Harris, Samuel Smith – Harrison, Benjamin
Harris, Samuel Smith
bishop, author, was born Sept. 14, 1841, in Autauga county, Ala. He was the second protestant episcopal bishop of Michigan, and the author of The Dignity of Man; Christianity and Civil Society; Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality; and Shelton, a novel. He died Aug. 21, 1888, in London, England.
Harris, Shorland
physician, author, poet. He graduated in medicine from the Exeter college of England, and also from a Philadelphia medical college. He is a great linguist, and has devoted much time to science, and has made important discoveries in the vast field of chemistry in relation to the atomic affinity of matter. He is the author of Professional and Trade Secrets; and has contributed valuable papers to medical literature. As a poet, he is also well known; many of his productions having been incorporated in various standard works.
Harris, Stephen R
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born May 22, 1824, seven miles west of Massillon, Ohio. He served as deputy United States marshal and member of the county military committee during the civil war. He was an active member of the Ohio State Bar association from its organization, serving most of the time and at present as chairman of the committee on legal biography, and was president of the association for the year ending July 20, 1894. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Harris, Thaddeus Mason
clergyman, author, was born July 7, 1768, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Dorchester from 1793 until his death, and the author of Discourses in Favor of Freemasonry; Journal of a Tour in the Northwest Territory; Memorials of the First Church at Dorchester; Biographical Memoirs of James Oglethorpe; and Natural History of the Bible. He died April 3, 1842, in Dorchester, Mass.
Harris, Thaddeus William
entomologist, physician, author, was born Nov. 12, 1795, in Dorchester, Mass. He was an entomologist and physician who was librarian of Harvard university from 1831. He published Systematic Catalogue of the Insects of Massachusetts, and a valuable work on Insects Injurious to Vegetation. He died Jan. 16, 1856, in Cambridge, Mass.
Harris, Thomas Cadwalader
naval officer, was born Nov. 18, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1841, became lieutenant in 1855, lieutenant-commander in 1862, commander in 1866, and captain in 1872. He died Jan. 24, 1875, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Harris, Thomas K
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1813 to 1815.
Harris, Thomas L
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1816, in Norwich, Conn. In 1846 he raised and commanded a company, and joined the fourth regiment of Illinois volunteers, to serve in the war with Mexico. In 1846 he was elected a senator in the Illinois legislature; in 1848 was chosen a representative in congress; and was again elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth He died Nov. 24, 1858, in congresses.
Springfield, Ill.
Harris, Thomas Lake
philosopher, author, was born May 15, 1823, in England. He is a mystical philosopher who founded the Brotherhood of the New Life, which had its home at Salem-on-Erie, near Brocton, N. Y. He has since lived in California. Among his writings are included Epics of the Starry Heavens; Modern Spiritualism; Lyric of the Morning Land; Truth and Life in Jesus; The Millennium Age; Arcana of Christianity; and The Wisdom of the Adepts; and God's Breath in Man.
Harris, Thomas Mealey
soldier, physician, author, was born June 17, 1817, in Wood county, Va. He was promoted brigadier-general in 1865. He applied himself after the war to scientific farming; served a term in the legislature of West Virginia in 1867; was adjutant-general of the state in 1869-70; and was pension agent at Wheeling in 1871-77. He is the author of medical essays and of a tract entitled Calvinism Vindicated.
Harris, W. John
physician, author, was born June 17, 1852, in England. He has conducted a large practice in St.
Louis, and is also surgeon of the Good Samaritan hospital. He is the author of Alcohol, its Rational Use: The Use of Anæsthetics; and The Hygiene of Consumption.
Harris, Wiley P
soldier, congressman, was born in Mississippi. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855. He took part in the rebellion.
Harris, William
educator, clergyman, college president, was born April 29, 1765, in Springfield, Mass. He established several classical schools in Massachusetts and New York; and in 1811 became president of Columbia university. He died Oct. 18, 1829, in New York city. now a
Harris, William
educator, farmer, jurist, legislator, was born in 1832, in Burnt Hills, N. Y. Since 1836 he has lived in Michigan; taught school several terms, and is successful farmer, real estate dealer and financier of Norwood, Mich.
He has held numerous public offices of honor; has been register of deeds; judge of probate court; and school exami- He served as a member of the Michigan state legislature in 1889-90, 1895-96, and in 1897-98; and has served on numerous important committees. ner.
Harris, William A
journalist, congressman, was born Aug. 8, 1805, in Fauquier county, Va. He was twice elected to the legislature of Virginia; and was a presidential elector in 1841. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1841 to 1843. In 1845 he was appointed by President Polk charge d'afaires to Buenos Ayres, where he remained until 1851. He became the editor and proprietor of the Washington Union, which continued in his possession until he was elected printer to the United States senate, which office he held for two years. He died March 28, 1864, in Pike county, Mo.
Harris, William A
farmer, soldier, civil engineer, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 29, 1841, in Loudoun county, Va. He served three years in the confederate army as assistant adjutant-general of Wilcox's brigade and ordnance officer of D. H. Hill's and Rode's division, army of northern Virginia. He moved to Kansas in 1865 and was employed as civil engineer in the construction of the Union Pacific railroad, Kansas division, for three years. He was elected to the fifty-third congress, at large, as a populist, and indorsed by the democrats.
He was elected to the United States senate as a populist.
Harris, William Anderson
educator, college president, was born July 16, 1827, in Augusta county, Va. In 1866 he became president of the Wesleyan Female college of Staunton, Va.
Harris, William D
banker, legislator, was born March 7, 1863, in Wilton, Iowa. He is president of the Bank of Sharon Springs, Kan., and in 1892 was elected a member of the Kansas state legislature.
Harris, William Logan
educator, bishop, author, was born Nov. 4, 1817, near Mansfield, Ohio. He was a methodist bishop of prominence as educator and missionary, and the author of The Powers of the General Conference; Ecclesiastical Law; and Relation of Episcopacy to the General Conference. He died Sept. 2, 1887, in New York city.
Harris, William Thaddeus
lawyer, journalist, was born Jan. 25, 1826, in Milton, Mass. He edited, for the Massachusetts Historical society, Hubbard's History of New England, with new and important notes; the third volume of the Historical and Genealogical Register; and published Epitaphs from the Old Burying- Ground at Cambridge. He died Oct. 19, 1854, in Cambridge, Mass.
Harris, William Torrey
educator, philosopher, journalist, author, was born Sept. 10, 1835, in North Killingly, Conn. He is a speculative philosopher and educator of Washington City, a translator of Hegel, and editor of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Since 1889 he has been United States commissioner of education. He is the author of The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia; Method of Study of Social Science; How to Teach Social Science; Hegel's Logic, a critical exposition; and Introduction to the Study of Philosophy.
Harrison, Albert G
lawyer, congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a lawyer by profession; and was a member of congress from Missouri from 1835 to 1839. He died Sept. 7, 1839, in Fulton, Mo.
Harrison, Anna Symmes
president's wife, was born July 25, 1775, in Morristown, N. H. She was generous and benevolent, an extensive reader, and during all her life took a deep interest in public affairs. She died Feb. 25, 1864. a
Harrison, Benjamin
twenty-taird president of the United States, was born Aug. 20, 1833, at North Bend, Ohio. He is grandson of William Henry Harrison. He graduated at Miami university, Ohio, in 1852, and studied law in Cincinnati.
Caroline Married Lavina Scott; was admitted to the bar and removed to Indianapolis, where he began the practice of law.
He was appointed crier of the federal court, and in 1860 was elected supreme court reporter. In 1861 he raised a regiment and Governor Morton commissioned him as its colonel. He remained in the army until the close of the war, having been promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. In 1880 he was elected United States senator, took the office March 4, 1881, and served six years.
The republican national convention met at Chicago June 19, 1888. On the first ballot the vote cast gave John Sherman, Ohio, 229; Walter Q. Gresham, Illinois, 111; Chauncey M. Depew, New York, 99; Russell A. Alger, Michigan, 84; Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 80; William B. Allison, Iowa, 72; James G. Blaine, Maine, 35; John J. Ingalls, Kansas, 28; Jeremiah M. Rusk, Wisconsin, 25; William Walter Phelps, New Jersey, 25; Edwin H. Fitler, Pennsylvania, 24; Joseph R. Hawley, Connecticut, 13; Robert T. Lincoln, Illinois, 3, and William McKinley, Ohio, 2. General Harrison was nominated on the eighth ballot, receiving 554 votes to 118 for Sherman, 100 for Alger, 59 for Gresham, 5 for Blaine and 4 for McKinley. It was made unanimous. Levi Parsons Morton, of New York, was nominated for vice-president on the first ballot, which stood: Morton, 561; William Walter Phelps, 119; William O. Bradley, Kentucky, 93, and Blanche K. Bruce, Mississippi, 11. Harrison and Morton were elected in November and inaugurated March 4, 1889. The tenth republican national convention met at Minneapolis June 7, 1892. President Harrison was renominated on the first ballot by the following vote: Harrison, 535; James G. Blaine, 182; William McKinley, 182; Thomas Brackett Reed, 4, and Robert T.
Lincoln, 1. Whitelaw Reid, of New York, was unanimously nominated for vicepresident. They were beaten at the ensuing election. At the close of his term, March 4, 1893, Mr. Harrison returned to the practice of law at his home in Indianapolis.