Willey, William Princeton – Born May 24, 1840, Morgantown, W. Va.; p., Waitman T. and Elizabeth E. Willey; prep., Monongalia academy, Morgan town, W. Va.; entered 1858; A. B., 1862; A. M., 1865; lawyer; professor of law, West Virginia university, 1883 -; author, “History of the Formation of West Virginia;” Phi Kappa Psi; B. L. society. Address, Morgantown, W. Va.

Abbett, Henry Winslow – Born May 10, 1839, in Marion county, Ky.; A. B., in 1860; five years professor of ancient languages, Wesleyan college, Millersville, Ky.; two years principal Carroll high school, Ky.; three years principal Millersburg female college, Ky.; B. L. society. Last known address, Wichita, Kansas.

It seems odd that there is not a single reference to Hall in an American historical study of Japan. Walsh, Hall & Co., the leading American trading house in the port treaty, is equally unknown. This would matter little if the men and institutions in question were nonentities. But as Hall’s writings reveal, this was hardly the case. As America’s leading opinion maker on Japan in the 1860s, hall was a man of considerable influence. That his journal remained unpublished so long is truly regrettable.

HITT, Robert Roberts, a Representative from Illinois; born in Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, January 16, 1834; moved to Ogle County, Ill., in 1837 with his parents, who settled in Mount Morris; attended the Rock River Seminary (later Mount Morris College), and De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind.; first secretary of legation and Chargé d’Affaires ad interim in Paris from December 1874 until March 1881; Assistant Secretary of State in 1881; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert M.A.