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member of the poet's family. He was one of the 

 founders of the Faust Club, and organized the 

 movement for placing in Prospect Park a bust of 

 John Howard Payne, who was his lifelong friend. 

 Mr. Harrison was one of the first in this country 

 to produce the portraits known as daguerreo- 

 types. He achieved considerable distinction as a 

 landscape artist, and won prizes at the Crystal 

 Palace in London and at the World's Fair in New 

 York. His writings were chiefly dramatic, in- 

 cluding a dramatization of Hawthorne's Scarlet 

 Letter and adaptations of Schiller's plays. He 

 also wrote a biography of John Howard Payne. 

 In his later years he was a successful teacher of 

 elocution and dramatic action. He painted a 

 portrait of Poe from a daguerreotype that he him- 

 self had taken, and presented it to the Authors 

 Club of New York. 



Harte, Bret, author, born in Albany, N. Y., 

 Aug. 25, 1839; died in Camberley, England, May 

 G, 1902. His Christian name originally was Fran- 

 cis Bret, but he dropped the name Francis about 

 1870. His father was a teacher in Albany Female 

 Seminary. Bret received a common-school educa- 

 tion, and at the age of fifteen went to California 

 with his widowed mother. He walked from San 

 Francisco more than a hundred miles to Sonora, 

 then a great gold-mining center, and opened a 

 school. In this he was unsuccessful, and he then 

 became a miner, still without success. He next 

 became a compositor in a printing-office, contrib- 

 uted to the paper, and set some of his articles 

 directly in type, without manuscript. For a 

 time, when the editor was absent, he conducted 

 the journal; but his editing did not please the 

 subscribers, and he was obliged to withdraw from 

 the establishment. He returned to San Francisco, 

 became a compositor in the office of the Golden 

 Era in 1857, contributed sketches to the paper 

 (at first anonymously), and after a time be- 

 came a member of the editorial staff. Later he 

 was associated in the establishment of The-Cali- 

 fornian, a short-lived literary weekly, to which 

 he contributed his Condensed Novels. From 1864 

 to 1870 he was secretary of the United States 

 mint in San Francisco, and in those years he 

 wrote several poems (some humorous and others 

 serious) that attracted attention and were widely 

 copied. The most successful of these were The 

 Society upon the Stanislaus and John Burns of 

 Gettysburg. In 1868 he became editor of the new 

 magazine the Overland Monthly. It is said that 

 when the artist had drawn a picture of a grizzly 

 bear for the cover design, Harte drew two 

 straight marks under it, representing the track of 

 the new railroad, on which the bear appeared 

 to be looking at an approaching train, thus great- 

 ly increasing the artistic suggestiveness. In the 

 number for August of that year he published 

 The Luck of Roaring Camp, which at once gave 

 him a high reputation as a story-writer, and in 

 the September number The Outcasts of Poker 

 Flat. These two are recognized as ranking with 

 the very best short stories in the language or 

 in any language. Harte created a dialect, attrib- 

 uted to the mining-camps, which had no exist- 

 ence except in his pages. Other short stories of 

 California life followed in quick succession. In 

 September, 1870, he published his satirical poem 

 entitled Plain Language from Truthful James, 

 commonly known as The Heathen Chinee, which 

 was copied and repeated everywhere. He was 

 appointed Professor of Recent Literature in the 

 University of California in 1870, but the next 

 spring he resigned that chair and removed to 

 New York. He entered into a contract with the 

 Boston house of James R. Osgood & Co. by which 



he contributed exclusively to the Atlantic Month- 

 ly, and that firm published all his books, bringing 

 out at once collected editions of his poems and 

 short stories. He appeared on the platform with 

 a lecture on The Argonauts of '49, but he was 

 no orator. He was appointed United States con- 

 sul at Crefeld, Germany, in 1878, and was trans- 

 ferred to Glasgow, Scotland, in 1880. This office 

 he held till 1885, when on the incoming of a new 

 administration he was removed. Thenceforth he 

 made his home in London. His publications in 

 book form are Condensed Novels (1867); Poems 

 (1871); The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other 

 Sketches (1871); East and West Poems (1871); 

 Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands (1872) ; Tales of the Ar- 

 gonauts, and other Stories (1875); Thankful 

 Blossom (1876); Two Men of Sandy Bar (1876); 

 Gabriel Conroy (1876); The Story of a Mine 

 (1877); Drift from Two Shores (1878); Echoes 

 of the Foothills (1879); The Twins of Table 

 Mountain (1879); Flip and Found at Blazing 

 Star (1882) ; In the Carquinez Woods (1883) ; On 

 the Frontier (1884) ; By Shore and Ledge (1885) ; 

 Maruja, a novel (1885); Snow-Bound at Eagle's 

 (1886); A Millionaire of Rough and Ready 

 (1887); The Crusade of the Excelsior (1887); 

 Cressy (1887); The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh 

 (1888); A Ward of the Golden Gate (1888); A 

 Sappho of Green Springs (1889); Colonel Star- 

 bottle's Client (1889); A First Family of Tasa- 

 jara (1890) ; Susy (1890) ; Sally Dows, and Other 

 Stories (1891); The Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, 

 and Other Stories (1891); The Bell-Ringers of 

 Angel's, and Other Stories (1892); Clarence 

 (1892) ; In a Hollow of the Hills (1893) ; Barker's 

 Luck, and Other Stories (1893); Three Partners 

 (1894); Tales of Trail and Town (1894); Stories 

 of Light and Shadow (1895); Mr. Jack Hamlin's 

 Meditation, and Other Stories (1896) ; From Sand- 

 Hill to Pine (1897) ; Under the Redwoods (1898) ; 

 and Openings in the Old Trail (1900). For por- 

 trait, see frontispiece. 



Hartley, Marcellus, manufacturer, born in 

 New York city, Sept. 28, 1828; died there, Jan. 8, 

 1902. After completing his education he entered 

 a counting-room, and in 1854 he established the 

 firm of Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, which in 

 1898 became the M. Hartley Company. This 

 house during the civil war did a large business 

 in supplying the Government with arms, and Mr. 

 Hartley was appointed by the Secretary of War 

 to take charge of an important service. He was 

 commissioned a brigadier-general of volunteers, 

 and was authorized to buy all the guns in the 

 European market, to prevent, if possible, the 

 Confederates from securing them. He was a di- 

 rector in several financial corporations, a mem- 

 ber of a number of scientific societies, and was 

 closely identified with many charitable institu- 

 tions, especially with Hartley House, erected by 

 the New York Association for the Improvement 

 of the Poor. 



Hastings, William Granville, sculptor, born 

 in England about 1868: died in Mount Vernon, 

 N. Y., June 13, 1902. He was educated at Dul- 

 w r ich College, studied art in London and Paris, 

 and in 1885 began the study of sculpture and 

 art pottery. In 1889 he went to Paris, where 

 he was engaged in ecclesiastical figure work. 

 He came to the United States in 1891. and 

 executed considerable work, including a series 

 of bas-reliefs illustrating the history of the 

 phonograph for the Edison Company, the Sol- 

 diers and Sailors Monument at Pawtucket, R. I., 

 the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Orange, 

 N. J., ad the Lincoln Monument at Cincinnati, 

 Ohio. 



