Harris, Mark
state senator, congressman, was born in 1779, in Ipswich, Mass . He held the offices of county and state treasurer for twenty years; and was a state senator in 1816 and 1819. He was a state counselor in 1820; and served also in the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1822 to 1823, to fill a vacancy. He died March 2, 1843, in New York.
HARRIS, MRS. MIRIAM (COLES), author, was born July 5, 1834, in Dosoris, L. I. She is a novelist of New York city whose first story, Rutledge, was very popular.
Later works are: Richard Vandermarck; The Sutherlands; St. Philip's; Happy-Go-Lucky; Missy; Frank Warrington; A Perfect Adonis; Phœbe; An Utter Failure; Louie's Last Term at St.
Mary's; and The Rosary for Lent, a compilation.