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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Gideon Hiram Hollister (1817–1881)

Hollister, Gideon Hiram. An American lawyer and miscellaneous writer; born at Washington, CT, 1817; died in 1881. He was minister to Haiti, 1868–69. He wrote: ‘Mount Hope’ (1851), a historical romance; ‘History of Connecticut’ (2 vols., 1855); ‘Thomas à Becket, a Tragedy; and Other Poems’ (1866); and ‘Kinley Hollow’ (1882), a novel, published posthumously.