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papers, and later to other periodicals, attracted wide attention, and she soon began to write humorous prose under the pen-name "Josiah Allen's Wife." Her books which followed attained a wide circulation and were translated into several languages. Her published works include: My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's (1873); Samantha at the Centennial (1877); My Wayward Pardner (1880); Miss Richards' Boy (1882); Sweet Cicely (1885); The Mormon Wife, a poem (1887); Poems (1887); Miss Jones's Quilting (1887); Samantha at Saratoga (1887); Samantha among the Brethren (1891); Samantha on the Race-Problem (1892); Samantha at the World's Fair (1894); Josiah's Alarm and Abel Perry's Funeral (1895), and Samantha in Europe (1896).

HOLLEY, Myron, reformer, was born in Salisbury, Conn., April 29, 1779; son of Luther and Sarah (Dakin) Holley, and grandson of John and Sarah (Lord) Holley. His great²-grandfather came from England and settled first at Stratford and then at Stamford, Conn. He was graduated at Williams college in 1799 and was admitted to the bar in 1802. In 1803 he settled in Canandaigua, N.Y., where he relinquished the practice of the law and established a book store. He was married in 1804 to Sally, daughter of Capt. John House, of Canandaigua. He was county clerk, 1810-14, and a member of the state assembly in 1816. He was a canal commissioner and treasurer of the board, 1816-24, and to him is chiefly due the success of the great enterprise of building the Erie canal. He distributed over two and a half million of dollars while in office, receiving no salary for his services, and at the close of his term a shortage of $30,000 was charged to him and was paid out of his slender fortune, although it was shown on investigation to have been a discrepancy in accounts in which he had no part or control. He was a delegate from New York to the National Anti-Masonic convention held at Philadelphia in 1830 and prepared the address adopted and signed by 112 delegates. He conducted the Lyons Countryman in the interest of the Anti-Masonic party, 1831-34 and the Free Elector at Hartford, Conn., in the same interest in 1835. He was a prominent delegate to the anti-slavery convention, Cleveland, Ohio, 1839, and joined in the call for a national convention to meet at Albany, N.Y., to form a Liberty party. He edited the Rochester Freeman and devoted its columns to the anti-slavery cause and ably supported the candidacy of James G. Birney for President in 1840. After his death a one-cent subscription was started by Gerrit Smith and from the proceeds an obelisk with medallion portrait was erected over his grave in Mount Hope cemetery, Rochester, N.Y. See: Myron Holley and what he did for Liberty and True Religion, by Elizur Wright (1882). He died in Rochester, N.Y., March 4, 1841.

HOLLEY, Orville Luther, editor, was born in Salisbury, Conn., May 19, 1791; son of Luther and Sarah (Dakin) Holley and brother of Myron Holley. He was graduated at Harvard in 1813 and practised law in Hudson, Canandaigua and New York city. He edited successively the Anti-Masonic Magazine in New York; the Sentinel in Troy; the Repository in Ontario; and the Daily Advertiser and the State Register in Albany. He was surveyor-general of the state under Governor Seward in 1838 and held an office in the state department at Albany, 1851-61. He arranged and indexed twenty-three folio volumes of the papers of Governor George Clinton, and published: The Picturesque Tourist (1844); Description of the City of New York (1847); The Life of Franklin (1856). He died in Albany, N.Y., March 25, 1861.

HOLLICK, Charles Arthur, geologist, was born in New Brighton, N.Y., Feb. 6, 1857: son of Frederick and Eleanor Eliza (Bailey) Hollick, and grandson of Joseph and Mary Abbey (Eaton)

Hollick, and of George and Maria (Hinton) Bailey. His father, a physician, was born in Birmingham, England, in 1818, and came to America in 1842, settling on Staten Island, N.Y. The son attended public and private schools in New Brighton, New York, and Wiesbaden, Germany, and was graduated from the Columbia College School of Mines, Ph.B., 1879. He was superintendent of the Mexican mine at Mariposa, Cal., 1880-81; private assistant to Dr. J. S. Newberry (q.v.), at Columbia college, 1881-90; fellow in geology at Columbia, 1890-91; assistant in the department of geology, 1892-93, and was appointed tutor in geology there in 1893. He also engaged in geological field work for the U.S. geological survey and the state geological surveys of New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Louisiana, for all of which he prepared geological reports from time to time, mostly on the subject of fossil botany. He was married, Sept. 19, 1881, to Adeline Augusta, daughter of Frederick Wales and Sally Ann (De Voe) Talkington. He was assistant sanitary engineer and inspector and special inspector, of the New York city