Harrison, Carter B – Harrison, Richard A
Harrison, Carter B
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1793 to 1799.
Harrison, Carter Henry
lawyer, mayor of Chicago, congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1825, in Fayette county, Ky. He was a democrat and mayor of Chicago for eight years, from 1879 to 1887, and again in 1893. He represented Cook county for two terms in congress, and was a candidate for governor of Illinois in 1884. He bought The Chicago Times and owned it at the time of his death. He was assassinated by an anarchist, and died Oct. 28, 1893, in Chicago, Ill.
Harrison, Caskie
educator, physician, author, was born Oct. 24, 1848, in Richmond, Va. In 1883 he established the Brooklyn Latin school. He is the author of Odes of Horace, in English verse, which was much praised by Longfellow; and his Notes on the New Edition of Goodwin's Greek Moods and Tenses has attracted considerable attention in the educational world.
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.
Harrison, Gabriel
educator, dramatist, author, was born March 25, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Brooklyn dramatist and instructor in elocution, and the author of Life of John Howard Payne; The Stratford Bust, a Critical Inquiry as to its Authenticity; Melanthia; and Dartmore, are among his writings.
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, George P
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 19, 1841, near Savannah, Ga. He entered the confederate army as second lieutenant of the first Georgia regulars, and was promoted to brigadiergeneral. He removed to Alabama in 1865; was elected commandant of cadets at university of Alabama, but declined; and was subsequently elected to the same position at the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Alabama, and served one year. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Alabama in 1875; was elected state senator in 1876; and re-elected in 1880. He was president of the state senate from 1882 to 1884; and was a delegate to the national democratic convention held in Chicago in 1892. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.
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.
Harrison, Miles W
educator, was born June 6, 1855, in La Grange, Ohio. In 1879 he graduated from the Oberlin college; and has ever since been engaged in educational work. He was principal of the high schools of Auburn, Ind.; and subsequently superintendent of city schools in that city. Since 1886 he has been superintendent of city schools in Wabash, Ind.; and is considered one of the foremost educators of that state.
Harrison, Napoleon Bona- Parte
naval officer, was born Feb. 19, 1823, in Virginia. In 1838 he entered the navy as a midshipman; became commander in 1862; captain in 1868; and in 1868-69 was commandant of cadets in the United States naval academy. He died Oct. 27, 1870, in Key West, Fla.
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.