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=Hull, William.= _Ct._, 1753-1825. A famous general court-martialed in
1812 for his surrender of Detroit to the English. His defence of his
action appears in his book, The Campaign of the Northwest Army (1824).
_See Life by Maria Campbell and James Freeman Clarke_ (1848).
=Humes, Thomas William.= _Tn._, 1815-1892. An Episcopal clergyman and
educator of Tennessee who published The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee.
=Humphrey, Edward Porter.= _Ct._, 1809-1887. Son of H. Humphrey,
_infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of Louisville. Our Theology in its
Development; Sacred History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law.
=Humphrey, Heman.= _Ct._, 1779-1861. A Congregational clergyman who was
president of Amherst College, 1823-1845. Tour in France, etc.; Domestic
Education; Sketches and History of Revivals; Essays on the Sabbath;
Life of Nathan Fiske; Letters to a Son in the Ministry.
=Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson.= _Pa._, 1810-1883. A general in the
Federal army during the Civil War, subsequently Chief of Engineers of
the United States Army. The Virginia Campaigns of 1864 and 1865; From
Gettysburg to the Rapidan. _Scr._
=Humphreys, David.= _Ct._, 1752-1818. A colonel who was aide-de-camp to
Washington. His miscellaneous works, of which two collections appeared
in his lifetime, include articles in both prose and verse, and he was
also the author of a Life of General Putnam.
=Humphreys, Edward Rupert.= _I._, 1820-1893. An educator of Boston
who came thither from England in 1859. Lessons on the Liturgy of the
Protestant Episcopal Church; Education of Military Officers; The Higher
Education of Europe and America; Manual of Political Science, include
his principal works.
=Humphreys, Milton Wylie.= _W. Va._, 1844- ----. A professor of Greek
at the University of Virginia from 1887. He has published scholarly
translations, with notes, of the Antigone of Sophocles and The Clouds
of Aristophanes.
=Hunnewell, James Frothingham.= _Ms._, 1832- ----. A resident of
Charlestown, Massachusetts. Bibliography of the Hawaiian Islands;
The Lands of Scott; The Historical Monuments of France; The Imperial
Island: England’s Chronicle in Stone; Bibliography of Charlestown and
Bunker Hill; A Century of Town Life, a History of Charlestown. _Hou.
Lit._
=Hunt, Ezra Mundy.= _N. J._, 1830-1894. A physician of Trenton, New
Jersey. Patients’ and Physicians’ Assistant; Physicians’ Counsels;
Alcohol as Food and Medicine; Principles of Hygiene, are among his
writings.
=Hunt, Freeman.= _Ms._, 1804-1858. A publisher of New York city who was
the founder of Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine. Lives of American Merchants;
Sketches of Female Character; Letters About the Hudson River.
=Hunt, Harriot Kezia.= _Ms._, 1805-1875. A physician of Boston who
lectured upon woman-suffrage and sanitary reforms. She published
Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years’ Social and Twenty Years’
Professional Life.
=Hunt, Helen.= _See Jackson, Mrs. Helen._
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