HILLIARD
HiLLIS
deny, Ireland, about 1700
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AT AAJ/\IAPOL(5. 1783 -'784
the Rev. James Hillliouse, was graduated in arts
and theology at the Uuiversity of Glasgow, Scot-
land; was ordained by the Presbytery of London-
immigrated to Amer-
ica in 1717,
and was pas-
tor at Derry
and London-
deri-j', N.H.,
1719-22, and
had charge
of the sec-
ond parish,
New Lon-
don, Conn.
1722 - 1740.'
His brother,
James Abra-
ham (born,
1730; Yale,
assistant " or
in 1775. Will-
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1749; lawyer in New Haven; '
senator, 1772-75); died childless
iam was educated for the law and practised in
his native town. He was married in 1750 to
Sarah, sister of Matthew Griswold, the first
governor of Connecticut, 1784-86; was a rep-
resentative in the Colonial legislature by semi-
annual elections, 1755-84; member or "assist-
ant " of the council, 1784-1808, in the meantime
serving as judge of the county court for many
years; a delegate to the Continental congress,
1783-86, and major of the 2d Connecticut cavalry
in the war of the Revolution. In 1808, when
eighty years of age, he declined renomination to
the council and withdrew from public life. Six
of his seven sons and two of his three daughters
lived to maturity and most of them to old age.
HediedinMontvilIe,Conn., Jan. 12, 1816.
HILLIARD, Henry Washington, diplomatist, was born in Fayetteville, N.C., Aug. 4, 1808. His parents removed to Columbia, S.C., and he was graduated from the South Carolina college with high honors in 1826. He then read law in Athens, Oa., with Judge Augustine Smith Clayton (q. v.). He practised law in Athens, 1829-31; was professor in the University of Alabama, 1831-34; a repre- sentative in the state legislature of Alabama, 1838^0; a lawyer in Montgomery, Ala., 1834-61; and cliarge d'affaires at Belgium, 1842-44. He was a brigadier-general in the provisional Con- federate army, 1861-65, and raised 3000 troops. He was a lawyer in Augusta, Ga. , 1865-67; in Atlanta, Ga., 1867-77; and U.S. Minister to Brazil, 1877-81 . He was an occasional lay preacher in the Methodist church. In 1838 he answered Dixon H. Lewis ("A Nullifier '") in six papers signed " Junius Brutus," opposing Calhoun's sub- treasury scheme. In 1840 he was a delegate to the Whig national convention, Harrisburg, Pa.
President Tyler appointed him U.S. charge
d'affaires to Belgium in 1842, which position he
resigned in 1844. He was a representative from
Alabama in the 29th, 30tli and 31st congresses,
1845-51. He supported the compromise measures
of 1850 and opposed the extreme states' rights
policy of the south. He was on the Fillmore
electoral ticket of 1856 and on the Bell and Ever-
ett ticket of 1860. He opposed secession and
met William L. Young in joint debate in a can-
vass of Alabama, 1860-61. When Alabama se-
ceded he gave to the state his loyal support; was
made a brigadier-general in the provisional army,
raising 3000 men in Alabama, and was appointed
by Jefferson Davis commissioner to Tennessee.
After the war he advocated the election of
Horace Greeley in 1872; was an unsuccessful
candidate for representative from Georgia in the
45th congress, 1876; and was appointed by Presi-
dent Hayes U.S. Minister to Brazil, serving 1877-
81. He helped forward the emancipation move-
ment in Brazil by reciting the advantages a
similar movement had been to the people of the
southern states of the United States, and when
the emancipation of one million and a half of
slaves in Brazil was accomplished he was given a
public banquet and his letter and speech on eman-
cipation were published in the official Blue Book
of Great Britain by Lord Granville. He is the
author of: Roman Nights (1848); Speeches and
Addresses (1855); De Vane, a Story of Plebeians
and Patricians (1865); Politics and Pen Pic-
tures (1892). He died in Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 17, 1892.
HILLIS, Newell Dwight, clergyman, was born
at Magnolia, Iowa, Sept. 2. 1858; son of Samuel
and Margaret Hester (Reichte) Hillis, and of
Scotch-English and German ancestry. He
attended the high
school at Magnolia
and Grinnell acade-
my, and was grad-
uated at Lake Forest
university in 1884,
and at McCormick
Theological seminary
in 1887. He was
pastor of the First
Presbyterian church,
Peoria, 111., 1887-90,
of the First Presby-
terian church, Evan-
ston. 111., 1890-94, and
of Central church,
Chicago, 111., 1894-99,
where he was successor to Prof. David Swing. On Jan. 22, 1899, he accepted a call to the pas- torate of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, N.Y., to succeed the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott. In April, 1900, he resigned from the Presbyterian body
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