HILLARD, GEORGE STILLMAN (1808-1879)

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HILLARD, GEORGE STILLMAN (1808-1879) , American lawyer and author, was born at Machias, Maine, on the 22nd of September 18o8. After graduating at Harvard College in 1828, he taught in the Round Hill School at

Northampton

, Massachusetts. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1832, and in 1833 he was admitted to the bar in Boston, where he entered into partnership with Charles Sumner. He was a member of the state

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Representatives in 1836, of the state Senate in 185o, and of the state constitutional convention of 1853, and in 18667o was United States

district

DISTRICT

attorney for Massachusetts. He devoted a large portion of his time to literature. He became a member of the editorial staff of the Christian

, a Unitarian weekly, in 1833; in 1834 he became editor of The American Jurist (18291843), a legal journal to which Sumner, Simon Greenleaf and Theron

Metcalf

METCALF, WILLARD LEROY (1858– )

contributed; and from 1856 to 1861 he was an associate editor of the Boston Courier. His publications include an edition of Edmund Spenser's works (in 5 vols., 1839); Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor (1856) ; Six Months in Italy (2 vols., 1853) ; Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan (1864); a part of the Life, Letters, and

Journals

JOURNALS

of George Ticknor (1876); besides a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of school readers and many articles in

periodicals

PERIODICALS

and encyclopaedias. He died in Boston on the 21st of January 1879.

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