educator he taught English in the New York public schools and at Kenyon College, and in 1916 became a professor at Butler University, Indianapolis .
Information from Who's Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Platonism in English Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries. New York, 1903.
- The Teachers of Emerson. New
York, 1910.
- The Vital Interpretation of English Literature.
Indianapolis, 1928.
- Types of English Poetry; a Study of Literary
Organisms. Indianapolis, 1941.
HARRISON, THOMAS: 1813-1903.
Thomas Harrison was born in Yorkshire, England, on Jan. 19, 1813. When he was fourteen years old he was apprenticed to a printer for seven years and, following his term of service, came to the United States , where he settled in Springfield, O., and became the publisher of a political newspaper.
From 1841 to 1848 he was an assistant editor of the WESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE and the LADIES REPOSITORY. He held a position in the Ohio Conference High School in Springfield and four years later established Linden Hill Academy in New Carlisle, O., which soon became known as a place of learning in the West.
Professor Harrison came to Indiana in 1864 as president of Moore's Hill (now Evansville) College, a position he held for six years. He was later president of a college in Brookville, Ind., and principal of Shelbyville High School.
About 1890 he retired from public life and settled in Shelbyville, where he conducted classes for private pupils until his last illness.
He was ninety years old when he died on Apr. 18, 1903.
Information from the Carnegie Public Library, Shelbyville, Indiana.
- A New Mode of Illustrating Elocution ….
Shelbyville, Ind., 1874.
HARRISON, THOMAS G.: ?-
Thomas G. Harrison was a resident of Indianapolis , at least during the Seventies and Eighties when he was a national leader in the publication of "amateur" newspapers, a craze which swept the nation in that period.
Publication of these was the work of one person, or of a small group, and was usually carried on in the editor-publisher's attic or cellar through the medium of a hand press. The papers began by criticizing each other's products and ended by vilifying and condemning; their chief object soon became campaigning for their owners' election to office in the many associations which resulted from the highly individualistic behavior of the owners in convention.
Harrison's paper, THE REVEILLE, must have been one of the best, or worst, since Harrison served as president of the National Amateur Press Association and of the Western Amateur Press Association.
He advertised his book, in one issue of his paper, as "The Largest Amateur Book Ever Published. The Best Amateur Book Ever Published. Endorsed by Every Reader as a Triumph of Amateur Book Publishing … Largest Book Ever Issued by an Amateur Journalist …"
The address of Harrison in the Eighties was carried as 83 E. Market St., Indianapolis .
Information from The Reveille, Indianapolis .
- Career & Reminiscences of an Amateur Journalist and
History of Amateur Journalism. n.p.
[Indianapolis], n.d. [1883].
HART, JOSEPH KINMONT: 1876-
Joseph Kinmont Hart , son of David N. and Lucy Kinmont Hart, was born near Columbia City, Ind., on Feb. 16, 1876, graduated from Franklin College in 1900, and received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1909. He married Frances Stuyvesant Uhrig in 1929.
During his career as an educator he taught at Baker University, the University of Washington, Reed College, the University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and Columbia University. From 1920 to 1926 he acted as editor of the department of education for THE SURVEY.
Information from Franklin College.
- Critical Study of Current Theories of Moral
Education. Chicago, 1910.
- Democracy in Education. New
York, 1918.
- Community Organization. New
York, 1920.
- The Discovery of Intelligence. New
York, 1924.
- Social Life and Institutions; an Elementary Study of
Society. Yonkers-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1924.
- Light from the North; the Danish Folk High-Schools, Their
Meanings for America. New York, 1927.
- Adult Education. New York, 1927.
- Prophet of a Nameless God; a Poem Founded on Some Passages in
the Books of the Kings and Rendering the Legend of Elijah into Its Modern
Meanings. New York, 1927.
- Inside Experience; a Naturalistic Philosophy of Life and the
Modern World. New York, 1927.
- A Social Interpretation of Education. New
York, 1929.
- Creative Moments in Education; a Documentary Interpretation
of the History of Education. New York, 1931.
- Education for an Age of Power. New
York, 1935.
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- Education During Leisure–For What?
Nashville, Tenn., 1935.
- Mind in Transition; Patterns, Conflicts and Changes in the
Evolution of the Mind. New York, 1938.
HARTZLER, JOHN ELLSWORTH: 1879-
John Ellsworth Hartzler , son of Joseph Z. and Mary Byler Hartzler, was born at Ligonier, Ind., on Feb. 2, 1879, and graduated from Goshen College in 1909. He was a student at McCormick Theological Seminary and received the B.D. degree from Union Theological Seminary in 1910. In 1919 he received the A.M. degree from the University of Chicago, in 1923 the LL.B. from Hamilton College of Law (Chicago), and in 1924 the Ph.D. from Hartford Theological Seminary. He married Marie M. Yoder on Oct. 5, 1910.
In 1904 he was ordained to the Mennonite ministry and from 1904 to 1910 served as pastor at Garden City, Mo. From 1910 to 1913 he was pastor at Elkhart, Ind., and professor of Bible at Goshen College, serving as president of that institution from 1913 to 1918. He was president of Bethel College ( Kan. ) from 1918 to 1920 and of Witmarsum Theological Seminary ( O. ) from 1921 to 1931. In 1931-32 and again in 1934-35 he was visiting professor at American University, Beirut, Syria, and at the Near East School of Theology. After 1936 he was a lecturer at Hartford Theological Seminary ( Conn. ).
Information from Goshen College and from Who's Who in America.
- Jacob's Ladder in Ten Sermons.
Scottdale, Pa., 1908.
- Paths to Perdition. Scottdale,
Pa., 1910.
- The Heresy of Russell and Russellism ….
Scottdale, Pa., 1911.
- Education Among the Mennonites of America.
Danvers, Ill., 1925.
- Voices from Bible Lands. 1935.
HARTZLER, JONAS SMUCKER: 1857-
Jonas S. Hartzler , eldest son of Samuel and Sarah Smucker Hartzler, was born on Aug. 8, 1857, in Noble County, Ind., and grew up on a large farm there. He was educated in the public schools and in a normal school. At the age of eighteen he began to teach in a school near his home and he married Fannie C. Stutzlan on Feb. 5, 1880.
Ordained to the ministry of the Mennonite Church when he was twenty-four years old, he served as pastor, evangelist, and teacher (at Elkhart Institute and Goshen College) for sixty-six years. From 1923 to 1940 he was pastor of the Prairie Street Mennonite Church in Elkhart, Ind. He was also secretary of the Mennonite General Conference from 1898 to 1924 and editor of the RURAL EVANGEL after 1930.
Information from Jonas S. Hartzler and the Goshen College Library.
- Mennonite Church History (withDaniel Kauffman). Scottdale, Pa., 1905.
- Among Missions in the Orient and Observations by the
Way (withJ. s. Shoemaker). Scottdale, Pa., 1912.
- Mennonites in the World War or Non-Resistance Under
Test. Scottdale, Pa., 1921.
HATFIELD, JOHN THOMAS: 1851-?
John Thomas Hatfield , born in 1851, was reared in Greenfield, Ind. It may be assumed, from the title of his autobiography, that he took up evangelistic preaching in about 1880. He is reported to have died in California .
Information from the Greenfield Public Library.
- Thirty-Three Years a Live Wire; Life of John T. Hatfield, the
Hoosier Evangelist, by Himself. Cincinnati,
1913.
HAWKINS, JOHN ANDREW: 1855-
Born at Greencastle, Ind., on Mar. 16, 1855, John Andrew Hawkins graduated from Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University in 1874, received the A.M. degree in 1878, and received the Ph.D. degree from Illinois Wesleyan in 1896. He married Mary M. Moffett on Apr. 2, 1889.
After studying theology at Princeton and at Union Theological Seminary, he was admitted to the ministry in 1886. In 1889 he was a pastor in Illinois , and in 1901-02 he served as president of Westfield College ( Ill. ).
Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.
- Sorrow; Its Worth, Its Cure.
- Devotional Series.
HAWORTH, PAUL LELAND: 1876-1938.
Paul Leland Haworth , son of John D. and Fanny Hornor Haworth, was born in West Newton, Ind., Aug. 28, 1876. He was educated at Indiana University (A.B., 1899; A.M. 1901) and at Columbia University (Ph.D., 1906). On Sept. 1, 1903, he married Martha B. Ackermann.
He was an instructor in history at various colleges and universities, including Michigan Northern State Normal, Columbia , Bryn Mawr, and Indiana . From 1922 until his death he was professor of history at Butler University, Indianapolis . In 1916 and in 1919 he conducted explorations of the Canadian Rocky Mountains on assignments for SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE.
He was an unsuccessful Progressive nominee for the Indiana Legislature in 1912 and was a member of the Legislature during the 1921-22 session. In addition to his books he wrote stories and historical articles for leading magazines. He died Mar. 24, 1938.
Information from Who Was Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- The Hayes-Tilden Disputed Presidential Election of
1876. Cleveland, 1906.
-
The Path of Glory
. New York, 1911.
- Reconstruction and Union, 1865-1912. New
York, 1912.
- America in Ferment.
Indianapolis, 1915.
- George Washington: Farmer; Being an Account of His Home Life
and Agricultural Activities. Indianapolis,
1915. (New edition in 1925 under title
George Washington: Country Gentleman.)
- On the Headwaters of Peace River; a Narrative of a
Thousand-Mile Canoe Trip to a Little Known Range of the Canadian
Rockies. New York, 1917.
- The United States in Our Own Times, 1865-1920.
New York, 1920.
- Trailmakers of the Northwest. New
York, 1921.
- Our Country's History.
Indianapolis, 1926.
- Caverns of Sunset, Being the Story of Patricia
Percy's Quest in the Pays en Haute.
Indianapolis, 1930.
HAY, JOHN MILTON: 1838-1905.
Son of Charles and Helen Leonard Hay, John Milton Hay was born in Salem, Ind., on Oct. 8, 1838. The family soon moved to Warsaw, Ill., where Hay received his grammar school training. Later he attended Pittsfield Academy and took some work at college level in Springfield . He entered and was graduated from Brown University in 1858, studied law in Springfield-where he became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln–and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1861.
In the same year he became one of the private secretaries of Lincoln and later was appointed his adjutant and aide-de-camp, being breveted colonel of the U. S. Volunteers. At the end of the Civil War he was appointed secretary of the Paris legation and later of the legation at Madrid . He became charge d'affaires at Vienna and, in 1870, returned to the United States .
Taking up newspaper work, he became an editorial writer and night editor for the NEW YORK TRIBUNE and, in his spare time, began his literary career. His first book (and one of his best) concerned the middle western scene, from which he was now so long removed. It was his Pike County Ballads.
In 1874 he married Clara Stone of Cleveland , and the next year he gave up newspaper work to devote all of his time to literature. Some of his contributions to periodicals were particularly successful–notably his dialect sketch, "Little Breeches," which continued a standby of professional and amateur elocutionists for fifty years.
In 1879 he was appointed first assistant Secretary of State and served until 1881, when he returned to journalism to take over Whitelaw Reid's desk as editor of the NEW YORK TRIBUNE for six months. Taking up literature again, he is supposed to have written a novel, Breadwinners, which was published anonymously in 1884, and he joined with John G. Nicolay in writing their Abraham Lincoln, a History. This work was published serially in the CENTURY MAGAZINE in 1886 and 1887 and appeared in book form in 1890. It was enormously successful, selling, judging from the frequence of its appearance in second-hand book stores, to every literate Union veteran.
In 1897 John Hay was appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James but was recalled the next year to become Secretary of State. He died in 1905 at Newbury, N.H.
The cause of literature would have prospered had John Hay been in less demand as a statesman. His writing is, at times, so clean cut and so brilliant that it gives promise, had it been followed more consistently, of an even higher quality than it possessed: and this is in no way derogatory to the quality of writing he did achieve–a quality usually as good as, and frequently better than, that of his best contemporaries.
Information from Who Was Who in America; and Kunitz and Haycraft–American Authors, 1600-1900.
page: 141[View Page 141]- Castilian Days: Sketches of Travel in Spain.
Boston, 1871.
- Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belie, and Little Breeches.
Boston, 1871.
- Little Breeches; a Pike County View of Special
Providence. New York, 1871.
- Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces.
Boston, 1871.
- Poems. Boston, 1871.
- The Pioneers of Ohio. An Address Delivered Before the
Pioneers' Association of the Western Reserve … August
27, 1879. Cleveland, 1879.
- Balance Sheet of the Two Parties.
Cleveland, 1880.
- Amasa Stone. New York, 1883.
- The Breadwinners; a Social Study. New
York, 1884.
- The Enchanted Shirt. Chicago,
1889.
- Abraham Lincoln, a History (withJohn G. Nicolay). New York, 1890.
- Complete Poetical Works of John Hay.
Boston, 1896.
- In Praise of Omar: an Address Before the Omar Khayyam
Club. Portland, Me., 1898.
- On Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
New York, 1898.
- Memorial Address on the Life and Character of William
McKinley. Washington, 1903.
- Addresses. New York, 1906.
- Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary. 3 vols.
New York. 1908.
- A Poet in Exile: Early Letters of John Hay (edited byTickenor). Boston. 1910.
- Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John
Hay; Selected … by Tyler Dennett. New
York, 1939.
HAYDEN, SARAH MARSHALL: ?-
No biographical material on Mrs. Sarah Marshall Hayden has been found, but she was recognized as an Indiana resident during the period in which she wrote. "D. S. A.," writing on the Indiana book collection of Daniel Hough in the CINCINNATI GAZETTE of Dec. 7, 1876, says: "If we except Eggleston's and Wallace's books, Hoosier novelists have done little for the entertainment of their readers or for the reputation of their State. A few personal friends may have 'waded' through … Sarah Marshall Hayden's Early Engagments, and Florence,–a sequel … But these books certainly never engaged the attention of any considerable number of readers."
Information from D. S. A. in the CINCINNATI GAZETTE, Dec. 7, 1876.
- Early Engagements. Cincinnati,
1854.
- Florence. (pub. with Early Engagements in 1854
ed.)
- Mr. Langden's Mistake.
Washington, 1901.
HAZZARD, GEORGE E.: 1845-1926.
Born in New Castle, Ind., on July 22, 1845, George E. Hazzard married Maria Eudora Tobey on June 30, 1870. He was the author of an excellent county history.
Information from the New Castle Public Library.
- History of Henry County. New
Castle, 1906. 2
vols.
HEATH, PERRY SANFORD: 1857-1927.
" Perry Sanford Heath (Aug. 31, 1857-Mar. 30, 1927), newspaper man and politician, was one of the six sons of Jacob W. and Rhoda A. Perdieu Heath, of Muncie, Ind. … Perry shifted for himself from an early age. At twenty-one he was editor and proprietor of Muncie's first daily newspaper, and three years later he was publishing the PIONEER at Aberdeen , Dakota Territory. For the next twelve years he worked as a newspaper correspondent at Washington … from 1894 to 1896 he was editor of the CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL-GAZETTE and … had a significant part in directing the publishing and printing for the Republican National Committee. "When the McKinley administration took office Heath was made first assistant postmaster-general … He installed the rural free delivery system although some experimenting had been done during the Cleveland administration, and within three years the number of routes provided in this service was increased from 44 to 1,214 … When he resigned from the service in July, 1900, serious irregularities had come to light in the Cuban postal service, then administered by the United States … In 1903 came disclosures involving men in the department at Washington , several of whom owed their places to him., but when charges were made against him after his resignation, the District Attorney did not find sufficient evidence to indict him. In the meantime he had returned to newspaper work, having bought the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE in 1901, and established the TELEGRAM, an evening paper, in the following year. He had married Ella Conway, of Louisville, Ky., in 1890 …"
page: 142[View Page 142]Condensed from W. B. S., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. VIII.
- A Hoosier in Russia. New York,
1888.
HEINEY, ENOS BOYD: 1868-
Enos Boyd Heiney (pen name, Ean Boyd Heiney) was born on a farm in Huntington County, Ind., on Feb. 26, 1868. He attended the country schools, Indiana State Normal School, and for twenty-two years taught in the country and town schools of Indiana . In 1910 he became traveling representative for a school book publishing company.
Mr. Heiney contributed verses and prose sketches to newspapers and poetry magazines, the first appearing in the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL in 1886.
Information from Enos Boyd Heiney.
- Poets and Poetry of Indiana (compiler and editor withBenjamin S. Parker). New York, 1900.
- Friends Ysame. 1903.
- Salamonie and Other Rhymes. 1905.
- In Jest or Earnest. 1907.
- The Dreamer and Other Rhymes. Greencastle,
Ind., n.d. [1936].
- Doleful Doggerel. 1937.
- The Rubaiyat of a Four-Flusher. 1938.
- Olla-Podrida. Coatesville, Ind.,
1939.
- A Hindu Myth. Coatesville, Ind.,
n.d. [1941].
- Ballad of a Bookman.
Indianapolis, 1942.
- Kites in a Tree. Coatesville,
Ind., 1944.
- The Road to Town. Coatesville,
Ind., 1945.
- Through the Looking-Glass. Coatesville,
Ind., 1946.
HELLER, ISAAC: 1809-1836.
Isaac Heller (Young), son of John and Sarah Heller Young, was born in Dauphin County, Pa., on May 2, 1809. Tried for the murder of a young girl in his native state and acquitted on grounds of insanity, he was confined in chains at the poor house of the community.
After his release–apparently in 1831–he came West and settled outside the town of Liberty, Ind., changed his name from Young to Heller, married, joined a church and prospered moderately. Soon, however, he began to develop what appeared to be a religious mania, began to talk of his crime and to neglect work.
On Feb. 27, 1836, he killed his wife and their three small children with an axe. He fled but was captured, arrested and eventually hanged. The pamphlet giving his life story was written–or more probably dictated –by him while awaiting execution.
Information from Smith, O. H.–Early Indiana Trials and Sketches and the Indiana State Library.
- The Life and Confession of Isaac Heller Alias Isaac Young Who
Was Executed at Liberty, Union County, Ia. on the 29th Day of April, 1836,
for the Murder of His Wife and Three Infant Children, to Which Is Appended a
Brief History of the Trial, Together with the Sentence Pronounced Upon Him
by Hon. Samuel: Bigger, Presiding Judge. Liberty,
Ind., 1836.
HELM, THOMAS B.: 1822-1889.
" Thomas B. Helm … was born in Fayette County in 1822. In 1832 he moved to Logansport, Ind., and. when he grew to manhood was a surveyor and civil engineer for several years. He was the first superintendent of schools in Cass County.
"Mr. Helm wrote most of the text for Cass County Atlas published in 1878 but his greatest contribution was History of Cass County, a work of 976 pages, published in 1886."
Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.
- History of Cass County, Indiana.
Chicago, 1878.
- History of Hamilton County, Indiana.
Chicago, 1880.
- History of Allen County, Indiana.
Chicago, 1880.
- History of Delaware County, Indiana.
Chicago, 1881.
- History of Carroll County, Indiana. 1882.
- History of Wabash County, Indiana.
Chicago, 1884.
- History of Cass County, Indiana.
Chicago, 1886.
HENDERSON, CHARLES RICHMOND: 1848-1915.
" Charles Richmond Henderson (Dec. 17, 1848-Mar. 29, 1915), Baptist clergyman, sociologist, was born in Covington, Ind., the son of Albert and Loranna [probably Larainne] (Richmond) Henderson. His education was received at the old University of Chicago (A.B., 1870) and at the Baptist Union Theological Seminary (B.D., 1873). In 1901 he received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry and became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Terre Haute, Ind., in page: 143[View Page 143] 1873, and was married the same year to Ella Levering of Lafayette, Ind. In 1882 he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Woodward Avenue Baptist Church, Detroit , where he remained until 1892 when he was invited to join the faculty of the new University of Chicago as university chaplain, assistant professor of sociology, and university recorder. from 1894 to 1897 he was associate professor of sociology, and from the latter date to his death, professor of sociology, becoming head of the department of practical sociology in 1904. Throughout these years he remained the chaplain of the University.
"As a student he served a small church back of the stockyards in Chicago , and from this experience dates his interest in social problems. At Terre Haute he was the first president of the local charity organization, and on going to Detroit he at once allied himself with the charitable organizations of that city. While still a pastor he made a study of prisons and prison management and became a recognized authority in that field. He took an active interest in labor problems, and when a strike on the Detroit street car lines was imminent he was largely responsible for settling the differences between the contending parties. At the University of Chicago he found opportunity to give himself more freely to social studies and during his service there he published sixteen books and more than one hundred articles. Many of these publications are of pioneer importance in the field of penology, industrial insurance, and industrial legislation … Besides contributing frequently to sociological and religious journals, he served for many years as associate editor of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY; THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, and the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY. He was president of the National Conference of Charities, 1898-99 … president of the United Charities of Chicago, 1913 … president of the National Prison Association, 1901-02. "As a teacher and investigator he was a pioneer in a new field… He was characterized, by those who knew him and his work, as both academic and practical, respected both by scientists and men of practical affairs. Overwork was responsible for his sudden death, which occurred at Charleston, S. C., to which place he had gone with Mrs. Henderson in March 1915, expecting to recover his health …"
Condensed from W. W. S., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. VIII.
- Introduction to the Study of the Dependent, Defective and
Delinquent Classes. Boston, 1893.
- Catechism for Social Observation.
Boston, 1894.
- The Development of the Doctrine in the Epistles.
Philadelphia, 1896.
- The Social Spirit in America. Meadville,
Pa., 1897.
- Social Elements, Institutions, Character, Progress.
New York, 1898.
- Social Settlements. New York,
1899.
- Practical Sociology in the Service of Social Ethics.
Chicago, 1903.
- Modern Prison Systems. Washington, D.
C., 1903.
- World Currents in Charity Theory and Practice.
Philadelphia, 1903.
- Die Arbeiter-Versicherung in den Vereinigten Staaten yon
Nord-Amerika. Berlin, 1907. (Published in the United States, Chicago, 1909, as
Industrial Insurance in the United States.)
- Social Duties from the Christian Point of View.
Chicago, 1909.
- Education with Reference to Sex.
Chicago, 1909.
- Reasonable Social Policy for Christian People.
Philadelphia, 1909.
- Preventive Agencies and Methods. New
York, 1910.
- Working-Men's Insurance.
Philadelphia, 1912.
- Social Programmes in the West: Lectures Delivered in the Far
East. Chicago, 1913.
- The Cause and Cure of Crime.
Chicago, 1914.
- Citizens in Industry. New York,
1915.
HENDRICKS, ELDO LEWIS: 1866-1938.
Eldo Lewis Hendricks , son of Samuel and Henrietta Stinehouse Hendricks, was born in Rossville, Ind., on Oct. 2, 1866, graduated from Franklin College in 1894, and received the A.M. degree from Indiana University in 1899. He also studied at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and Columbia .
In 1894 he was county superintendent of schools in Johnson County, Ind. He was superintendent of schools in Delphi, Ind., from 1901 to 1906, when he became supervisor in the Indianapolis schools. After 1915 he was president of Central Missouri State Teachers College. In 1930-31 Mr. Hendricks was a member of the Fact Finding Commission to India.
He married Viola Murphy in 1910 and died on Nov. 22, 1938.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- After Ten Years. 1904.
- History and Civil Government of Indiana.
New York, 1908.
- A Study in Reading. Chicago,
1911.
- The Teacher in Politics. Warrensburg,
Mo., 1920.
- page: 144[View Page 144]
- Missouri's Opportunities …. n.p.,
n.d. [1921].
- The Scope of the Work to Be Done by the Teachers College
…. n.p., 1923.
- Our Colleges and the Church ….
Warrensburg, Mo., 1926.
- In-Service Training for Rural School Teachers
…. n.p., 1928.
- Rimming the Mediterranean. Kansas City,
Mo., 1935.
HENNINGER, JOSEPH BURNS: 1847-1943.
Born in Clinton County, Ind., in 1847, Joseph Burns Henninger was an orphan at nine years of age. During the Civil War, when he was thirteen years old, he enlisted in the Union forces, was sent home, and re-enlisted when he was sixteen. He graduated from Barnes Medical University in St. Louis in 1900 and practiced in the U. S. and Great Britain. He was forced to resign from the presidency of Riley Ophthalmology College in St. Louis because of ill health. In 1938, at the age of ninety-one, he was still active and had served eight years as Assistant Adjutant General and Assistant Quartermaster General of the Grand Army of the Republic, with offices in the State House in Indianapolis .
Information from the Barry Ms.
- Crumbs. n.d.
HENRY, DAVID W.: 1852-
Born in Columbus, O. , in 1852, David W. Henry was a long-time resident of Terre Haute, Ind.
Information from the Emmeline Fairbanks Memorial Library, Terre Haute , Indiana .
- Richard W. Thompson Memorial. St. Joseph,
Mich., n.d. [1906].
- Abraham Lincoln: an Address Delivered by Hon. David W.
Henry… Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 12, 1925. Terre
Haute, Ind., 1925.
HENRY, WILLIAM ELMER: 1857-1936.
William Elmer Henry , son of John and Elizabeth Chapman Henry, was born near Connersville, Ind., on Nov. 7, 1857. He was graduated from the Indiana State Normal School in 1885, received the A.B. degree, 1891, and the A.M. degree, 1892, from Indiana University, and carried on graduate study at the University of Chicago.
He was an instructor in English at Indiana University, 1891-93, professor of English at Franklin College, 1895-97, Indiana State Librarian, 1897-1906, and librarian of the University of Washington from 1906 until his retirement in 1929.
Mr. Henry married Margaret Atkinson Roberts on July 30, 1895, and, after her death in 1900, married Sylvia M. Allen on Mar. 26, 1903. He died on Mar. 20, 1936.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Literature as a Subject for College Study.
Franklin, Ind., 1895.
- Librarianship; What It Implies.
Indianapolis, 1902.
- Municipal and Institutional Libraries of Indiana. History,
Condition and Management. Indianapolis, 1904.
- Some Elements of Indiana's Population; or, Roads
West and Their Early Travelers. Indianapolis,
1908.
- My Own Opinions Upon Libraries and Librarianship.
Seattle, Wash., 1931.
- The Indiana State Library, the Historical Library of the
State, Established 1825. Indianapolis,
n.d.
HEPBURN, CHARLES MCGUFFEY: 1859-1929.
Charles McGuffey Hepburn , son of Andrew Dousa and Henrietta McGuffey Hepburn, was born in Rockbridge County, Va., in 1859 and graduated from Davidson College in 1878. In 1880 he received the LL.B. degree from the University of Virginia and in 1908 the LL.D. from Miami University. He married Julia Benedict on Oct. 10, 1891.
After teaching at Davidson College for a year, he was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1881 and practiced at Cincinnati until 1903. from 1897 to 1903 he was also a lecturer at the Cincinnati Law School. In 1903 he moved to Bloomington, Ind., where he taught in the law school of Indiana University. from 1918 to 1925 he served as dean of the law school and after 1925 as research professor of law. He wrote at least five technical law books besides the title listed here.
He died in 1929.
Information from Indiana University, 1820-1904, and Who Was Who in America.
- The Historical Development of Code Pleading in America and
England …. Cincinnati, 1897.
HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS: 1862-1925.
" George Davis Herron (Jan. 21, 1862-Oct. 9, 1925), clergyman, lecturer, and writer, was born at Montezuma, Ind., of devoutly religious parents of Scotch origin, William and Isabella (Davis) Herron. His childhood he describes as obsessed with premonitions of a religious world mission, out of which, perhaps, grew the vivid and passionate conviction of messiahship and of an imminent kingdom of heaven on earth which in changing forms dominated his mature life. He attended the preparatory department of Ripon College, Ripon, Wis., from 1879 to 1882, working at the printer's trade to secure funds. In 1883 he married Mary Everhard and entered the ministry. His further education consisted of reading and independent reflection.
"Herron first attracted public notice in 1891 when as pastor of the First Congregational Church of Lake City, Minn., he addressed the state Association of Congregational Ministers, meeting at Minneapolis , upon the theme: 'The Message of Jesus to Men of Wealth.' This address, published that same year, was an earnest and moving appeal for the application of Christian ethics to business, and resulted in Herron's being called to the pastorate of the First Congregational Church of Burlington, Ia. Seventeen months later a professorship of applied Christianity was founded for his occupancy in Iowa College (later Grinnell) by Mrs. E. D. Rand of Burlington . During the six years of his service Iowa College became the center of nation-wide interest because of his attempt to translate Christianity into social, political, and economic terms. He brought to this work a fervor and eloquence which attracted students and impressed many men and women of insight and influence. His scathing criticism of existing institutions aroused bitter antagonism, however, and ultimately alienated many of his most loyal supporters.
"As a consequence, he resigned his professorship in 1899. Joining the Socialist party, he tried to organize within it a 'social crusade,' which should give religious character to the movement. Mrs. E. D. Rand and her daughter, Carrie Rand, cooperated with him in various undertakings to this end in Chicago and in New York . Partly through his influence the Rand School of Social Sciences was founded in New York City in 1906 by Mrs. Rand. In March 1901 his wife divorced him for 'cruelty culminating in desertion,' and was given for the support of herself and the five children the personal fortune of Carrie Rand, amounting to sixty thousand dollars. On May 25, 1901, he and Carrie Rand were married in New York City by a ceremony, wherein 'each chose the other as companion,' thus dramatizing his avowed opposition to 'all coercive institutions.' He was at once deposed from the ministry and shortly afterward took up permanent residence with his wife and her mother upon an estate near Fiesole, Italy …
"Like many Socialists, he viewed the World War at its outbreak as the capitalist catastrophe prophesied by Karl Marx. Later, however, he became violently anti-German, abandoned his pre-war platform, and broke with the Socialist party for its tolerance of Germany and of Bolshevism, trying even to divert from the Rand School the funds of the Rand estate. America's entrance into the war he envisioned as a 'sacred crusade' wherein 'for the first time in the earth's annals, a great and powerful people has gone to war for humanity' … Of Woodrow Wilson he wrote an extravagant eulogy, Woodrow Wilson and the World's Peace (1917). During the negotiations for peace he appears to have had a large place in the confidence of the German emissaries and of President Wilson. He influenced the German representatives to trust Wilson's power to enforce upon the Allies conditions favorable to Germany … Early in the Russian Revolution he seems to have been favorable to the Bolshevists but he soon became alienated from their program. President Wilson's appointment of Herron and William Alien White as America's representatives to the abortive Prinkipo Conference aroused a storm of protest in the American press, based chiefly upon Herron's views regarding marriage. When the terms of peace became known he was inevitably discredited with both radicals and conservatives and was bitterly hated in Prussia . He turned to Italy as a final Utopian hope and in 1920 published in periodicals of Europe and America his 'ecstatic confidence' that Italy would become a 'more Christly society than the world has yet known.' On the death of his second wife in 1914, he married Friede B. Schoeberle. His books are for the most part collections of sermons and lectures, or reprints of articles in American and European periodicals … His war papers, two volumes of which were sealed for twenty- five years, were deposited in the Hoover Library of Stanford University. He died at Munich , Bavaria, in his sixty-fourth year …"
Condensed from C. M. S., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. VIII.
- The Larger Christ. Chicago,
1891.
- The Message of Jesus to Men of Wealth. New
York, 1891.
- The Call of the Cross; Four College Sermons.
New York, 1892.
- page: 146[View Page 146]
- A Plea for the Gospel. New York,
1892.
- The New Redemption: a Call to the Church to Reconstruct
Society According to the Gospel of Christ. New
York, 1893.
- The Christian Society. Chicago,
1894.
- The Christian State: a Political Vision of Christ: a Course
of Six Lectures Delivered in Churches in Various American Cities.
New York, 1895.
- Social Meanings of Religious Experiences.
New York, 1896.
- Between Caesar and Jesus. New
York, 1899.
- Why I Am a Socialist. Chicago,
1900.
- Wagner and Parsifal. 1903.
- The Day of Judgment. Chicago,
1904.
- From Revolution to Revolution: Address in Memory of Paris
Commune, 1871. Chicago, 1907.
- Woodrow Wilson and the World's Peace.
New York, 1917.
- The Menace of Peace. New York,
1917.
- Germanism and the American Crusade. New
York, 1918.
- Greater War. New York, 1919.
- The Defeat in the Victory.
London, 1921.
- The Revival of Italy. London,
1922.
- War and Peace Under Socialism.
HERSCHELL, WILLIAM: 1873-1939.
William Herschell , Hoosier journalist and poet, was born in Spencer, Ind., on Nov. 17, 1873. As a youth he lived in Huntingburg, Ind., and began his newspaper career there as a reporter for the INDEPENDENT. For three years he worked on the PRINCETON NEWS, then came to Indianapolis , where he spent the remainder of his life. He was associated with the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS for thirty-seven years.
Herschell started as a feature writer for the NEWS and eventually added poetry as a medium of expression. His poems about everyday life and simple people were widely read throughout Indiana , and his patriotic songs during the first World War were familiar to the nation. The most popular of his war songs was "Long Boy," known to most people as "Good-bye, Ha! Goodbye, Pa!" the opening lines of the refrain. In recognition of his war poetry he was awarded an honorary A.M. degree by Wabash College in 1917.
He was married to Josephine Pugh in 1908 and died in Indianapolis on Dec. 2, 1939.
Information from Who's Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
-
Songs of the Streets and Byways
. Indianapolis, 1915.
-
The Kid Has Gone to the Colors; and Other
Verse
. Indianapolis, 1917.
- The Smile-Bringer, and Other Bits of Cheer.
Indianapolis, 1919.
- Howdy All, and Other Care-Free Rhymes.
Indianapolis, 1922.
- Meet the Folks. Indianapolis,
1924.
- Hitch and Come In. Indianapolis,
1928.
HERSHEY, AMOS SHARTLE: 1867-1933.
Amos Shartle Hershey , son of Martin and Mary Ann Shartle Hershey, was born in Hershey, Pa., on July 11, 1867, and graduated from Harvard University in 1892. In 1894 he received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Heidelberg. He was a student in Harvard Law School in 1891-92 and studied in Paris in 1894-95.
He married Lillian Wilcox on Sept. 6, 1892. In 1895 he moved to Bloomington, Ind., where he was a member of the faculty of Indiana University from 1895 to 1933, serving as assistant professor of political science until 1900, associate professor of European history and politics until 1905, and professor of political science and international law after 1905. After 1914 he was head of the department of political science. In 1918-19 he was a member of the staff of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, Paris . He died on June 12, 1933.
Information from Indiana University, 1820-1904, and Who Was Who in America.
- Die Kontrolle Über Die Gesetzgebung in den
Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika.
Heidelberg, 1894.
- The International Law and Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese
War. New York, 1906.
- The Essentials of International Public Law.
New York, 1912.
(Reissued in 1927 as The Essentials of International Public Law and
Organization.)
- Modern Japan; Social, Industrial, Political (withSusanne W. Hershey). Indianapolis, 1919.
- Les Doctrines de Calvo et de Drago.
HERVEY, JAMES WALTER: 1819-1905.
Dr. James Walter Hervey , first Indiana writer to attempt "horror stories," was born near Brookville, Ind., in 1819. He studied medicine in Ohio and practiced in Indianapolis and Oakland City, Ind.
He was a member of the State Legislature in 1854 and served as a surgeon in the Civil War. He was later active in the beginnings of public health work in the state.
page: 147[View Page 147]Information from Briscoe, Orah Cole–unpublished Ms. The Hoosier School of Fiction.
- The Scroll and Locket; or the Maniac of the Mound.
Indianapolis, 1858.
HESSLER, ROBERT: 1861-1942.
" Robert Hessler , A.M., M.D., was a physician of Logansport, Ind. and a thorough student of science and medicine. He contributed to many scientific and medical journals and in 1912 he published a popular medical work … which contained many original ideas."
From Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.
- The Evolution of Medicine in Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1906.
- Dusty Air and Ill Health: a Study of Prevalent Ill Health and
Causes. Indianapolis, 1912.
- Mineral Waters of Indiana with Indications for Their
Therapeutic Application. Logansport, Ind.,
n.d.
HIATT, JAMES M.: ?–?
Except for the fact that he was a resident of Indianapolis , at least between 1864-78, and that he was a newspaper man and reformer, no information has come to light on the life of James M. Hiatt . On his last known book he collaborated with Luther Benson, Indiana temperance worker.
Information from the Indiana State Library and books by Hiatt.
- The Political Manual, Comprising Numerous Important Documents
Connected with the Political History of America.
Indianapolis, 1864.
(Republished in German, 1865.)
- The Test of Loyalty.
Indianapolis, 1864.
- The War for Democratic Succession. n.p., 1866.
- The Voter's Text Book.
Indianapolis, 1868.
- Murder and Mob Law in Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1872.
- The Ribbon Workers (withLuther Benson). Chicago, 1878.
HIBBARD, MRS. J. R.: ?-?
D. S. A., writing in the CINCINNATI DAILY GAZETTE for Dec. 7, 1876, of Daniel Hough's collection of books by Indiana authors, states that "'Flossy Lee, and Flossy Lee at the. Mountains, are a couple of books for children that have been very popular. Their author, 'Faith Wynne,' is Mrs. Dr. J. R. Hibbard , of Richmond."
No further biographical data upon Mrs. Hibbard has been located, but the Flossy Lee books were, and long continued to be, reading matter which could be unanimously endorsed for righteous tone and moral content.
Information from D. S. A. in the CINCINNATI GAZETTE, Dec. 7, 1876.
- Flossy Lee at the Mountains.
Philadelphia, 1870.
- Flossy Lee. Philadelphia, 1871.
HIBBEN, WILLIAM W.: ?-?
William W. Hibben , prominent Indiana minister from 1835 to 1865, was born in Uniontown, Pa., and removed with his parents to Ohio at an early age.
He was licensed as a Methodist minister at Hillsborough, O. , in 1832 and came to Indiana in March, 1835. He held pastorates at Lafayette , Indianapolis and elsewhere in the state, retiring from the ministry after a term as presiding elder of the Jeffersonville district.
Throughout his career he wrote for newspapers and the religious press and acted as associate editor of a periodical, THE MASONIC ADVOCATE, for several years after 1871.
Information from Nowland–Sketches of Prominent Citizens of 1876.
- Rev. James Havens, One of the Heroes of Indiana
Methodism. Indianapolis, 1872.
HIGGINS, WILLIAM R.: 1838-1895.
William R. Higgins was born in Logansport, Ind., in 1838. He was educated in the Logansport schools and was graduated from Wabash College in 1861, receiving his M.A. in 1865. He also was graduated from Lane Theological Seminary and entered the Presbyterian ministry. He married Mary E. Condon on Dec. 29 1861. The Rev. Mr. Higgins died in Terre Haute, Ind., on July 4, 1895.
Information from Powell–History of Cass County and the Wabash College Archives.
- Cardinal Points. Cleona, Pa.,
n.d.
HIGHT, JOHN J.: 1834-1886.
Born at Bloomington, Ind., on Dec. 4, 1834, John J. Hight graduated from Indiana University in 1854. For eleven years he was an associate editor of the WESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, a Methodist publication. He died at Cincinnati, O. , on Dec. 18, 1886.
Information from the Princeton Public Library.
- Hight's History of the Fifty-Eighth Indiana
Regiment (withGilbert R. Stormont). Princeton, Ind., 1895.
HILLES, HOWARD: 1877-
Howard Hilles was born near Alliance, O. , on Sept. 12, 1877. After attending grade and high schools at Mt. Union and Alliance, O. , he studied at Nit. Union College for two years.
He married Miss Sadie Croad, and the couple purchased a farm west of Bourbon, Ind., in 1906. He regularly contributed verse to newspapers in the neighborhood.
Information from a newspaper sketch by Mrs. S. E. Boys.
- Rhymes at Random. 1910.
-
Untraveled Trails
. Boston, 1916.
HITT, ROSE BIRCH (MRS. ISAAC R., JR.): 1863-
Rose Birch Hitt , daughter of the Rev. William J. Birch was born in Elkhart, Ind., April 25, 1863. She graduated from the Fort Wayne High School and attended Northwestern University. In 1887 she came to Logansport with her parents and resided there until 1890. She was married in Logansport Nov. 13, 1889, to Isaac R. Hitt, Jr. of Chicago , and later resided in Washington, D. C.
Information supplied by the Logansport Public Library.
- Hitt Instrument Tuned. New York,
1904.
HOAGLAND, MERICA EVANS: 1858-1933.
Born at Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1858, Merica Evans Hoagland contributed articles to the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS in 1915 and 1916. She died in Indianapolis in 1933. She was interested in the advancement of women in professional and business fields, in clubs, and in library work.
Information from the Barry Ms.
- Bits of Indiana History.
Indianapolis, 1915.
HOBBS, BARNABAS COFFIN: 1815-1892.
Born at Salem, Ind., on Oct. 4, 1815, Barnabas Coffin Hobbs began teaching at the age of eighteen and continued in that profession throughout his life.
In 1839 he took charge of a boarding school at Mt. Pleasant, O. , and in 1843 he married Rebecca Tatum and moved to Richmond, Ind., where he became superintendent of what is now Earlham College. from 1851 to 1866 he served as president of Friends' Bloomingdale Academy. He became first president of Earlham College in 1866 and professor of English literature. In 1870 he served a term as state Superintendent of Public Instruction, in 1871 became president of Bloomingdale Academy again, and in 1879 was sent on a peace mission to Europe, remaining abroad for two years.
Mr. Hobbs was awarded an honorary A.M. by Wabash College in 1858 and an LL.D. by Indiana University in 1870.
He died at Bloomingdale, Ind., on June 22, 1892.
Information from the Rockville Public Library.
- Earlham Lectures. Richmond,
Ind., 1885.
HODELL, CHARLES WESLEY: 1872-
Charles Wesley Hodell , son of George and Mary E. Shoemaker Hodell, was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., on Apr. 16, 1872. After graduating from De Pauw University in 1892 and receiving the Ph.D. degree from Cornell in 1894, he was an instructor in English and history at Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh from 1894 to 1897 and professor of English at Woman's (now Goucher) College in Baltimore from 1897 to 1912. Before his death he was treasurer and director of the Finance and Guaranty Company in Baltimore . He married Willa M. Ricketts on Apr. 5, 1899.
He edited, criticized and traced the sources of some Browningiana in works not listed here.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The Ring and the Book; Its Moral Spirit and Motive.
Shelbyville, Ind., 1894.
HODGIN, CYRUS WILBURN: 1842-1908.
Cyrus Wilburn Hodgin , son of Tilnias and Rachel Hinshaw Hodgin, was born near Farmland, Ind., on Feb. 12, 1842, and graduated from Illinois State Normal University in 1867. He received his A.M. degree from Earlham College in 1888 and in 1892-93 was a graduate student in history and political science at the University of Chicago. He married Emily Caroline Chandler on Aug. 22, 1867.
In 1868-69 he served as principal of the Richmond High School, from 1872 to 1881 as professor of history in Indiana State Normal School, in 1882-83 as superintendent of the Rushville, Ind., schools, and from 1883 to 1887 as principal of the Richmond Normal School. He became connected with Earlham College in 1887 as professor of history and political economy. from 1896 to 1898 he acted as conductor of the Chautauqua College of History. A lecturer on peace, education, temperance, and arbitration, he died in 1908.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Indiana and the Nation. Boston,
1893.
- A Study of the American Commonwealth (as Reflected by
Orations of Burke and Webster) (withJames Albert Woodburn). Boston, 1893.
- A Short Sketch of the History of Indiana.
New York, 1906.
HOLCOMBE, JOHN WALKER: 1853-1940.
John Walker Holcombe was born in LaPorte, Ind., in 1853. He graduated from Harvard University and became a teacher, serving two terms as Indiana State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the early Eighties. He married Effie Burford McOuat of Indianapolis .
In 1887 he went to Washington , where he was employed first by the Bureau of Education and later by the Department of the Interior. He died Feb. 10, 1940, in Washington, D. C.
Information from the INDIANAPOLIS STAR for Feb. 13, 1940.
- The School Law of Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1884.
- The Life and Public Services of Thomas A. Hendricks (withHubert M. Skinner). Indianapolis, 1886.
- The Electoral College. Washington, D.
C., 1913.
HOLLAND, ERNEST OTTO: 1874-
Ernest Otto Holland , son of Philip C. and Ann A. Chittenden Holland, was born at Bennington, Ind., on Feb. 4, 1874, and graduated from Indiana University in 1895. He studied in Europe in 1905, 1909, and 1923-24, received the Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1912, and was awarded LL.D. degrees by Indiana University (1937) and Whitman College (1942).
After teaching in the high schools of Indiana for five years, in 1900 he became head of the English department of Boys' High School in Louisville , remaining in this position until 1905, when he joined the faculty of Indiana University. from 1911 to 1916 he was superintendent of schools in Louisville , and after 1916 he was president of Washington State College.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- The Pennsylvania State Normal Schools and Public School
System. New York, 1912.
- College and University Administration (withE. E. Lindsay). New York, 1930.
HOLLIDAY, FERDINAND C.: 1814-?
Born near Mt. Auburn, N. Y., in 1814, Ferdinand C. Holliday came to Indiana with his family in 1817. His youth was spent in Dearborn County , and he came to Indianapolis in 1847, where he was pastor of Wesley Chapel for two years. He was one of the founders of Moore's Hill College.
Information from the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Anniversary Book for Sunday Schools. 1837.
- Life and Times of Rev. Allen Wiley, A.M., Containing Sketches
of Early Methodist Preachers in Indiana, and Notices of the Introduction and
Progress of Methodism in the State; Also, Including His Original Letters,
Entitled; "A Help to the Performance of Ministerial
Duties." By Rev. F. C. Holliday, A.M. Edited by Rev. D. W. Clark,
D.D. Cincinnati, 1853. A Bible Handbook, Theologically Arranged; Designed to
Facilitate the Finding of Proof-Texts on the Leading Doctrines of the
Bible. Cincinnati, 1870.
- Indiana Methodism. Cincinnati,
1873.
HOLLIDAY, JOHN HAMPDEN: 1846-1921.
John Hampden Holliday , son of the Rev. William A. and Lucia S. Cruft Holliday, was born in Indianapolis , page: 150[View Page 150] on May 31, 1846. He was educated at Hanover College (A.B., 1864; A.M., 1867). During the Civil War he served in the 137th Indiana Volunteers.
In 1869 he founded the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS and in 1899, with William J. Richards, founded the INDIANAPOLIS PRESS, which consolidated with the NEWS in 1901. from 1869 to 1892 he was editor of the NEWS. He was a banker–founder of the Union Trust Company in 1893–and a civic leader in the community.
He married Evaline M. Rieman Nov. 4, 1875, and died in Indianapolis on Oct. 20, 1921.
Information from Who Was Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- The Pew to the Pulpit: an Address Delivered to the Graduating
Class of McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago, Apr. 7, 1892.
n.p., 1892.
- The Hospital as a Public Charity: an Address to the
Indianapolis Medical Society … January Nineteenth, 1904.
Indianapolis, 1904.
- War and Precedents; Address.
Indianapolis, 1919.
- Third of a Century.
Indianapolis, n.d.
HOLLIS, IRA NELSON: 1856-1930.
" Ira Nelson Hollis (Mar. 7, 1856-Aug. 14, 1930), naval engineer, educator, was born … in Floyd County, Ind., the son of Ephraim Joseph Hollis (1825-1910) and Mary (Kerns) Hollis. During the Civil War his father became captain in the 59th Indiana Regiment … later [he] became owner and operator of a quarry at Louisville, Ky. His wife was the daughter of a farmer in Steubenville, O. Ira's youth was spent at Louisville in straitened circumstances. He attended the local high school and then became an apprentice in a machine shop. He later secured a clerical position with a railroad, and then with a cotton commission house in Memphis . At the age of eighteen he took the examination for admission to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and came out at the head of the list, a position which he retained throughout the course. After graduating as cadet-engineer in 1878, he spent three years on the cruiser Quinnebaug … at the conclusion of the cruise [he] was detailed as professor of marine engineering at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. In 1884 he served with the advisory board for the construction of the ships of the White Squadron. Ordered to the Pacific coast in January 1887, he spent three years at the Union Iron Works, supervising the construction of the Charleston , and three years on board that vessel … In 1892 he was designated to lecture on naval engineering at the Naval War College at Newport , his lectures being subsequently published as a textbook for the navy. He then became assistant to the chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, but resigned from the navy in 1893 to take charge of the development of instruction in engineering at Harvard University.
"During his twenty years as professor of mechanical engineering at Harvard, Hollis built up a reputation as an educator and an administrator … He was active also in improving intercollegiate athletic relations, in establishing the Harvard Union … in founding the Engineers Club of Boston … In 1913 Hollis was called to the presidency of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute … he was elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and in that position did valuable work for national preparedness. He resigned the presidency of the Institute in 1925 on account of ill health, returned to Cambridge, Mass., and devoted himself to writing until his death some five years later … On Aug. 22, 1894, he was married to Caroline (Lorman) Hollis, the daughter of Charles Lorman of Detroit . He was survived by four children … "
Condensed from L. S. M–s., Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. IX.
- War College Lectures on Naval Ships. 1892.
- The Frigate Constitution: the Central Figure of the Navy
Under Sail. Boston, 1900.
HOLLOWAY, JOHN NELSON: 1839-1887.
John Nelson Holloway was born near Lafayette, Ind., on Mar. 9, 1839. He entered De Pauw University but, since he is known to have married Henrietta Hall on July 1, 1861, probably taught school or did other work from time to time at intervals in his college work. He received the A.B. degree in 1862 and the A.M. in 1865. He acted as principal of Wesley Academy for a short time and moved to Kansas in 1866.
He eventually returned East (probably, from the date of publication of his book, by 1868), acted as superintendent of schools in Pana and Centralia, Ill., and began the practice of law in Chester, Ill., in 1874, continuing in Danville after 1876.
In 1881 he settled on a farm near Lafayette, Ind., where he died on Apr. 19, 1887.
page: 151[View Page 151]Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.
- History of Kansas: From the First Exploration of the
Mississippi Valley, to Its Admission into the Union: Embracing a Concise
Sketch of Louisiana; American Slavery, and Its Onward March; the Conflict of
Free and Slave Labor in the Settlement of Kansas, and the Overthrow of the
Latter, with All Other Items of General Interest.
Lafayette, Ind., 1868.
HOLLOWAY, WILLIAM ROBESON: 1836-1911.
William Robeson Holloway , consul and Indianapolis journalist, was born on Dec. 6, 1836, in Richmond, Ind., the son of David P. and Jane Ann Paulson Holloway. He learned the printing business on his father's paper, the Richmond PALLADIUM, and from 1852 to 1857 worked on the CINCINNATI TIMES. In 1858 he returned to Richmond and married Miss Eliza Burbank of Centerville, Ind. He was admitted to the bar in 1860.
During the Civil War he was private secretary to Indiana 's governor, Oliver P. Morton. Following a year in business in New York City, he purchased the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL in 1864 and was its editor for several years. from 1869 to 1881 he was postmaster of Indianapolis . He then started the INDIANAPOLIS TIMES and edited it until 1886. In 1897 he was appointed U. S. Consul-General at St. Petersburg, Russia.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. 11, and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- History of Richmond and Wayne County. 1858.
- Indianapolis: a Historical and Statistical Sketch of the
Railroad City, a Chronicle of Its Social, Municipal, Commercial and
Manufacturing Progress, with Full Statistical Tables.
Indianapolis, 1870.
- A Bad Record, Hendricks as a Public Man. Speech at
Greencastle, Indiana, 1884. Boston, 1884.
HOLMAN, JESSE LYNCH: 1784-1842.
Jesse Lynch Holman , Indiana Territorial Legislator, Territorial, State and Federal judge, Baptist elder and public-spirited citizen, apparently holds another, unpublicized, distinction:
He must have been Indiana's first resident novelist.
He was the son of Henry Holeman (the son, Jesse Lynch, omitted the "e" from the name), a Virginian who had come to Kentucky in 1776 and who had been in the thick of the Indian warfare which plagued the settlers of the Bluegrass and the Kentucky River valley for twenty years. The Holeman name appears in connection with many of the engagements in the stockades of the Kentuckians and Henry Holeman is said to have been killed by the Indians in 1789 while attempting to run supplies to a blockhouse in which his wife, the former Jane Gordon, and their children were besieged.
There were fourteen children in the Holeman family (Jane Gordon Holeman being Henry Holeman's third wife) and Jesse Lynch Holman was one of the younger. He was born near Danville, Ky., in 1784.
Times were hard for all westerners in the period and the Holemans, though some of the family were men and women at the time of the father's death, had great difficulty in making ends meet. However, Jesse Lynch Holman managed to get an education of sorts and began to teach subscription schools while still only a boy. He began to preach occasionally, also–a practice he continued throughout his life. He is supposed to have read law under the guidance of Henry Clay in Lexington shortly after 1800: whether or not this was the case, he was admitted to the Kentucky bar on Sept. 2, 1805.
He practiced at New Castle, Henry County, Ky. (a town laid out by his famous cousin, George Holman, whose captivity by the Indians is described by Sandford Cox in his Recollections of the Early Settlement of the Wabash Falley), in Port William (now Carrollton ) and later at Frankfort . At Port William he met Elizabeth Masterson and they were married in 1810, after he had settled in Frankfort .
It was in this same year that Holman's novel was published. The title page reads The Prisoners of Niagara, or Errors of Education. d New Novel, Founded on Fact. By Jessee [sic] L. Holman, a Native of Kentucky … and it is a duodecimo of 357 pages, very poorly printed by William Gerard, in Frankfort, Ky.
Holman must, at first, have had a considerable regard for the work, for he named one of his daughters "Emerine" after the heroine. Later in his life he is reputed to have become convinced, according to Blake –The Holmans of Veraestau, "… that the morals of the book were not suitable for the minds of young people and he attempted to buy up and destroy the entire edition." More likely, it would appear, Holman's desire to destroy the work may have been the result of the understandable horror with which a middle-aged judge, of position and dignity, would look upon a piece of over-florid dramatic writing indiscreetly committed to page: 152[View Page 152] print by him in his youth: such feelings have prompted similar actions before and since.
In his address "To the Reader" Holman says: "When this 'airy trifle' was presented to the public, the author was conscious it contained a sufficiency of errors to amuse the attention of the critic; but when he examined the printed copy, owing to his absence while the work was at press, the difficulty of the manuscript, and various other causes, there are more errors in the impression than he expected. This circumstance, together with the consideration, that the paper is inferior to what he intended, induces him in justice to release from their obligations, all those friends who have been so polite as to subscribe for the work. The binding will now be different from the first propositions, and every person is at liberty to purchase the book as it is." And there appear to have been, indeed, errors enough, including the misspelling of the author's first name on the title page!
Of the story itself Blake reports "… The book deals much with Virginia and the western country during the time of the American Revolution, with Indians, hairbreadth escapes and other dramatic incidents. ' The Errors of Education' portion of the title is accounted for by the training of the hero in Richmond, Va.; 'The Prisoners of Niagara' is explained by the fact that Fort Niagara plays an important part in the story. The entire novel is told by the hero in the first person and undoubtedly represents much that Holman heard from the lips of his father. Perhaps the actual episodes are from his father's life, as he was a Virginian who migrated to Kentucky . The style of the novel is somewhat Byronic–very intense, passionate, often extremely sentimental. The spirit is that of adventure, love of freedom, hatred of slavery, and opposition to drunkenness and all forms of immorality."
These conclusions may very well be questioned: the assumption that Holman's father, who came to Kentucky in 1776, could have had Revolutionary War service, least of all in the remotest connection with Fort Niagara, seems doubtful indeed. It is also difficult to imagine Jesse Holman gathering in his first four years any great body of reminiscence from a father who died before Jesse's fifth year began.
Whatever the merits of the work, it is a novel; and it unquestionably made Jesse Lynch Holman a novelist: when, the year after its publication, he came to Indiana to reside for the rest of his life, he apparently became Indiana 's first novelist.
In the course of his later life Jesse Lynch Holman wrote much verse. Some of it was published in the ephemeral newspapers which were blooming and wilting week by week in the Southern Indiana river towns but little can be accurately identified. He also wrote two long narrative poems relating to Indians and Indian legends which are preserved in manuscript in the Holman family papers.
To resume Holman's biography: in 1811 he left Frankfort for Indiana . Chances are that he had had many a long look at the bluffs on the Indiana side of the Ohio while he was practicing law–and courting–in Port William, at the point where the Kentucky River joins the Ohio. While Port William–Carrollton of today–is as beautifully situated as a town might be, the Indiana hills still present an interesting prospect across the Ohio, and in 1810, very nearly uninhabited, they attracted many another ambitious young Kentuckian.
In 1811 the Holmans went upstream to a place near the present site of the town of Aurora where Holman –possibly with the assistance of Judge Richard M. Masterson, his father-in-law and a man of considerable property–had bought a piece of land. They took Elizabeth's slaves with them but when they arrived at the new home site the slaves were freed in accordance with Holman's conviction that the somewhat ambiguous phraseology of the Ordinance of 1787 did actually prohibit slavery already in existence: a conviction on which, as judge, Holman later helped to pass conclusive judgment from the bench, in the case of Col. Hyacinth Lasselle's mulatto wench, Polly.
The Holmans followed the customary practice of the comfortably well-off emigrant–providing themselves with a log cabin to live in during the construction of a brick house, for which they had selected a beautiful site, high on a hill over the Ohio. After the Virginia- Kentucky custom, they named it in the classical manner –VER for spring; AEST for AESTUS, summer; AU for AUTUMNUS, autumn–there was to be no winter in that home, they decided.
From the very year of his arrival, Holman was engaged in public service: had he not been a man of strong character who was unwilling to vary in the slightest part of a degree from what he believed to be the proper course, he might have enjoyed a career in the executive branch of government as well as the judicial. As it was he had, at one time or another, ambition toward elective offices but he could not make the necessary concessions: his career was almost entirely by appointment, and he left a reputation behind him, when he died in 1842, which seldom accrues to governors, senators and the like.
In 1811 Governor William Henry Harrison appointed him Prosecuting Attorney for Dearborn page: 153[View Page 153] County (fact of the matter is that in Dearborn's small share of Indiana Territory's 25,000 people there was not much accredited competition for the post) and he acquitted himself well.
In 1814 he was a member of the Territorial Legislature and, in the same year, was appointed Presiding Judge of the Second Judicial District. ("President" these presiding judges were called by their fellow citizens, and their importance being what it was, and the ashes of the recently-burned Washington being so far away, they carried honor enough almost to warrant the title).
In 1816 Holman was appointed judge of the Third Circuit and served as a presidential elector for the new State of Indiana . The same year he was appointed judge of the Indiana State Supreme Court for a sevenyear term and, at the end of that, was reappointed for another seven years.
After the second term came the election of Governor James Brown Ray–a megalomaniac whose like was not to be seen again in North America until the rise of Huey Long–and the axe fell on all appointed officers. (It was Governor Ray who rode to the Falls of Fall Creek where the "Indian Murderers" were in process of being hung and Jaccording to William Wesley Woollen's Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana –waited until the youngest, and most obviously feeble-minded of the trio was on the gallows to dash up on a charger, rein in before the culprit and declaim, "There are but two powers known to the law that can save you from hanging by the neck until you are dead; one is the Great God of the Universe, the other is J. Brown Ray, Governor of the State of Indiana …")
Holman retired to Veraestau, more respected than ever because of his fall at the hands of Ray. He renewed his license to practice law, devoted even more time to the Baptist Church and the Sunday School movement in which he was a national leader, served as county superintendent of schools and bided his time.
In 1834 he was ordained to the ministry; he aided and encouraged that truly great man of God, Isaac McCoy, in his mission to the Indiana and Michigan Indians. He had already helped to guide the organization of Indiana College (now University) and he was now one of the founders of Franklin College and a founder of the Historical Society of Indiana.
But his judicial career was not yet ended; in fact, his greatest honor came when, on March 29, 1836, his appointment as Federal District Judge of Indiana was confirmed by a Senate which, politically, should have been hostile to him. He continued in office until his death.
Jesse Holman's life ended, as he would have wished, at his beloved Veraestau on March 28, 1842, in his fifty-eighth year. Oliver H. Smith, a writer not too easily moved to sentiment, says of him, in his Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: "… Jesse Lynch Holman … a good lawyer and one of the most just and conscientious men I ever knew."
Information from Blake–The Holmans of Veraestau; Cox–Recollections of the Early Settlement of the Wabash Valley; Smith–Early Indiana Trials and Sketches; and Woollen–Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana.
- The Prisoners of Niagara, or, Errors of Education. A New
Novel, Founded on Fact. By Jessee [sic] L. Holman, a Native of
Kentucky. Frankfort, Ky., 1810.
HOOPER, CYRUS LAURON: 1863-
Cyrus Lauron Hooper was born at Rockport, Ind., in 1863. He graduated from Indiana University, receiving the Ph.B. degree in 1887 and the A.M. in 1888, and attended Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. He became a member of the administrative staff of the Chicago city school system.
Mr. Hooper is editor, author and co-author of many text books, most notable being the American Language Series, not listed here.
Information from the Barry Ms.
- A Cloverdale Skeleton. New York,
1889.
- Gee-Boy. Chicago, 1903.
- Lamb's Literary Motive.
Chicago, 1904.
- Banking and Business Ethics (withW. E. Borden). Chicago, 1921.
- Johnny Goes A-Hunting. Chicago,
1925.
HOOVER, DAVID: 1781-1866.
David Hoover was born in Randolph County, N.C., on Apr. 14, 1781, the son of Andrew Hoover. He migrated to Ohio in 1802 and thence to what is now Wayne County, Ind., in 1807. While his formal education had been very limited, he was widely read and well informed.
Hoover married Catherine Yount the same year he came to the Indiana Territory, and the couple settled on a farm near the present Fountain City; here they page: 154[View Page 154] became the parents of seven children. David Hoover was active in Indiana politics in the Forties and Fifties, and the fact that he, a Democrat, was elected to the Indiana Legislature from a strong Whig county is a testimonial to the regard in which he was held. It may be assumed that he served his constituency well, although he is chiefly remembered politically as the man whose vote, with that of Daniel Kelso, sent Edward Allen Hannegan to the United States Senate.
David Hoover died on Sept. 12, 1866.
Information from the Richmond Public Library; Woollen–Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana and Smith–Early Indiana Trials and Sketches.
- Some Recollections of My Boyhood Days.
Indianapolis, n.d.
- Memoirs of David Hoover. Richmond,
Ind., 1857.
HOPKINS, THOMAS M.: ?-?
Little is known of the Rev. T. M. Hopkins except that he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomington, Ind., from 1857 or 1858 to 1869 and that, apparently, he was still residing in Indiana in 1874.
His writing, in the last two titles listed below, seems to indicate a long acquaintance with the Rev. James Chute and Col. John Ketcham.
Information from the University Libraries, Indiana University.
- A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, Delivered in the
First Presbyterian Church in Bloomington, Indiana, April 19th, 1865.
n.p., n.d. [1865]
- Reminiscences of Col. John Ketcham, of Monroe County,
Indiana, by His Pastor, Rev. T. M. Hopkins, of Bloomington, Indiana.
Bloomington, Ind., 1866.
- In Memoriam. Rev. James Chute, First Pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Printed for Family Use.
1874.
HORNADAY, WILLIAM TEMPLE: 1854-1937.
William Temple Hornaday , son of William and Martha Varner Hornaday, was born near Plainfield, Ind., on Dec. 1, 1854. He studied at Iowa State College and was a student of zoology and museology in the U. S. and Europe. He received his D.Sc. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1906, A.M. from Yale in 1917, and Ph.M. from Iowa State College in 1923.
In 1874 he was employed by Henry A. Ward at his natural science establishment in Rochester and during the course of this employment was sent on expeditions to collect rare specimens in natural history. He visited Cuba , Florida , the West Indies, South America, India, Ceylon, the Malay peninsula, and Borneo from 1875 to 1879. In 1880 he founded the National Society of American Taxidermists. He served as chief taxidermist of the U. S. National Museum from 1882 to 1890 and in 1886 went to Montana in charge of a Smithsonian expedition for buffalo. He was in the real estate business from 1890 to 1896, then became director of the New York Zoological Park, a position he held until his retirement in 1926. A member of various zoological societies and the recipient of honors from foreign countries, he was active in promoting game preserves and new legislation for the protection of wild life.
He married Josephine Chamberlain in 1879 and died on March 6, 1937.
Information from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. III and Who Was Who in America.
- Two Years in the Jungle. The Experiences of a Hunter and
Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo.
New York, 1885.
- Canoe and Rifle on the Orinoco. 1885.
- The Extermination of the American Bison; with Sketch of
Discovery and Life History. Washington, D. C.,
1887.
- Free Rum on the Congo, and What It Is Doing There.
Chicago, 1887.
- The Last Buffalo Hunt. Washington, D.
C., 1887.
- Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting. A Complete Handbook for
the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman,
and Traveler (with chapters byW. J. Holland). New York, 1891.
- The Man Who Became a Savage: a Story of Our Own
Times. Buffalo, 1896.
- Popular Official Guide to the New York Zoological Park, as
Far as Completed. New York, 1900.
- The Destruction of Our Birds and Mammals.
New York, 1901.
- Notes on the Mountain Sheep of North America.
New York, 1901.
- The American Natural History. A Foundation of Useful
Knowledge of the Higher Animals of North America. New
York, 1904.
- Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies. New
York, 1906.
- Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava. New
York, 1908.
- Our Vanishing Wild Life; Its Extermination and
Preservation. New York, 1913.
- page: 155[View Page 155]
- Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice.
New Haven, Conn., 1914.
- Mammals, Birds, Reptiles and Fishes. 1914. 4 vols.
- A Searchlight on Germany; Germany's Blunders, Crimes
and Punishment. New York, 1917.
- Awake! America; Object Lessons and Warnings.
New York, 1918.
- Old-Fashioned Verses. New York,
1919.
- Minds and Manners of Wild Animals. New
York, 1922.
- Tales From Nature's Wonderlands.
New York, 1924.
- A Wild-Animal Round-Up; Stories and Pictures from the Passing
Show. New York, 1925.
- Wild Animal Interviews and Wild Opinions of Us.
New York, 1928.
- The French War Debt and America's Duty.
Stamford, Conn., 1928.
- Thirty Years' War for Wild Life; Gains and Losses in
the Thankless Task. New York, 1931.
HORNER, FRANCIS ASBURY: 1849-1920.
Born at Fredericksburg, Ind., on Apr. 18, 1849, Francis Asbury Homer graduated from De Pauw University in 1870 and received the M.S. degree in 1873. On Apr. 22, 1873, he married Sylvia I. Reed. In 1870-71 he studied law at New Albany and at Bowling Green, Ind., in 1872 he began the practice of law, and in 1918 he retired. He served as prosecuting attorney for Clay and Putnam counties, state senator for Clay and Owen counties, and city attorney of Brazil, Ind.
Mr. Horner died at Brazil on Feb. 21, 1920. He edited and published technical law books besides those listed.
Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.
- Criminal Forms for the State of Indiana Complete Under All
the Criminal Statutes of the State. Chicago,
1896.
- Horner's Treatise on the Liquor Laws of
Indiana … Indianapolis, 1900.
HOSHOUR, SAMUEL KLINEFELTER: 1803-1883.
" Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour (Dec. 9, 1803-Nov. 29, 1883), clergyman, pioneer educator in eastern Indiana , was born in Heidelburg township, York County, Pa., his great-great-grandfather having immigrated to the state from Alsace early in the Eighteenth Century. Left fatherless at fourteen, the eldest of six children, Samuel was hired out to neighboring farmers as a helper. He received about three months' schooling each year, however, and at the age of sixteen was appointed teacher of the local school. Aspiring to become a German Lutheran minister, in 1822 he entered the academy at York where he remained until 1824, and then studied for two years more at Newmarket, Shenandoah County, Va., under Dr. Samuel S. Schmucker. On Feb. 7, 1826 he married Lucinda, daughter of Jacob Savage. After serving as principal of Newmarket Academy for a year, in the spring of 1828 he became pastor of the newly formed Lutheran parish in Smithsburg, Washington County, Md., having been ordained Oct. 23, 1827. In 1831 he removed to Hagerstown where he taught in a private school for a time but soon accepted a call to St. John's Lutheran Church of that place. While here he embraced the views of the Disciples of Christ, and in 1835 his name was expunged from the rolls of the (Lutheran) Synod.
"Having sacrificed his professional prospects and lost many of his friends by being true to his convictions, he decided to make a new start in the West. Accordingly, in Sept. 1835, he and a brother-in-law, putting their families into two covered wagons and a carriage, slowly made their way through the mountains and across Ohio to Indiana , where they settled at Centerville, Wayne County. Although he preached almost every Sunday for years, the remainder of his long life was devoted chiefly to education. His first work was in connection with private schools, and in the annals of the state he is numbered among a little group of pioneer teachers who brought these schools to such a degree of efficiency as to set a standard for the whole educational system. In the spring of 1836 he became principal of the Wayne County Seminary. This school was then the center of learning for much of eastern Indiana . Among his pupils were Oliver P. Morton and Lew Wallace. In 1839 he was asked to establish a similar institution in Cambridge City , and in November of that year he opened Cambridge Seminary, which he conducted successfully until 1846, when ill health caused him to seek less exacting duties. For the next five or six years he was principally engaged in giving special German courses in the colleges and cities of the West. Partly for the benefit of his health, in 1851 he bought a farm in Wayne County, which he superintended until 1858 when he was elected president of North Western Christian (now Butler) University, … Indianapolis , the institution, although opened in 1855, having had no head previously. In 1861 he resigned, but remained as professor of languages for fourteen years more. From May 15 to Nov. 25, 1862, he was also state Superintendent of Public Instruction. page: 156[View Page 156] In 1875, to use his own figure, the faculty tree was shaken, and having attained a ripe age, he fell off. The closing years of his life were spent in Indianapolis , where he gave private lessons in German …"
Condensed from H. E. S., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. IX.
- Letters to Esq. Pedant, in the East, by Lorenzo Ahisonant, an
Emigrant to the West. Published for the Benefit of Youth: By a Lover of the
Studious. "Wolle et Lege."
Cambridge City, Ind., 1844.
- Address on Education Delivered in the Hall of
Representatives, at Indianapolis … 17th of February,
1852. Indianapolis, 1852.
- Observations and Notes by the Way on Things East of the
Mountains. Indianapolis, 1867.
- Autobiography of Samuel K. Hoshour (with introduction byIsaac Errett). St. Louis, 1884.
HOUGHTON, WALTER RALEIGH: 1845-1929.
Born near Nit. Pleasant, Ia., on Oct. 3, 1845, Walter Raleigh Houghton was educated in the schools of Nit. Pleasant and of Washington, Ind., and graduated from Indiana University in 1871, receiving an honorary A.M. in 1872. In 1910 he received the Ph.D. degree from Oskaloosa College. He was a veteran of the Civil War.
From 1872 to 1884 he served as principal of the preparatory department of Indiana University and he was later principal of the high school at Connersville, Ind. He died on Jan. 24, 1929, and was buried at Connersville .
Information from The University Libraries, Indiana University.
- Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the
Federal Government. Indianapolis, 1880.
- Address on the Union of the Public School Systems of Indiana
…. Indianapolis, 1882.
- A History of American Politics (Non-Partisan), Embracing a
History of the Federal Government and of Political Parties in the Colonies
and United States from 1607 to 1882.
Indianapolis, 1883.
- Rules of Etiquette and Home Culture.
Chicago, 1884.
- The Lives of Blaine and Logan.
Chicago, 1884.
- Early Life and Public Career of Hon. James G. Blaine,
Patriot, Statesman, and Historian … Lincoln, Neb., 1884. True
Life: or, Lessons on the Virtues for Individuals, Home, Schools, and
Societies. Connersville, Ind., 1898.
- Stories and Exercises for Opening School; or, Lessons on the
Virtues. Chicago.
HOUSE, BENJAMIN DAVENPORT: 1844-1887.
Benjamin Davenport House , son of a Congregational minister of St. Johnsbury, Vt., was born at sea in 1844. His mother died during his infancy. During the Civil War he ran away from home to enlist in the Union Army and was severely wounded. Transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, he was eventually mustered out of the army at Indianapolis , where he spent the remainder of his life.
Mr. House was associated at various times with a number of Indianapolis newspapers. He died in 1887, survived by his wife, and in 1892 his book of poems was privately printed by friends.
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana; Nicholson–The Hoosiers; and the Indianapolis Public Library.
-
Poems, Edited by Meredith Nicholson, with
Biographical Sketch
. Indianapolis, 1892.
HOVEY, ALVIN PETERSON: 1821-1891.
" Alvin Peterson Hovey (Sept. 6, 1821-Nov. 23, 1891), jurist, Union soldier, governor of Indiana , was the youngest of the eight children of Abiel and Frances (Peterson) Hovey … The Hoveys moved to Indiana in 1818, and Alvin was born in that state, near Mount Vernon , Posey County. Two years later his father died, and when he was fifteen, his mother also died. He was apprenticed to his brother, a brick-layer, but at nineteen years of age had so improved his meager opportunities for study that he began teaching school, and two years later, having read law in the office of Judge John Pitcher, was admitted to the bar. He became at once a successful lawyer, winning considerable local fame by ousting the executors of the estate of the eccentric philanthropist, William NicClure of New Harmony , and himself becoming the administrator. On the outbreak of the war with Mexico he became first lieutenant of a company of volunteers but never saw actual service. He was elected a member of the Indiana constitutional convention of 1850, and from 1851 to 1854 served as circuit judge under the appointment of Gov. Wright. In the latter year he was chosen a member of the Indiana Supreme Court, to fill a vacancy, being the youngest man, up to that time, to serve on the Indiana supreme bench … In 1856 he was appointed U. S. district attorney by President Pierce, but was removed in 1858 by President Buchanan for his support page: 157[View Page 157] of Stephen A. Douglas. In that year he ran for Congress as a Republican, but was defeated.
"At the opening of the Civil War he was made colonel of the 1st Regiment of the Indiana Legion, and later colonel of the 24th Indiana Infantry. He was advanced to the rank of brigadier-general, Apr. 28, 1862, for gallantry at the battle of Shiloh … In July 1864 he was brevetted major-general of volunteers and directed to raise 10,000 recruits … In 1864-65 he was placed in command of the district of Indiana , then considered a difficult post because of the supposed danger from the 'Sons of Liberty' and 'Knights of the Golden Circle' who were thought at the time to be numerous in Indiana .
"After the war he was appointed (December 1865) minister to Peru, and held that post until 1870, when he returned to his law practice at Mount Vernon, Ind. … in 1886 was elected to Congress and two years later was chosen to the governorship. In this campaign he was accused of being exclusive, aristocratic, and unpopular. It was said that he claimed to be the reincarnation of Napoleon, and it was his custom to retire to solitary contemplation on the anniversary of Napoleon's death … He died in office.
"Hovey was a man of distinguished appearance and soldierly bearing, and maintained a reputation throughout his life for integrity and public spirit. He was married on Nov. 24, 1844, to Mary Ann James, a native of Baton Rouge, La., the daughter of Col. E. R. James. She was the mother of five children of whom only two lived to maturity. After her death, which occurred in 1863, he married Rosa Alice, daughter of Caleb Smith and widow of Maj. William F. Carey …"
Condensed from W. W. S., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. IX.
- Centennial History, Sketch of Posey County,
Indiana. n.p., n.d.
- Soldiers' Rights. An Appeal to the Loyal People of
the United States and Their Representatives in Congress …
November 1889. Indianapolis, 1889.
HOVEY, HORACE CARTER: 1833-1914
Horace Carter Hovey , son of Prof. Edmund Otis and Mary Carter Hovey, was born at Rob Roy, Ind., on Jan. 28, 1833, and graduated from Wabash College in 1853. He received the A.M. degree from Wabash in 1856 and the D.D. degree in 1883. In 1857 he graduated from Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati . He married Helen Lavinia Blatchley on Nov. 18, 1857.
Ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1858, he served as home missionary until 1862, pastor at Florence, Mass., from 1863 to 1866, and pastor at New Albany, Ind., from 1866 to 1869. He then held pastorates in Illinois , Missouri , Connecticut , Minnesota , and Massachusetts until 1909, after which he engaged in occasional preaching and in literary and scientific work.
He died on July 27, 1914.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The National Fast. A Sermon Preached at Coldwater, Mich.,
January 4, 1861. Coldwater, Mich., 1861.
- Celebrated American Caverns, Especially Mammoth, Wyandot and
Luray; Together with Historical, Scientific, and Descriptive Notices of
Caves and Grottoes in Other Lands. Cincinnati,
1882.
- Guide Book to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.
Cincinnati, 1882.
- The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, an Illustrated Manual (withR. E. Call). Louisville, 1897.
- A Memoir of Daniel Hovey. [Newburyport,
Mass., 1900]
- House of God: Historical Discourse on Sesquicentennial of Old
South Meeting House of Newburyport, Mass., Dec. 16, 1906.
Newburyport, Mass., 1906.
- Hand Book of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky: a Practical Guide
to the Regulation Routes. Louisville, 1909.
- Bibliography of Mammoth Cave, Ky. (withR. E. Call).
HOWARD, TIMOTHY EDWARD: 1837-1916.
" Timothy Edward Howard (Jan. 27, 1837-July 9, 1916) … was born of Irish parentage on a farm near Ann Arbor, Mich. His parents, Martin and Julia (Beahan) Howard, came to America in 1832, settling first in Vermont , but soon removing to Michigan Territory where the father entered some government land in the midst of the forest. He died in 1851, leaving large responsibilities upon his widow and eldest son. Young Howard attended a rural school near his home and later an academy at Ypsilanti for two terms, then entered the University of Michigan, but left in 1856, before completing his sophomore year. After teaching a rural school two years, he secured the opportunity of teaching and attending classes in the University of Notre Dame, at South Bend, Ind. In February 1862, he enlisted in the 12th Michigan Infantry and a few weeks later took part in the battle of Shiloh, where he received wounds in the neck and shoulder. After two months in a hospital at Evansville, Ind., he returned home on a furlough, but was finally discharged as unfit page: 158[View Page 158] for further service. He resumed his teaching and received his degree in 1862, graduating in a class of five. At the age of forty-six he took up the study of law, receiving the law degree in due course, though he did not begin to practise until 1883.
"Becoming interested in local politics, though never a politician in the ordinary sense, he was elected county clerk in 1878, and in the same year was chosen a member of the city council. He later served as city and county attorney. Elected to the state Senate in 1886 and again in 1890, he was recognized as a most useful and influential member of that body … He became the Democratic nominee from the 5th district for justice of the state Supreme Court in 1892, was elected, and served from 1893 to 1899, being three times chosen chief justice. His decisions as chief justice … have been widely quoted and have been reprinted in collections of decisions.
"After retiring from the bench in 1899, Howard resumed the practice of law in South Bend , and in 1906 became professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, which position he was holding at the time of his death … he took an active part in beautifying South Bend and was instrumental in securing the city's first park, which was named in his honor … He was president of the Northern Indiana Historical Society at the time of his death.
"Howard was married on July 14, 1864, to Julia A. Redmond of Detroit , and to them were born ten children of whom four sons and three daughters grew to maturity …"
Condensed from W. W. S., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. IX.
- Excelsior: Essays on Politeness, Education and Means of
Obtaining Success in Life: Pt. I for Young Gentlemen, by T. E. Howard; Pt. 2
for Young Ladies, by a Lady. Baltimore, 1868.
- Christian Politeness (with others). New
York, n.d.
- Musings and Memories. Chicago,
1905.
- A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana.
Chicago, 1907.
- Uncle Edward Stories. n.d.
HOWBERT, IRVING: 1846-1934.
Irving Howbert , son of William and Martha Marshall Howbert, was born in Columbus, Ind., on Apr. 11, 1846, and was educated in the high schools of Iowa and Colorado . Beginning in 1878 as cashier of the First National Bank in Colorado Springs , from 1880 to 1889 he served as president, and for many years continued as vice-president and chairman of the board. He was a member of the Colorado Senate from 1882 to 1886 and chairman of the Republican State Central Committee in Colorado in 1894-95. from 1880 to 1921 he was a trustee of Colorado College, receiving the honorary degrees of LL.D. and Litt.D. from that institution. He died on Dec. 21, 1934.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The Indians of the Pike's Peak Region, Including an
Account of the Battle of Sand Creek, and of Occurrences in E1 Paso County,
Colorado, During the War with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, in 1864 and
1868. Colorado Springs, 1914.
- Memories of a Lifetime in the Pike's Peak
Region. New York, 1925.
HOWE, DANIEL WAIT: 1839-1921.
A descendant of John Howe, first settler of Marlborough, Mass., Daniel Wait Howe was born on Oct. 24, 1839, in Patriot, Ind. He was the son of Daniel H. and Lucy Hicks Howe. He was educated at Franklin College, where he received the A.B. degree in 1857.
During the Civil War he was a private in the 7th Indiana Volunteers and a captain in the 79th Volunteers. He took part in the battles of Carrick's Ford, Stone River, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge, and because of wounds received in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain he was discharged from the army in 1864. Following his discharge he entered Albany Law School, received his degree in 1867, and in that year began the practice of law in Franklin, Ind., where he acted as city attorney. In 1871 he married Inez Hamilton of Decatur County, Ind.
He moved to Indianapolis in 1873, where he was a judge of the Superior Court from 1876 to 1890, then engaged in the practice of law until his retirement. He was once president of the Indiana Historical Society and, in addition to his books, wrote articles for legal periodicals. He died on Oct. 28, 1921.
Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans, Vol. IV; Who's Who in America; and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- The Laws and Courts of Northwest and Indiana
Territories. Indianapolis, 1886.
- The Puritan Republic of the Massachusetts Bay in New
England. Indianapolis, 1899.
- Civil War Times, 1861-1865.
Indianapolis, 1902.
- Making a Capital in the Wilderness.
Indianapolis, 1908.
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- The Mississippi Valley in the Movement for Fifty-Four Forty
or Fight. Cedar Rapids, Ia., 1912.
- Political History of Secession, to the Beginning of the
American Civil War. New York, 1914.
- Howe Genealogies. (Revised and enlarged byGilman Bigelow Howe.) Boston, 1929.
HOWE, EDGAR WATSON: 1853-1937.
Edgar Watson Howe , son of Henry and Elizabeth Irwin Howe, was born at Treaty, Ind., on May 3, 1853. Except for brief attendance at common schools he was self-educated, and at the age of twelve he started to work in a printing office. For two years he worked on the HERALD at Falls City, Neb. At nineteen he was publisher of the GOLDEN GLOBE in Golden, Col., and in 1877 he started the ATCHISON DAILY GLOBE in Atchison, Kan., which he published for thirty-four years.
Other newspapers over the U. S. reprinted material from the GLOBE, which became known as the most extensively quoted paper in the country. In 1911 Howe retired from his paper, gave it to his two sons, and devoted himself to travel and the publication of E. W. HOWE'S MONTHLY. Accounts of his travels were printed in the GLOBE and later published in book form. The MONTHLY, except for occasional reprints, was written entirely by Howe, who took this means of expressing his views on a variety of subjects. The paper attained a wide circulation and was published until 1933. His first novel, The Story of a Country Town, was rejected by New York publishers, but Howe printed it himself, and it received such favorable reviews that it was published by six publishers within the next fifty years. H. L. Mencken, in his introduction to Ventures in Common Sense, describes Howe as unusually candid and honest in the expression of his opinions and his books as being very readable.
Mr. Howe married Clara L. Frank in 1873. He died on Oct. 3, 1937. He was known as the "Sage of Potato Hill."
Information from Who Was Who in America; Appletons" Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. III; the Barry Ms.; Burke and Howe–American Authors and Books, 1640-1940; and the Introduction to Ventures in Common Sense.
- The History of the Class of 'Seventy-Eight at the U.
S. Military Academy. New York, 1881.
- The Story of a Country Town. Atchison,
Kan., 1883.
- The Mystery of the Locks.
Boston, 1885.
- A Moonlight Boy. Boston, 1886.
- A Man Story. Boston, 1888.
- An Ante-Mortem Statement. Atchison,
Kan., 1891.
- The Confession of John Whitlock, Late Preacher of the
Gospel. Atchison, Kan., 1891.
- Daily Notes of a Trip Around the World. 1907. 2 vols.
- The Trip to the West Indies. Topeka,
Kan., 1910.
- Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the
Atchison Globe. Topeka, Kan., 1911.
- Travel Letters from New Zealand, Australia and
Africa. Topeka, Kan., 1913.
- Success Easier than Failure. Topeka,
Kan., 1917.
- The Blessing of Business. Topeka,
Kan., 1918.
- Ventures in Common Sense. New
York, 1919.
-
The Anthology of Another Town
. New York, 1920.
- Plain People, an Autobiography. New
York, 1929.
- The Indignations of E. W. Howe. Girard,
Kan., 1933.
HOWE, JOHN BADLAM: 1813-1882.
Born in Boston, Mass., on Mar. 3, 1813, John Badlam Howe graduated from Trinity College in 1832. He moved to Indiana , where he was a member of the state Legislature in 1840 and of the state constitutional convention in 1850. He died in Lima, Ind., on Jan. 22, 1882.
Information from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. III.
- The Political Economy of Great Britain, the United States and
France in the Use of Money. A New Science of Production and
Exchange. Boston, 1878.
- Monetary and Industrial Fallacies. A Dialogue.
Boston, 1878.
- Production and Exchange: a Definition of Money and
Deposits. New York, 1878.
- Mono-Metalism and Bi-Metalism; or, the Science of Monetary
Values. Boston, 1879.
- The Common Sense, the Mathematics, and the Metaphysics of
Money. Boston, 1881.
- A Reply to Criticisms on Same, n.p.
[Boston], 1882.
HOWERTH, IRA WOODS: 1860-1938.
Ira Woods Howerth , son of John and Elizabeth Amelia Bright Howerth, was born in Brown County, Ind., on June 18, 1860, and graduated from Northern Indiana Normal (now Valparaiso University) in 1885. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard in 1893 and the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1894 and 1898. Until 1891 he was a teacher and principal in the public schools. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1889.
page: 160[View Page 160]From 1896 to 1912 he taught sociology at the University of Chicago, from 1912 to 1918 he was connected with the University of California as professor of education and director of university extension, and after 1921 he was professor of sociology and economics at Colorado State Teachers College. In 1919 he was a member of the educational corps in Europe with the A. E. F. He married Cora Olive Cissna in 1881 and died on July 4, 1938.
He was the author of several textbooks besides the work listed here.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The Art of Education. New York,
1912.
- Work and Life: a Study of the Social Problems of
To-day. New York, 1913.
- State Boards of Education. Berkeley,
Calif., 1913.
- War and the Survival of the Fittest.
Berkeley, Calif., 1916.
- The Theory of Education; the Philosophy of Education as
Derived from the Process of Organic, Psychic, and Social Evolution.
New York, 1926.
- Bible Stories and Modern Science; a Series of Lectures Before
the College Sunday School Class of Park Congregation Church, Greeley
Colorado. Greeley, Colo., 1932.
HOWLAND, LOUIS: 1857-1934.
Born in Indianapolis on June 13, 1857, Louis Howland was educated in a private school in his native city and at Yale University, from which he graduated in 1879. He spent some time in the East, where he was on the staff of FORUM magazine, but returned to Indianapolis in 1892 and was associated with the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS for the remainder of his life. He was editor of the paper from 1911 to 1934. Mr. Howland was one of the organizers of the Indianapolis Literary Club. His death occurred in Indianapolis on Mar. 26, 1934.
Information from the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Day Unto Day. Indianapolis,
1911.
- Stephen A. Douglas. New York,
1920.
- The Mind of Jesus. Indianapolis,
1926.
- Case and Comment; Meditations of a Layman on the Christian
Year. Indianapolis, 1927.
- Autobiography of a Cathedral. New
York, 1927.
HUBBARD, FRANK MCKINNEY: 1868-1930.
No one else ever succeeded in catching the exact flavor of the humor and philosophy native to Indiana – and perhaps to a large portion of the American Midwest besides-as did Kin Hubbard.
He labeled his locale "Brown County," because Brown County, Ind., had always been a little on the backward side–haven of hill-billies, gully-runners, artists and other non-conforming folk-but his readers could recognize representation of almost any county in almost any midwestern or midsouthern state in the remarks of his characters.
Frank McKinney Hubbard (he was always "Kin") was born in Bellefontaine, O. , on Sept. 1, 1868. His parents were Thomas and Sarah Jane Miller Hubbard, Thomas being editor and publisher of the BELLEFONTAINE EXAMINER, a newspaper of some importance in west-central Ohio.
A man never given to seeking personal publicity, Hubbard left behind him no great amount of biographical material. Only a short sketch, given to another distinguished Ohio writer, Fred C. Kelly, who stayed in that state, exists to give any extensive view of Kin Hubbard as he saw himself at the peak of his career. Mr. Kelly has graciously offered this manuscript for inclusion here. In it Hubbard reports of himself.
"Have two children–a girl at the age to talk too long to peddlers and letter carriers, and a boy who is just beginning to press his trousers ever' day and use 600-W on his hair. Born at Bellefontaine, Ohio, entered school at usual age carrying volumes of Mark Twain's Rouyhing It and Behind the Scenes at Washington . Retired from school in one of the early grades and went to work in a paint shop where I learned to cast raised letters and gild the big watches that stand in front of jewelry stores. Later returned to school and was going big when Cleveland was elected and my father was appointed postmaster. Went into post office where I remained five years off and on. During this period I made a tour of the South as a silhouette artist and closed in Louisville and walked home. Also on this tour I hired out in Chattanooga to drive a bread wagon, two white mules hitched tandem. Held this job two weeks and was required to take the mules down to the Cumberland river an' scrub the red mud off once per week. Returning to Bellefontaine, Ohio, I decided to attend the Detroit Museum of Art. Attended the better part of one week, and then hung around Miner's theater and the DETROIT JOURNAL office till Spring opened up. At this time I was wearin' a loud plaid cape overcoat, page: 161[View Page 161] a close-reefed brown derby, long, narrow shoes, a cane and long matty hair! I was loafing, knowing I could go back in the post office any old time.
"The following winter I organized Bellefontaine's Grand Operatic Minstrels and Prof. Tom Wright's Solo Orchestra, local talent, and gave a grand benefit performance for the cemetery receiving vault fund. I played one extreme end (tambo) and made a hit which disqualified me for any real usefulness for some years.
"In a letter to an Indianapolis friend describing this show I made a lot of thumb nail sketches. This letter was shown to the late John H. Holiday, founder of the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, and he suggested that I come on to Indianapolis and go on the NEWS as an artist. I remained on the NEWS three years. I soon endeared myself to the whole staff by making two imaginative one column portraits of the Dalton Boys, bandits, who were killed in attempting to rob a bank at Coffeyville , Kansas.
"The NEWS put on a new managing editor at the end of my three years and, like all new managing editors, he raised hell with everything and everybody. I was the pioneer newspaper artist of Indianapolis. I used the chalk plate process of making pictures and had to wear a linen duster and a sponge on my nose on account of the dust. I illustrated everything that happened in town, together with Frank Carpenter's weekly letter and only got $12 per week. I was what's called a natural artist, one with no knowledge of drawing, no idea of perspective or color or anything, but I got along fine until the new managing editor dropped in one day and told me that all of the local banks had installed new and modern fixtures. He wanted a two- column sectional view of each bank, showing various new styles in bank fixtures, etc. I told him I could not undertake it, but that I would hire it done and pay for it. He said that would do, but that he would have to have the stuff in two days. I got a jewelry engraver to make the sketches and they cost me three weeks' salary. Then Decoration Day was just in the offing. The managing editor wanted a long graceful angel swooping across a whole page scattering lilies in her wake. Something "allegorical for the occasion" he said. I got Fertig and Keevers, housepainters, to plan and execute the angel at a princely outlay. Then the vacation period arrived and I was the first out. I went to Bellefontaine to spend vacation. The second day at home I received a letter from the managing editor. He told me that the NEws had grown to be such a great and powerful paper that from then on it would require an artist that could draw anything, layouts, caricatures, cartoons, decorations, etc., and that I might return and stay till I found something else. I stayed while I earned enough for a new blue serge suit and extra brown derby.
"Returning to Bellefontaine that summer I organized a local minstrel show and gave a grand complimentary benefit for the K. of P. lodge, holding out only enough to get some new shirts.
"Later I went to the Atlanta Exposition. Failing to get a newspaper job I signed up with the manager of a mummified Aztec mother and child, who were exhibited in a covered wagon. I sold tickets with one hand and took them with the other while the manager lectured. Later coming to Cincinnati, I hit it just in time to get in on the Pearl Bryan murder mystery, and went to work for the TRIBUNE, anti-Cox organ, and made pictures of white horses and cabs and attorneys and jurymen till Spring, when I bought a new blue serge suit and brown derby an' had my hair evened up and joined out with Lagoon Park, where I turned the stile at $9 per, roomin' at Covington , eating at Bromley and getting my other shirt and collar done up in Cincinnati .
"In the fall I returned to Bellefontaine and gave a 'Ladies Minstrels' for the benefit of the Kings Daughters, holding out only enough for some shoes. Then to Mansfield, O. , where I worked on the NEws, cut my own kindling, puddled my own metal, cast my own cuts and routed them and did everything but make up the paper. Got $11 per. Used chalk plate process. It took fourteen hours to finally get a one column cut in the paper. Col. Wm. Capeller, well known Ohio politician, owned the paper. One day he came to me and said. 'Hubbard, I know you're a damned Democrat, but I want you to help clean up Mansfield and vote for Huntington Brown for mayor tomorrow. I'll let you off all day if you will.' I studied a while and decided that inasmuch as there were no great national issues involved I would condescend to vote for a reform mayor. Was at the polls when they opened and voted for Brown and a Democratic council. The Fort Wayne baseball club was stopping at the same wooden shoe hotel where I lived and the club was managed by a former schoolmate and we soon got to talking about old times, and by noon I was on the swinging rings. The next morning I woke up sitting by a fountain soaking wet in the heart of Cleveland. By my side was all my scenery, cape overcoat, two canes, and telescope. Here I was the guest of an old Bellefontaine boy who was employed in Cleveland by a large department store. He did nothing from morning till evening but knock crates off new bicycles, but he was mighty liberal. Thence to Bellefontaine where I organized Frank K. Hubbard's High Class Vaudevilles and toured the page: 162[View Page 162] star route towns, coming to grief at Roundhead, where the advance sale did not justify the moving of an organ up two flights of stairs to the opery hall. The fellow who drove my wagon stood up and looked all over town, and said, 'Hubbard, the money haint here.'
"Back to Bellefontaine. Then a letter from the INDIANAPOLIS SUN saying a newspaper, THE PRESS, was soon to be launched and that the SUN would be in the fight and to come on and go to work for $15 per.
"Returned to Indianapolis, worked year on the SUN and then back to the NEWS again where I've always remained. Until 'Abe Martin' started I was employed solely as a caricaturist, attending all conventions, local, state and national, and supplying the NEWS with single columns and splatters, touring Indiana with political celebrities, etc. The next day after the Parker- Roosevelt election I launched Abe Martin. Abe has appeared daily in the NEWS ever since. Have made a new drawing for each appearance. Abe Martin is probably the oldest continuous newspaper feature. Has been syndicated twelve years. 'Short Furrows,' a weekly essay, has been syndicated eight years. I located Abe in Brown county, Ind., on account of the topography and the primitive condition of things, no telephones, railroads, or telegraph and few roads.
"I also learned the printer's trade in the office of the BELLEFONTAINE EXAMINER, a paper established in 1830 and owned by my father, who at his death, was the oldest editor in Ohio .
"I bought a tambourine with the first money I ever earned. Worked around the opera house at Bellefontaine and was well on in years before I quit trying to look like a showman, and no mother ever hated to cut her boy's curls off any worse than I hated to cut my hair short and get down to work. I always owned a cluster diamond pin, even when walking from one town to another. I also owned seven different cape overcoats all loud plaid an' richly lined. I married rather late, or after I got three or four hundred dollars together. I date all of my good luck from that hour. And while my wife does not write my stuff, she has all the peculiarities of the genius and is a good manager.
"I have published 18 volumes of Abe Martin material and the greatest fun I have is during the month of December when I market them and open the mail each day. I rarely have any material ahead or know when I'm going to have any. But somehow something allus shows up at the eleventh hour, not always good stuff, but about as fair as most of the stuff that's getting over. One really good paragraph in six days is a fine week's work. I make my own illustrations, and not infrequently they supply any humor that's lacking in the text. I do not make public appearances and talk and draw. I tried it once and it knocked $60 off my book sales. I rather prefer the background and keep away from banquets. Also I've had a couple of chances to go to New York and make something of myself, but like a friend I used to have, whose uncle wanted him to go to Denver and take charge of a big drug store said, I'd rather stay here where I can get in the band. Have two hobbies–mowing my lawn and circuses, Am taking up golf although I feel as good as I ever aid, in fact better. It's the only game where you can chew tobacco with impunity. And most of them do. I often meet acquaintances on the Indianapolis streets who ask me what I'm doing now, and I'm often introduced to people who never heard of me, but I don't care. The world is full of people who don't know who Tony Pastor was. Indianapolis is a great literary center, and we have men and boys in the stereotyping and press rooms of the NEWS that contribute regularly to magazines as a side line. Everyone in the State is either a politician or writer. Of course there's a fair sprinkling of tradesmen an' farmers, but only enough t' supply the wants of the writers and politicians.
"The only thing any teacher ever said to me, that I now recall, was, 'Well, Kin, be that as it may, Mr. Hayes took his seat.' Some boy had just named the presidents of the United States and included Rutherford B. Hayes and I got up and said he was not elected fair and that Tilden was counted out.
"The first year at school I raised my hand one day and teacher said, 'What is it, McKinney?' and I said, 'I've got a sister that's half Indian.' She was very dark.
"Never was on a bicycle or roller skates. I went about for years covered with perfume and wearing a fuchsia in my lapel, but I let the girls alone till I was 17 or 18.
"My one big night was Friday night, when I traded a copy of father's WEEKLY EXAMINER for a couple of twofers at Carter Brothers grocery and sat on the court house fence and watched the passing show.
"First tobacco chewed was Jackson's Best. I soaked it in molasses to make it palatable.
"I never dreamed of doing anything else but owning a good, well painted, comprehensive one-ring circus, and even today I feel rather miffed at losing out on the proposition.
"I leaned a little toward minstrelsy and bought a tambourine with my first money. At nine years of age I also owned a pair of real plantation song and dance shoes–sending to New York for them.
"First hall show I ever saw was Annie Ward Tiffany in 'The Child Stealer,' then the Wallace Sisters, Minnie Palmer, 'Under the Gas Light,' Jane Coombs, Joe page: 163[View Page 163] Cawthorn in 'The Little Nugget,' and 'Lights O'- London' followed in rapid succession.
"Greatest aversions–office holders, banquet speakers and 1000 Island dressing.
"Books–East Lynne, Rouyhin" It, Beyond the Mississippi, Called Back (Hugh Conway) and Wash. Irving's Sketch Book.
"Cannon acts were all the vogue when I was a kid– catching cannon balls and firing women out of cannons, etc.–in circuses. I made a cannon out of a wooden pump and mounted it on wheels and used a black rubber ball. Devoted one whole summer trying to stop the ball. Still have a squatty blue (circus color) chair and lettered across the back is, 'Great Cannon Ball Act.' "
There is Kin Hubbard as he saw himself–his lack of success in following in the theatrical footsteps of his wagon-show owning maternal grandfather, Capt. John B. Miller, far overshadowing his achievements as a cartoonist, humorist, satirist and philosopher.
The feature for which he first became famous, the sayings of "Abe Martin," first appeared on Dec. 31, 1904. The feature was an immediate hit: Abe's comments were current, critical and unfailingly telling, and Hubbard was soon a state and, very little later, when they began to be syndicated, a national figure.
He married Josephine Jackson, of Indianapolis , on Oct. 12, 1905. Hubbard enjoyed his home, and particularly his garden–throughout his career he avoided lecturing, radio appearances and other proffered engagements which would interfere with his home life.
His books enjoyed a wide annual sale, some of the earlier ones now being collector's items, and his syndicated "Abe Martin's Sayings" have been reprinted continuously since his death. They are now (1948) appearing regularly in a list of papers extensive enough to gladden the hearts of any current paragraphers, and most of the quips are as pointed and as appropriate to the modern scene as they were to that of thirty or forty years ago.
Kin Hubbard died on Dec. 26, 1930, having influenced the thinking of the American people along the lines of plain, homely horse sense far more widely than any serious philosopher of his day.
Information by Fred C. Kelly and from Who Was Who in America.
- Collection of Indiana Lawmakers and Lobbyists.
Indianapolis, 1903.
- Caricatures of Law Makers, Clerks and Doorkeepers of the
Sixty-Fourth General Assembly of Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1905.
-
Abe Martin of Brown County, Indiana, by Kin
Hubbard. Compiled from The Indianapolis News
. Indianapolis, 1907.
-
Abe Martin's Almanack, by Kin
Hubbard… with Illustrations by the Author
. Indianapolis, 1907.
- Abe Martin's Almanack, by Kin Hubbard …
Illustrated by the Author. Indianapolis, 1908.
- Abe Martin Scrapbook. n.p., n.d. [1908].
- Abe Martin's Brown County Almanack, by Kin Hubbard;
a Volume of Philosophy, Incidents and Scenes Direct from the Paw Paw Belt of
Indiana. Illustrated by the Author.
Indianapolis, 1909.
- Brown County Folks, by Kin Hubbard; Being a Full
Year's Review of the Sayings and Doings of Abe Martin and His Brown
County, Indiana, Neighbors, Including a Stirring Tale by Miss Fawn Lippincut
Entitled the Lost Heiress of Red Stone Hall. Illustrated by the
Author. Indianapolis, 1910.
- Abe Martin's Almanack, by Kin Hubbard …
Illustrated by the Author …. Garden City, N.
Y., 1911.
-
Short Furrows
, byKin Hubbard … Illustrated by theAuthor. Indianapolis, 1912.
- Back Country Folks, by Kin Hubbard. A New Full
Year's Accumulation of the Philosophy and Sketches of Abe
Martin … Illustrations by Francis Gallup
. Indianapolis, 1913.
-
Abe Martin's Primer; the Collected
Writings of Abe Martin and His Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors, by Kin
Hubbard
. Illustrations byFrancis Gallup.
Indianapolis, 1914.
- Abe Martin's Sayings and Sketches, byKin Hubbard. Indianapolis, 1915.
- New Sayings, by Abe Martin and
Velma's Vow, a Gripping Love Tale by Miss Fawn Lippincut
…. Indianapolis, 1916.
-
Abe Martin's Back Country Sayings,
Compiled from The Indianapolis News and Revised and Edited by the
Author
. Indianapolis, 1917.
- Abe Martin on the War and Other Things–Being a
Full Year's Review of the Sayings and Doings of Abe Martin and His
Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors, Including Several Articles of Some Length
Compiled from The Indianapolis News and Revised, Edited and Illustrated by
the Author. Indianapolis, 1918.
- Abe Martin's Home Cured
Philosophy; the Writings of Abe Martin and His Brown County, Indiana,
Neighbors ….
Indianapolis, 1919.
- Abe Martin, the Joker on Facts, by Kin Hubbard …
Illustrated by the Author. Indianapolis, 1920.
- Abe Martin's Almanack, by Kin Hubbard. The Comments,
Philosophy an' Essays of Abe Martin an' His Neighbors
… Illustrations by th' Author ….
Indianapolis, 1921.
-
These Days; a Sort of Paragraphic Review of the
Fads and Foibles and Waves and Trends of the Present Age, by Abe Martin
(Kin Hubbard). Pictures by the Author
. Indianapolis, 1922.
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- Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors, and Several More or
Less Helpful Essays Bearing Directly on a Variety of Important Matters, by
Kin Hubbard. Pictures by the Author.
Indianapolis, 1923.
- Fifty Two Weeks of Abe Martin; a Full Twelve Months'
Output of Abe Martin's Writings, Revised and Brushed Up by the
Author. Also a Few Articles on Life Sentences, Dance Orchestras and Other
Menaces, by Kin Hubbard. Indianapolis, 1924.
- Abe Martin on Things in General; Quiet Observations and
Conclusions About Everything That Has Happened During the Past Twelve
Months, Intermingled with a Few Friendly Jibes at Bare Knees, Prohibition,
Florida, Spinach, an' Bandits, Together with a Dozen or More
Extended Articles Dealing with Things That Need Dealing With, by Kin
Hubbard. Indianapolis, 1925.
- Abe Martin, Hoss Sense and Nonsense, by Kin Hubbard.
Indianapolis, 1926.
- Abe Martin's Wise Cracks and Skunk Ridge Papers, by
Kin Hubbard. Pictures by the Author.
Indianapolis, 1927.
- Abe Martin's Barbed Wire, by Kin Hubbard
…. Indianapolis, 1928.
- Abe Martin's Town Pump, by Kin Hubbard
…. Indianapolis, 1929.
- Book of Indiana; the Story of What Has Been Described as the
Most Typically American State in the American Democracy Told in Terms of
Biography, Compiled Under the Direction of the James O. Jones Co.
Indianapolis, 1929.
- Abe Martin's Broadcast, Kin Hubbard Announcing
… Illustrations by the Author.
Indianapolis, 1930.
- Abe Martin's Wisecracks, by 'Kin'
Hubbard, Selected by E. V. Lucas. London, 1930.
HUFFINGTON, AGNES MARIA (MRS. JOHN B.): 1859-1935.
Agnes Maria Huffington was, according to a brief obituary in the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, a resident of Indianapolis and the widow of John B. Huffington.
Information from the Barry Ms.
- God's Truth; Twentieth century Revelation to the
Spirit of Truth. Indianapolis, 1902.
HUFFMAN, JASPER ABRAHAM: 1880-
Jasper Abraham Huffman , son of John W. and Martha Howenstine Huffman, was born in Elkhart County, Ind., on Feb. 28, 1880, and was ordained in the ministry of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ in 1904. He graduated from Bonebrake Theological Seminary in 1909, received his A.B. degree from Bluffton (O.) College in 1915 and his B.D. degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in 1919, and was awarded the D.D. degree by Taylor University in 1920.
From 1911 to 1914 he served as pastor in Dayton, O. In 1914-15 he was an instructor at Bluffton College, from 1915 to 1922 professor at Witmarsum Theological Seminary, from 1922 to 1936 dean of the Marion College School of Theology, and after 1936 dean of the School of Religion at Taylor University in Upland, Ind. In 1930 he was a member of the staff of a joint expedition for Palestlnian excavation of Xenia Theological Seminary and the American School for Oriental Research. He edited the GOSPEL BANNER from 1913 to 1925 and the Bethel Series of Sunday School literature since 1914. On May 5, 1901, he married Elizabeth D. Lambert.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Redemption Completed. New Carlisle,
0., 1904.
- Old Testament Messages of the Christ.
Dayton, 0., 1909.
- Job, a World Example. Bluffton,
0., 1913.
- Upper Room Messages. New Carlisle,
0., 1915.
- The Progressive Unfolding of the Messianic Hope.
New York, 1924.
- Young People and the Christ Life.
Chicago, 1925.
- A Guide to the Study of the Old and New Testaments For Use in
the High Schools of Indiana. Dayton, 0., 1926.
- Voices from Rocks and Dust Heaps of Bible Lands.
Marion, Ind., 1928.
- With Christ in the Deeper Lessons. 1929.
- Biblical Confirmations from Archaeology.
Upland, Ind., 1930.
- Youth and the Christ Way. Marion,
Ind., 1932.
- Building the Home Christian. Marion,
Ind., 1935.
- With Christ During Passion Week. Marion,
Ind., n.d.
- The Holy Spirit. Upland, Ind.,
1938.
- The Messianic Hope in Both Testaments.
Upland, Ind., 1939.
- Introduction to Archaeology.
HUFFORD, MRS. LOIS GROSVENOR (MRS. GEORGE W.): 1845-1937.
Born in Paxton, Mass., in 1845, Lois Grosvenor attended school in Worcester, Mass., and was graduated from Antioch College in 1868. She was married to George W. Hufford on the day after her graduation. Her teaching career began in the East and continued in Indiana , where she was a teacher for fifty-one years. Coming to Indianapolis in 1878, she was head of the page: 165[View Page 165] English department at Shortridge High School for sixteen years. She was one of the originators of the Free Kindergarten Movement and founded the first daily high school paper–the SHORTRIDGE ECHO. She died in Indianapolis on Nov. 17, 1937. She annotated and edited several works besides those listed.
Information from the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Plans for the Study of Some English Poems.
Indianapolis, 1891.
- Shakespeare in Tale and Verse. New
York, 1902.
HUME, JOEL: 1807-1891.
Joel Hume , son of Jarred Hume, was born in Campbell (now Kenton) County, Ky., on June 13, 1807. His father died when Joel was an infant and left the family in straitened circumstances.
With only a limited formal education, young Joel came to Indiana when he was about fifteen years of age and located in Switzerland County. At seventeen he married Malinda Dusky. About two years later they moved to Parke County, where they lived for six or seven years.
In 1831 Joel Hume was baptized in the Primitive Baptist Church and in 1837 was ordained. In 1840 he moved to Posey County. Two years later he became pastor of the Bethlehem Church, near Poseyville , a pulpit he held for nearly twenty-eight years. He was also pastor of Bethany Church from 1845 until his death, which occurred on Mar. 29, 1891.
Information from the Alexandrian Free Public Library, Mount Vernon, Ind.
- A Debate on Total Hereditary Depravity ….
Mount Vernon, Ind., 1854.
HUNTER, HIRAM A.: 1800-1883.
Born in Kentucky on Aug. 10, 1800, the Rev. Hiram A. Hunter , minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, was a resident of southern Indiana . He is known to have been a teacher in the "Old Seminary" in Gibson County in 1832, and, since his son was born and resided in the state, it seems safe to assume that a significant portion of the Rev. Mr. Hunter's life was spent in Indiana . He also held pastorates in Kentucky and Pennsylvania .
In 1830 he married Susannah Robb of Princeton, Ind. She died in 1835, and he was subsequently married twice. The last wife, Emmeline Griffith, survived him.
He died in Louisville, Ky., on Nov. 4, 1883.
His one recorded book is a rare and important narrative of an Indian captivity.
Information from Stormont-History of Gibson County Indiana and Josephine Hunter, granddaughter of Hiram A. Hunter.
- A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Isaae Knight
from Indian Barbarity. Giving an Account of the Cruel Treatment He Received
from the Savages While Afflicted with the Small Pox: His Escape and Joyful
Return After Enduring the Hardships of an Indian Prisoner, During Two Years
and Six Months. Communicated by Himself, and at His Request Written by Hiram
A. Hunter. Evansville, Ind., 1839.
HUNTER, WILES ROBERT: 1874-
Robert Hunter (he did not use the name Wiles) was born in Terre Haute, Ind., on Apr. 10, 1874. A student of sociology, he held numerous important offices in charitable organizations in Chicago, New York and Berkeley, Calif. He was a candidate for the governorship of Connecticut in 1910. Besides his activities in the U. S., he was connected with settlement work in London .
Information from the Emmeline Fairbanks Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Ind.
- Tenement House Conditions in Chicago.
Chicago, 1901.
- Poverty. New York, 1904.
- Socialists at Work. New York,
1908.
- Crisis: the Unions and the Courts, the Tyranny of
Injunctions, the Power of Unity. Chicago, 1909.
- Violence and the Labor Movement. New
York, 1914.
- Labor in Politics. Chicago,
1915.
- Why We Fail as Christians. New
York, 1919.
- Bolshevism and the Labour Movement. New
York, 1919.
- The Links. New York, 1926.
- Revolution; Why, How, When?
New York, 1940.
HYMAN, MAX ROBINSON: 1859-1927.
Max Robinson Hyman was born in Edinburg, Ind., on Mar. 16, 1859. Coming to Indianapolis as a youth, he and his brother, Benjamin R., were employed on various Indianapolis newspapers and founded and edited for a time a humorous weekly, THE. SCISSORS. Mr. Hyman died in Indianapolis on Apr. 28, 1927.
page: 166[View Page 166]Information from the Indiana State Library.
- A Centennial History and Handbook of Indiana; the Story of
the State from Its Beginning to the Close of the Civil War and a General
Survey of Progress to the Present Time (withGeorge S. Cottman). Indianapolis, 1915.
- Indianapolis; an Outline History and Description of the
Hoosier Capital. Indianapolis, 1916.
