HOOD, EDWIN PAXTON: English Congrega tionalist; b. in London Oct. 24, 1820; d. in Paris June 12, 1885. He received only a meager education, but at the age of twenty began to lecture on peace and temperance, and in 1852 entered the ministry of his denomination. He held pastorates at North Nibley, Gloucestershire (1852--57), Offord Road, Islington (1857-62), Brighton (1862-73), Cavendish Street, Manchester (187380), and Falcon Square, London (1880,85). He took an active part in the welfare of the Royal Hospital for Incurables, for which he raised large funds. In addition to editing The Eclectic and Congregational Review, The Preacher's Lantern, and The Argonaut for several years, he wrote many books, among which special mention may be made of The Age and Its Archi tects: Ten Chapters on the English People in Relation to the Times (London, 1850); Self-Education (1851); John Milton, Patriot and Poet (1852); Common sense Arguments (1852); Swedenborg: A Biography and an Exposition (1854); An Earnest Ministry: Record of the Life aced Writings of B. Parsons (1856); Lamps, Pitchers, and Trumpets (1867); The World of Moral and Religious Anecdote (1870); Thomas Binney, his Mind, Life, and Opinions (1874); Isaac Watts, his Life and Writings, his Homes and Friends (1875); Thomas Carlyle, Philosophic Thinker, Theo logian, Historian, and Poet (1875); Robert Raikes of Gloucester (1880); Vignettes of the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Centu (1880); Christmas Evens, the Preacher of Wild ales (1881); Robert Hall (1881); Oliver Cromwell, his Life, Times, Battlefields and Contemporaries (1882); The Throne of Eloquence: Great Preachers Ancient and Modern (1885); and the Vocation of the Preacher (1886).

Bibliography: G. H. Giddings, E. P. Hood, Poet and Preacher, London, 1887.

HOOD, JAMES WALKER: African Methodist Episcopal bishop; b. in Kennett Township, Pa., May 30, 1831. He received but a meager education in school, entered the ministry in 1858, and was made a deacon in 1860 and ordained elder in 1862. In 1860 he was sent by the New England Conference to Nova Scotia as a missionary among the negroes in that province, and remained three years. After a brief service in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1863, he was sent as the first negro missionary to the North Carolina freedmen, being stationed within the lines of the Union Army. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of North Carolina in 1868, and assistant superintendent of public instruction from that year until 1871. In the following year he was elected bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and is now senior bishop of his denomination. He has written The Negro in the American Pulpit (Raleigh, N. C:, 1884); One Hundred Years of the Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (New York, 1895); and The Plan of the Apocalypse (York, Pa., 1900).