History of Tribes Hill, (Montgomery County) New York United States of America

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George Washington Hough, astronomer, was born in Tribes Hill, N.Y., Oct. 24, 1836; son of William and Magdalene (Selmser) Hough, and grandson of George Hough. He was graduated at Union college in 1856 and was astronomer and director of the Dudley observatory, Albany, N.Y., 1860-74. Here he devoted himself to meridian observation of zone stars and to meteorology. He was director of Dearborn observatory, Chicago, Ill., 1879-87, and in 1887 became professor of astronomy at Northwestern university and continued as director of the Dearborn observatory. Here he made micrometrical measurements and discovery of double stars, and physical observations on the planet Jupiter. He discovered over six hundred difficult double stars and catalogued them for publication. He invented a star-charting machine in 1862; an automatic registering and printing barometer in 1865, and applied the same device to the thermometric and other meteorological apparatus in 1866, as used in the U.S. signal service; a thermograph and barograph for recording meteorological phenomena at definite intervals in 1869; a printing chronograph in 1871, which he remodelled in 1885, the only printing chronograph in the world; a recording chronograph in 1879; an observing seat for equatorial telescope in 1880; a sensitometer and exposing case and plate-holder in 1884; an astronomical dome in 1888, and a storage cell in 1898. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical society, Jan. 19, 1872, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1874. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Union college in 1891. He published: Annals of Dudley Observatory (2 vols., 1866-71); Annual Report of Dearborn Observatory (1880-86), and various monographs.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Joseph O'Connor, journalist and author, was born in Tribes Hill, N.Y., Dec. 17, 1841; son of Joseph and Mary O'Connor. He removed with the family to Rochester, N.Y., attended the High School there, and was graduated at the University in 1863. He was admitted to the bar in 1869, but never practised. He was for a time teacher of languages in the Rochester Free Academy, and then devoted himself to journalism. He was connected editorially, in succession, with the Rochester Democrat, the Indianapolis Sentinel, the New York World. the Buffalo Courier, and finally (since 1885) with the Rochester Post-Express as chief editor. At the Columbian Exposition (1893) he delivered the poem on New York day. He is the author of articles in magazines and reviews, including a remarkable story in Blackwood's, and of a volume of poems published in 1895. He married in 1877 Evangeline M. Johnson, of Rochester, author of analytical indexes to the works of Shakespeare and Hawthorne, of various translations from the German, and of occasional poems.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor