OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HARRISON HART.) 



record as a student and a debater and was gradu- 

 al rd in 1852. He studied law and was admitted 

 to the bar in 1853. In that year he married 

 Miss Caroline L. Scott, a daughter of the Rev. 

 John W. Scott, principal of a seminary for young 

 ladies in Oxford. In 1854 he removed to Indian- 

 apolis and practised law. He began his work as 

 a Republican speaker in the campaign of 1850. 

 In October, 18GO, he was elected reporter of the 

 Supreme Court of the State. In August, 18G2, 

 he was commissioned a 2d lieutenant of volun- 

 teers, recruited Company A of the 70th Indiana 

 Infantry, and upon the reorganization of the regi- 

 ment, about thirty days later, was commissioned 

 its colonel. He brought the regiment to a high 

 degree of efficiency. He served under Gen. Buell 

 at Howling Green and Russellville, Ky., and after- 

 ward on a long term of guard-duty against guer- 

 rillas, protecting railroads in the West. His regi- 

 ment was attached to the 20th Corps under Gen: 

 Joseph Hooker in the campaign from Chatta- 

 nooga to Atlanta. He served with special dis- 

 tinction at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, where 

 he commanded a brigade, as he also did at the 

 battle of Nashville. From September to Novem- 

 ber, 1864, he was on recruiting duty in Indiana. 

 The winter of 1864 he spent with Gen. George H. 

 Thomas in Tennessee, but early in the spring he 

 resumed command of his brigade and was present 

 at the surrender of the Confederate forces under 

 Johnston at Durham Station, N. C. He took part 

 in the grand review at Washington, and was mus- 

 tered out June 8, 1865. He was brevetted brig- 

 adier-general, to date from Jan. 23, 1865, for abil- 

 ity and manifest energy and gallantry in com- 

 mand of his brigade. While he was still at the 

 front, in October, 1864, he was reelected reporter 

 of the Supreme Court. In 1876 he was the Re- 

 publican candidate for Governor of Indiana, but 

 failed of election. He was appointed a member 

 of the Mississippi River Commission in 1879, and 

 1n 1880 was chairman of the Indiana delegates 

 to the Republican National Convention. In the 

 following winter he was elected to the United 

 {States Senate, and after his election was offered 

 a place in President Garfield's Cabinet, which he 

 declined. He took his seat in the Senate, March 

 4, 1881, and served till 1887, during which time 

 he was known as one of the strongest debaters in 

 that body. As president of the Committee on 

 Territories he was persistent in his demand for 

 the admission to statehood of the Dakotas, Mon- 

 tana, Washington, and Idaho, all of which after- 

 ward became States through measures signed by 

 him as President. He also spoke for the restric- 

 tion of Chinese immigration and against the im- 

 portation of contract labor, and became known 

 as the advocate of protective duties, civil-service 

 reform, and restoration of the United States 

 He was a delegate to the National Con- 

 vention of 1HH4, where his name was mentioned 

 for the presidency. At the expiration of his term 

 in the Senate he received the votes of the Repub- 

 lican minority in the Indiana Legislature for re- 

 election. He was nominated for the presidency 

 8 on a protective-tariff platform, and after 

 an exciting campaign, during which he made 

 many speeches, he was elected. He received 233 

 electoral votes, against 168 for Mr. Cleveland 

 Harrison was inaugurated March 4, 

 89. His administration was notable for its de- 

 fense of American interests abroad and for its 

 promotion of American industry and prosperity 

 at home. Its most notable events were the pas- 

 sage of the McKinley bill, the suppression of the 

 Louisiana lottery, the adoption of the reciprocity 

 policy, the extension of the new navy, the pro- 



motion of civil-service reform, the arrangement 

 of an international monetary conference, the or- 

 ganization of the Bering Sea arbitration, the diffi- 

 culty with Chile, and the settlement of the Sa- 

 moan troubles. Mr. Harrison was nominated for 

 reelection in 1892, and was again opposed by 

 Mr. Cleveland. The election resulted in Mr. Cleve- 

 land's election by 276 electoral votes to Mr. Har- 

 rison's 145. After retiring from the presidency 

 Mr. Harrison returned to the practise of law, as 

 he had always done in the short intervals of his 

 long and busy public career. In 1893-'94 he de- 

 livered a course of lectures on constitutional law 

 before the students of Stanford University. In 

 1899 he appeared as counsel in the Anglo-Venez- 

 uelan Boundary Arbitration Commission, finish- 

 ing his argument for Venezuela in Paris on Sept. 

 27. President McKinley appointed him a mem- 

 ber for the United States of the Peace Confer- 

 ence held at The Hague in 1899, and he was made 

 a member of the International Board of Arbitra- 

 tion. He devoted much time and energy to church 

 and philanthropic work; was several times a dele- 

 gate to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian 

 Church, and was a member of the Committee on 

 Creed Revision. Mrs. Harrison died while her hus- 

 band was President. On April 6, 1896, Mr. Har- 

 rison married her niece, Mrs. Mary Scott Lord 

 Dimmock, in New York city. He was the author 

 of This Country of Ours (1897). His life has 

 been written by Gen. Lew Wallace (1888). A 

 collection of his speeches, edited by Charles 

 Hedges, appeared in 1888, and another in 1892, 

 and a collection of his magazine articles in 1901. 



Harrison, Henry Baldwin, ex-Governor of 

 Connecticut, born in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 11, 

 1821 ; died there, Oct. 29, 1901. He was graduated 

 at Yale as the valedictorian of the class of 1846. 

 He studied at Yale Law School, and in 1848 was 

 admitted to the bar. He won a high reputation 

 as a jury lawyer. He was an ardent Henry Clay 

 Whig, and in 1854 he was sent to the Connecticut 

 Senate, where he drafted the Personal Liberty 

 bill that tended to nullify the Fugitive-Slave law 

 in Connecticut. Under this measure the pretend- 

 ing that a free person was a slave was severely 

 punishable. He was associated with the Free- 

 Soil party till it was merged into the Republican 

 party, and he was one of the organizers of the 

 Republican party in his State in 1856, and was 

 that year its candidate for Lieutenant-Governor. 

 In 1865 he represented New Haven in the Assem- 

 bly, and was instrumental, through a famous 

 speech, in erasing the word "white" from the 

 State Constitution and allowing the negroes to 

 vote. In 1872 he was a candidate for Governor, 

 and was defeated through dissensions in his party. 

 In 1873 and 1883 he was again a Representative, 

 and in 1883 was Speaker. In 1878 he was a can- 

 didate for the United States Senate, but he was 

 defeated by O. H. Platt. In 1885 he was elected 

 Governor. 



Hart, James McDougall, artist, born in Kil- 

 marnock, Scotland, May 10, 1828; died in Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1901. He was taken'by his 

 parents to the United States in 1830, and he after- 

 ward entered the shop of a coachmaker in Albany, 

 N. Y., where he worked with his brother as a 

 decorator. He showed a fondness for landscape 

 and animal painting, and the best of his later 

 work is in these fields. He studied with Schirmer 

 in Dusseldorf from 1850 to 1853, and in the latter 

 year established a studio in Albany, where he 

 painted and taught till his removal to New York 

 city in 1857. In 1857 he was elected an associate 

 of the National Academy of Design, and in 1859 

 made an academician. He served in its council 



