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).
