The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . o go out as such, butthe protests of friends availed to hold him at thehead of the university. It was by his efforts in thegeneral conference of 1832 that the denominationestablish
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . o go out as such, butthe protests of friends availed to hold him at thehead of the university. It was by his efforts in thegeneral conference of 1832 that the denominationestablished a mission to the Flathead Indians ofOregon. It is doubtful, says his biographer,whether any other man ever possessed so muchinfluence in the New England conference as Wilburrisk. As a preacher he had a very high reputa-tion. In 1835-36 he went abroad for the restorationof his health, and on his return published FisksTravels in Europe, which was widely declined a Methodist bishopric, to which he hadbeen chosen in 1836. His life was written by Holdich (N. Y., 1843), and by George Pren-tice in American Religious Leaders Series (Bos-ton and New York, 1890). He died at Middletown,Feb. 32, 1839. BIVES, John Cook, journalist, was born inFranklin county, Va., May 34, 1795. He was takento Kentucky in 1806, cared for by an uncle, and be-came cashier of a bank at Edwardsville, 111. In 1834. ^ %l4^ 178 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA he accepted a position under the government, andremoved to Washington. Here, in 1830, he joinedF. P. Blair, the elder, in founding the Globe,which gave a steady support to the measures ofPresident Jackson, and gained great influence withhim. Mr. Hives was the sole owner of this paperfrom 1845 to his death. He enjoyed much consid-eration at the capital, and gave liberally of hisgains in many quarters, especially for the equipmentof regiments raised in the District for the defence ofthe Union, and to the families of soldiers. He diednear Was
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