HOVEY
HOVEY
SLiid Christian ethics, 1854-99, and president of
the institution, 1868-98. He preached his last
annual baccalaureate sermon to the members of
the graduating class of 1899 on June 4, and
resigned the presidency after a service of thirty
years as president and fifty as instructor and
professor. He was a trustee of Brown luiiver-
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sity, 1870-74, and was made a fellow in 1874. He
received the honorary degree of D.D. from
Brown university in 1856, and that of LL.D. from
Richmond college, Va., and Denison imiversity in
1876. He is the author of: Life and Times of
the Rev. Isaac Backus (1849); State of the Impen-
itent Dead (1859); Miracles of Christ as Attested
by the Evangelists (1864); Scriptural Laiv of
Divorce (1866); God With Us (1872); Norvial
Class Manual, Part I.: What to Teach (1873);
State of Man after Death (1874); Religion and
the State (1874); Doctrine of the Higher Christian
Life Compared icith the Teachings of the Holy
Scriptures (1876); Progress of a Century (1870);
Manual of Systematic Theology and Christian
Ethics (1877); Commentary on the Gosj^el of John
and the Epistles to the Galatians in An American
Commentary on the New Testament (1885); Bibli-
cal Eschatology (1888); Studies in Ethics and
Religion (1891); Christian Teaching and Life
(1895). He was also the translator(in part)of Life
ofChrysostom(L854:); general editor of An Aineri-
can Commentary on the New Testament (1881-90),
and a frequent contributor for many years to the
Christian Review; the Baptist Quarterly; Bibli-
otheca Sacra; the Examiner and Chronicle; the
Watchman; the Standard and other religious
periodicals.
HOVEY, Alvin Peterson, governor of Indiana, was born in Posey county, Ind. , Sept. 6, 1821; son of Abiel and Frances (Peterson) Hove}'; grandson of the Rev. Samuel and Abigail (Cleve- land) Hovey; and a descendant of Samuel and Elizabeth (Perkins) Hovey, who resided in Windham, Conn., in 1743. His parents removed from Vermont to Indiana, where he was a brick- layer and gained his education without attending school. He began teaching school when nine- teen years old and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He was a delegate to the state consti-
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tutional convention of 1850; judge of the third
judicial circuit, 1851-54; judge of the state
supreme court, 1854-56; president of the Demo-
cratic state convention, 1855, and U.S. district
attorney for Indiana, 1856-58. He was defeated
in 1858 for represen-
tative in the 36th
congress. He was
colonel of the 24th
Indiana volunteers,
1861-62; brigadier-
general in the vol-
unteer service, 1862- * »-^ 'V
64, and brevet major- general, 1864-65. In > ^^^^^ the civil war he com- 'X/v^^^^^^' manded the eastern district of Arkansas, 1863, and the district of Indiana in 1864-
65. He was credited by General Grant, in his official report, for the victory at Cliampion Hills, May 16, 1863, and in 1864 recruited 10,000 unmarried men to serve in the U.S. army. He was U.S. minister to Peru, by appointment of President Lincoln, 1865-70. He was a Repub- lican representative in the 50th congress, 1887- 89; governor of Indiana, 1889-91, and Republi- can candidate for U.S. senator in January, 1891. He died in Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 23, 1891.
HOVEY, Charles Edward, educator, was born in Thetford, Yt., April 26, 1827; son of Alfred and Abigail (Howard) Hovey; grandson of Amos and Emilia (Calkins) Hovey and of Abigail and Priscilla (Cushman) Howard: and a descendant of Daniel and Abigail (Andrews) Hovey, of Ipswich, Mass., 1637; and of Thomas Cushman and Mary Allerton, of the Mayflower. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1852, and studied law, but en- gaged in teaching. He was principal of the high school, Framingham, Mass., 1852-54; of the boys' high school, Peoria, 111., 1854-56; supei'intendent of the public schools of Peoria, 1856-57; president of the State Teachers' association, 1856; organizer and first president of the Illinois State Normal university. Normal, 111., 1857-61. He was colonel of the 33d Illinois by a vote of its members, 1861-62, and brigadier-general in the army, 1862- 63. He was forced by ill liealth to resign from the army in 1863 and " for gallantry and meri- torious conduct in battle, particularly at Arkan- sas Post, Jan. 11, 1863," was brevetted major- general of volunteers in 1865. He was admitted to the bar and practised in Washington, D.C., 1869-97, He married Harriette Farnham, daugh- ter of Farnham and Lydia (Coggeshall) Spofford, and had one son, Richard (q.v.). General Hovey died in Washington, D.C., Nov. 17. 1897.
