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HOOPER, GEORGE MITCHELL, son of Mitchell and Jane (Mitchell) Hooper, was born in Bridgewater, Plymouth county, September 1, 1838.
After his district school preparation he attended Bridgewater Academy, and Pierce Academy, Middleborough. He was grad- uated from the Bridgewater state normal school, February 17, 1857.
In 1859 he first engaged in business as a manufacturer of brick. He is still inter- ested in the business.
Mr. Hooper was married in Bridgewa- ter, October 17, 1861, to Mary Edes, daughter of Hervey and Elizabeth H. (Tallman) Josselyn. His second marriage was with Catherine, daughter of Edward and Margaret Mitchell, in Bridgewater, January 15, 1889. He has had eight chil- dren, six of whom survive : Jane Mitchell,
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Louise Guild, George Mitchell, Frederick Warren, Mary Edes and Mitchell Hooper. The fifth and sixth in order of birth, Har- rison Keith and Theodore Wright Hooper, are deceased.
Mr. Hooper has been a member of the school board, trustee of the public library, treasurer of Plymouth County Agricultural Society ; clerk and trustee of Bridgewater Savings Bank, and was a member of the House of Representatives in 1888.
HOPKINS, JAMES HUGHES, son of Smith K. and Mary A. (Hughes) Hopkins, was born in North Truro, Barnstable county, February 20, 1861.
After attending the public schools of Truro, he passed through the Prescott grammar school, Somerville, and was grad- uated from the Somerville high school in the class of 1878. He then entered Har- vard College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1882.
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After graduating he engaged in teach- ing in Eastham and Barnstable, 1882 and '83, and until February, 1884. He chose the profession of law, and was admitted to practice in October, 1883.
He began practice in New Bedford, February, 1884, but removed to Province- town in June of the same year, where he has since continued in practice. He also
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has an office in Barnstable. In 1886 he became editor of the " Provincetown Ad- vocate." Mr. Hopkins was elected a com- missioner of insolvency for the county of Barnstable from 1887 to '90 ; appointed one of the trial justices for the county of Barnstable in 1885. In 1888 he was made treasurer of the First Universalist church of Provincetown ; has been secretary, treasurer, and trustee of Mayflower coun- cil, 1011 Royal Arcanum ; director of the Provincetown Building Association, and clerk of the Provincetown Boot & Shoe Company. In 1888 he was elected a special commissioner for the county of Barnstable, and was elected one of the trustees of the Provincetown public library in 1889.
HORTON, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, son of William Marshal and Ann (Leonard) Horton, was born in Springfield, Hampden county, September 28, 1843.
He studied at Springfield, in the public schools ; moved to Chicago in 1856, and lived there six years. During that time the civil war broke out, and he enlisted in the navy, going to Brooklyn, N. Y., for that purpose. He was then eighteen years old. Mr. Horton served as landsman in the South Atlantic squadron, under Commo- dores Dupont and Dahlgren, a little more than a year. His craft, the steam gun- boat "Seneca," assisted in blockading Charleston, in attacking Forts Wagner and Sumter, and in destroying the priva- teer " Nashville."
On his return to civil life he began vigorous preparations for college, crowd- ing the successive steps, and entering with- out conditions the class of 1869 at the University of Michigan. Owing to cer- tain obstacles not easily overcome, of a kind which young men without means usually encounter, he remained but a little while at the university. Feeling the need of abridging his time of study, he went at once to the theological school at Mead- ville, Pa., and there not only prosecuted the regular course of three years, but maintained other studies, graduating in 1868. A graceful act was done by the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1880, in conferring on Mr. Horton the honorary degree of A. M.
On graduating he had two invitations to settle -one from Flint, Mich., and one from Leominster, Mass. The latter was accepted, and Mr. Horton held the pastor- ate of that very large parish for seven years. During that period, in 1871, he visited England, Switzerland and Germany, and spent a year in study at Brunswick
and Heidelberg, his church generously granting a leave of absence. In the sum- mer of 1875 he accepted a call to New Orleans, but a severe and almost fatal ill- ness fell upon him, and the result of hard work was summed up in the order of the physicians to rest for two years.
On December 1, 1875, at Lancaster, he married Josephine Adelaide, daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth (Miles) Rand. They have one child : Ruth Horton, born Feb- ruary 24, 1877.
The very day of his marriage he started for the South to regain his lost health. Two years seemed too long for idleness, and in a year's time he was at work again, having accepted a call to Hingham, as minister of the Old Church, famous for its quaint edifice, over two hundred years old. Here he remained, happy in his relations to his people and the town, three years, and then went to Boston, as pastor of the Second Church, Copley Square (founded in 1649). Since 1880 Mr. Horton has not only served this parish, but has been identified with various religious and philanthropic movements. Among his predecessors were the three Mathers, Henry Ware, Jr., Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Chandler Robbins. The society has steadily grown under his charge, and is now full of vigor and pros- perity.
Mr. Horton has been president of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches ; presi- dent of the Unitarian Sunday-school Soci- ety, and director of the American Unitarian Association. He is a director of the Wash- ingtonian Home, of the North End Mis- sion, of the Home for Intemperate Women, and other organizations. He is closely connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, having served as chaplain of the State, and holding now the chaplaincy of E. W. Kinsley Post 113, in Boston. He is a trustee of Derby Academy, Hingham ; superintendent of Westford Academy, and visitor to the Howard Collegiate Institute. His literary reviews of books, and occa- sional contributions on general subjects, are confined mostly to the Boston press, and to the denominational papers and magazines. Among the other publications from his pen are discourses on Emerson and Garfield, delivered at the time of their death ; an address to the graduating class of 1888, at the Boston College of Phar- macy ; three sermons on Unitarianism ; and a historical discourse commemorative of the 250th anniversary of the building of the Old Meeting House, in llingham.
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HORTON, EVERETT S., son of Gideon M. and Mary (Smith) Horton, was born in Attleborough, Bristol county, June 15, 1836.
Public schools and a private academy furnished his advantages for an education.
He entered a country store with his father, and succeeded him in the business. After the war of the rebellion he was en- gaged as salesman in the largest whole- sale house in groceries, flour, etc., in Provi- dence, R. I., and remained there fifteen years.
In ISSo he entered the jewelry manu- facturing establishment of his brother, tak- ing the place of a brother deceased. He continued in this line of industry, becom- ing senior member of the firm of Horton, Angell & Co., Attleborough.
Mr. Horton was first married in Attle- borough, June 12, 1861, to Mary Ann, daughter of Jesse and Mary (More) Car- penter. He was married the second time, September 24, 1873, to Eliza B., daughter of Horace and Rahanna (Ordway) Free- mont. Of the first marriage is Mary Edith Horton, and of the second, Gertie E. Horton.
In the war of the rebellion Mr. Horton was lieutenant and captain in the 47th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, and 2d lieutenant, captain, and major in the 58th Massachusetts. He was taken prisoner September 30, 1864, and paroled February 22, 1865. He was confined in Libby Prison, in Salisbury, N. C., and in Dan- ville, Va.
Mr. Horton is one of the directors of the Attleborough Savings and Loan Associa- tion, and president of the public library. He is one of the trustees of the Richardson school fund, and an officer in several com- mercial and social organizations. He is always active in any public or private en- terprise that aids in building up the town and ministers to its welfare.
He is a member of the G. A. R. Post 145, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and the Masonic fraternity, being a Mason of the 32d degree.
Mr. Horton is a staunch Republican, and an active worker in the ranks of that party.
HORTON, NATHANIEL AUGUSTUS, son of Nathaniel and Martha (Very) Horton, was born in Salem, Essex county, where he has always resided, April 16, 1830.
He was educated in the public schools of Salem, graduating at the English high school March 6, 1846 On the 23d of the same month he entered the office of the "Salem Gazette"-then published by
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Caleb Foote and William Brown -and served a regular apprenticeship until he was twenty-one.
In January, 1854 (Mr. Brown having left the office to take a public position under the administration of Zachary Taylor), Mr. Horton was admitted as a partner with Mr. Foote, which position he retained until the latter retired from the business, October 1, 1888. At that time Mr. Horton took his son, William A. Horton, into part- nership, and the business is now continued under the title of N. A. Horton & Son.
June 20, 1854, Mr. Horton married Harriet Maria, daughter of Nathaniel G.
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and Harriet (Fillebrown) Symonds. Their three children were : Martha Osgood (wife of Henry M. Batchelder), George Nathan- iel (who died in childhood), and William Augustus, junior member of the present "Salem Gazette " firm.
Mr. Horton has always taken a warm interest in public affairs. He was in sympathy with the Whig party, casting his first presidential vote for Winfield Scott, in 1852. Upon the dissolution of that party, he joined with those who formed the Republican party, and has since been uniformly identified with that political organization, though his party affiliations have never been strong enough to prevent
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him from exercising an independent judg- ment of men and measures, according to the exigency of the occasion.
Mr. Horton was a member of the com- mon council of Salem in 1861 and '62. He was elected to the House of Representa- tives in 1859 for the year 1860, when there were two sessions. He was also a mem- ber of the House in 1879 and '80, and of the Senate in 1881 and '82. In 1880 he was elected a delegate from the 6th con- gressional district to the national Repub- lican convention, held in June of that year ; and, with the majority of delegates, he voted first for Edmunds, next for Sher- man, and finally for Garfield, who became the nominee.
He has been a member of the Massachu- setts Press Association from its beginning, and was for two years its president. He is a Unitarian in his religious affiliations, and has for several years been the presi- dent of the Essex conference of liberal Christian churches. He is also one of the original trustees of the Salem public library, chosen for life.
Mr. Horton began his political writings for the " Gazette " before he had reached his majority, and has been a regular con- tributor to its various departments to the present time. His writings have contrib- uted much to the editorial character and political influence of the "Gazette." While in the Senate, his disinterested judgment, independence of character, and forcible way of presenting his views upon pub- lic questions, always gave weight to his opinions and reasoning. His minority re- port, adverse to woman suffrage, has gen- erally been regarded one of the strongest presentations upon that side of the ques- tion, as well as one of the most courteous and temperate in tone ; and it has been at least once reprinted with a view to in- fluencing votes in a subsequent Legisla- ture.
Mr. Horton has, at several times, but not with great frequency, delivered set ad- dresses upon special occasions. On sol- diers' Memorial days he has given addresses at Somerville, Groveland, Arlington and Salem. He also delivered an address be- fore the members of the Salem city gov- ernment, on the occasion of the setting up of a tablet to commemorate the resistance to Colonel Leslie at North Bridge in 1775. Though filling with credit the various pub- lic positions to which he has been called, Mr. Horton has never aspired to public life, nor sought public honors ; but - like many others bred to newspaper life
after the old ways-he has found that calling, with such public influence as may be carried with it, most congenial to his taste.
HOVEY, ALVAH, son of Alfred and Abigail (Howard) Hovey, was born in Greene, Chenango county, N. Y., March 5, 1820. His parents returned to Thetford, Vt., in the autumn of that year.
He attended the common schools of Thetford until fifteen years of age, work- ing on the farm with his father during the summer seasons after he was six years old. At the age of fifteen he attended Thetford Academy two terms, and the next year be- gan his preparation for college in Brandon, Vt., teaching in winter and studying the remainder of the year. At the age of nineteen he entered Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1844. He was obliged to fall back one class, having been out of college two years, as principal of the academy at Derby, Vermont. After his graduation he was principal of an academy in New Lon- don, N. H., one year and three months, then entered Newton Theological Insti- tution in the autumn of 1845, and was graduated in 1848.
He preached in New Gloucester, Me., one year. He then (1849) became in- structor in Hebrew in the Newton Theo- logical Institution. In 1853 he was made professor of church history, professor of systematic theology in 1855, and president of the Institution in 1868, which position he still holds.
In 1861 and '62 he visited Europe, and studied in the universities of Berlin, Göt- tingen and Heidelberg.
Dr. Hovey was married in Newton Cen- tre, September 24, 1852, to Augusta Maria, daughter of Marshall Spring and Mary (Livermore) Rice. Of this union were five children : George Rice, Agnes Curtis, Helen Augusta, Harriet Lee, and Frederick Howard Hovey. He received the degree of D. D. from Brown University, and that of LL. D. from Denison University and Richmond College.
Dr. Hovey has efficiently served on the Newton school board ; was trustee and afterwards fellow of the corporation of Brown University ; trustee of Wellesley College, and of the New England Conserva- tory of Music ; trustee of Worcester Acad- emy ; member of the executive committee of the American Baptist Missionary Union ; director of the Northern Baptist Education Society, and president of the same for sev- eral years; also trustee and director of
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the Gardner Colby Ministerial Relief So- ciety.
He is author of the following books : "A Memoir of the Life and Times of the Rev. Isaac Backus, A. M.," (1859); "The State of the Impenitent Dead " (1858) ; " The Miracles of Christ Attested by the Evangelists " (1864); "The Scriptural Law of Divorce " (1866); "God with Us" (1872); "Religion and the State " (1876); " The Doctrine of the Higher Christian Life Compared with the Scriptures " (1877); "Manual of Christian Theology and Ethics " (1878); "Commentary on the Gospel of St. John " (1885); and " Bibli- cal Eschatology " (1888). He is also general editor of " An American Commen- tary on the New Testament," of which seven volumes have been published.
HOWARD, CHARLES D., son of James and Harriet (Shaw) Nowell, was born in Haverhill, Essex county, October 20, 1829 -the name being changed to Howard by an act of the Legislature in 1849.
His early education was obtained in the public schools of Salem, limited to a gram- mar school course.
He entered the office of the "Salem Ad- vertiser," a Democratic paper, in 1846, to learn the printing business. After work- ing there four years, he went to the " Essex County Freeman " office, a Free Soil paper ; from this to H. J. Butterfield's office in Lynn, where he worked at job printing. He afterwards worked on "Gleason's Pic- torial," in Boston, a number of years, and then for several years was foreman of the Lynn " Bay State " office.
In 1858 he went to South Danvers (now Peabody) and started a job printing office. Two years later he issued the first number of the "South Danvers Wizard " (now the "Peabody Press "), and published it until 1882, when he sold out to Fernald & Vit- tum. In July, 1882, he went to Salem and published the "Salem Evening Post," a penny daily. In February, 1885, he sold the office to the "Evening Telegram " Company. He then went to Natick and took the "Citizen " office, where he is at present located, doing a large business, publishing the "Citizen," the "Wellesley Courant," " The College Courant," and the " Sherborn Tribune."
Mr. Howard has been in the printing and publishing business more than thirty years, and has achieved an honorable finan- cial success without a single reverse.
Mr. Howard was married in Lynn, Feb- ruary 8, 1854, to Sarah C., daughter of John C. and Sarah (Thayer) Blaney. Of
this union are three children : L. Flora (now Mrs. Dr. A. F. Story), William Thayer, and Charles Nowell Howard.
Mr. Howard held the surveyorship of the port of Salem during President Grant's first term, and was trustee of the Peabody Institute, in Peabody, for six years.
HOWARD, ROBERT, son of Dennis and Elizabeth (Miller) Howard, was born in Northwich, Cheshire county, England, February 8, 1845.
His early education was limited to the common schools.
He began life as a back-boy in the spin- ning room of a cotton mill when eight years old. He was engaged in the various lines of work in the spinning department until 1879, when he became secretary of the Fall River Spinners' Union, at a salary the same as wages received by a spinner. This selection was made after a six years' residence in Fall River-he having come to America and settled in Fall River in 1873.
Mr. Howard was master workman of the Knights of Labor (State of Massachusetts) in 1886. Robert Howard Assembly, Knights of Labor, was named in his honor.
He was a representative to the General Court in 1880, and declined to serve for a second term. He was elected as state senator, 1886, '87, '88 and '89. He is a Democrat, but represents a strong Repub- lican district. He has been chairman of the committee on labor the last three years.
He has been director of the People's Co-operative Loan Association ; president of the Fall River Boot & Shoe Company, and associate editor of " Fibre and Fabric."
As the executive of the Fall River Spin- ners' Association, Mr. Howard's policy has been to adjust differences by arbitration, in a quiet and business-like manner. Nearly all differences between Fall River spinners and their employers are now settled prompt- ly and satisfactorily, after a conference be- tween the secretary and a representative of the board of trade.
Mr. Howard has been called upon to confer with the directors of labor move- ments throughout New England, has fre- quently addressed public meetings and appeared before legislative committees, and has exerted a controlling influence in shaping legislation to limit the hours of labor, and to lighten the burdens of women and children, not only in Massachusetts, but throughout the country.
Mr. Howard is unmarried. His residence is Fall River.
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HOWE, FRANCIS AUGUSTINE, second son of the Rev. James and Harriet (Nason) Howe, was born at Pepperell, Middlesex county, April 20, 1827, and obtained his early education at the Pepperell Academy. He graduated at Amherst in the class of 1848, and attended medical lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1853, and at the Harvard medical school in 1852-'54, and received his de- gree of M. D. from Harvard in 1854.
For three years he practiced medicine in Pepperell, and in 1857 located in Newbury- port, where he has since resided and led an active professional life. He has also tak- en a deep interest in public affairs, and been prominent in whatever has tended to promote the social and moral welfare of the city.
On the 10th of June, 1857, in Pepperell, Dr. Howe married Mary Frances, daugh- ter of Hon. James and Harriet (Parker) Lewis. Their children are : James Lewis Howe, professor of chemistry in Louisville, Ky., Francis Freeman, and Edith March Howe. Of these, the second son died in December, 1868.
Dr. Howe is a member of the American Medical Association, Massachusetts Medi- cal Society, and was for two years presi- dent of the Essex North District Medical Society. In 1881 he was appointed by the governor to the board of consulting physi- cians of the Danvers Hospital. He has been president of the corporation, and one of the trustees of the Anna Jaques Hos- pital at Newburyport since its organiza- tion, and was prominently instrumental in its foundation. For many years he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Putnam free school, and has served several terms on the school board. He has been president of the Y. M. C. A. since 1887, and is one of the officers of the Belle- ville church. In 1888 he was elected a member of the board of aldermen of New- buryport, serving one year. During the war he was stationed at the Wheaton Hos- pital, in Yorktown, Va., in May and June, 1862, as contract surgeon. He was the first physician in Newburyport to make use of the hypodermic syringe, the clinical thermometer, and the aspirator, in medical practice.
HOWE, SAMUEL 1., son of Calvin and Mary (Wyman) Howe, was born in Shrews- bury, Worcester county, February 8, 1822.
He obtained a common school educa- tion.
He first began business for himself in 1847. He engaged in mining in California
in 1852, and continued in the mines two years. In 1854 he opened a dry-goods and grocery business in Shrewsbury, which he carried on until 1885, when he retired from business and continued in the gen- eral country justice employment of con- veyancing, and preparation of law papers, until the day of his death, which occurred May 13, 1889.
Mr. Howe was first married in Berlin, in April, 1847, to Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Hannah Carter. His second marriage was in Shrewsbury, to Lucy A., daughter of Jesse and Laura A. Perry. He has five children : Walter C. and Nellie C. by the first, and Jennie L., Frank P., and May W. Howe by the second marriage.
Mr. Howe served his town and State in various offices. He was town clerk, chair- man of the board of selectmen, assessors, and overseers of the poor ; constable, moderator at town meetings, etc. These offices he held the greater part of the time for twenty-five years. He was postmaster nearly the same length of time ; a member of the General Court of 1877 ; a delegate to the various Republican conventions in the Commonwealth ; chairman of the Re- publican town committee, etc.
Mr. Howe will be remembered as the author of the bill known as the "Guide Board Bill " in the House of Representa- tives. This bill was held up to ridicule, and reported upon adversely, but by his persistent efforts he carried it through House and Senate without a dissenting vote, and he afterwards received, as was his due, the thanks of almost the entire press of the Commonwealth.
HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN, son of William Cooper and Mary Dean Howells, was born at Martin's Ferry, Belmont county, Ohio, March 1, 1837.
His ancestors on his father's side were Welch Quakers, and people of property; his great grandfather introduced the man- ufacture of flannel into his town, and built three mills ; his grandfather emigrated to this country and became an ardent Metho- dist, while his father adopted the doctrines of Swedenborg, in which the son was educated. In all these generations this faniily was an educated race, living in an atmosphere of books and religious refine- ment.
Up to ten years of age, Mr. Howells attended small private and public schools, pursuing his studies in rather a desultory manner. Almost as soon as he could read he began to make verses and put them in type in his father's printing office. He
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pursued no collegiate course, but his ex- tensive reading, his inherited literary tastes, his contact with thoroughly demo- cratic society, and his early habit of self- dependence, with other peculiar factors that went to make up his environment from sixteen to twenty-one, doubtless gave him his orthodox Americanism, his pro- found sympathy with the realities of life, and his charm as a writer.
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His early life work was made up of the different departments of journalism- type-setter, reporter, news editor, etc.
During his residence in Columbus, Ohio, he published five poems in the " Atlantic Monthly " during one year : "The Poet's Friends," " The Pilot's Story," " Pleasure Pain," " Lost Beliefs," and " Andenken."
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