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=Hovey= [hŭv´ĭ], =Alvah.= _N. Y._, 1820-1903. A Baptist clergyman,
professor in Newton Theological Seminary from 1849, and from 1868 its
president. The Miracles of Christ; The Scriptural Law of Divorce; Life
of Isaac Backus; State of the Impenitent Dead; Christian Teaching and
Life; God With Us; Systematic Theology; Biblical Eschatology; Studies
in Ethics and Religion, include his principal works. _Bap._
=Hovey, Charles Mason.= _Ms._, 1810-1887. A noted horticulturist of
Cambridge, editor of Hovey’s Magazine of Horticulture, which reached
its thirty-fourth volume, and author of Fruits of America.
=Hovey, Horace Carter.= _Ind._, 1833- ----. A Congregational clergyman
of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Celebrated American Caverns.
=Hovey, Richard.= _Il._, 1864-1900. A verse-writer of Washington. The
Laurel, an Ode; Launcelot and Guenevere, a Poem in Dramas, republished
as The Marriage of Guenevere; Seaward, an Elegy on the Death of Thomas
William Parsons, _infra_; Gandelfo, a tragedy; Songs from Vagabondia,
and More Songs from Vagabondia (with W. B. Carman, _supra_). _Cop. Lo.
St._
=Howard, Blanche Willis.= _See Teuffel, von._
=Howard, Bronson.= _Mch._, 1842- ----. A prominent dramatist of New
York city. Saratoga, produced in London as Brighton, and in Berlin as
Eine Erste und Einzige Liebe; Diamonds; The Banker’s Daughter; Old
Love Letters; Young Mrs. Winthrop; One of Our Girls; The Henrietta;
Shenandoah; Aristocracy; Moorcroft; Hurricanes; Wives; Met by Chance;
Greenroom Fun.
=Howard, Oliver Otis.= _Me._, 1830- ----. A major-general in the
United States army who served during the Civil War and in several
Indian campaigns; in command of the Division of the Atlantic from
1888. Donald’s School Days; a translation of Agenor’s Life of Count de
Gasparin; Chief Joseph, or the Nez Percés in Peace and War; Isabella of
Castile. _Fu. Le._
=Howarth, Mrs. Ellen Clementine [Doran].= _N. Y._, 1827-1899. A
verse-writer of Trenton, New Jersey. Poems; Poems edited by R. W.
Gilder, (1868). ’Tis but a Little Faded Flower, and Thou Wilt Never
Grow Old, are well-known poems of hers.
=Howe, Edgar Watson.= _Ind._, 1854- ----. A journalist of Atchison,
Kansas, editor of The Daily Globe. His first novel, The Story of a
Country Town, attracted much attention. Later stories include, The
Mystery of The Locks; A Moonlight Boy; A Man Story.
=Howe, Fisher.= _Vt._, 1798-1871. A philanthropist of Brooklyn.
Oriental and Sacred Scenes; The True Site of Calvary. _Ran._
=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= _Pa._, 1867- ----. Taxation and Taxes in the
United States under the Internal Revenue System, 1791-1895. _Cr._
=Howe, George.= _Ms._, 1802-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor
of biblical literature in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South
Carolina, from 1831. Theological Education; History of the Presbyterian
Church in South Carolina.
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