of the Welfs, now dukes of Brunswick. It joined the Hanseatic League, and was later the residence of the branch of the ducal house, which received the title of elector of Hanover and ascended the British throne in the person of George I. One or two important treaties were signed in Hanover, which from 1810 to 1813 was part of the kingdom of Westphalia, and in 1866 was annexed by Prussia, after having been the capital of the kingdom of Hanover since its foundation in 1815.
See O. Ulrich, Bilder aus Hannovers Vergangenheit (1891); Hoppe, Geschichte der Stadt Hannover (1845); Hirschfeld, Hannovers Grossindustrie und Grosshandel (Leipzig, 1891); Frensdorff, Die Stadtverfassung Hannovers in alter und neuer Zeit (Leipzig, 1883); W. Bahrdt, Geschichte der Reformation der Stadt Hannover (1891); Hartmann, Geschichte von Hannover mit besonderer Rücksichtnahme auf die Entwickelung der Residenzstadt Hannover (1886); Hannover und Umgegend, Entwickelung und Zustände seiner Industrie und Gewerbe (1874); and the Urkundenbuch der Stadt Hannover (1860, fol.).
HANOVER, a town of Jefferson county, Indiana, U.S.A.,
on the Ohio river, about 5 m. below Madison. Pop. (1900)
377; (1910) 356. It is served by boats on the Ohio river and
by stages to Madison, the nearest railway station. Along the
border of the town and on a bluff rising about 500 ft. above the
river is Hanover College, an institution under Presbyterian
control, embracing a college and a preparatory department, and
offering classical and scientific courses and instruction in music;
there is no charge for tuition. In 1908–1909 there were 211
students, 75 being in the Academy. The institution was opened
in a log cabin in 1827, was incorporated as Hanover Academy in
1828, was adopted as a synodical school by the Presbyterian
Synod of Indiana in 1829 on condition that a Theological department
be added, and in 1833 was incorporated under its present
name. In 1840, however, the theological department became a
separate institution and was removed to New Albany, whence
in 1859 it was removed to Chicago, where it was named, first,
the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the North-west, and,
in 1886, the McCormick Theological Seminary. In the years
immediately after its incorporation in 1833 Hanover College
introduced the “manual labor system” and was for a time
very prosperous, but the system was not a success, the college
ran into debt, and in 1843 the trustees attempted to surrender
the charter and to acquire the charter of a university at Madison.
This effort was opposed by a strong party, which secured a
more liberal charter for the college. In 1880 the college became
coeducational.
HANOVER, a township of Grafton county, New Hampshire, U.S.A., on the Connecticut river, 75 m. by rail N.W. of Concord.
Pop. (1900) 1884; (1910) 2075. No railway enters this township;
the Ledyard Free Bridge (the first free bridge across the
Connecticut) connects it with Norwich, Vt., which is served by
the Boston & Maine railway. Ranges of rugged hills, broken
by deep narrow gorges and by the wider valley of Mink Brook,
rise near the river and culminate in the E. section in Moose
Mountain, 2326 ft. above the sea. Near the foot of Moose
Mountain is the birthplace of Laura D. Bridgman. Agriculture,
dairying and lumbering are the chief pursuits of the inhabitants.
The village of Hanover, the principal settlement of the township,
occupies Hanover Plain in the S.W. corner, and is the seat of
Dartmouth College (q.v.), which has a strikingly beautiful campus,
and among its buildings several excellent examples of the
colonial style, notably Dartmouth Hall. The Mary Hitchcock
memorial hospital, a cottage hospital of 36 beds, was erected
in 1890–1893 by Hiram Hitchcock in memory of his wife. The
charter of the township was granted by Gov. Benning Wentworth
on the 4th of July 1761, and the first settlement was made
in May 1765. The records of the town meetings and selectmen,
1761–1818, have been published by E. P. Storrs (Hanover, 1905).
See Frederick Chase, A History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover (Cambridge, 1891).
HANOVER, a borough of York county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.,
36 m. S. by W. of Harrisburg, and 6 m. from the S. border of
the state. Pop. (1890) 3746; (1900) 5302, (133 foreign-born);
(1910) 7057. It is served by the Northern Central and the
Western Maryland railways. The borough is built on nearly
level ground in the fertile valley of the Conewago, at the point
of intersection of the turnpike roads leading to Baltimore, Carlisle,
York and Frederick, from which places the principal streets—sections
of these roads—are named. Among its manufactures
are foundry and machine-shop products, flour, silk, waggons,
shoes, gloves, furniture, wire cloth and cigars. The settlement
of the place was begun mostly by Germans during the middle
of the 18th century. Hanover was laid out in 1763 or 1764 by
Col. Richard MacAllister; and in 1815 it was incorporated.
On the 30th of June 1863 there was a cavalry engagement in
and near Hanover between the forces of Generals H. J. Kilpatrick
(Union) and J. E. B. Stuart (Confederate) preliminary to the
battle of Gettysburg. This engagement is commemorated by
an equestrian statue erected in Hanover by the state.
HANRIOT, FRANÇOIS (1761–1794), French revolutionist,
was born at Nanterre (Seine) of poor parentage. Having lost his
first employment—with a procureur—through dishonesty,
he obtained a clerkship in the Paris octroi in 1789, but was
dismissed for abandoning his post when the Parisians burned
the octroi barriers on the night of the 12th–13th of July 1789.
After leading a hand-to-mouth existence for some time, he became
one of the orators of the section of the sans-culottes, and commanded
the armed force of that section during the insurrection
on the 10th of August 1792 and the massacres of September. But
he did not come into prominence until the night of the 30th–31st
of May 1793, when he was provisionally appointed commandant-general
of the armed forces of Paris by the council general of
the Commune. On the 31st of May he was one of the delegates
from the Commune to the Convention demanding the dissolution
of the Commission of Twelve and the proscription of the
Girondists (q.v.), and he was in command of the insurrectionary
forces of the Commune during the émeute of the 2nd of June
(see French Revolution). On the 11th of June he resigned
his command, declaring that order had been restored. On the
13th he was impeached in the Convention; but the motion was
not carried, and on the 1st of July he was elected by the Commune
permanent commander of the armed forces of Paris. This
position, which gave him enormous power, he retained until
the revolution of the 9th Thermidor (July 27, 1794). His
arrest was decreed; but he had the générale sounded and the
tocsin rung, and tried to rescue Robespierre, who was under
arrest in the hall of the Comité de Sûreté Générale. Hanriot was
himself arrested, but was rescued by his adherents, and hastened
to the Hôtel de Ville. After a vain attempt to organize resistance
he fled and hid in a secluded yard, where he was discovered the
next day. He was arrested, sentenced to death, and guillotined
with Robespierre and his friends on the 10th Thermidor of the
year II. (the 28th of July 1794).
HANSARD, LUKE (1752–1828), English printer, was born on
the 5th of July 1752 in St Mary’s parish, Norwich. He was
educated at Boston grammar school, and was apprenticed to
Stephen White, a Norwich printer. As soon as his apprenticeship
had expired Hansard started for London with only a guinea in
his pocket, and became a compositor in the office of John Hughs
(1703–1771), printer to the House of Commons. In 1774 he was
made a partner, and undertook almost the entire conduct of the
business, which in 1800 came completely into his hands. On the
admission of his sons the firm became Luke Hansard & Sons.
Among those whose friendship Hansard won in the exercise
of his profession were Robert Orme, Burke and Dr Johnson;
while Porson praised him as the most accurate printer of Greek.
He printed the Journals of the House of Commons from 1774 till
his death. The promptitude and accuracy with which Hansard
printed parliamentary papers were often of the greatest service
to government—notably on one occasion when the proof-sheets
of the report of the Secret Committee on the French Revolution
were submitted to Pitt twenty-four hours after the draft had
left his hands. On the union with Ireland in 1801, the increase
of parliamentary printing compelled Hansard to give up all
private printing except when parliament was not sitting. He
devised numerous expedients for reducing the expense of publishing
the reports; and in 1805, when his workmen struck at a time
