HOE, RICHARD MARCH American in ventor, was born in New York city on Sept. 12, 1812. He was the son of Robert Hoe (1784-1833), an English-born American mechanic, who with his brothers-in-law, Peter and Mathew Smith, established in New York city a manufactory of printing presses, and used steam to run his machinery. Richard became head of Robert Hoe and Company on his father's death. He had consid erable inventive genius and set himself to secure greater speed for printing presses. He discarded the old flat-bed model and placed the type on a revolving cylinder, a model later developed into the Hoe rotary or "lightning" press, patented in 1846, and further im proved under the name of the Hoe web perfecting press (see PRINTING). He died in Florence, Italy, on June 7, 1886.