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Harris, Benjamin W

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1823, in Bridgewater, Mass. He was a member of the state senate in 1857, and a representative in 1858. He was district attorney from 1858 to 1866; and was collector of internal revenue for the second district from 1866 until 1873, when he resigned. He was elected to the fortythird congress, and re-elected to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses.

Harris, Broughton Davis

journalist, capitalist, was born Aug. 16, 1822, in Chesterfield, N. H. In 1860-61 he was a member of the state senate; and a member of the celebrated peace congress in 1861.

Harris, Chapin A

dentist, author, was born in 1806, in Pompey, N. Y. He was a dentist of Baltimore, and founder of the Baltimore Dental college. He was the author of Principles of Dental Surgery; Characteristics of the Human Teeth; Diseases of the Maxillary Sinus; and Dictionary of Dental Science. He died in 1860, in Baltimore, Md.

Harris, Charles

soldier, physician, was born Nov. 23, 1762, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. He served as a private in the revolutionary war. He died Sept. 21, 1825, in Tavoni, N. C.

Harris, Charles M

lawyer, congressman, was born April 10, 1821, in Munfordsville, Ky. He was elected in 1862 a representative from Illinois to the thirty-eighth congress.

Harris, Edward

lawyer, jurist. He was one of the earliest members of the circuit court of the United States after its organization, and was appointed judge of the fifth circuit in 1802, by President Jefferson.

Harris, Edward Wright

lawyer, jurist, was born May 4, 1831, in Bradford, Vt. He has attained success in the profession of law at Port Huron, Mich.; has been city and county attorney; judge of probate; and circuit judge.

Harris, Elisha

governor. He was governor of Rhode Island for two years, beginning with the year 1847.

Harris, Elisha

physician, surgeon, inventor, author, was born March 4, 1834, in Westminster, Vt. During the civil war he was instrumental in the organization of the United States sanitary commission of New York city; and organized the first public vaccination service in that city.

The railway ambulance that has been adopted and used by the Prussian army was invented by him. He died Jan. 31, 1884, in Albany, N. Y.

Harris, G. L. D

educator, journalist, was born in 1854, in Clarke county, Va.

He has attained success in educational work in his native state; and is the editor of a monthly publication.

Harris, George

educator, clergyman, journalist, author, was born in April, 1844, in East Machias, Maine. He is a congregational clergyman of Massachusetts ; professor of Christian theology in Andover Theological seminary since 1883, and one of the editors of The Andover Review in 1884-93. He is the author of Hymns of the Faith; and Moral Evolution.

Harris, Hamilton

lawyer, legislator, was born May 1, 1820, in Preble, N.

Y. He was elected to the legislature in 1850, and was a member of the whig joint legislative committee of six that was appointed to frame the platform, and call state conventions, of what has since become the republican party.