Hyrne

with the Georgetown institution to become pres-
ident and professor of physics at Southern Meth-
odist University, founded at Dallas in April 1911
by five Texas Conferences, and made the "con-
nectional" university of the Church west of the
Mississippi three years later. Hyer planned the
campus, determined the architectural design, su-
pervised the erection of the first five buildings,
and obtained an endowment of about $300,000.
The initial enrolment of the university (1915-
16) was 706, and when Hyer became president
emeritus, in February 1920, the enrolment had
grown to 1,118. He retained his professorship
until his death and during these years began ex-
periments to determine the location and charac-
ter of petroleum deposits by the use of electrical
instruments. He was twice married: in 1881
to Madge Jordan, of Savannah, Ga., who died
in 1883; and in 1887 to Margaret Lee Hudgins,
of Georgetown. His air of innate distinction
was heightened by his reserve and dignity. He
was primarily a student, and although he was
for twenty-three years a college president, he re-
garded administrative functions as secondary to
the calling of a teacher. He was a charming
conversationalist, a delightful essayist, and a
singularly effective public speaker. His chief
relaxations were gardening and wood-carving.
In addition to miscellaneous contributions, he
published papers in the Transactions of the
Texas Academy of Science and in the Methodist
Quarterly Review. He was a delegate to the
Ecumenical Conference at London (1902) and
Toronto (1912), and represented the Methodist
Church, South, on the Joint Commission on Uni-
fication. He was a man of quiet, unostentatious
piety, and for many years a critical student of
the Bible.

[Who's Who in America, 1906-07, 1926-27; A. F.
Henning, "The Story of Southern Meth. Univ.," in
manuscript; catalogues of Southwestern Univ., 1882-
1911; Southern Meth. Univ. Bulletin, I (1915), 3-8,
V (1920), 168, X (1923), 131, XVI (1931), 8; M. E.
Ch, South, Minutes of the North Tex. Conference, 1864,
1896; Dallas Morning News, Houston Post-Dispatch,
May 30, 1929; information as to certain facts from
Hyer's family and friends.] H. P. G.

HYRNE, EDMUND MASSINGBERD

(Jan. 14, 1748-Dec. 1783), soldier, was of Eng-
lish ancestry, the son of Col. Henry Hyrne and
the grandson of Edward Hyrne who emigrated
to America and settled in that section of South
Carolina later known as the Parish of St James.
Captain in the 1st South Carolina Continental
Regiment in 1775, he was promoted to the rank
of major in 1779 and served as deputy adjutant-
general of the Southern Department from 1778
to the end of the Revolution, He was wounded
m fee engagement ae.ar Gibtes's Farm, Mar. 30,

Hyslop

1780, which was connected with the siege of
Charleston. For his valuable service and cour-
ageous conduct during the Battle of Eutaw
Springs, S. C., he received the thanks of Con-
gress through Maj.-Gen. Nathanael Greene.
After the Battle of Cowpens, Jan. 17, 1781, he
marched six hundred British prisoners to the
prison camp at Charlottesville, Va. He was aide-
de-camp to Greene in 1781-82 and rendered no-
table service as liaison officer between him and
Gen. Thomas Sumter during the campaigns of
1781 in South Carolina, though his efforts to in-
duce the latter to cooperate more fully were not
entirely successful. In the exchange of prison-
ers, in the Southern Department, at the end of
the war, Hyrne served as American commissary
and met at Charleston the British commissary,
Major Fraser. Regarding his fitness for the po-
sition it has been said: "A man better qualified
for so important a commission, could not have
been selected. He was liberal hi all his ideas;
and where reason would justify concession, will-
ing to yield and conciliate; but against the en-
croachments of arrogance and injustice, firm as
adamant" (McCrady, The History of South Car-
olina in the Revolution, 1780-83, p. 362). Soon
after his military services had ended he was
elected a member of the Assembly known as the
Jacksonborough legislature, which met Jan. 18,
1782, at Jacksonborough, about thirty-five miles
from Charleston. He died in the winter of 1783
on his plantation, "Ormsby," in St. Bartholo-
mew's Parish. He seems to have left no children.

[S. C. Hist, and Geneal. Mag., Oct. 1921; Edward
McCrady, The Hist, of S. C. in the Revolution, 1775-
80 (1901), 1780-83 (1902) ; Alexander Garden, Anec-
dotes of the Revolutionary War in America (1822);
Mag. of Hist, with Notes and Queries, vol. XXXV,
No. 3 (1928), Extra No., No. 139.] P.S.F.

HYSLOP, JAMES HERVEY (Aug. 18,
i854-June 17, 1920), philosopher, psychologist,
was born at Xenia, Ohio. He was the survivor
of twins and one of a family of ten children. His
father, Robert, was born at Xenia and became a
farmer there. His mother was Martha Ann
(Boyle) Hyslop, daughter of James Boyle. The
first eighteen years of James's life were spent on
his father's farm and in the public schools of
Xenia. His parents were "Associate Presbyter-
ians" who observed a very strict and strenuous
religious regime. When James was ten years
old he was deeply impressed by the deaths of a
brother and a sister and by a warning of tuber-
culosis. These events, coupled with the intense
religious atmosphere of his home, gave him per-
manently what he himself called his "serious
half-melancholy disposition." At the age of
twenty he went to a Reformed Presbyterian

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