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Harrison, Charles James

soldier, banker, was born Aug. 4, 1841, in Wheeling, W. Va. During the war he served over three years as captain of company I, sixth regiment West Virginia volunteer infantry; and was the youngest captain in command of a company from West Virginia during the war. For thirteen years he was president of a private bank; and since 1890 has been president of the Somerset County National bank of Somerset, Pa., in which city he is prominently identified with its financial and public affairs.

HARRISON, MRS. CONSTANCE (CA- RY), author, was born about 1835, in Vancluse, Va. She is a novelist and miscellaneous writer of New York city, and the author of Story of Helen Troy; Woman's Handiwork in Modern Homes; An Edelweiss of the Sierras, and Other Tales; Bar Harbor Days; The Old-Fashioned Fairy Books; Books; Folk and Fairy Tales; Anglomania; An Errant Wooing; A Virginia Cousin; Bric-a-Brac Stories; A Bachelor Maid; Sweet Bells Out of Tune; Crow's Nest and Belhaven Tales; and Externals of Modern New York.