Hume

at various times as principal of the Ahmednagar
high school, opened in 1882, and the Ahmednagar
girls* school; as secretary of the Bombay branch
of the British and Foreign Bible Society; as
English editor of the Dnyanodaya, an Anglo-
Marathi periodical; and he was for a time a
member of the Ahmednagar Municipality, and
was chosen a delegate to the unofficial Indian
National Congress of 1907. In 1901 he received
the Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal from the British
government in recognition of his services as ad-
ministrator of funds sent from America in re-
lief of the famine of 1897-1900. He was presi-
dent of the All-India Christian Endeavor Union
for the year 1902-03, president in 1914 of the
Christian Endeavor Union of the Bombay Presi-
dency, and president in 1916 of the Bombay Rep-
resentative Council of Missions. He served by
appointment of the Governor of Bombay on the
Presidency Committee on Problems of Religious
Mendicancy, and was the only American called
to testify before the Montague-Chelmsford com-
mission on reform in Indian government In
1925 he was chosen the first moderator of the
United Church of Northern India, and in 1927
represented the United Church at the World
Conference on Faith and Order, held in Lau-
sanne, Switzerland.

During his periods of furlough in America, he
engaged in various activities, Including instruc-
tion during 1904-05 in Andover Theological
Seminary and the publication of the substance
of his course as Missions from the Modern View
(1905) ; the delivery of lectures at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, Oberlin College, Union Semi-
nary, and elsewhere, and their publication as
An Interpretation of India's Religious History
(1911). In 1919-20 he acted as a professor
in the Kennedy School of Missions, Hartford,
Conn., and served as vice-moderator of the Na-
tional Council of Congregational Churches. A
prolific writer, in addition to the works already
cited he was the author of many translations,
articles and pamphlets, including a Marathi
version of Ecclesiastical Polity of the New Tes-
tament, Christianity Tested by Reason (Bom-
bay* iS93), A High Emprise (Calcutta, 1916),
and an autobiography, "Hume of Ahmednagar"
(In the Congregationalist, Boston, 1921$.). Hi$
articles appeared frequently in such periodicals
as the Missionary Herald, the Indian Review,.
the Modem Review, the Indian Interpreter,
Yemg Men of India, and the Missionary Review
of the World.

Hume was twice married. His first wife died
at Psuachgaxsj, India, July 25, 1881. Two sons
net two datagfeters were born of this union. On

Hume

Sept. 7, 1887, he was married in Ahmednagar to
Katie Fairbank, a missionary in Ahmednagar
since 1882, and the daughter of the Rev. Samuel
Bacon Fairbank of the Marathi Mission. Three
sons and one daughter were born to them. He
spent his last days, after retirement from the
India service in 1926, at Auburndale, Mass., and
died in Brookline, Mass. His body was cre-
mated at his own request, and his ashes lie in
Ahmednagar in the Memorial Church which
bears his name.

[Information regarding Hume may be found in the
files of the Missionary Heraldf 1874-1929, and especial-
ly in the issue of Feb. 1925; see also the Missionary
Rev. of the World, Nov. 1929; Boston Transcript, June
29, 1929; Yale Obit. Record (1929); Who's Who in
America, 1928-29.] J.C.A.

HUME, WILLIAM (Nov. 19, iSao-June 25,
1902), a pioneer in the salmon industry, was
born in Waterville, Me., the son of William and
Harriett (Hunter) Hume. His grandfather, of
Scotch descent, and his father were fishermen.
As a youth he spent little time in school, and
when he was twenty-two years of age he went
to California. There he fished and hunted for a
living along the Sacramento River. In 1856 he
went back to Maine and returned to California
that same year with his two brothers, John and
George W. Hume. The latter had a friend in
Maine, Andrew S. Hapgood, who had learned
the tinsmith trade and had done a little canning
of lobster meat. He was persuaded to come to
California and in 1864 the canning firm of Hap-
good, Hume & Company was established on the
Sacramento River at Washington, Yolo County.
The cannery was a crude affair and William
Hume peddled the first cans of fish from door to
door, carrying them about in a basket. Finding
the run of fish in the Sacramento rather disap-
pointing, Hume did some prospecting on the
Columbia River in 1865, and the following year
a cannery was built at Eagle Cliff, Wash., the
first on the Columbia. Here the Royal Chinook
salmon, cooked in the cans, was packed. During
its opening season the firm put up 4,000 cases,
each containing four dozen one-pound cans, and
the next season 18,000. The most of the early
product was sold in Australia. The industry
grew rapidly and in 1881 had become the most
extensive in the Northwest, with the exception
of wheat raising. Of the thirty-five canneries on
the Columbia at that time more than half had
been established by the Hume brothers. When
the industry reached its height in 1883, William
Hume's interest in it was larger than that of any
other individual. It absorbed his interest until
his death. He was conservative in business, in-
troduced no new machinery, and opposed the es-

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