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=Hildeburn, Charles Swift Riché.= _Pa._, 1855-1901. The librarian of
the Philadelphia Athenæum from 1876. A Century of Printing, or the
Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784; Printers and Printing
in Colonial New York. _Do._
=Hildeburn, Mrs. Mary Jane [Reed].= _Pa._, 1821-1882. A Philadelphia
writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, Day Dreams; Archy and
Pussy Series; Dr. Leslie’s Boys; Gaffney’s Tavern.
=Hildreth, Charles Lotin.= _N. Y._, 1856-1896. A journalist of New York
city. Judith, a novel; The New Symphony, and Other Stories; The Masque
of Death, and Other Poems.
=Hildreth, Ezekiel.= _Ms._, 1784-1856. An educator of Ohio and
Virginia. Logopolis, a grammatical treatise; A Key to Knowledge.
=Hildreth, Richard.= _Ms._, 1807-1865. A Boston journalist and
historian who was consul at Trieste in his latest years. Archy Moore,
an anti-slavery novel; History of Banks; Theory of Politics; Despotism
in America; Japan as it Was and Is; History of the United States from
the Discovery of the Continent to the Close of the 16th Congress in
1820, a work which has few charms of style, though its general merit is
unquestioned. _Har._
=Hildreth, Samuel Prescott.= _Ms._, 1783-1863. A physician once
prominent in Marietta, Ohio, where he settled in 1806. History of
the Diseases and Climate of Southeastern Ohio; Lives of the Early
Settlers of Ohio; Contributions to the Early History of the North-West;
Meteorological Observations (with J. Wood); Pioneer History of the Ohio
Valley (1848); Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Early Pioneer
Settlers of Ohio. _See Bibliography of Ohio._ _Meth._
=Hilgard, Eugene Waldemar.= _Bv._, 1831- ----. A professor of
agricultural chemistry at the University of California from 1875.
Geology and Agriculture of Mississippi; Geology of Lower Louisiana;
Cotton Production in the United States; Climatic Features, etc., of the
Arid Regions of the Pacific Slope (with T. C. Jones).
=Hilgard, Julius Erasmus.= _Bv._, 1825-1891. Brother of E. W. Hilgard,
_supra_. A civil engineer of note who was superintendent of the United
States Coast Survey, 1881-85, who published many valuable professional
papers.
=Hill, Adams Sherman.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. The Boylston professor of
rhetoric at Harvard University from 1876. Our English; The Principles
of Rhetoric; The Foundation of Rhetoric. _Har._
=Hill, Mrs. Agnes Leonard [Scanland].= “Mollie Myrtle.” _Ky._,
1842- ----. Myrtle Blossoms; Vanquished, a novel; Heights and Depths.
=Hill, Benjamin Dionysius.= _E._, 1842- ----. A Roman Catholic
clergyman and educator, for some time at Notre Dame University, who has
published Poems Devotional and Occasional.
=Hill, Benjamin Harvey.= _Ga._, 1823-1882. A noted Georgia statesman.
Notes on the Situation (1867-68); Address to the People of Georgia.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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