Humes

tablishment of salmon hatcheries. He never
sought public office, was a member of no church
nor secret society. In 1876 he was married to
Emma Lord of San Francisco.

[J. N. Cobb, Pacific Salmon Fisheries (1917) ; R, D.
Hume, "The First Salmon Cannery," Pacific Fisher-
man, Jan. 1904; Portland Oregonian, Mar. 10, 1868,
July 16, 1874, Aug. i, Sept. 8, 1881, July 31, 1883,
June 29, 1902; Fishing Gasette, July 5, ipoa.J

R.C.C-4C.

HUMES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Apr. 22,
i8is-jan. 16, 1892), Protestant Episcopal cler-
gyman, was the first president of the University
of Tennessee. His father was Thomas Humes,
merchant, native of Armagh, Ireland, and his
mother was Margaret (Russell), widow of James
Cowan. Born in Knoxville, Tenn., he graduated
from the local East Tennessee College at the age
of fifteen and three years later received the mas-
ter's degree from that institution. Having al-
ready made some study of theology, in 1833 he
spent a few months in Princeton Theological
Seminary only to find that he could not subscribe
to the Westminster Confession of Faith. He re-
turned to Knoxville, became a merchant, and on
Dec. 4, 1834, married Cornelia Williams. Since
mercantile pursuits did not appeal to him, he next
tried journalism, in 1839 as editor of the Knox-
iMe Times and in 1840, of the Knoxville Regis-
ter and of a Whig campaign paper, the Watch
Tower. An unsuccessful candidate for the state
legislature in 1841, he turned again to the min-
istry, was ordained deacon in March 1845 and
presbyter in July, and in 1846 became rector of
St. John's Episcopal Church in Knoxville. On
Apr. 12,1849, his first wife having died, he mar-
ried Anna B. Williams, a school-teacher from
New Hartford, Conn. During the Civil War he
was a Unionist in his sympathies, and when Ten-
nessee seceded, he resigned his pulpit; but in
1863, after Knoxville had been occupied by Fed-
eral troops, he resumed it and continued in it for
six years more. During and just after the war,
he was chairman of the executive committee of
the East Tennessee Relief Association, an or-
ganization for the distribution of the necessities
of life to distressed Unionists of eastern Ten-
nessee. War had brought distress also to his
alma mater, by then in name East Tennessee
University though in reality still a small classical
college, and it had closed its doors. In 1865
Humes accepted the presidency of this institu-
tion and in the following1 year was able to reopen
it. As clergyman and as educator, he was well-
bred, cultured, public-spirited, with a strong
sense of duty, frequently called upon for public
addresses. In his theological and educational
views he was dogmatically conservative: modem

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science did not attract him; evolutionary philoso-
phy he rejected; his faith was in the older clas-
sical education. Yet during his administration
foundations were laid for a broadening of the
work of his institution. In 1869 the legislature
granted to it the state's proceeds from the Mer-
rill Act for the development of colleges of agri-
culture and mechanic arts, and converted it,
though still largely in name only, into the Uni-
versity of Tennessee. In 1883 Humes resigned
the presidency. By 1888 he had written and pub-
lished a not unbiased volume, The Loyal Moun-
taineers of Tennessee. The last six years of his
life he served as librarian of the Lawson-McGhee
Library of Knoxville.

[Genealogical notes in McClmig Collection, Knox-
ville; T. C Karns, "President Thomas W. Humes," in
Unizv of Tenn. Record, July 1898; lengthy obituary in
Knoxville Journalt Jan. 17, 1892.] P.M H

HUMISTON, WILLIAM HENRY (Apr. 27,
l869-Dec. 5, 1923), musician, critic, composer,
was born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio,
the son of Henry Humiston and Margaret Voris.
While he was still a boy his parents moved to
Chicago and he passed in succession through the
Chicago High School and the Lake Forest Col-
lege, where in 1891 he received the degree of
A.B. From boyhood he had shown a talent for
music, and while at college he had begun the
more serious cultivation of his art, studying the
piano with W. S, B, Mathews, and the organ
with Clarence Eddy until 1894, He then went to
New York and continued his study of the piano
with R. Huntington Woodman. In 1896, when
the department of music was created at Colum-
bia University, he studied composition with Ed-
ward MacDowell. During his study years and
later he held a number of organ positions and
was successively organist at the Lake Forest
Presbyterian Church, 1889-91, 1893-94; First
Congregational Church, Chicago, 1891-93; Trin-
ity Congregational Church, East Orange, N. J.»
1896-1906; and the Presbyterian Church at Rye,
N. Y., 1906-09, By temperament and inclina-
tion, however, he was drawn to a field less re-
stricted in its musical activities than that of
sacred music. From 1909 to 1912 he gained ex-
perience as a conductor of road companies giv-
ing both grand and comic opera. After 1913 he
became definitely associated with the musical life
of New York City. His reputation as an ath
thority on the music of Bach, Wagner, and Mac-
Dowell was already established. In 1912 he
became program annotator of the New York
Philharmonic Society, st*cceeding 1L E. Kreh-
biel, and in 1914 he contacted what was probably
the first American performance of Mozart's oper-

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