OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HARRINGTON HASLAM.) 



term he became editor of the Washington Chroni- 

 cle, and in 1882-'85 he was presiding judge ot the 

 Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims. 



Harrington, Nathan Russell, zoologist, born 

 in Somerville, Mass., Dec. 22, 1870; died in At- 

 bara, Soudan, Africa, July 2(5, 1890. He was 

 graduated at Williams College in 1803, and then 

 six*nt four years at Columbia College as student, 

 assistant, and fellow. He spent his summers 

 either at the zoological station at Wood s 

 or on the expeditions of the department of zool- 

 ogy to Pu*et Sound, Alaska, and Africa. In the 

 summer of 1898 Mr. Harrington, then fellow in 

 zoology in Columbia, and Dr. Reid Hunt, tutor 

 in physiology, spent considerable time on the 

 lower* Nile securing material for the study of 

 the African polypterus. They returned with 

 many specimens of this fish, but were unsuccess- 

 ful in securing its eggs, as the Nile rose rapidly 

 l>efore the fish had spawned. In the spring of 

 1899 a second expedition was organized to se- 

 cure the desired material in the region of the 

 White Nile. The possibility of this expedition 

 was largely due to a gift of $5,000 by Charles H. 

 Scuff, of New York. On account of the Mahdi 

 disturbances, the party had considerable difficulty 

 in obtaining permission to enter the Soudan, but 

 success seemed assured when Mr. Harrington was 

 stricken with fever. 



Harris. Frederick Henry, lawyer, born in 

 Newark, N. J., March 7, 1830; died in Montclair, 

 N. J., March 16, 1899. He was educated in New- 

 ark and Bloomfield, and was associated with his 

 father in the quarry business till his admission 

 to the bar, in 1862. In the autumn of that year 

 he went to the field as a captain in the 13th 

 New Jersey Regiment. He took part in the 

 march to the sea, and commanded his regiment 

 through the North Carolina campaign. For brav- 

 ery on the field he was promoted major and 

 lie\itenant colonel and brevetted colonel, and for 

 conspicuous gallantry in the battle of Benton- 

 ville, March 19, 1865, he was promoted brigadier 

 general. From that time till his death he was en- 

 gaged in the tire insurance business in Newark. 



Harris, Houghton D., lawyer, born in Ches- 

 terfield, N. H., Aug. 16, 1822; died in Brattleboro, 

 Vt., Jan. 19, 1899. He was graduated at Dart- 

 mouth College in 1841, and while studying law 

 engaged in journalism. For a year he edited the 

 Vermont Phoenix, and in 1847, with William B. 

 Hale, established the Eagle. In the autumn of 

 1850 he was appointed the Secretary of the new 

 Territory of Utah, of which Brigham Young was 

 Governor. A bitter antagonism soon developed 

 between the two officials. Gov. Young and the 

 Legislature persisted in disregarding the provi- 

 sions of the enabling act, and the trouble reached 

 a point where Secretary Harris refused to dis- 

 burse the money placed in his hands by the United 

 States Government for the benefit of the Terri- 

 tory. At this juncture the Legislature passed 

 resolutions directing the Secretary to deliver im- 

 mediately all Federal money in his possession to 

 the United States marshal of Utah, who was a 

 Mormon. Amid threats of assassination Secre- 

 tary Harris refused, and, avoiding arrest, hastened 

 to Washington and turned into the Treasury all 

 the funds in his care. The Mormon leaders pro- 

 tested against this act, but the Administration 

 approved it, and, realizing that his life would not 

 be safe in Utah, offered Mr. Harris -the post of 

 Secretary and acting Governor of the Territory 

 of New Mexico, which he declined. He returned 

 to Vermont, was elected to the State Senate in 

 1S(JO and 18(51, and was engaged for many years 

 in railroad building. 



Harris, Robert P., horticulturist, born in 1823; 

 died in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 2, 1899. He spent 

 large sums for the importation and distribution 

 of seeds, principally of melons and cucumbers, 

 which he sent to almost every State for experi- 

 mental purposes. One of his ambitions was to 

 cultivate in this country the cucumbers eaten 

 by the children of Israel in the Holy Land. He 

 w 7 as a prolific medical writer, and edited text- 

 books on medicine. 



Harris, Samuel, educator and clergyman, 

 born in East Machias, Me., June 14, 1814; died 

 in Litchfield, Conn., June 25, 1899. He was grad- 

 uated at Bowdoin College in 1833 and at Andover 

 Theological Seminary in 1836. He engaged in 

 teaching until 1839, and was pastor successively 

 of Congregational churches at Conway and Pitts- 

 field, Mass. From 1855 to 1867 he was Professor 

 of Systematic Theology in Bangor Seminary, and 

 from 1867 to 1871 president of Bowdoin College. 

 In the latter year he became Professor of Sys- 

 tematic Theology at Yale, and he was professor 

 emeritus at the time of his death. He was the 

 author of Zaccheus: The Scriptural Plan of Be- 

 neficence (1844); Christ's Prayer for the Death 

 of his Redeemed (1863); The Kingdom of Christ 

 on Earth (1874); The Philosophical Basis of 

 Theism (1883) ; and Self-revelation of God (1887). 



Hartley, Isaac Srnithson, clergyman, born in 

 New York city in 1830; died in Great Barrington, 

 Mass., July 2, 1899. He was graduated at New 

 York University in 1852 and at Andover Theo- 

 logical Seminary in 1856, spent several years in 

 special study in Europe, and returned to the 

 United States in time to perform a considerable 

 service for the National soldiers under the aus- 

 pices of the Sanitary Commission. He became 

 pastor of the Reformed Church in Utica, N. Y., 

 in 1871, and became widely known as a lecturer. 

 About seven years ago he was ordained in the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church, and became rector 

 of St. James's Church in Great Barrington, Mass. 

 Dr. Hartley was the founder of the Vetter lec- 

 tureship at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, 

 N. J. His publications include Prayer and its Re- 

 lation to Modern Thought, a History of the Re- 

 formed Church and Fort Schuyler in History. 



Haslam, Maud (Mrs. Samuel Groome), ac- 

 tress, born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1869; died in 

 Liberty, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1899. She was a daughter 

 of Alice Sherwood, a well-known actress, made 

 her debut as a child of three in the part of Little 

 Fritz with Joseph Emmet, and for several years 

 was identified w r ith children's parts in the Olympic 

 Theater, St. Louis. Her parents sent her to 

 Clifton Convent, Canada, and to Mount St. Vin- 

 cent, New York, from which last named she was 

 graduated with high honors in 1883. After a 

 year spent in rest and travel in Europe, she made 

 her New York debut with the Madison Square 

 Theater company, Jan. 5, 1885, as Edith in The 

 Private Secretary. She w r as received with great 

 favor, and in the following season received the 

 part of Rachel McCreery in Held by the Enemy*, 

 with which she began a tour, appearing first at 

 the Grand Opera House, New York city, Oct. 

 21, 1889. In September, 1890, she was a member 

 of the stock company at Proctor's Twenty-third 

 Street Theater, and began her work there in the 

 part of Fiji Oritanski in All the Comforts of 

 Home. She played the juvenile rOles in all the 

 important productions of this company for a 

 season, and then became leading lady in the sup- 

 port of Nat Goodwin. On the first production 

 of Too Much Johnson by William Gillette Miss 

 Haslam played the leading female rCle, and she 

 remained in that position with that popular star 



