A dictionary of American authors

Name: A dictionary of American authors
Author: Adams, Oscar Fay

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Homes, Mrs. Mary Sophie [Shaw] [Rogers].= _Md._, 1830- ----. A
writer of New Orleans. Carrie Harrington, or Scenes in New Orleans;
Progression, or the South Defended, a volume of verse; A Wreath of
Rhymes.

=Honeywood, Saint John.= _Ms._, 1763-1798. A lawyer of Salem, New York,
whose political Poems were published in 1801.

=Hood, George.= _Ms._, 1807-1882. A clergyman long prominent as an
educator in Massachusetts. Southern Church Melodies; Musical Manual;
History of Music in New England (1846).

=Hood, John Bell.= _Ky._, 1831-1879. A noted general in the Confederate
army. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experience in the United States and
Confederate Armies, a careful defence of his military movements.

=Hood, Samuel.= _I._, _c._ 1800-1875. A Philadelphia lawyer, author of
A Practical Treatise on the Law of Decedents in Pennsylvania.

=Hooke, William.= _E._, 1601-1678. A Puritan clergyman who was a cousin
of Oliver Cromwell. He came to America about 1636; was for some seven
years minister at Taunton, and for twelve years following pastor at New
Haven. Returning to England in 1656, he became chaplain to Cromwell.
New England’s Teares for Old England’s Feares is the best known of his
writings. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the
American Pulpit._

=Hooker, Edward William.= _Ct._, 1794-1875. A Congregational clergyman
of Vermont who was a descendant of T. Hooker, _infra_. A Plea for
Sacred Music; Life of Thomas Hooker.

=Hooker, Herman.= _Vt._, 1804-1865. An Episcopal clergyman who retired
from the ministry and became a bookseller in Philadelphia. Family Book
of Devotion; The Uses of Adversity; Thoughts and Maxims; The Portion of
the Soul; Popular Infidelity; The Christian Life a Life of Faith.

=Hooker, Horace.= _Ct._, 1793-1864. A Congregational clergyman of
Hartford. Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Bible History.

=Hooker, Mrs. Isabella [Beecher].= _Ct._, 1822- ----. The youngest
daughter of Lyman Beecher, _supra_. A philanthropist of Hartford,
prominent as an advocate of spiritualism and woman-suffrage. Womanhood:
its Sanctities and Fidelities.

=Hooker, Thomas.= _E._, 1586-1647. A Puritan clergyman who came to
America in 1633, and was for three years minister at Cambridge,
then called Newtowne. In 1636 he led a large portion of his flock
to the Connecticut valley, where they founded the town of Hartford.
A theologian of great influence in his century. Survey of the Summe
of Church Discipline (with John Cotton); Application of Redemption;
The Poore Doubting Christian drawne to Christ. _See Tyler’s American
Literature; Palfrey’s History of New England; Allibone’s Dictionary;
Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27._

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A dictionary of American authors

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Homes, Mrs. Mary Sophie [Shaw] [Rogers].= _Md._, 1830- ----. A
writer of New Orleans. Carrie Harrington, or Scenes in New Orleans;
Progression, or the South Defended, a volume of verse; A Wreath of
Rhymes.

=Honeywood, Saint John.= _Ms._, 1763-1798. A lawyer of Salem, New York,
whose political Poems were published in 1801.

=Hood, George.= _Ms._, 1807-1882. A clergyman long prominent as an
educator in Massachusetts. Southern Church Melodies; Musical Manual;
History of Music in New England (1846).

=Hood, John Bell.= _Ky._, 1831-1879. A noted general in the Confederate
army. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experience in the United States and
Confederate Armies, a careful defence of his military movements.

=Hood, Samuel.= _I._, _c._ 1800-1875. A Philadelphia lawyer, author of
A Practical Treatise on the Law of Decedents in Pennsylvania.

=Hooke, William.= _E._, 1601-1678. A Puritan clergyman who was a cousin
of Oliver Cromwell. He came to America about 1636; was for some seven
years minister at Taunton, and for twelve years following pastor at New
Haven. Returning to England in 1656, he became chaplain to Cromwell.
New England’s Teares for Old England’s Feares is the best known of his
writings. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the
American Pulpit._

=Hooker, Edward William.= _Ct._, 1794-1875. A Congregational clergyman
of Vermont who was a descendant of T. Hooker, _infra_. A Plea for
Sacred Music; Life of Thomas Hooker.

=Hooker, Herman.= _Vt._, 1804-1865. An Episcopal clergyman who retired
from the ministry and became a bookseller in Philadelphia. Family Book
of Devotion; The Uses of Adversity; Thoughts and Maxims; The Portion of
the Soul; Popular Infidelity; The Christian Life a Life of Faith.

=Hooker, Horace.= _Ct._, 1793-1864. A Congregational clergyman of
Hartford. Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Bible History.

=Hooker, Mrs. Isabella [Beecher].= _Ct._, 1822- ----. The youngest
daughter of Lyman Beecher, _supra_. A philanthropist of Hartford,
prominent as an advocate of spiritualism and woman-suffrage. Womanhood:
its Sanctities and Fidelities.

=Hooker, Thomas.= _E._, 1586-1647. A Puritan clergyman who came to
America in 1633, and was for three years minister at Cambridge,
then called Newtowne. In 1636 he led a large portion of his flock
to the Connecticut valley, where they founded the town of Hartford.
A theologian of great influence in his century. Survey of the Summe
of Church Discipline (with John Cotton); Application of Redemption;
The Poore Doubting Christian drawne to Christ. _See Tyler’s American
Literature; Palfrey’s History of New England; Allibone’s Dictionary;
Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27._

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A dictionary of American authors

A dictionary of American authors

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