Mount Hope: Or Philip, King Of The Wampanoags: An Historical Romance
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Mount Hope: Or Philip, King Of The Wampanoags: An Historical Romance
Gideon Hiram Hollister
Harper & brothers, 1851
History; General; History / General
1779-1879: Centennial Commemoration Of The Ride Of General Israel Putnam, At Greenwich, Conn., February 26, 1779 : Observed February 22, 1879
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Gideon Hiram Hollister was an American politician, diplomat and author. He served as a minister to Haiti.
Background
Gideon Hiram Hollister was born on December 14, 1817 in Washington, Connecticut, United States. He was the son of Gideon and Harriet (Jackson) Hollister and a descendant in the seventh generation of Lieut. John Hollister, said to have been an Englishman, who came to America about 1642 and settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut
Education
Hollister graduated from Yale College in 1840. Here young Hollister was the class poet and editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. He studied law in Litchfield, Connecticut, with Judge Origen S. Seymour.
Career
Hollister was admitted to the bar in April 1842, and began to practise in Woodbury, but after a short time he returned to Litchfield. In 1843 he was appointed clerk of the county court, holding this position, with the exception of a single year, until 1852. He became an influential figure in western Connecticut, was elected to the state Senate in 1856, and was largely responsible for the election of James Dixon to the United States Senate.
In February 1868 he was appointed minister to Haiti by President Johnson but was recalled by President Grant in September 1869. He returned to Connecticut and practised law with his brother, David Frederick, in Bridgeport until 1876, when he again removed to Litchfield.
His interests still were literary rather than legal. In 1851 he published Mount Hope; or, Philip, King of the Wampanoags, a historical romance of Connecticut in the seventeenth century. His History of Connecticut, from the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution, appeared in two volumes in 1855. Although it is based chiefly upon secondary materials and is extremely dull, it is a valuable general history of the state. Hollister was also the author of Thomas â Becket, a tragedy in blank verse, the acting copyright of which was owned by Edwin Booth. It was produced only three times and now seems labored and lifeless. This play, together with "Andersonville, " a poem which acquired popularity during the Civil War, and other verse, was published in 1866.
He was elected to the legislature in 1880 as a Democrat, but died on March 24 of the following year. Kinley Hollow, a novel published posthumously in 1882, was partly historical and partly autobiographical.