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HOWARD, JACOB M., was born in Shaftsbury, July 10, 1805 ; was educated at the academies at Bennington and Brattle- boro, and at Williams College where he graduated in 1830 ; studied law, and taught in an academy in Massachusetts for a time ; removed to Michigan in 1832, and came to the bar of that territory in 1833; in 1838 he was a member of the Legislature of that state ; from 1841 to 1843 he was a represen- tative in Congress from Michigan ; in 1854 he was elected attorney-general of the state, twice re-elected and serving in all six years ; and in 1862 he was elected a senator in Congress ; was re-elected a senator in Con- gress for the term commencing in 1865.
HOWARD, WILLIAM A., was born in Vermont, and having taken up his residence
in Michigan, was elected a representative from that state, to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty- fifth Congresses. Having contested the seat of G. B. Cooper in 1860, he became a member of the Thirty-sixth Congress. In 1861 he was appointed by President Lincoln postmaster at Detroit.
HOWE, CHARLES M., of Mellette, So. Dak., son of Benjamin C. and Sabra ( Wash- burn) Howe, was born Angust 4, 1828, at Woodstock.
His education was received in the common schools. His parents died when he was about sixteen, and he was thrown upon his own resources. In 1846 he left Vermont and passed two years in Massachusetts. In 1848 he went to sea, and for five years made several voyages in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and in the Arctic upon whaling ships.
He left the sea in 1855 and went west, locating in Rock county, Wis., where he en- gaged in farming for a few years. He then engaged in trade at Fulton, Wis., and from there went to Stoughton in 1863. He again sold out in 1876, and went into business at Mazo Manie, Wis., as a general trader. In 1881 he went to Dakota, then a territory, becoming one of the first settlers in what was afterward the town of Mellette. Here he opened up a general store and lumber yard, and has accumulated a large property, including a farm of four thousand acres, upon which last year's wheat crop amounted to thirty-five thousand bushels. At the present time his business is that of a farmer and grain dealer. He also owns an elevator of large capacity and a coal yard. Mr. Howe has become a leading citizen, though not a politician. He is a Democrat, and has held the office of chairman of the board of sup- ervisors since the organization of the town in 1884.
In social organizations Mr. Howe is prom- inent. He was the treasurer of the I. O. O. F. until elected N. G., and is a Past Grand. He is also a member of the A. O. U. W., and is a Past Master of Unity Lodge No. 22 of Wisconsin jurisdiction. He is also a member of the Daughters of Rebecca.
In charitable work Mr. Howe is a leading worker, and was appointed a member of the Board of Charities and Correction upon its organization, and in 1891 was elected its president. This most important position he still holds, the board having charge of the hospital for insane at Yankton, the peniten- tiary at Sioux Falls, the reform school at Plankinton, and the school for deaf mutes at Sioux Falls.
Mr. Howe was married in Cabot, Feb. 5, 1855, to Mary J. Bickford, and has had two children, but one of whom is now living.
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HOWE, THOMAS M., was born in Ver- mont, and, having settled in Pennsylvania, was elected a representative in Congress from 1851 to 1855.
HUNT, RICHARD MORRIS, of New York City, was born in Brattleboro in 1828, the son of Hon. Jonathan Hunt, M. C., and Jane Maria Leavitt. After his father's death his mother moved to New Haven and his education was commenced at French's School and was continued at the Boston high school and latin school. In 1843 he
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went to Europe with his family and en- tered a school at Geneva, commencing the study of architecture with Alphonse Darier. From there he went to Paris and studied under Hector Lefuel, entering the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1845 and remaining until 1855, with intervals of travel over Europe, Egypt and Asia Minor. In 1854 and 1855 he had an appointment from the French government as Inspecteur aux Travaux de la Reunion des Tuileries au Louvre.
He returned to America in 1855, and commenced the practice of his profession by spending six months with the late Thomas U. Walter on the capitol at Washington. He then opened an office in New York with an architectural course for students on the prin- ciple of the Paris Ateliers. Messrs. George B. Post, Professor William R. Ware, Frank Furniss, Henry Van Brunt, Charles Gam- brill and others were members of his studio at this time.
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In 1867 he served as a member of the art jury at the Paris Exposition and in 1876 he held the same office at the Centennial Ex- hibition in Philadelphia. Received the decoration of the Legion of Honor from the French Government in 1882 and was made corresponding member of the Institute of France the following year.
In New York and through the country generally Mr. Hunt ranks among the first architects. He is a prominent member of the Architectural League of New York, the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and other similar American associations. He is one of the three foreign architects belonging to the Society of St. Luke, an Italian body of artists which has the distinction of being the oldest society of its kind in the world. He is a member of the Institute of British Architects, the Cen- tral Society of French Architects, and the Architects and Engineers' Society of Vienna. He recently received the gold medal of the Institute of British Architects, conferred by Queen Victoria, being one of seventeen foreigners to be so honored. He was several years president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and was elected to the presidency of the Insti- tute on the death of the late Thomas U. Walter in 1887.
Among Mr. Hunt's principal works are : Lenox Library building, New York City ; Presbyterian Hospital, New York City ; Delaware & Hudson Canal building, New York City ; Tribune building, New York City ; residences for William K. Vanderbilt, Esq., New York City and Newport, R. I. : residence for Ogden Goelet, Esq., Newport, R. I. ; residence for C. O. D. Iselin, Esq., New York City : residence for Henry G. Marquand, Esq., New York City ; chateau at Baltimore, N. C., for George W. Vander- bilt ; U. S. Academic building, West Point, N. Y. : U. S. Gymnasium building, West Point, N. Y .; U. S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. ; Yorktown monument, Yorktown, Va. ; Liberty monument, New York harbor and Soldiers and Sailors monu- ment, Portland, Me.
He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard University in 1892.
The New York Sun, in a recent editorial, says of him: "We congratulate our dis- tinguished fellow-citizen, Richard Morris Hunt, the architect, upon his election as a foreign associate member of the most illus- trious body of artists, the Academie des Beaux-Arts, of the Institute of France. It is a merited honor. He is a worthy member. Mr. Hunt is a man of genius, and his works bear the seal of it. He has devoted his life to the noblest of all the fine arts, that art which, sufficient unto itself, takes both
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sculpture and painting as its adjuvants. For forty years he has stood foremost among American architects. He has rendered matchless service to the art of architecture in our country, an art, which, at the time he, when but fifteen years old, began to study it, had hardly an existence among us. We need not sound the praises of the artist who left the Green Mountain state in his boyhood, and within the past half century has won a name of pre-eminent rank among the archi- tects of the world, and now modestly wears the honors that belong to a member of the Institute of France, as well as those that ap- pertain to the membership of British, Aus- trian and Italian associations of artists. Long live our accomplished and amiable friend, and may yet other honors be his."
HUNTINGTON, DE WITT CLINTON, of Lincoln, Neb., son of Ebenezer and Lydia (Peck) Huntington, was born in Townshend, April 27, 1830. His parents were from Connecticut. His father was a member of the Windham county bar, but
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owned a farm, and gave each of his sons a practical education in that useful industry. Dr. Huntington was educated in the schools of his native town, and afterward in a course in ancient and modern languages at Roches- ter, N. Y.
In early life he connected himself with the Methodist Episcopal church, and in 1853 was received into its ministry. During his
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residence in Vermont he served churches of that denomination in Thetford, Proctorsville, and Brattleboro. At the close of his pastor- ate at Brattleboro he was transferred to the conference which included the western part of New York and a portion of Pennsylvania. Within this territory he has spent three years in Syracuse, N. Y., five in Bradford, Pa., four in Buffalo, N. Y., and thirteen in Rochester. In 1868 the Genesce College conferred upon him the degree of D. D. He has twice filled the office of presiding eller, and has represented his annual conference in the legislative body of the church at six success- ive quadrennial sessions. In 1881 he was appointed a delegate to the Ecumenical Methodist Conference held in London, dur- ing which year he made a somewhat ex- tended tour through the different countries of Europe. In 1891 he accepted the invi- tation of Trinity Church, in Lincoln, Neb., to become its pastor, which church is his field of labor at the present time.
Dr. Huntington has written largely for the religious journals of his denomination and frequently for the secular press. Quite a number of his sermons have been published in pamphlet form, chiefly upon questions of the day. Those upon "The Death of Presi- dent Lincoln," "The Wrongs of the Liquor Traffic," "The Cotton King and the Rum King," "Hell Not Reformatory," and "Selfish Religion," have been widely circulated and extensively quoted. He has practiced the theory which he avows : that the pulpit is an
educating force, and that all subjects which ยท concern vitally the well-being of man belong to its discussions. This view has led him not only to a wide range of topics in his own pulpit, but frequently to address meetings upon political and other public questions.
He began his citizen life by voting for a Free Soil candidate for President, and from its organization to 1876 was a firm adherent of the Republican party. At that time he severed his connection with the Republican and gave his influence to the Prohibition party believing, as he said, that the Republi- can party would never take up the temper- ance reform. For the success of the Pro- hibition party he has since labored with pen and voice. In 1886 he was placed in nom- ination for Congress by the Prohibitionists of the Thirty-fourth Congressional district of New York, and received the unprecedented support of something more than 5,500 votes. In the following year his name was placed at the head of the Prohibition state ticket as secretary of state and received nearly 42,000 votes. Both these nominations were, how- ever, against his advice, and the latter in the face of his positive declinature.
Mr. Huntington has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary E. Moore, daugh-
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ter of Salmon J. and Elisabeth Moore, of Chelsea, by whom he has two living children : Thomas M., cashier of the Maverick Bank, Gordon, Neb., and Horace D., a merchant in the same town. His second wife was Miss Frances H. Davis, daughter of Hiram and Harriet F. Davis, of Rochester, N. Y., by whom he has one daughter : Mary Frances.
HUTCHINSON, HENRY E., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was born at Windsor in 1837. He is the son of Rev. Elijah Hutchinson and Laura Manning Skinner. The Rev. Elijah Hutchinson was pastor of the Baptist church at Windsor for many years, and held the offices of president of the Vermont Baptist Convention, chaplain of the state prison, trustee of the public schools, and was widely known in the state. Rev. Elisha Hutchin- son, the grandfather of H. E. Hutchinson, was a member of the first class which took the full course at Dartmouth College, grad- uated in 1775, was a chaplain in the war of
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1812, and preached through an active minis- terial life in the states of New Hampshire, Connecticut and New York. Mr. Hutchin- son's grandfather on his maternal side, John Payson Skinner, was one of the prominent citizens of Windsor in the first half of the century, owning stage lines before the days of railroads.
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Henry E. Hutchinson, the subject of this sketch, fitted for college at the Windsor high school, entered Dartmouth where he remained two years, and was transferred to Amherst where he graduated with honor in 1858. He went to Alabama and taught for a time in the Franklin Academy at Mont- gomery, read law and was admitted to the bar. Returning to the North he entered the law office of Rufus F. Andrews, in New York, and was admitted to the New York bar on examination, in 1862. Meanwhile he had been made assistant to the notary of the Broadway Bank, and was soon after ap- pointed assistant assessor of United States Internal Revenue for the fourth district of the state of New York. Mr. Hutchinson's residence has been in Brooklyn since he came from Alabama, and a few years after he went to that city he became secretary of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, a position which he filled until 1877, when the bank closed its business, going into voluntary liq- uidation and paying all claims in full. On Good Friday, 1877, Mr. Hutchinson was ap- pointed cashier of the Brooklyn Bank and remaining in this position until elected president in 1890, upon the retirement of Elias Lewis, Jr. During his connection with the bank it has greatly prospered. He is also a trustee of the Hamilton Trust Co., and of the Long Island Safe Deposit Co.
Mr. Hutchinson has long been prominent in the social and musical life of Brooklyn.
In 1863 he was married to Miss Ella Staf- ford, a daughter of J. R. Stafford of Brook- lyn. Of this marriage two sons and two daughters are living and four children have died.
Mrs. Hutchinson is a trustee of the Brook- lyn nursery and is active in the charitable work of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson are communicants in the Protestant Episco- pal church and for thirteen years Mr. Hutch- inson was organist and choir-master of St. Peter's Church. He was also one of the or- ganizers and first musical director of the Brooklyn Amateur Opera Society, organized in 1875, whose performances have achieved a metropolitan reputation. Mr. Hutchinson has been treasurer and president of the Brooklyn Choral Society, one of the largest musical societies in the country, and owing its honorable position largely to his efforts. He is a member of the Union League Club of Brooklyn ; joined the Alpha Delta Phi secret society in college and is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Club in New York ; is a member of the New England Society of Brooklyn ; of the Brooklyn Society of Ver- monters ; a trustee of the Brooklyn Dispen- sary, and is a trustee of the Union Church at Arveme-by-the-Sea, Long Island, his summer home.
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1DE:, GEORGE HENRY, of Milwaukee, Wish, son of Joseph A. and Lucretia Ann ( Fairbanks) Ide, was born Jan. 21, 1839, at St. Johnsbury.
Mr. Ide was a farmer's boy and lived at his birthplace until eleven years of age when the family moved to Newport, where they lived eight years. In the meantime he at- tended the district school and Derby Acad- emy. The family again returned to St. Johnsbury, and he was fitted for Dartmouth College, where he was graduated, and in 1869 graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary.
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His first pastorate was in Hopkinton, Mass., where he remained seven years. At the close of this period he was called to the Central Church in Lawrence, Mass., and labored there four years, when he was called to the Grand Avenue Congregational Church of Milwaukee, Wis., his present pastorate, and where he has won more than local fame.
Mr. Ide enlisted in 1862 and was orderly sergeant of Company K, 15th Vt. Regt., Col. Proctor commanding. The service of this regiment was mostly confined to Vir- ginia. He is a member of Wolcott Post, G. A. R., of Milwaukee. He is a trustee of Beloit College and a corporate member of the American board.
Mr. Ide was married March 16, 1871, to Mary J., daughter of Dr. Thomas and Har- riet Sanborn, at Newport, N. H. Two chil-
dren were born to them : Carrie Sanborn, and Charles Edward.
In 1876 Mr. Ide was again married to Kate Emma, daughter of Chandler C. and Hannah (Cogswell) Bowles of Newport.
The following from the Chicago Inter- Ocean gives an insight into the character and personality of Mr. Ide : " Rev. Dr. Idc, the pastor, is extremely popular ont of his church as well as in it. He is a scholar, an orator, an all round athlete, a conscientious, hard-working pastor, and a genial gentleman -a fortunate and unusual combination. He is reasonably proud of his church and people, as his people are of him. Mr. Ide may be described as a tolerant theologian rather than a liberal theologian. He is considered to be rather conservative in a doctrinal way, but there is none of the intolerance about him which distinguishes many who are more lib- eral as to doctrine."
INGALLS, DANIEL BOWMAN, of Clin- ton, Mass., son of James and Mary (Cass) Ingalls, was born in Sutton, May 25, 1829.
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He received his education in the common schools, and upon his father's removal to Connecticut, when he was sixteen years of age, he was apprenticed to learn the trade of machinist, but at the end of two years his employers failed and he removed to Clinton, Mass., where Horatio and E. B. Bigelow were starting the manufacture of ginghams and
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carpets, and in these mills Mr. Ingalls worked on machinery until 1849, when he again changed his locality to Windsor, Vt., where he found similar employment in the gun factory of Messrs. Robbins & Lawrence. While here he was impressed with the won- derful stories of the California gold dis- coveries and went to the Pacific coast and for two years he labored in that region, partly in the mines and partly at his trade in Sacramento.
On his return to Clinton, he commenced the study of dentistry and later graduated at the Boston Dental College. His profession has engaged his attention since 1859, and as a proof of his success may be mentioned the fact that he has been president of the Massa- chusetts Dental Society and also of the Mer- rimac Valley Dental Association. He had the honor of being a member of the state World's Fair committee, which prepared for the great dental congress held in Chicago Sept. 10, 1893.
Mr. Ingalls was married in Newbury, Oct. 22, 1850, to Rebecca Nelson, daughter of Mason and Mary (Nelson) Randall. They have had six children, all of whom have passed into the silent land.
A staunch Republican, Mr. Ingalls was a member of his town committee when Abra- ham Lincoln was first elected. He was sent to the Massachusetts House of Representa- tives in 1880 and to the Senate in 1881-'82, serving upon the public health committee and was chairman of the committee on claims.
For a number of years he was a member of the investment committee of the Clinton Savings Bank, and was a director in the Lancaster National Bank, Clinton, to within one year of the time that bank was wrecked by its president, and at the time of his re- tirement from office he made a written state- ment to the stockholders in relation to the irregularities of that officer, who at the time held the office of cashier. Mr. Ingalls is now president of the Clinton Co-operative Bank.
For thirty years Mr. Ingalls has been a member of the Baptist church in Clinton, and for more than that period a Free and Accepted Mason, having served as Master of Trinity Lodge of that town and twice ap- pointed D. D. G. M. under the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.
Though an adopted citizen of the old Bay state, Mr. Ingalls still retains an ardent affec- tion for his native hills and this motive led him more than a decade ago to take an ac- tive part in the organization of a Vermont
society, of which for many years he was the honored president.
INGRAHAM, WILLIAM H., of Water- town, Mass., was born in Peacham in 1818, the son of Paul and Thankful (Sears) Ingra- ham. His father came from New Bedford, where the Ingrahams are well-known settlers.
He received his education at the Cale- donia county grammar school, where he was fitted for college. Instead of continuing a collegiate course he went to Framingham, Mass., to work for his older brother, who owned a store. Here he remained until he was twenty-one years of age. Six months later, in company with his second brother, he bought out the store, and they carried on the business for several years. Later they branched out in the manufacture of shoes, and at one time employed fifty men. The firm prospered until the well-remembered financial difficulties in 1848, when, with numerous other small houses, they were crippled and obliged to sell out. Mr. In- graham then went to Watertown, where he has since lived, and was engaged in various pursuits until 1879, when he opened an insurance office in Watertown, which he still conducts.
Mr. Ingraham is a highly respected citizen of Watertown, and as such has been honored by nearly every office in the gift of the people. In 1848-'1852 and 1880-'93 he served as one of the assessors ; 1874, 1875 and 1879 as selectman ; town clerk, 1848- '62 and 1880-'90 ; he was a representative from his town for two terms, 1879 and 1880, in the General Assembly ; a justice of the peace for a quarter of a century and a trus- tee of the Watertown Savings Bank, being at the present time a member of its board of investment.
Mr. Ingraham was married at Wayland, Mass., in 1843, to Caroline C., daughter of Ephraim and Caroline ( Hubbard) Brigham. Their children are : Ralph Waldo, Francis, and Alice Choate.
Socially Mr. Ingraham has been very prominent. He is a member of the Water- town Unitarian Club connected with the First Parish Church, was its treasurer in 1881 and is at present a trustee of the ministerial fund ; is a member of the Water- town Historical Society and has been a prominent member of the I. O. O. F. for forty years. A recent article in the Boston Herald says of him: "He is kind and generous and never fails to act when charity so demands. He is one of the most re- spected and honored men in the vicinity."
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JOHNSON, HARVEY A., was born in Vermont, and having removed to Ohio was clected a representative in Congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.
JONES, GAMALIEL LEONARD, of Audu- bon, Minn., son of Norman and Elizabeth (Gibbs) Jones, was born April 11, 1843, in Ilubbardton.
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Mr. Jones was educated in the common schools, Castleton Seminary, and Middlebury College, graduating from college in 1868, at
the age of twenty-five. Since that time he has almost constantly been occupied in teaching, passing many years in the vicin- ity of Dayton, Ohio, and becoming principal of Winchester (Ohio) Union School in 1873. Upon the death of his father in 1874 he went to Lake Eunice, Minn., purchasing a large tract of land, which he carried on while attending to his great work as a teacher in the vicinity. For four years he was princi- pal of Lake Park graded school, and was afterwards principal of the Audubon graded school, at the same time doing much work of a public nature as town clerk and justice of the peace, county superintendent of schools, member of a committee for selecting text- books for the schools of his county, and as president of the temperance association, and secretary of his church for the Northern Minnesota district.
Social and political organizations have also taken his attention to some extent and his work for the grange in its early days was prominent. In 1882 he was made an honor- ary member of Lake Park Literary Society, and has contributed many articles to the press, and often by request has delivered public addresses of a political, religious, educational or scientific nature. It has ever been the aim of his life to aid in giving liberty and re- lief to the oppressed, establishing equal rights and impartial justice for all ; promoting every measure which tends to the prosperity of his country as a whole, and elevating the masses, morally and intellectually.
Mr. Jones was married August 19, 1868, to Althea Maria Pike, in Weston, daughter of Josiah Wooster and Nancy Maria (Har- mon) Pike. They have five children : Joseph Charles, Mary Caroline, Edward Harrison (deceased in infancy), Earl Grant, and Lulu Althea Julia.
KASSON, JOHN ADAM, of Des Moines, Iowa, was born at Charlotte, Jan. 11, 1822 ; graduated at the University of Vermont ; studied law in Massachusetts, and practiced the profession in St. Louis, Mo., until 1857, when he removed to Iowa. In 1858 he was appointed a commissioner to report upon the]condition of the executive departments of Iowa ; assisted in 1859 in organizing the State Bank of Iowa, and became director for that state. In 1861 he was appointed As- sistant Postmaster-General, which office he resigned in 1862, when he was selected a representative from Iowa to the Thirty- eighth Congress, serving on the committee of ways and means. During the summer of
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