Hosmer
JAMES KENDALL, an American author; born in Northfield, Mass., in 1834. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855 and also Harvard Divinity School in 1859. He was Unitarian pastor of Deerfield , Mass. , from 1860 to 1866, serving in the meantime in the Civil War as private . He was Professor of Rhetoric and English at Antioch College from 1866 to 1872, to 1872 , and from 1872 to 1874 was Professor of English and History at the University of Missouri. From 1874 to 1892 he was Professor of English and German Literature at Washington University , and from 1892 to 1894, librarian of the Minneapolis Public Library. He was president of the American Library Association in 1902 and 1903. His published works include "Short History of German Literature" (1878); "Story of the Jews " (1885); "Life of Samuel Adams" (1885); "Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom" (1890); "History of the Civil War in America" (in the "American Nation" series, 1907) ; "Expedition of Lewis and Clark" (1902) ; "Journal of John Winthrop" (1908), etc.
HOSPICE (hos'pis), a little convent belonging to a religious order, occupied by a few monks, and destined to receive and entertain traveling monks; or houses of refuge and entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.