Background
Hovey, Horace Carter was born on January 28, 1833 in Rob Roy, Indiana, United States. Son of Professor Edmund Otis and Mary (Carter) Hovey.
Hovey, Horace Carter was born on January 28, 1833 in Rob Roy, Indiana, United States. Son of Professor Edmund Otis and Mary (Carter) Hovey.
Bachelor of Arts, Wabash College, 1853, Master of Arts, 1856 (Doctor of Divinity, 1883). Graduate Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, 1857.
Father of Edmund Otis Hovey. Ordained to Presbyterian ministry, 1858. Home missionary, 1857-1862.
Pastor, Florence, Massachusetts, 1863-1866, New Albany, Indiana, 1866-1869, Peoria, Illinois, 1869-1873, Kansas City, Missoury, 1873-1875, New Haven, Connecticut, 1876-1883, Minneapolis, 1883-1887, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1887-1893, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1893-1909.
Engaged in occasional preaching and literature and scientific work, since 1909. Author: The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, an Illustrated Manual (with R. East. Call), 1897.
Hand Book of Mammoth Cave, 1909. Revised and enlarged edit of Hovey and Call’s Mammoth Cave Manual, 1912.
Bibliography of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (with R. East. Call), translations into French by East. A. Martel, 1913.
Editor: “The Hovey Book,” of the descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1912. Home: Newburyport, Massachusetts
Married Helen Lavinia Blatchley, November 18, 1857.