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Harrison, George Leib

philanthropist, author, was born Oct. 28, 1811, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a philanthropist of Philadelphia, and the author of Chapters on Social Science; and Legislation on Insanity, a compilation of lunacy laws. He died Sept. 9, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Harrison, Gessner

educator, author, was born June 26, 1807, in Harrisonburg, Va. He was a once noted educator of Virginia, and the author of Exposition of Some Laws of Greek Grammar; and On Greek Prepositions. He died April 7, 1862, in Charlottesville, Va.

Harrison, Hall

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 11, 1837, in Anne, Md. He is an episcopal clergyman and educator.

From 1865 to 1879 he was a master in St.

Paul's school at Concord, and since the latter date rector of St. John's church at Ellicott City, Md. He is the author of Life of Hugh Davy Evans; and Life of Bishop Kerfoot.

Harrison, Henry B

lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Sept. 11, 1821, in New Haven, Conn. He was a member of the state senate of Connecticut in 1854; was a representative in the legislature of Connecticut in 1865, 1873, and 1884; and in the latter year was speaker of the house. He was elected governor of Connecticut for the term of two years from January, 1885.

Harrison, Horace H

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1829, in Wilson county, Tenn. He was elected clerk of the state senate in 1851. He was appointed United States district attorney for Middle Tennessee in 1863; and was elected chancellor in the Nashville chancery division in 1866. He was appointed judge of the supreme court of Tennessee in 1867; and was again appointed United States district attorney in 1872. He was elected to the forty-third congress as a republican.

Harrison, James Albert

educator, author, was born Aug. 21, 1848, in Pass Christian, Miss. He is an educator in Virginia, and since 1876 a professor of languages at Washington and Lee university. He is the author of Greek Vignettes; Spain in Profile; The Rhine; French Syntax; The History of Spain; The Story of Greece; Autrefois, Tales of Old New Orleans and Elsewhere; A Group of Poets and Their Haunts; Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry; and Exodus and Daniel.

Harrison, James Thomas

lawyer, was born Nov. 30, 1811, near Pendleton, S.

C. In 1861 he was a delegate to the convention of southern states in Montgomery, and served also in the confederate congress during the entire period of its existence. He died May 22, 1879, in Columbus, Miss.

Harrison, John Hoffman

physician, surgeon, journalist, author, was born Aug. 30, 1808, in Washington, D. C.

In 1845 he established the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, which he edited four years. He published an Essay toward a Correct Theory of the Nervous System, and contributed important articles to medical journals. He died March 19, 1849, in New Orleans.

Harrison, John Scott

congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1804, in Vincennes, Ind. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1857. He died May 26, 1878, in North Bend, Ohio.

HARRISON, JONATHAN BAXTER, clergyman, author, was born in 1835, in Ohio. He is a unitarian clergyman of New Hampshire, and the author of Certain Dangerous Tendencies in American Life; and The Latest Studies on Indian Reservations.

Harrison, Joseph

engineer, inventor, author, poet, was born Sept. 20, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia engineer and inventor, and from 1843-52 was employed in locomotive construction by the Russian government. He was the author of Essay on the Steam Boiler; The Locomotive Engine and Philadelphia's Share in its Early Improvements; and The Iron Worker and King Solomon, a poem. He died March 27, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pa.