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HOLTON, Samuel, statesman, b. in Danvers, Mass., 9 June, 1738; d. there, 2 Jan., 1816. For many years he was an eminent physician of Dan- vers, a member of the legislature previous to the Revolution, and one of the most zealous patriots of his day. He was a delegate to the Essex coun- ty convention in 1774, served in the Provincial congresses of 1774-'5, was a member of the com- mittee of safety of July, 1776, and of the superior executive council. He was a delegate to frame the confederation of 1777, a delegate to congress in 1778-'83, and again in 1793-*5, and a member of the State constitutional convention of 1789. He was judge of probate from 1796 till 1815, a mem- ber of the council twenty-seven years, and a coun- cillor of the Massachusetts medical society.

HOLYOKE, Edward, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass., 25 June, 1689; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 1 June, 1769. His grandfather, Rev. Elizur Holyoke, was a representative to the general court. Ed- ward was graduated at Harvard in 1705, be- came a tutor there in 1712, and a fellow of the corporation the next year. Having prepared himself for the minis- try, he was ordained pastor of the Congre- gational church at Mar- blehead, Mass., officiat- ing there twenty -one years. In 1737 he was elected president of

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visit of George Whitefeld to the college. Dr. Holyoke commended him in his convention sermon of 1741, but on the publication of Whitefield's journal in 1742, in which he reflected on the morals of the college and the want of religious feeling among the fac- ulty. Dr. Holyoke published a pamphlet entitled " The Testimony of the President, Professors, and Students of Harvard against the Rev. George Whitefield and his Conduct," in which he declared Whitefield to be " an enthusiast, an uncharitable person, and deluder of the people." and " an itiner- ant and extempore preacher." Dr. Holyoke was designated in the will of Paul Dudley to deliver the first Dudleian lecture, and spoke on " Natural Religion," but refused to publish the discourse. He is the author of three volumes of " Sermons " (Cambridge, 1736, 1737, and 1774), and the first poem in "Pietas et Gratulatio " (Cambridge, 1761). — His son, Edward Augustas, physician, b. in Boston, 1 Aug., 1728 ; d. in Salem, Mass., 21 March, 1829. was graduated at Harvard in 1746, studied medicine, and settling in Salem, Mass., in 1749, was a practitioner there for eighty years. Through- out his career he kept up his classical studies, and was versed in scientific and liberal branches. After his one hundredth year he began a manuscript in which he " proposed to note some of the changes in the manners, dress, dwellings, and employments of the inhabitants of Salem," and at ninety-two he performed a difficult surgical operation successful- ly. On his one hundredth birthday fifty physi- cians of Boston and Salem gave him a public dinner, at which he appeared with a firm step, smoked his pipe, and gave an appropriate toast. His voluminous diaries, which he had kept from his youth, were bequeathed to the Massachusetts medical society, of which he was a founder and first president. A memoir of him was published by the Essex medical society (1839).— His son, Samuel, musician, b. in Boxford. Mass.. 15 Oct., 1762 ; d. in Concord, N. H., 7 Feb., 1820, went with his family to Salem soon after his birth. He was graduated at Harvard in 1789. At the age of fourteen he composed the hymn-tune " Arnheim," which is still much sung. His first collection of music, " Harmonica Americana," was issued in Boston in 1791. "Fuguing pieces" were omitted on account of the " trifling effect produced by that sort of music." His other collections were " The Massachusetts Compiler" (see Holden, Oliver) (1795); "The Instrumental Assistant" (2 vols., Exeter, N. H., 1806-'7) ; and " The Columbian Re- pository of Sacred Harmony " (1809).

HOMANS, John, physician. b. in Boston, Mass., in 1793; d. there, 1*7 April, 1868. He was graduated at Harvard in 1812, and at the medical department in 1815, and practised in Worcester and in Brookfield, Mass. In 1829 he settled in Boston, for several years was president of the Mas- sachusetts historical society. — His son, Charles Dudley, physician, b. in Boston, 5 Dec, 1826 ; d. in Mount Desert, Me., 2 Sept., 1886. was graduated at Harvard in 1846, and at the medical department in 1849. He settled in Boston, and was surgeon of the Boston city hospital from its foundation. He was president of the Massachusetts medical society in 1884-'6. of the Charitable eye and ear infirmary, and of the Boston humane society.

HOME, Daniel Douglas, spiritualist, b. near Edinburgh, Scotland. 20 March, 1833; d. in Au- teuil, France, 21 June, 1886. He was adopted by an aunt, whom he accompanied to the United States in 1840. It is claimed that spiritualistic manifestations attended him from his infancy, but his own earliest recollection dates from a vision in his fourteenth year of a deceased schoolmate. At seventeen he became celebrated as a "medium." He resided at Lebanon, Conn., Newburg and Troy, N. Y., and at Springfield, Mass., where the most remarkable of his spiritualistic manifestations took place. Besides the table-moving, writing, and playing on musical instruments, these mani- festations were said to have included the material- ization of spirits, the elongation and shortening of his own body, and his handling fire without pain. He claimed to have performed remarkable cures, and to be impervious to disease. In 1853 he went to New Y 7 ork and studied medicine, but did not practise. Removing to London, he remained there several years, making frequent visits to the con- tinent, where he was presented at the courts of Russia, Germany, the Vatican, and France. In 1856 he united with the Roman Catholic church, but was expelled in 1863 for spiritualistic prac- tices. His visit to Russia was made with the elder Dumas, who devoted columns in the newspapers, and even a book, to his praise. In 1858 he mar- ried a Russian lady of rank and wealth, who died in 1862. leaving a son, who is said to inherit his father's peculiar power. In 1863 Home went to Italy to study art, visited Florence, and was befriended by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Mary Howitt, and many other liter- ary persons, all of whom testified to his hon- esty, and were witnesses of many inexplicable phenomena. Three years later a wealthy English- woman, Mrs. Jane Lyons, as a reward for his services, placed £27,000 in the hands of trustees for his benefit, and on his adding Lyons to his name increased the gift to £33,000. A few years afterward she demanded the return of her money, and when Home refused to give it up he was ar- rested, and after a trial lost his case. He again