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Lawyer; born Havana, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1843; educated at the academy in his na- tive town; 1864, admitted to the Bar, and the same year appointed city attorney ; took active part in politics; 1868 was del- egate to Democratic State convention; 1870 elected member of the assembly; re- elected in 1871; in the legislature of 1872 elected one of the managers of the pros- ecution before senate of the ring judges in the scandals exposed at that time in N. Y. City; 1875 appointed by Governor Til- den member of commission to provide uni- form charter for the cities of the State; 1877 and 1881 chairman of Democratic State Convention; 1880 and 1881 alderman of Elmira; 1882 mayor; Nov., 1882, elected lieutenant-governor, and in 1884 succeeded Cleveland in governorship he had left to become President of the United States; 1885 elected governor; re-elected 1888; 1891, elected United States Senator, serv- ing until 1897; member of the N. Y. State Bar Association. Address, Albany, N. Y.
HILL, Frank Pierce:
Librarian, Brooklyn Public Library; born Concord, N. H., Aug. 22, 1855; pre- paratory education in the local public schools; entered Dartmouth College, grad- uating in 1876; in 1881, elected librarian of the Lowell, Mass., Public Library; 1885 called to Paterson, N. J., and there or- ganized (under the act of 1884) the first free library in New Jersey; later inaugu- rated the Salem, Mass., Public Library, and in 1889 became librarian of the first free public library in Newark, N. J .; here he remained until 1901, when, upon the unanimous request of the trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library, he assumed charge of that institution; served as sec- retary of the American Library Associa- tion for five years, succeeding Melvil Dewey, its first secretary; May 17, 1880, married Annie M., daughter of Robert Wood, of Lowell, Mass. Address, Public Library, Brevoort Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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HILL, Frederick Trevor:
Lawyer and author; born Brooklyn, N. Y., May 5, 1866; son of Edward and Mary Hill; educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic; was graduated from Yale, B. A., 1887; from Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1889; member of N. Y. Bar Association. also of Players, Ardsley and Downtown Clubs; author of Miniatures from Balzac (with S. P. Griffin), Appleton, 1893; The Case and Exceptions (short stories), Stokes Company, 1900; The Care of Estates (law book) Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1901; The Minority (novel), Stokes Company, 1902; The Web (novel), Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903; The Accomplice (novel), Har- per's, 1905 ; various contributions to maga- zines, 1901 to 1905. Residence, 29 Wash- ington Square, West; address, 156 Wall St., N. Y. City.
HILL, David Jayne:
Envoy extraordinary and minister pleni- potentiary to the Netherlands since Mar. 5, 1905; born Plainfield, N. J., June 10, 1850; was graduated from Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, in 1874, with the degree of A. B., and in 1877 with the degree of A. M .; received the degree of LL.D. from Colgate, Union and Pennsylvania Univer- sities; studied at the Universities of Ber- lin and Paris; president of Bucknell Uni- versity 1879-88, and of the University of Rochester, N. Y., 1888-96, which latter po- siuon he resigned to pursue the study of public law in Europe; was appointed As- sistant Secretary of State Oct. 2, 1898, and entered upon his duties on Oct. 25; is the author of biographies of Irving and Bry- ant, text-books on rhetoric, logic, psychol- ogy, and works on economics, sociology and philosophy, and is engaged in writing an extensive history of modern diplomacy. Envoy extraordinary and minister pleni- potentiary to Switzerland, Jan. 7, 1903, to Mar. 5, 1905; member of the Authors Club and the Century Association of N. Y., the Sons of the American Revolution, and many literary and scientific societies. Ad- dress, United States Legation, Amster- dam, Netherlands.
HILL, Henry Wayland:
Lawyer and State Senator; was born at Isle La Motte, Vermont, on Nov. 13, 1853; he fitted for college in the schools of Vermont and entered
the University of Vermont in 1872, from which he was graduated in 1876, with the degree of A. B. In 1881 his Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree A. M., and in 1900 the degree LL.D. He was principal of the Swanton, Vermont, Acad-
emy from 1877 to 1879, and of the Chat- eaugay Academy from 1879 to 1883, during which time he fitted several classes for college. He was admitted to the Bar at Albany, in January, 1884, and began the practice of law at Buffalo, N. Y. in May, 1884, where he is still engaged in the prac- tice of the law. In 1893 he was elected a delegate from Buffalo to the New York Constitutional Convention of 1894, and served in that body on the Educational, Suffrage and Civil Service Committees; he proposed some amendments to the Consti- tution, which were adopted, and took a leading part in its deliberations on pro- posed canal improvement. He was elect- ed by the Second Assembly District of Erie county to the New York Assembly and served in the sessions of 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900. He was then elected by the 47th Senatorial District and served in the New York Senate for the years 1901, 1902, 1903,1904 and 1905. He is chair- man of the Committee on Commerce and Navigation of the New York Senate and is member of the Finance, Codes and other Senate Committees; he is the author of several important general statutes; among these were the Buffalo Free Public Ii- brary Bill, the New York Appropriation Bills for the Seventy-fourth and Sixty- fifth Regiments, respectively, the Pan- American
Exposition Bill, the original draft of the New York Primary Election Bill, the Buffalo Historical Society Build- ing Bill, the All State Pharmacy Bill, the Child Labor Bills, passed in 1903, and the Automobile Legislation of 1904. As Chairman of the Canal Committee of the Assembly of 1900, he had much to do with formulating and securing the passage of the Canal Survey Bill for a barge canal, and his advocacy of the $101,000,000 Refer- endum Bill of 1903 in the Senate and in various parts of the State in the presen- tation of that proposition to the electors had much to do in securing its passage through the Senate and its overwhelming popular majority at the polls. During his legislative career he formulated and se- cured the passage of several proposed amendments to the State Constitution. He is a member of various professional, political and literary organizations and is vice-president of the Buffalo Historical Society, and a member of the Board of Managers of the State Normal School at Buffalo. He is a member of the Biblio- phile Society of Boston and was a con- tributor to its edition of the Odes and Epodes of Horace. He is the author of
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The Development of Constitutional Law Hilson Co., Havana American Co., and in the State of New York, and of the International Cigar Machinery Co. Res- idence, 2020 Broadway; office, 111 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City. article on Waterways in the new Encyclo- pædia, Americana. On Aug. 11, 1880, he married Miss Harriet Augusta Smith, of HILL, William Bancroft: Swanton, Vt. Address, 471 Linwood Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.
HILL, Henry William:
Musician; born January 18, 1870, Lime- stone, N. Y .; educated at Academy at Limestone; musical educator in Boston and New York; concert pianist and or- ganist; church positions at Oleon, N. Y., Bradford, Pa., and Buffalo; three years with Orpheus Glee Club as solo pianist. Address, Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y. HILL, Herbert M .:
Educator; born May 19, 1856, Burr's Mills, N. Y .; was graduated from Hamil- ton College, 1879. Principal of Water- town (N. Y.) High School, 1888-89. Chemist to State Dairy Commission, 1885- 89. Professor of chemistry and toxicology in University of Buffalo since 1889. Mar- ried, June 1, 1880, Amanda Elizabeth Is- dell of Watertown, N. Y. Hamilton Col- lege gave him the honorary degree of Ph. D., in 1890. Member of American Chem- ical and Microscopical Societies, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo Mi- croscopical Club and Engineers Club of Western N. Y. Address, Buffalo, N. Y. HILL, James J .:
Railroad official; born Upper Canada, 1838; in his eighteenth year became clerk in a steamboat office in St. Paul, and he remained in that occupation for nine years, when he was appointed agent for the Northwestern Packet Co; subsequent- ly he established a general fuel and trans- portation businss on his own account; in 1873, he organized the syndicate which se- cured control of the St. Paul and Pacific R. R. from Dutch owners of the secur1- ties, and, after reorganizing the system as the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manito- ba R. R., assumed the leading part in its management; in 1890, it became part of the Great Northern system, of which he has since then been president; member Metropolitan, Larchmont Yacht, N. Y. Yacht, Jeckyl Island Club, and Manhattan Club. Address, Great Northern Ry. Build- ing, St. Paul, Minn.
HILL, Percival S .:
President of Blackwells Durham Tobac- co Co., and Monopol Tobacco Works; vice-president and director of American Tobacco Co .; director of American Cigar Co., Consolidated Tobacco Co., Contin- ental Tobacco Co., Floradora Tag Co.,
Professor of Biblical Literature, Vassar ; born Feb. 17, 1857, Colebrook, N. H., educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, A. B., 1879. Columbia Law School, 1881; Union Theological Sem- inary, 1886; married Elise, daughter of Frederic Weyerhaeuser of St. Paul, Minn., 1892; pastor of First Reformed (Dutch) Church of Athens, N. Y., 1886-1890, and of Second Reformed Church of Poughkeepsie, 1890-1902. Professor in Vassar College, 1902. Author: Present Problems in N. T. Study (Gorham, 1903). Address, Pough- keepsie, N. Y.
HILLEGAS, Howard Clemens:
Author, war correspondent and jour- halist; born Pennsburg, Pa., Dec. 30, 18/2; was graduated from Perkiomen Seminary, 1890; from Franklin and Mar- shall College, 1894; on staff N. Y. World 1894-1900; war correspondent in South Africa 1896-1900. Author of Oom Paul's People, (1899), published by D. Appleton & Co .; The Boers in War (1900, Appleton) and With the Boer Forces, (Methuen & Co., London, 1900). Address, New Brigh- ton, S. I., N. Y.
HILLER, Alfred:
Professor systematic theology, Hart- wick Theological Seminary, since 1881; born Sharon, N. Y., April 22, 1831; edu- cated in district schools and academies ; was graduated from Hartwick Theological Seminary, 1857; D. D., Wittenberg Col- lege, Springfield, O., 1882; married, 1857, Henrietta Sophia, daughter Professor
George B. Miller, D. D., Fayette, N. Y .; held pastorate at German Valley, N. J., 1858-81, when he accepted his present professorship. Wrote: History of Luther- an Church in New Jersey; Lutheran Quarterly Review, January-April, 1898. Address, Hartwick Seminary, Otsego Co., N. Y.
HILLIARD, Robert Cochran:
Actor; born N. Y. 1857 ; entered drama- tic profession in his own theatre, the Cri- . terion, Brooklyn, as a star in False Shame, Engaged and Led Astray, Jan. 18, 1886; and has since been identified with numer- ous leading parts, including the title rôle in Mr Barnes of New York, Richard Gray in Adrift, John Earl of Woodstock, in Sporting Life, of which play he is half owner. Mr. Hilliard starred with Paul Arthur in The Nominee and alone in Lost
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24 Hours, and The Mummy. Address, Lambs Club, 70 W. 36th St., N. Y. City.
HILLIS, Newell Dwight:
Clergyman; born Magnolia, Ia., Sept. 2, 1858; studied at Iowa College, McCor- mick Seminary and Lake Forest Univer- sity; married Miss Annie Louis Patrick, of Chicago, on April 14, 1887. First pas- torate was Peoria, Ill., than Evanston, Il1. He then became pastor of Central Church, Chicago, succeeding Professor Swing. Received degrees M. A. and D. D., from the Northwestern. Became
pastor Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1899. succeeding Rev. Dr. Lyman Ab- bott. Books: A Man's Value to Society; How the Inner Light Failed; Investment of Influence; Great Books as Life Teach- ers; Foretokens of Immortality; Influence of Christ in Modern Life; Quest of Hap- piness. Address, 31 Grace Court, Brook- lyn, N. Y.
HINDS, William Alfred:
Author; born Enfield, Mass., Feb. 2, 1833; was graduated from Yale College Scientific School. 1870; became a member of the Oneida Community in 1849, and for thirty years was associated with its noted founder, John H. Noyes, as sten- ographer, writer and editor. Since the organization of the Community into a joint stock company in 1880. he has served as one of its directors for twenty years, and at times filled its different ex- ecutive offices, now holding the position of president. In 1878, after making a tour of the communistic societies of the U. S., he published his work on American Communities, a revised and greatly en- larged edition of which appeared in 1902. Address, Kenwood, N. Y.
HINE, Francis L .:
President and director of Nashawan- nuck Manufacturing Co .; vice-president and director of Review of Reviews Co., and First National Bank of the City of N. Y .; director of American Cotton Oil Co., Chicago Rock Island, and Pacific Ry. Co., Home Life Insurance Co., Jersey City Water Supply Co., Rock Island Se- curities Co., U. S. Rubber Co., and Liber- ty National Bank. Married Miss Mary L. Ide. Member of Union League, Lawyers, Metropolitan, Midday and Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Clubs. Residence, 54 IV. 53d St .; office, 2 Wall St., N. Y. City. HINMAN, Russell:
Editor school and college text-books; born Cincinnati, Jan. 23, 1853; educated Antioch College; civil engineer in sur- veying and constructing Cincinnati South-
ern Ry .; 1878, editor geological text-book publications of Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., of Cincinnati; charge of editorial office of American Book Co., New York. Author: Eclectic Elementary Geography; Eclectic Complete Geography, Eclectic Physical Geography, joint author ; Natural Elementary Geography, Natural Ad- vanced Geography, Address, 100 Wash- ington Sq. East, N. Y. City.
HIRSCH, Robert B .:
Merchant; vice-president and director of Enterprise Silk Co., Manhattan Silk Co., Nyhnepo Ribbon Mills, Oswegatchie Manufacturing Co., and Rossie Velvet Co .; director of Mystic Industrial Co., and Na- tional Citizen's Bank and Ogdensburg Improvement Co. Residence. 61 E. 65th St .; office, 35 Mercer St., N. Y. City.
HIRSCHBERG, Michael H .:
Jurist; born April 12, 1847. Newburgh, N. Y .; studied Newburgh Free Academy, graduating from same; held the office of special county judge, Orange Co., 1872, and of district attorney, 1889; State del- egate to Constitutional Convention. 1894; elected justice Supreme Court, N. Y., 1896; assigned to Appellate division Second Department, Brooklyn, 1900; ap- pointed presiding justice January, 1904; term expiring, 1910; member Powelton, Republican, Manhattan, Hamilton, Brook- lyn and other clubs. Address, Newburgh, N. Y. and 302 Central Park West, N. Y. City.
HIRTH, Friedrich:
Head of Chinese Department of Colum- bia University since 1902; born Gotha, Germany, 1845; received his first Latin education at the College in Gotha, and studied classical philology under F. Rit- schl and M. Haupt; in 1870 he was ap- pointed to the Chinese Customs Service under Sir Robert Hart; being an active member of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, he followed Professor H. A. Giles as president, and edited the So- ciety's Journal during several years; 1889- 90 on leave in Berlin: having returned to China for another term of five years (1890- 95). he lived as commissioner of customs in Tamsui (Formosa), Chinkiang, Ichang, and Chungking (1893-95); being entitled to two years' leave again in 1895 he settled down in Munich (Germany), and resigned the service without returning to China in 1897; Professor Hirth was invited by the Russian Academy to come to St. Petersburg in order to prepare a cata- logue of the large collection of Chinese books and manuscripts kept at the Asi-
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atic Museum; his name has been ad- vanced by the late Dr. Bretschneider, as that of a specialist in Chinese biblio- graphy, in connection with a report on the imperial library of Mukden (said to have been captured by the Russians in the autumn of 1900), published in the St. Petersburg Gazette and the Allgemeine Zeitung, (Beilage, April 19, 1901); Is Royal Professor in Prussia, comdr. Order of St. Stanislaus and chevalier of the or- ders of Francis Joseph, of Baden and Coburg-Gotha; foreign member Imper- ia Academy Sciences, St. Petersburg, and Royal Academies, Munich and Budapest; honorary and corresponding member Ori- ental Society in Munich and China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai, also the late Oriental Society of Peking; Geographical Societies of Munich, Dres- den, Leipzig, Bremen, Oporto and An- thropological Society, Berlin. Author: Text-book of Documentary Chinese, (two volumes 1885-88); Shanghai, China and the Roman Orient, (1885); Notes on the Chinese Documentary Style, (1885); An- cient Porcelain (1888) ; Chinesische Studien (1890) Ueber fremde Einflüsse in der Chinesischen Kunst, (1896, Leipzig, Har- rassowitz). Contributor to European and Chinese journals. Address, (June to Sept), 29 Ainmiller St., München, Ger- many; (Oct. to June), Columbia Univer- sity, or 501 West 113th St., N. Y. City.
HISCOCK, Frank:
Lawyer; born Pompey, N. Y., 1834; ed- ucated at Pompey Academy and admitted to the Bar in 1855; began practice in Pompey and was district attorney for Onondaga, 1860-63; represented his dis- trict in forty-fifth, forty-seventh, forty- eighth and forty-ninth congresses, 1877- 87; elected a senator in 1887-93; he en- gaged in the practice of law in Syracuse; he became a director of the State Bank of Syracuse, Syracuse Savings Bank, and the Trust and Deposit Co. of Onondaga; member of the Union League and Re- publican Clubs of N. Y. City and of the Syracuse Club. Address, Syracuse, N. Y.
HISCOCK, Frank Harris:
Lawyer; Justice Supreme Court ; born Apr. 16, 1856, Tully, N. Y .; was gradu- ated from Cornell University, A. B., 1875; member Kappa Alpha Fraternity; ad- mitted to Bar in 1878 ; member of Republi- can State Committee, 1894 and 1895; Jus- tice of Supreme Court since 1896 ; member of Fourth Appellate Division since 1901; trustee of Cornell University ; director of State Bank of Syracuse, Trust & Safe De-
posit Co. of Onondaga, Straight Line En- gine Co. and Whitman & Barnes Mfg. Co .; married 1879, Miss Barnes. Address, Syr- acuse, N. Y.
HITCHCOCK, Benjamin W .:
Publisher and operator in real estate; born New York, 1836; educated in public schools and College of the City of N. Y. Music and book publisher, and extensive operator in real estate. Founder of Wood- side, Corona, Ozone Park and villages on Rockaway Beach, Long Island; and also the founder of Palisades Park, Bergen County, N. J. Address, 49 Eight Ave., N. Y. City.
HITCHCOCK, Edward, Jr .:
Professor of physical culture and hy- giene; born Stratford, Conn., Sept. 1, 1854; was graduated from Amherst Col- lege, A. B., 1878; took medical course at Dartmouth Medical School and Bellevue, N. Y .; took his medical degree in 1881; took master's degree at Amherst in the same year; practiced medicine at Am- herst, Mass., from 1881 until 1884, and studied physical training; in 1884 was called to Cornell University as acting pro- fessor of physical culture; three years later became professor of physical culture and hygiene; member of local medical so- cieties wherever he has been; married Sarah Demetria Fuertes, Ithaca, June 22, 1888; vice-president of the Society of Gymnasium Directors; was also secretary of the American Association for the ad- vancement of Physical Education; con- tributor to various magazines and a writer of monographs on matters per- taing to physical culture. Address, Itha- ca, N. Y.
HITCHCOCK, Frederick H .:
Treasurer of The Grafton Press; was graduated from Amherst College in 1891. Was manager of the publication depart- ment of D. Appleton & Co., from 1891 to 1901; admitted to the Bar in N. Y. City in 1899. Has written many books among them being, The Building of a Book; Book -builders Handbook and the Hand- book of Amherst, Mass. Address, 70 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
HOBART, George Vere:
Humorist, author and playwright; born Nova Scotia, Jan. 16, 1867; 1895 became managing editor of The Sunday Scimitar, of Cumberland, Md .; a year later went to Baltimore first on Morning Herald; then as special humorous writer on the Baltimore American; originated the "Din- kelspiel" papers on
Baltimore News; since 1899 has written "Dinkelspiel" ex-
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clusively for the New York American HODENPYL, Anton G .:
and the other Hearst papers in Chicago and San Francisco. Author of the John Henry series of humorous books in slang, published by G. W. Dillingham Co., which appeared in the following order: John Henry, (1901); Down the Line, (1901); Its Up to You, (1902); Back to the Woods, (1903); Out for the Coin, (1903); I Need the Money, (1904); I'm From Missouri, (1904), You Can Search Me, (1905). Also three Dinkelspiel, books: Gonversationings Mit Dinkelspiel, (1902), published by New Amsterdam Book Co., Heart to Heart Talks Mit Dinkelspiel, (1901), published by G. W .. Dillingham Co., and Eppy Grams, (1904), by the same firm. Also author of Jim Hickey, published by Dil- lingham Co., (1904). Author of Li'l Verses for Li'l Fellers, a book of children's poems published by Harper & Bros., 1903; as a playwright, author of many Broad- way successes: Broadway to Tokio (with Louis Harrison) ; After Office Hours ; Sup- per at Sherry's; Sally in our Alley ; The Man from Missouri, (with Edward E. Rose) ; The Sleepy King; Morning Glory ; Mrs. Black is Back (for May Irwin) ; Smiling Island, and numerous others. Married in Baltimore, Md., to Sarah H. De Vries, July 14, 1897; member of the Lambs Club. Address, Ruraldene, Pel- ham Manor, N. Y.
HOBBS, Edward H .:
Lawyer; born Ellenburgh, N. Y., June 5, 1835; son of Benjamin and Lucy Bea- man Hobbs; was graduated from Middle- bury (Vt.) College, LL. D .; married Julla Ellen Buxton, of Baltimore. Member law firm Hobbs & Gifford ; director Bed- ford Bank (Brooklyn), Mt. Vernon Subur- ban Land Co. Clubs: Union League, Institute of Arts and Sciences, New Eng- land Society (Brooklyn), Delta Kappa Ep- silon, American Geological Society. Resi- dence, 959 Park Place, Brooklyn; office, 56 Pine St., N. Y. City.
HOCART, John H .:
Manager banking house of A. Iselin & Co. Secretary, assistant treasurer and di- rector of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts - burg Ry. Co .; director Allegheny and Western Ry. Co., Clearfield and Mahoning Ry. Co., Cowanshannock Coal and Coke Co., Johnsonburg and Bradford R. R. Co., Mahoning Valley R. R. Co., New Ro- chelle Water Co., Reynoldsville and Falls Creek R. R. Residence, 300 McDon- ough St., Brooklyn, N. Y .; office, 36 Wall St., N. Y. City.
Banker; director American Light & Traction Co., Grand Rapids Gas, Co. Grand Rapids Railway Co., J. G. White & Co. (incorporated), Rochester & Sodus Bay Railway Co., Rochester Railway Co., Saginaw City Gas Co., Springfield Gas Light Co., Rochester Railway & Light Co .; president and director The Michigan Light Co., Saginaw-Bay City Railway & Light Co., Springfield Railway & Light Co. Residence, 2 E. 45th St .; office, 7 Wall St., N. Y. City.
HODGE, J. Aspinwall:
Lawyer; born Philadelphia, March 9, 1861; son of Rev. Dr. J. Aspinwall and Charlotte Morse Hodge; married, in 1888, daughter of Professor William S. Karr, Hartford Theological Seminary; was grad- uated from Princeton, A. B., 1883, taking historical Fellowship; degree of A. M., Princeton 1886; was graduated froni Co- umbia Law School, 1887, and the same year was admitted to the N. Y. Bar; in- structor of mathematics and master of athletics at the Lawrenceville school, 1SS4. Author of magazine articles; Democrat in politics; has taken active part in the Democratic anti-Tammany movements in N. Y. City; was counsel in the litigation against the U. S. Steel Corporation, which sought to prevent the consummation of the conversion syndicate plan in 1902; is a member of the University, Reform, Tilden and Princeton Clubs of New York, and of the Bar Association. Address, 316 West 108th St., N. Y. City.
HODGE, Richard Morse:
Teacher; clergymân; born Mauch Chunk, Pa., 1864; son of J. Aspinwall Hodge, D. D., and Charlotte Gebhard Morse; A. B., Princeton University, 1886; and A. M., 1SS8; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1SS6-90; D. D., University of Nashville, 1901; married Alice Austen, Glencoe, Md. ; pastor at Milwaukee, Wis., and Riverton, N. J., 1890-95; superinten- dent of the Missionary Training School, Fredericksburg, Va., 1895-98, and of the Bible Institute, Nashville, Tenn., 1898- 1901. Since 1901 director of extension courses for lay students at Union Theolog- ical Seminary and lecturer in biblical lit- erature at Teachers College of Columbia University; member of Society of Biblical Literature, and Exegesis; author of His- torical Atlas of the Life of Christ, Manual Methods of Sunday-School Teaching, and outlines of the Literature of the Old Test- ament, The Prophets of Israel, The Teach- ing of Jesus. Residence, 567 West 113th
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