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Harrison, Richard – Harsh, Samuel David

Harrison, Richard

public official, was born in 1750. He was auditor of the United States for fifty-five years; and five years consul to Cadiz. He died July 10, 1841, in Washington.

Harrison, Richard A

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1827 in England. In 1857 he was elected to the Ohio house of representatives; and subsequently to the state senate. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-seventh congress.

Harrison, Robert Hanson

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1745, in Maryland. In 1775 he obtained the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and remained in the military family of the commanding general till the spring of 1781. He became chief justice of the general court of Maryland on March 10, 1781, but declined the appointment of judge of the United States supreme court in 1789. He died April 2, 1790, in Charles county, Md. was

Harrison, S. S

congressman, born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1833 to 1837.

Harrison, Sarah

Quaker preacher, was born about 1748, in Delaware county, Pa. She first preached in the Quaker meetings during the revolution, and was acknowledged a minister in 1781. She died Dec. 29, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Harrison, William

congressman.

He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1785 to 1787.

Harrison, William Pope

clergyman, author, was born in 1830, in Georgia.

He is a prominent clergyman of the methodist church, south, and the author of Theophilus Walton, a controversial work; Lights and Shadows of Forty Years; The Living Christ; The High Churchman Disarmed; Methodist Union; and The Gospel Among the Slaves.

Harrisse, Henri

bibliographer, author, was born in 1830, in France. He is a bibliographer of New York city, of French birth, but long a citizen of the United States. He is the author of Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima; Christophe Colombe; Jean et Sebastian Cabot; and The Discovery of North America.

Harrod, James

a Kentucky pioneer, was born in 1746 in Virginia. He built the first log cabin upon the present site of Harrodsburg; and was one of the most efficient of the early military leaders of Kentucky.

Harrow, William

soldier, was born about 1820, in Indiana. He was engaged, as colonel of the fourteenth Indiana infantry, at the battle of Antietam, where more than half of his regiment were killed or wounded. He was commissioned as brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, and resigned in 1865.

Harry, Matthew James

soldier, legislator, poet, was born Oct. 14, 1821, in Epping, N. H. He has served as a captain of a company of infantry in the fourth regiment of the old New Hampshire militia. He served with distinction in 1855- 56 as a member of the New Hampshire state legislature. He has contributed valuable articles to the agricultural press; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems.

Harsh, Samuel David

journalist, was born May 26, 1869, in Galesburg, Ill.

He received his education in the public schools of Creston, Iowa; and at the Lombard university of Galesburg, Ill. He took an active part in public affairs; was delegate and vice-president of Iowa of the national republican league. He was the brilliant editor of the Creston Daily Gazette; a man of high attainment; but died at an early age, on March 3, 1893.