(1837-1920) Novelist, critic, editor, writer. William Dean Howells was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio. After traveling in Europe as consul by Lincoln’s appointment, he worked for various periodicals; he was associated with the “Atlantic Monthly” for 15 years and later wrote the “Editor’s Study” (1886-91) and the “Easy Chair” (1900-20) of “Harper’s Magazine.” An important … Continued
(1895-1960) Lyricist, librettist, writer. Oscar Hammerstein II was born in New York City and is buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York. Oscar Hammerstein owned a home called the Wildflower in Whitestone, Queens, New York.
(1711-c.1806) Writer. Jupiter Hammon was the first black writer to be published in America. He was a slave of the Lloyd family of Oyster Bay, New York. His work was loaded with Biblical allusions to slavery, and is considered some of the first anti-slavery poetry written by an American slave. Jupiter Hammon’s residence, Lloyd Manor, … Continued
(1891-1969) Writer, journalist. Maurice Hindus moved to the United States from Byelorussia and worked as a farmhand in Brookfield, New York; his papers are in the Case Library Archives.
(1825-1907) Novelist. Mary Jane Holmes was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and died in Brockport, New York. She moved to Brockport, New York, in about 1854.
(1836-1926) Novelist. Born between Pierrepont Manor and Adams in southern Jefferson County in 1836, Marietta Holley turned her early life on a North Country farm into the values and voices of the literary comedian “Josiah Allen’s Wife,” Samantha. Sometimes called “the female Mark Twain,” Ms. Holley had the same publisher and illustrator that Mr. Twain … Continued
(1843-1904) Writer, critic. Laurence Hutton had a home in Tannersville, New York.
Visionary. He is said to have lived in what is now Franklin County. The subject of countless books, articles, studies and stories, Hiawatha was a Mohawk (some say Onondaga) who lived during the 1500s. His vision, along with that of Dekanawida, is the foundation for the “Great Law or the Six Nations” a governing philosophy … Continued
(1809-1878) Jurist, naturalist, writer. Samuel H. Hammond was born in Bath, New York and died in Watertown, New York.
(1903-1995) Writer. Paul Horgan was born in Buffalo, New York, and died in Middletown, Connecticut. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for history, first in 1955 with “Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History” and then once again in 1976 with “Lamy of Santa Fe.”