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Hartzell, J. Hazard – Harvey, William Hope

Hartzell, J. Hazard

clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1830, in Pennsylvania. He was an episcopal clergyman of Waverly, N. Y., but prior to 1881 a noted clergyman in the universalist faith, for fourteen years a pastor in Buffalo.

He was the author of Wanderings on Parnassus, a collection of verse; and Application and Achievement. He died in 1890.

Hartzell, William

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1837, in Stark county, Ohio. He was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress from Illinois; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Harvard, John

clergyman, founder of Harvard college, was born Sept. 2, 1608, in England. At his death he left a legacy of four thousand dollars to endow a school at Cambridge, and is thus memorable as the founder of the university of Harvard college, which is not controlled by any religious denomination. He died Sept. 14, 1638, in Charlestown, Mass.

Harvey, C. C

railroad president, was born in 1846, in Newfoundland. Since 1894 he has been the president of the New Orleans and North Eastern railroad; Alabama and Vicksburg railway; and Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific railroad.

Harvey, David A

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 20, 1845, in Nova Scotia. He served throughout the war in company B, fourth Ohio cavalry. He removed to Topeka, Kan., in 1869, where he served four years as city attorney, and six years as probate judge. He was elected delegate from Oklahoma to the fifty-second congress as a republican.

Harvey, Dwight B

clergyman, educator, was born June 4, 1834, in Martinsburg, Ohio. Since 1882 he has been president of the Granville Female college, which was founded in 1827, and is thus the pioneer girls' school of the higher type in the west.

Harvey, James C

author, poet, was born in Danbury, Conn. He is a wellknown journalist of New York city; and the author of a volume of poems entitled Lines and Rhymes.

Harvey, John

was made governor of Virginia in 1630. He served for nearly ten years, and was one of the most unpopular of the colonial governors.

Harvey, Jonathan

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1780, in Merrimack county, N. H. He served seven years in the two houses of the state legislature; was president of the senate from 1817 to 1823; and was a state counselor from 1823 to 1825. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1825 to 1831. He died Aug. 23, 1850, in Sutton, N. H.

Harvey, Louis Powell

educator, journalist, governor, was born July 22, 1820, in East Haddam, Conn. He was a member of the first state constitutional convention of Wisconsin; was in the state senate from 1855 to 1857; and was chosen secretary of state soon afterward. He was elected governor of Wisconsin in 1861. He died April 19, 1862.

Harvey, Peter

merchant, state legislator, author, was born July 10, 1810, in Barnet, Vt.

He was treasurer of the Rutland railroad, and president of the Kilby bank. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature. He was the author of Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster. He died June 27, 1877, in Boston, Mass.

Harvey, William Hope

author, was born in 1851, in West Virginia. He is a writer on financial topics whose theories regarding unlimited coinage of silver have been popular with superficial thinkers. He is the author of Coin's Financial School; and A Tale of Two Nations, a financial novel.

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