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Harris, Joseph Smith

railroad president, was born April 29, 1836, in Chester county, Pa. Since 1893 he has been president of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad.

Harris, Robert

congressman, was born in Dauphin county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1823 to 1827.

Harris, Sampson W

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 23, 1809, in Elbert county, Ga. He served one term in the Georgia legislature. He moved to Alabama; and was there appointed prosecuting attorney for the state. In 1847 he was elected a representative in congress from Alabama, where he continued until his death. He died April 1, 1857, in Washington, D. C.

Harris, Samuel

clergyman, was born Jan. 12, 1724, in Hanover county, Va.

He was a colonel of the militia and a baptist divine, and was ordained an apostle by the general association, 1774. He was known as the apostle of Virginia. sor

Harris, Samuel

educator, clergyman, author, was born June 14, 1814, in East Machias, Maine. He is a congregational clergyman, and has been profesof systematic theology at Yale university since 1871.

He is the author of Zaccheus, or the Scriptural Plan of Benevolence; The Kingdom of Christ on Earth; The Philosophic Basis of Theism; The Self- Revelation of God; Christ's Prayer for the Death of His Redeemed; and God: Creator and Lord of All.

Harris, Samuel Arthur

banker, was born Oct. 25, 1847, in Goshen, Ind.

In 1887 he became president of the Northwestern National bank; and in 1891 became president of the National Bank of Commerce of Minneapolis, Minn.

Harris, Samuel Smith

bishop, author, was born Sept. 14, 1841, in Autauga county, Ala. He was the second protestant episcopal bishop of Michigan, and the author of The Dignity of Man; Christianity and Civil Society; Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality; and Shelton, a novel. He died Aug. 21, 1888, in London, England.

Harris, Thaddeus Mason

clergyman, author, was born July 7, 1768, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Dorchester from 1793 until his death, and the author of Discourses in Favor of Freemasonry; Journal of a Tour in the Northwest Territory; Memorials of the First Church at Dorchester; Biographical Memoirs of James Oglethorpe; and Natural History of the Bible. He died April 3, 1842, in Dorchester, Mass.

Harris, Thomas K

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1813 to 1815.

Harris, Thomas L

soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1816, in Norwich, Conn. In 1846 he raised and commanded a company, and joined the fourth regiment of Illinois volunteers, to serve in the war with Mexico. In 1846 he was elected a senator in the Illinois legislature; in 1848 was chosen a representative in congress; and was again elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth He died Nov. 24, 1858, in congresses.

Springfield, Ill.

Harris, Thomas Lake

philosopher, author, was born May 15, 1823, in England. He is a mystical philosopher who founded the Brotherhood of the New Life, which had its home at Salem-on-Erie, near Brocton, N. Y. He has since lived in California. Among his writings are included Epics of the Starry Heavens; Modern Spiritualism; Lyric of the Morning Land; Truth and Life in Jesus; The Millennium Age; Arcana of Christianity; and The Wisdom of the Adepts; and God's Breath in Man.

Harris, Thomas Mealey

soldier, physician, author, was born June 17, 1817, in Wood county, Va. He was promoted brigadier-general in 1865. He applied himself after the war to scientific farming; served a term in the legislature of West Virginia in 1867; was adjutant-general of the state in 1869-70; and was pension agent at Wheeling in 1871-77. He is the author of medical essays and of a tract entitled Calvinism Vindicated.