Hill, Rev. Thomas, D.D., L.L.D., New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 7, 1818—November 21, 1891, Portland, Maine. He graduated from Harvard College in 1843 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1845. He served as minister of the First Parish (Unitarian) in Waltham, Massachusetts from 1845 to 1859; was president of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1859-1862; president of Harvard University, 1862-1868; and minister of the First Parish of Portland, Maine, 1873 to 1891. He was distinguished as a mathematician. In the earlier part of his career he wrote or translated many hymns which found publication in current periodicals, usually anonymously or signed only with cryptic initials. One by him, beginning, _All holy, ever living One,_ was included in a few hymn books of the 19^th century, but has dropped out of use. A few others, mostly written for special occasions, are in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, but none have found other use. J. 524 H.W.F. Holland, Joseph Gilbert, Belchertown, Massachusetts, July 24, 1819—October 12, 1881. A newspaper man on the staff of the _Springfield Republican_ who became editor of _Scribner’s Magazine_ in 1870. Author of several books and some poetical pieces. One of the latter, beginning _For summer’s bloom, and autumn’s blight_, (Praise in and through all things) from his _Bitter Sweet_, 1858, was included in the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book for Church and Home_, Boston, 1868. J. 529 H.W.F.