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Harrington, Mark Walrod

educator, scientist, astronomer, author, was born Aug. 18, 1848, in Sycamore, Ill. He is a scientist and professor of astronomy in the university of Michigan. He is the author of The Analysis of Plants; and Identification of Crude Drugs.

HARRINGTON, SAMUEL MAXWELL, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 5, 1803, in Dover, Del. He was appointed secretary of state of Delaware in 1829, and again in 1830, and in the following year was selected to fill a vacancy on the bench of the state supreme court, and became its chief justice, holding the office until the court was united with the superior court.

In the latter he sat as associate justice until 1855, when he was again made chief justice. In 1857 he succeeded to the chancellorship, the highest judicial office in the state. He died Nov. 28, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa.