Black Key.
HOUGH, EMERSON. Born at Newton, Ia., June 28, 1857. High school education at Newton, and graduated from State University of Iowa, 1880. Practised law in New Mexico in 1882. Came to Chicago in 1889 and had charge of the Western office of Forest and Stream, 1889 to 1902. Fond of amateur sport. “I have never seen a game of professional baseball and don’t intend to. I care little for the movies, and detest the comic supplements of the Sunday newspapers. I read moderately and like historical fiction of the old type. I don’t care so much for jig-time and jazz-time.” First published story, “Far from the Crowd,” Forest and Stream, about 1881. “My father was a great sportsman, a great mathematician, a great Christian. I myself have always been a sportsman, but as to mathematics and Christianity I do not say so much.” Author of “The Singing Mouse Stories,” 1895; “The Story of the Cowboy,” 1897; “The Girl at the Half-way House,” 1900; “The Mississippi Bubble,” 1902; “The Way to the West,” 1903; “The Law of the Land,” 1904; “Heart’s Desire,” 1905; “The King of Gee Whiz,” 1906; “The Story of the Outlaw,” 1906; “The Way of a Man,” 1907; “Fifty-four Forty or Fight,” 1909; “The Sowing,” 1909; “The Young Alaskans,” 1910; “The Purchase Price,” 1911; “Young Alaskans on the Trail,” 1911; “John Rawn,” 1912; “The Lady and the Pirate,” 1913; “Young Alaskans in the Rockies,” 1913; “The Magnificent Adventure,” 1915; “The Man Next Door,” 1916; “The Broken Gate,” 1917; “Young Alaskans in the Far North,” 1918; “The Way Out,” 1918. President of the Society of Midland Authors. Lives in Chicago.
Clan Gordon.
(2) HUGHES, RUPERT. Born in Lancaster, Mo., Jan. 31, 1872. Educated at public schools, Lancaster, Mo., and Keokuk, Ia. Graduate of Western Reserve University, 1892, M.A. (Yale), 1899. Chief interests: literature, military work, music, and history. Married, 1908. Assistant editor Godey’s Magazine, Current Literature, and The Criterion before 1901. With Encyclopedia Britannica, 1902 to 1905. Captain U. S. A. on Mexican border service, 1916. Assistant to Adjutant-General, New York, 1917. Now Major in the U. S. A., stationed at Washington, D. C. First short story published, probably “The Man Who Could Stop His Heart,” The Adelbert, 1889. Books: “The Lake Rim Athletic Club,” 1898; “The Dozen from Lake Rim,” 1899; “American Composers,” 1900; “Gyges’ Ring,” 1901; “The Whirlwind,” 1902; “The Musical Guide,” 1903; “Love Affairs of Great Musicians,” 1903; “Songs by Thirty Americans,” 1904; “Zal,” 1905; “Colonel Crockett’s Coöperative Christmas,” 1906; “The Lake Rim Cruise,” 1910; “The Gift-Wife,” 1910; “Excuse Me,” 1911; “Miss 318,” 1911; “The Old Nest,” 1912; “The Amiable Crimes of Dirk Memling,” 1913; “The Lady Who Smoked Cigars,” 1913; “What Will People Say?” 1914; “The Music Lovers’ Cyclopedia,” 1914; “The Last Rose of Summer,” 1914; “Empty Pockets,” 1915; “Clipped Wings,” 1916; “The Thirteenth Commandment,” 1916; “In a Little Town,” 1917; “We Can’t Have Everything,” 1917; “Long Ever Ago,” 1918; “The Unpardonable Sin,” 1918; and many successful plays. Lives at Bedford Hills, N. Y.
*At the Back of God Speed.
HUMPHREY, GEORGE. Born at Boughton, Eng., July 17, 1889. Educated at Faversham School, England; Oxford and Leipsig Universities. Professor of ancient history at Saint Francis Xavier’s University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Now at Harvard University.
*Father’s Hand.
(234) HURST, FANNIE. (for biography, see 1917).
*Hers Not to Reason Why.
(2) JOHNSON, ARTHUR. Born in Boston, 1881. Graduate of Harvard University. Practised law since 1905. Chief interests: his profession, poetry, human nature, literature, art. Cares more for poetry than anything else. First story published, “Frankie and Jenny,” American Magazine, December, 1913. Now engaged in war work at Washington. Home, Cambridge, Mass.