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=Hill, Britton Armstrong.= _N. J._, _c._ 1818- ----. A prominent lawyer
of St. Louis. Liberty and Law under Federative Government; Absolute
Money; Specie Resumption and National Bankruptcy Identical.
=Hill, Daniel Harvey.= _S. C._, 1821-1889. A noted mathematician who
held professorships in several Southern colleges before and since the
Civil War, but during that conflict was a general in the Confederate
army. Elements of Algebra; Consideration of the Sermon on the Mount;
The Crucifixion of Christ.
=Hill, David Jayne.= _N. J._, 1850- ----. An educator of note,
president of the Lewisburg University, Pennsylvania, from 1879, and
subsequently of the University of Rochester, New York. Science of
Rhetoric; Elements of Rhetoric; Life of Washington Irving; Life of
Bryant; Principles and Fallacies of Socialism; Social Influences of
Christianity; The Elements of Psychology; Genetic Philosophy.
=Hill, Edward Judson.= _N. Y._, 183- - ----. A lawyer of Chicago.
Common Law Jurisdiction in Illinois; Chancery Jurisdiction in Illinois;
Probate Jurisdiction in Illinois; Municipal Offices in Illinois.
=Hill, Frederic Stanhope.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A journalist of
Cambridge. Twenty Years at Sea, or Leaves from my Old Log-Books;
Historical Continuity of the Anglican Church. _Hou._
=Hill, George.= _Ct._, 1796-1871. A verse-writer who held several
government clerkships, and after 1835 lived at Guilford, his native
town. Ruins of Athens, and Other Poems; Titania’s Banquet, and Other
Poems. _See Griswold’s Poets of America._
=Hill, George Canning.= _Ct._, 1825-1898. Lives of Captain John Smith,
Israel Putnam, Benedict Arnold, Daniel Boone; Homespun, or Five and
Twenty Years Ago; Our Parish, or Pen Paintings of Village Life.
=Hill, Hamilton Andrews.= _E._, 1827-1895. A Boston writer who
published History of the Old South Church, Boston, 1669-1884; Memoir of
Abbott Lawrence. _Hou. Lit._
=Hill, Henry Barker.= _Ms._, 1849-1903. Son of T. Hill, _infra_. A
professor of chemistry at Harvard University from 1879, and author of
Notes on Qualitative Analysis. _Put._
=Hill, Theophilus Hunter.= _N. C._, 1836-1901. A lawyer of Raleigh,
North Carolina. Hesper, and Other Poems, the first book copyrighted by
the Confederate government; Passion Flower, and Other Poems.
=Hill, Thomas.= _N. J._, 1818-1891. A Unitarian clergyman and
educator and a mathematician of eminence. He was president of Harvard
University, 1862-1868, and held pastorates at Waltham, Massachusetts,
and Portland, Maine. He invented several mathematical instruments, one
of which is the occultator. The Postulates of Religion and Ethics; The
Stars and the Earth; The True Order of Studies; Geometry and Faith;
Curvature; Jesus the Interpreter of Nature; Christmas, and Poems on
Slavery; The Natural Sources of Theology; In the Woods and Elsewhere,
containing notable experiments in classic metres; and several
text-books on arithmetic and geometry. _See Bibliography of Maine._
_El. Le. Put._
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