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removed to Billerica, and there the lad received Long, & Hemenway, in 1879, which still continues. his education in the schools of that place. In Mr. Hemenway is a warm Republican, but has never sought political office ; and when, a few years ago, he was offered a seat upon the bench by Governor Ames, he declined the honor. 1842 he went to North Reading and obtained work in a country store ; three years later he entered the employ of Josiah Crosby, in the first and for some time the only store in Lawrence. In April, 1849, at the age of twenty-one, he went to Spring- HEMENWAY, FREDERICK MORTIMER, was born in Framingham, Mass., Nov. 28, 1848. After a time spent in the public schools of Clinton he removed to New Britain, Conn., and was in the dental office of Dr. C. B. Errichson of that place. There he remained for six years, and then came to Boston to open an office for himself. He afterwards entered the Boston Dental College, from which he graduated in 1888. In the fall of the same year he was ap- pointed demonstrator of operative dentistry at the dental college, which position he still holds. Dr. Hemenway is a member of the Boston Dental Col- lege Alumni Association and of the Massachusetts Dental Society. field, and opened a store for the sale of men's goods. He was one of the original stockholders in the Indian Orchard Mills. In connection with others, he built a small button-factory in Springfield, manufactured flax machines at Mill River, and sew- ing machines at Chicopee. In 1857 he built the music hall and theatre corner of Pynchon street, Springfield, which was destroyed by the great fire of 1864. This was replaced by the new music hall, and the Haynes Hotel was built and successfully opened within the next twelve months. Mr. Haynes was married in 1853 to Martha C., daughter of Archelaus and Elizabeth (Hacket) Eaton, of Salis- bury. Mrs. Haynes died in 1876, and Mr. Haynes disposed of the hotel and music hall which he had run so successfully and relinquished all business. Not desiring to lead an idle life, however, in 1880 he accepted the invitation of the directors of the old United States Hotel, Boston, to take charge of that property, which was considered a hopeless under- taking. He has made a most phenomenal success in its management, doubling the value of the property and quadrupling its business. Mr. Haynes served in the first city government of Springfield ; was a member of the lower house of the Legislature 1867, 1868, 1869, and 1870 ; was a member of the State senate 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1878; and in 1878 and 1879 served as a member of the executive council of Governors Rice and Talbot. He was chair- man of the committee on State House during its rebuilding in 1869, chairman of the railroad com- mittee 1876, and served on various other com- mittees of the House and Senate; and in every position he secured the respect and confidence of his associates. He is one of the metropolitan sewerage commissioners appointed by Governor Ames. The name of Haynes was originally spelled Hayne, as evidenced on the Haynes coat of arms, "confirmed to Thomas Hayne of Fryer Waddon, County Dorset, by Sir William Segar, Garter, 1607."
HEMENWAY, ALFRED, was born in Hopkinton, Mass., Aug. 17, 1839. He entered Yale College, graduating in 1861, after which he studied law at the Harvard Law School. In July of 1863 he was admitted to the bar, and after some years of active practice he became a member of the firm of Allen,
HERBERT, JOHN, was born in Wentworth, N.H., Nov. 2, 1849. His father, Samuel Herbert, is a prom- inent New Hampshire lawyer, for many years one of the leaders of the Democratic party in that State, and for several terms a member of the Legislature. His mother's maiden name was L. Maria Darling, daughter of Benjamin Darling, who studied law with Ezekiel Webster, brother of Daniel Webster. Mr. Herbert's boyhood was spent in Rumney, N.H. When he was twelve years old his parents moved to Boston for the purpose of educating him. He graduated from the Mayhew Grammar School in 1864, and from the English High in 1867. In both of these schools he was at the head of his class, receiving from each a silver medal. In the latter he also won the first prize in the scientific department. In January, 1868, he en- tered the sophomore class of the Chandler scientific department of Dartmouth College, where he re- mained until the end of the college year 1869, being at the head of his class. He then studied Latin and Greek for one year under a private tutor. In 1870 he entered the senior class of the academi- cal department of the college. He was one of the editors of "The Dartmouth," the college magazine, and was also prominent in athletics, being captain of the college base-ball nine. Soon after his gradu- ation he was appointed first assistant, and after one term became the principal of Appleton Acade- my, New Ipswich, N.H., which position he held until 1874, when he resigned. After his retirement from this position, Mr. Herbert studied law with his father in Rumney, N.H., and was admitted- to
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the New Hampshire bar in 1875. After practising persons from nearly every State in the Union, in- for a time, he entered Andover Theological Sem- inary and prepared for the ministry. In 1876 he became the pastor of the First Congregational Church in Stoughton, Mass. This pastorate he reluctantly relinquished in 1878, on account of a throat trou- ble, and spent the following year travelling in 'Europe, Egypt, and the East. On his return, being compelled by physical disability to abandon the ministry, he resumed the practice of law in Boston, in 1880. He is a member of the Suffolk
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bar, and of the Boston Bar Association, and has a lucrative practice. Notwithstanding the exact- ing duties of his profession, he has given much of his time to public service, occupying various posi- tions of note and trust. To his untiring efforts are due in a large degree the unprecedented success of the Mystic Valley Club, organized in 1888, of which he is now secretary and first vice-president. This club is composed of about three hundred and fifty representative citizens of Somerville, Cambridge, Arlington, Medford, and Winchester, who are asso- ciated together for the purpose of reform in politics and promotion of the cause of temperance. Not less in importance has been his interest in the temperance cause, of which he is a leading advo- cate. His voice has been heard on many plat- forms. Mr. Herbert is president of the Appleton Academy Association, which has in its membership
cluding many of note; and a prominent member of the Congregational Club. He is also a Free Mason. In politics he is a Republican. In Som- erville, where he resides, he has always been active in church and social circles. He was one of the founders of the " Somerville Citizen," and has been instrumental with others in making this one of the best local newspapers in New England. Mr. Her- bert was married Aug. 1, 1872, to Miss Alice C. Grey, who was teacher of music and drawing in the Appleton Academy when he was its principal ; they have one son.
HERSEY, IRA G., was born in Hingham March 12, 1860. He began business for himself in 1883, as carpenter and builder, and among the notable buildings of which he has had charge may be men- tioned the Pierce Building, on Copley square, stores on the corner of Tremont street and Temple place, the remodelling of the old Masonic Temple on Tremont street, stable for W. F. Weld in Brookline, and the South Armory Building on Irvington street. He was in 1892 engaged on the construction of the new Court House on Pemberton square, the power houses for the West End Street Railway Company, and the buildings for the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, at Waltham.
HILLARD, JAMES LINCOLN, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1847, but came to Boston when a boy. He was educated in the public schools of Roxbury and Newton, finishing at the Institute of Technology. In 1869 he was appointed assistant clerk of committees in the City Hall, under James M. Bugbee, and remained in this position until 1873, when he accepted the appointment as mayor's clerk for Mayor Pierce. He served as clerk to the Hon. Henry L. Pierce, the Hon. Samuel C. Cobb, and again to Mayor Pierce ; also in the collector's department. In 1879 he was appointed assistant clerk of committees at City Hall, under William H. Lee, and continued in that position until July, 1885, when 4Mr. Lee was ap- pointed to the board of police commissioners ; since that date Mr. Hillard has been clerk of committees. He is a member of the Knights of Honor, and of the order of Good Fellows.
HILLS, THOMAS, was born in Boston Aug. 13, 1828. He passed through the public schools, graduating with honors, and entered the employ of Messrs. Lawson & Huntington, upholsterers, as an apprentice to learn that business, and served a term
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of five years. He had the "gold fever" in 1849, and started for San Francisco in March of that year, and going around Cape Horn, reached the Golden Gate on the 9th of September. After a brief expe- rience as a miner, Mr. Hills formed a business part- nership with Charles M. Plum in San Francisco, under the firm name of Plum & Hills. This house still survives in that city, the C. M. Plum Uphol- stery Company, as a corporation, carrying on a large business. Mr. Hills' connection with it ceased when he left California in November, 1850, visiting China and England, returning to Boston in Septem- ber, 1851. In 1860 he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature, and also the following year, and was again reelected in 1865. The same year (1865) he was chosen one of the assessors of the city of Boston, and was annually reelected until the term of office was extended to three years, since which time he has been reappointed at the expira- tion of each term of service. Upon the death of George Jackson, the chairman of the board, he was chosen his successor, and still retains that office. Mr. Hills is president of the South Boston Savings Bank, and has twice been president of the Me- chanic Apprentices Library Association. He is a director of the Old School Boys Association, of the Massachusetts Title Insurance Company, and of other corporations. For more than a quarter of a century he has been a member of the committee of management of the Barnard Memorial (formerly the Warren-street chapel), and is now chairman of that committee.
HINCKS, EDWARD WINSLOW, son of Captain Elisha and Elizabeth Hopkins (Wentworth) Hincks, was born in Bucksport, Me., May 30, 1830. His father was a native of Provincetown, Mass., and was lost at sea in 1831, and his mother was of Orrington, Me. He is a lineal descendant of Chief Justice John Hinckes, of New Hampshire, who was also a coun- cillor both in Massachusetts and New Hampshire (president of the council of the latter province for several years) almost continuously from 1683 to 1708. He was educated in the common schools of, his native town, and at the age of fifteen went to work, beginning as an apprentice in the printing- office of the " Bangor Whig and Courier." Here he remained four years. Then, in 1849, he came to Boston and engaged in the printing and publish- ing business, in which he continued until 1856. In 1855 he was a member of the lower house of the Legislature, and the same year a member of the Bos- ton common council. At the opening of 1856 he was appointed a clerk in the office of the secretary
of the Commonwealth, and prepared the State census of 1855 for publication. He retained this position until the outbreak of the Civil War, occupying his leisure time in the study of law, intending to follow that profession. In 1856 he removed to Lynn, where he became librarian of the Lynn Library Association, of which the present public library is an outgrowth. In August, 1859, he was appointed ad- jutant of the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, and this was the modest beginning of his brilliant mili- tary career. In December, 1860, when matters in South Carolina were becoming critical, he wrote to Major Anderson, then stationed at Fort Moultrie, asking if in case of attack upon his command he would be at liberty to accept volunteers to aid in the defence of the fort, and adding : " I am confident that a large body of volunteers from this vicinity can be put afloat at short notice, . if neces- sity shall demand and the authorities permit it." This was the first proffer of aid made to Major Ander- son. . He acknowledged it with hearty thanks, writ- ing, "Come what may, I shall ever bear in grateful remembrance your gallant, your humane offer," but explained that the fortification was so indifferent and exposed that " if attacked by a force headed by any one but a simpleton, there is scarce a possibility of our being able to hold out long enough to enable our friends to come to our succor." On April 15, 1861, when the news of the firing on Sumter and the call for troops was received, Adjutant Hincks hastened to the State House, and at nine o'clock offered . his services and those of his comrades of the Eighth Regiment to Governor Andrew, which were accepted. Under orders promptly issued he rode that evening to Lynn, Salem, Beverly, and Marblehead, despatching messengers to Newbury- port and Gloucester, notifying the various com- panies of his regiment to rendezvous in Boston at once ; and early the next morning he -marched into Faneuil Hall with three companies from Marble- head, the first troops in the country en route for the seat of war. The next day he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, and on the next, the 18th, started with it for Washington. On the 21st, at Annapolis, a detachment under his com- mand boarded the frigate "Constitution," then aground, and after lightening her of the guns suc- cessfully floated her and worked her to sea; and the following day another detachment under his command took possession of the Baltimore & Wash- ington Railroad, repaired the engines and track, and soon reopened communication. Arriving in Washington on the 26th he was immediately appointed a second lieutenant of cavalry in the
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regular army. On May 16 following he was made colonel of his old regiment, which he commanded during its three months' term of service. On August 3 he was commissioned colonel of the Nineteenth Massachusetts, and was with it in the army of the Potomac from August, 1861, to June. 30, 1862, when he was wounded in the action at White Oak Swamp, Va. Returning to duty in August, he commanded the Third Brigade, Sedg- wick's Division, Army of the Potomac, to September 17, when he was twice severely wounded in the battle of Antietam. In November he was made brigadier-general United States Volunteers. His wounds held him from duty until March, 1863. Then, from April 2 to June 9, he was on court- martial duty at Washington ; from July to March the next year, in New Hampshire commanding the draft rendezvous at Concord, and acting_assistant provost marshal-general and superintendent of the volunteer recruiting service for that State ; in April, 1864, commanding the district of St. Mary's and camp of prisoners of war at Point Lookout, Md .; then in the field again, commanding the Third Divis- ion, Eighteenth Army Corps, to July, 1864, when he was for the fourth time wounded; next on court- martial duty to September 22 ; then commanding the draft-depot and camp of prisoners of war at Hart's Island, New York harbor, to February, 1865 ; for a month on duty in New York city as acting assistant provost-marshal-general, and chief mustering and disbursing officer for the southern division of New York ; and the three months following on the same duty at Harrisburg, Pa., for the western division of Pennsylvania. On March 13, 1865, he was made brevet major-general United States Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war. In June, that year, he resigned the volunteer commis- sion, and on July 28 he was appointed lieutenant- colonel Fortieth United States Infantry (regular army) ; March 15, 1869, he was transferred to the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry. He was brevetetl colonel United States army March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Antietam, and brigadier-general United, States army, for gallant and meritorious services in the assault of Petersburg, Va. After the war he was governor of the Military Asylum from July, 1866, to March, 1867 ; provost-marshal-general of North and South Carolina to January, 1868 ; commanding the eastern district of North Carolina part of that year ; in command of the post of New Orleans in 1869; and at Fort Clark, Texas, in 1870. In December, that year, he was retired from active ser- vice for disability resulting from his wounds, with
the full rank of colonel, United States Army. In March, 1872, he was made deputy-governor of the southern branch of National Soldiers' Homes at Hampton, Va., and in January, 1873, he was trans- ferred to the north-western branch, near Milwaukee, Wis., where he remained until October, 1880, when he resigned. Since 1883 General Hincks has made his home in Cambridge, where he is respected as one of its foremost citizens. He has served three terms in the Cambridge board of aldermen (1886, 1887, and 1888), the last year as president of the board and occasionally acting mayor. He is a companion in the National Commandery of the Loyal Legion, commander of the Massachusetts Commandery in 1889-90, and of the Wisconsin Commandery 1876-80; is connected with the Masonic order ; and is a member of the New Eng- land Historic Genealogical Society. He has been twice married : first, Jan. 25, 1855, to Miss Annie Rebecca Dow, of Lynn, who died Aug. 21, 1862. Her. only child was Anson Burlingame Hincks, who died in Rockville, Md., Jan. 27, 1862. His second marriage was on Sept. 3, 1863, to Elizabeth Pierce Nichols, of Cambridge. Her only child, Bessie Hincks, a promising girl of twenty, who had gradu- ated from the Milwaukee College and had just entered the Harvard Annex, died in Cambridge July 5, 1885, a distressing death. While walking along the street her dress took fire from a burning cracker and she was fatally burned.
HORES, GEORGE M., son of William and Maria (Miller) Hobbs, was born in Waltham, Mass., April II, 1827. He attended the public schools of his native town until he had reached the age of twelve, when he was put to work in a store in Cambridge, where he remained three years. Coming in daily contact during this period with many law students, he was inspired by their superior attainments with an ambition to become like them, and as a begin- ning he took up the study of Latin without a teacher, pursuing it after the shop was closed at nine o'clock at night. Subsequently, with the slight learning thus obtained, he placed himself under the care of that most excellent scholar and woman, Mrs. Ripley, at Waltham and at Concord, for one year, when he presented himself for examination at Harvard. Successfully passing, he entered the college, and graduated in the class of 1850. After graduation he was engaged for a while as a private tutor in Upper Marlborough, Md., and then in teaching in Alexandria, Va. Returning to Cambridge, he took the Law School course, graduating in 1857. While there he acted as proctor, and for a year was libra-
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rian of the Law School. In 1858 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and began practice in Boston associated with Hon. Edward Avery - a connec- tion which has ever since continued. Mr. Hobbs was a member of the lower house of the Legislature in 1868 ; for twenty-three years a member of the Roxbury and the Boston school boards, serving two years as president of the Boston board; and for two years was one of the Boston water commis- sioners. In connection with his partner, Mr. Avery, he has prepared and published a work on bank- ruptcy. On Oct. 26, 1859, he was married in Boston to Miss Annie M. Morrill; they have two children : Alice Avery and Edith Morrill Hobbs.
HODGKINS, WILLIAM E., son of Joseph W. and Sarah (Barnes) Hodgkins, was born in Plymouth, Mass., Sept. 26, 1829. On the maternal side he is descended from John Barnes, one of the earliest
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settlers in Plymouth. He was educated in the common and high schools of his native town. After leaving school he entered the tailoring establishment of his father, at that time the leading tailor of that town ; but, ambitious to work in a larger field, he soon came to Boston, where he entered the employ of Charles A. Smith, who had about that time leased the Old State House. In 1866 the firm re- moved to School street. His connection with Mr. Smith as cutter and as partner remained un-
broken until the death of the latter in 1880. Mr. Hodgkins has had a very large personal acquaint- ance, having for more than thirty years catered to the wants of three generations of distinguished men in every profession, here and in various sections of the country. He was the first president of the Boston Merchant Tailors Exchange, having been largely instrumental in its organization, and was also elected a vice-president of the Merchant Tailors National Exchange at its formation in Philadel- phia in 1885. He has always been prominent in promoting the interest of his trade. In 1891 Mr. Hodgkins withdrew his interest from the old firm and formed a partnership with his son Edward W. Hodgkins, who had had nearly fifteen years' experience with the former house and is a worthy assistant to his father, thus completing the third generation engaged in the same pursuit. The Messrs. Hodgkins are well known on both sides of the Atlantic as experienced buyers, both having made many trips abroad in the interest of their business. The firm of Hodgkins & Hodgkins occupy chambers in the famous Niles Building on School street. Mr. Hodgkins was married in Cambridge Sept. 7, 1853, to Ann M., daughter of Captain John (U.S.N.) and Eliza (Candler) Bubier, of Marblehead. Of this union were five sons and one daughter : William C., Joseph W., Susan C., Edward W., Arthur B. (de- ceased), and Howard G. Hodgkins.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, son of Rev. Abiel Holmes, D.D., and Sarah (Wendell) Holmes, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1809. His father, a native of Woodstock, Conn., and a graduate of Yale in the class of 1783, was pastor of the First Congre- gational Church of Cambridge from 1792 to 1832. His mother was the daughter of Judge Oliver Wen- dell, of Boston. The oid gambrel-roof house in which he was born was the original headquarters . of the American Army of the Revolution, and here the battle of Bunker Hill was planned. He was educated by private instructors, at Phillips (Ando- ver) Academy, and at Harvard College, from which he graduated in the famous class ,of 1829. After graduation he devoted a year to the study of law, and then turned his attention to medicine, which was more congenial to his tastes. For two and a half years he studied with Dr. James Jackson and his associ- ates, and then, in 1833, went to Europe, where he attended L'École de Médecine in Paris, and spent some time in the hospitals of other foreign cities. In 1835 he returned to Boston and continued his studies in the Harvard Medical School, taking his degree in 1836, the same year and season delivering
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" Poetry, a Metrical Essay," before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa. In 1838 he was made professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth College, and in 1840 he established himself in Boston, and became the fashionable physician of his day. In 1847 hewas appointed Parkman professor of anat- only and physiology in the Harvard Medical School, succeeding Dr. John C. Warren, who had resigned ; and in 1849 he retired from general prac- tice, devoting himself to his college work and the pursuit of letters. For more than thirty years he delivered his weekly lectures for about eight months each year in the Medical School, and is now pro- fessor emeritus. His literary work was begun when he was a youthful student of law, and his earliest contributions of light verse were published in the "Collegian," a periodical issued by a group of Harvard undergraduates in 1830; and he was among the writers of the " Harbinger," " A May gift, dedicated to the ladies who have so kindly aided the New England Institution for the education of the blind," published in Boston in 1833. His first volume of poems was published in 1836. This included his famous "Old Ironsides," which he wrote in the old house in Cambridge when he was but twenty years old, and first published in the " Boston Daily Advertiser." Then followed other notable publications, among them : " Songs in Many Keys," "Songs of Many Seasons," "Astræa: the Balance of Illusions," " The Autocrat of the Break- fast Table," " The Professor at the Breakfast Table," " The Poet at the Breakfast Table," " Elsie Venner," "The Guardian Angel," "Currents and Counter Currents in Medical Science," " Border-Lines in some Provinces of Medical Science," " Soundings from the Atlantic," " Mechanism in Thought and Morals," " Favorite Poems," " The Story of Iris," " The School Boy," "John Lothrop Motley," a memoir, "The Iron Gate, and Other Poems." Dr. Holmes' latest work, " Over the Tea Cups," written in his old age, after his return from an ex- tended visit to England, has the old charm of his earlier " Breakfast Table " series. The winter resi- dence of Dr. Holmes is a delightful home on the water side of Beacon street, and his summer-place is now in Beverly Farms. Years ago he made his summer home on the Housatonic, near Pittsfield, upon a broad estate inherited from his maternal ancestors, the Wendells. He was married June 15, 1840, to Amelia Lee, daugh- ter of Hon. Charles Jackson, of Boston. Of this union were born three children : Oliver Wendell, jr. (now associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court), Amelia Jackson (widow of the late Turner Sargent), and Edward Jackson Holmes.
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