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HARRISON 



J. Ken del Hams. 

 British scholar 



Harris, HOWEL (1714-73). 

 Founder of Welsh Calvinistic Me- 

 thodism. Born at Trevecea, Breck- 

 nockshire, Jan. 23, 1714, he was 

 for a time a teacher in a church 

 school, but devoted the greater part 

 of his life to itinerant preaching. 

 He founded a number of societies 

 and chapels, formed a community 

 at Trevecea in 1752, served in the 

 Brecknockshire militia, 1759, was a 

 friend of the Wesleys, and wrote 

 an Autobiography, publ. 1791. He 

 died July 21, 1773. See Life, 

 T. Jackson, 1837. 



Harris, JAMES RENDEL (b. 1851). 

 British scholar. Born at Ply- 

 mouth, he was educated at the 

 g i a m m a r 

 school there 

 and at Clare 

 College, Cam- 

 bridge, of 

 which he be- 

 came a fellow 

 and librarian. 

 He was pro- 

 fessor at Johns 

 Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, Balti- 

 autieii more) 1882- 



85 ; at Haverford College, Penn- 

 sylvania, 1886-92 ; lecturer in 

 palaeography at Cambridge, 1893- 

 1903 ; professor of theology, Lei- 

 den, 1903-4 ; director of studies, 

 Friends' Settlement, Woodbrooke, 

 near Birmingham, 1903-18; and 

 Haskell lecturer at Oberlin College, 

 1910 President of the Free Church 

 Council, 1907-8, he became curator 

 of MSS. at the John Rylands 

 Library, Manchester, 1918. 



He travelled widely in the East, 

 where he discovered important 

 MISS, bearing on the Bible. His 

 numerous works include The 

 'Leaching of the Apostles and the 

 Sibylline Books, 1885 ; Some Syrian 

 and Palestinian Inscriptions, 1891 ; 

 The Dioscuri in Christian Legend, 

 1903 ; Sidelights on New Testa- 

 ment Research, 1909 ; Origin of 

 the Cult of Dionysos, 1915; Origin 

 of the Cult of Artemis, 1916 ; 

 Ascent of Olympus, 1917; Origin of 

 the Doctrine of the Trinity, 1919 ; 

 The Last of the Mayflower, 1920. 



Harris, JOEL CHANDLER (1848- 

 1908). American writer popularly 

 known as Uncle Remus. Born at 

 Eatonton, 

 Georgia, Dec. 

 8, 1848, he 

 worked in a 

 printing office, 

 studied 1 a w, 

 and practised 

 at Forsyth. In 

 1878 he joined 

 the staff of The 



Atlanta Constitution, of which he 

 was editor, 1890-1905, and to 

 which he contributed the first of 

 his Uncle Remus stories con- 

 cerning the adventures of Brer 

 Rabbit, and Brer Fox. These 

 stories, derived from his know- 

 ledge of negro folklore, were first 

 collected in 1880 as Uncle Remus : 

 His Songs and His Sayings. This 

 volume had a number of suc- 

 cessors, including The Tar-Baby 

 and Other Rhymes, 1904. When 

 he issued his first book he knew 

 little or nothing of folklore in 

 general, and was astonished when 

 he began to receive letters from 

 learned bodies asking him to ex- 

 plain the connexion between his 

 stories and those of a similar kind 

 told in other parts of the world. 



He was the author of a Life of 

 H. W. Grady (his predecessor as 

 editor of The Atlanta Constitu- 

 tion), 1890, and of Georgia from 

 the Invasion of De Soto to Recent 

 Times, 1899. He died at Atlanta, 

 Georgia, July 3, 1908. See Life 

 and Letters of Joel Chandler 

 Harris, by his daughter-in-law, 

 Julia Collier Harris, 1918. 



Harris, THOMAS LAKE (1823- 

 1906). Anglo-American mystic. 

 Born at Fenny Stratford, Bucks, 

 England, May 15, 1823, he went 

 with his parents in 1828 to the 

 U.S.A., became a universalist, a 

 Swedenborgian, and then a 

 spiritualist. In 1861 he founded 

 the Brotherhood of the New Life. 

 Laurence Oliphant (q.v. ), who has 

 described him in his Masollam, 

 1886, was for a time one of his 

 converts. He visited England 

 1859-61 and 1865-66, claimed that 

 his poems were revealed to him in 

 trances, and was the author of 

 Truth and Light in Jesus, 1860 ; 

 The Millennial Age, 1861; The 

 Great Republic, a Poem of the Sun, 

 1867. He died at Santa Rosa, 

 California, March 23, 1906. See 

 Life, A. A. Cuthbert, 1908. 



Harrisburg. City of Pennsyl- 

 vania, U.S.A., the capital of the 

 state and the co. seat of Dauphin 

 co. It stands on the Susquehanna 

 river, 105 m. W.N.W. of Philadel- 

 phia, and is served by the Pennsyl- 

 vania and other rlys. Harrisburg 

 is the see of a Roman Catholic 

 bishop and contains several fine 

 buildings, including the capitol, 

 replacing the building destroyed 

 by fire in 1897, the court house, the 

 state arsenal and hospital for the 

 insane, and the county prison. 



The city has a monument to the 

 fallen in" the Mexican War and 

 another to the Dauphin co. soldiers 

 killed in the Civil War. The capitol 

 houses a state library of 170,000 

 volumes. A flourishing industrial 

 city, its manufacturing plants in- 



clude large iron and steel works, 

 rly. workshops, machine, carriage 

 and wagon works, and bed, mat- 

 tress, boot and shoe nail, clothing, 

 brick and tile, lumber and flour 

 factories. Settled in 1719, Harris- 

 burg was organized as a town in 

 1785, and incorporated in 1791. 

 It became the capital in 1812. 

 Pop. 73,275. 



Harrismith. Town of the 

 Orange Free State, S. Africa. It is 

 60 m. from Ladysmith and 170 m. 

 from Durban, and stands on the 

 river Wilge among the mountains 

 at a height of over 5,000 ft. The 

 chief building is the block contain- 

 ing town hall, public library, and 

 market, opened in 1908. There 

 are churches and a public park. 

 Harrismith is a trading centre 

 for the district and is visited as a 

 health resort. It was occupied by 

 the British forces on Aug. 4, 1900. 

 Pop. 6,800. 



Harrison. Town of New Jersey, 

 U.S.A., in Hudson co. It stands on 

 the Passaic river, 7 m. W. of Jersey 

 City, and is served by the Penn- 

 sylvania and other rlys. On the 

 opposite shore of the river is 

 Newark, with which there is bridge 

 communication. Harrison is an 

 industrial town, and contains steel, 

 iron, marine-engine, and elevator 

 works, foundries, machine shops, 

 and pump, wire, leather, lumber, 

 and tool factories. It was settled 

 in 1668, and incorporated in 1873. 

 Pop. 16,160. 



Harrison, BENJAMIN (1833- 

 1901). American statesman. Born 

 at North Bend, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1833, 

 grand son oi 

 President Wil- 

 liam Henry 

 Harrison, after 

 practising law 

 lie joined the 

 Federal army 

 and greatly 

 d i s t inguished 

 himself in the 

 Benjamin Harrison, Civil War. 

 American statesman Senator 1881- 

 87, he was elected president on the 

 Republican ticket in 1888, his 

 opponent being Grover Cleveland. 

 During his term of office the treaty 

 of the annexation of Hawaii was 

 negotiated, afterwards withdrawn 

 by Cleveland when president ; the 

 first pan-American Congress was 

 held, the McKinley tariff intro- 

 duced, and the Bering Sea seal 

 fisheries controversy with Great 

 Britain settled by arbitration. 



Defeated in his candidature for 

 re-election, he abandoned politics 

 for the law. In 1899 he was coun- 

 sel for Venezuela in the boundary 

 arbitration commission set up 

 to examine the claims of Great 

 Britain, and took part in the Peace 



