George Stillman Hillard
George Stillman Hillard (born September 22, 1808 in Machias , Maine , † January 21, 1879 in Boston , Massachusetts) was an American lawyer and politician.
Life
George Hillard, born in what is now Maine , graduated from Harvard College in 1828 and Harvard Law School in 1832 . In the meantime he lectured at the Round Hill School , a short-lived school in Northampton , Massachusetts , which, among other things, was oriented towards the German high school . In 1833 Hillard opened a law firm in Boston with Charles Sumner . Hillard was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1836 and to the Massachusetts Senate in 1850 . In 1853 he was a member of the Massachusetts Constituent Assembly. From 1854 to 1856 he was city solicitor of Boston, from 1866 to 1870 as successor to Richard Henry Dana federal attorney for the district of Massachusetts. Hillard was sponsored by Daniel Webster and was considered an outstanding speaker.
Hillard was extensively active as a writer and editor. From 1833 he was one of the editors (with George Ripley ) of The Christian Register , a Unitarian weekly newspaper, from 1834 of The American Jurist , a legal journal discontinued in 1843 , and from 1856 to 1861 he was a partner and co-editor of Courier , a Bostonian Periodical of the United States Whig Party . Hillard published a five-volume collection of the works of Edmund Spenser in 1839 and a selection of the works of Walter Savage Landor in 1856 . His own writings included the two-volume Six Months in Italy (1853) about his trip to Italy in 1847, Memorial of Daniel Webster (1853) and Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan (1864), Political Duties of the Educated Classes (1866) and ( together with Ticknor's widow) Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor (1876).
In 1856 Hillard received an honorary doctorate (LL. D.) from Trinity College in Hartford , Connecticut , and in 1873 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
literature
- Hillard, George Stillman . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 3 : Grinnell - Lockwood . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 207 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Hillard, George Stillman . In: The New International Encyclopædia (1905, at Wikisource )
- Hillard, George Stillman . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 13 : Harmony - Hurstmonceaux . London 1910, p. 467 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Hillard, George Stillman . In: Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921, at Wikisource )
- George Stillman Hillard in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- George Stillman Hillard at The Political Graveyard
Individual evidence
- ↑ Calendar of Trinity College, 1857–1858 (PDF, 5.8 MB) at Trinity College (trincoll.edu); Retrieved February 19, 2017.
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 1.4 MB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); accessed on February 16, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hillard, George Stillman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Machias , Maine |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1879 |
| Place of death | Boston , Massachusetts |