BIOGRAPHY 



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there. Colonel 10th Kentucky regiment in Union Army, 

 1861-63; attorney-general Kentucky, 1863-67; re- 

 turned to practice; Republican nominee for governor. 

 1^71 ; defeated, and again in 1875, defeated; his name 

 was presented by Republican convention of Kentucky 

 -president of United States in 1872; member 

 Louisiana Commission. 1877; one of American arbitra- 

 tors on Bering Sea Tribunal which met in Paris, 1893. 



II a run in. .hnl Min, ex-attorney-general United States; 



born in Hamilton County, O.. February 3, 1846; gradu- 



ated Denison University. 1866 (LL. D., 1892); gradu- 



ncinnati Law School, 1869. Judge common 



pleas court, 1876-78; superior court of Cincinnati, 1878- 



87 resigned; attorney-general United States, June 8. 



1895. to March 6, 1897; resumed practice; president 



H-iation. 1897-98; member faculty law de- 



it. t'niversity of Cincinnati. 



Harold I., King of England, surnamed Harefoot 

 on account of his fleetness ip running, was second son 

 of Canute the Great, and succeeded to the throne in 1037 

 anl died three years later. 



Harold II., son of Godwin, Earl of Kent, was pro- 



: King of England in 1066, on the death of Ed- 



wan 1 the Confessor; and in the same year utterly de- 



feated an invasion of the Norsemen, only to be a few 



days later overthrown himself by William Duke of Nor- 



. near Hastings, on the 14th of October. 

 Haroim VI Raschld, born in 763; Khalif of Bagdad. 

 organized his dominions against the attacks of the 

 Eastern Empire; massacred the Barmecides; com- 

 pelled Nicepbprus to resume payment of his tribute, 

 ami ravaged his dominions when the peace was not kept ; 

 sent an embassy to Charles the Great. He died in 809, 



. an expedition against Khorassan. 



Harper. William Kainey, president of University 



mo since 1891; born in New Concord, O., July 26, 



1856; graduated at Muskingum College. 1870; (Ph. D.. 



D. D., Colby, 1891; 1, 1, . 1).. University of 



Nebraska. 1893. Yale. 1901. Johns Hopkins. 1902); prin- 



cipal Masonic College, Macon, Tenn., 1875-76; tutor, 



1876-79; principal preparatory department Denison 



TV. (Iranville. O.. 1879-80; professor of Hebrew, 



I'nion Theological Seminary, Chicago, 1879-86; 



professor of Semitic languages, Yale, 1886-91, and pro- 



fessor Biblical literature. 1889-91; principal Chautau- 



qua College Liberal Arts, 1885-91; head professor of 



languages and literature, and president of Uni- 



of Chicago. 1891 to 1906. Author: "Elements 



>-\v." "l.lernents of Hebrew Syntax," "Hebrew 



Vocabularies." " Introductory New Testament Greek 



I" (with Revere 1 Weidner). "A Teacher's 



Manual for an Inductive Latin Primer" (with I. H. 



Burgess). "Elements of Latin" (with I. B. Burgess), 



"Constructive Studies in the Priestly Element in the 



Old Testament." "Religion and the Higher Life" "The 



;re of the Text of the Book of Amos, "The 



re of the Text of the Book of Hosea," " The Trend 



u-ation." Died in 1906. 



Harris, .loci (handler, author; born in Eatonton, 



Ga.. December 8 r 1848; served apprenticeship to printing 



trade; an editor of Atlanta "Constitution" twenty-five 



years, now retired. Author: "Uncle Remus: His Songs 



Sayings." "Nights with Uncle Remus," " I'm ! 



Remus and Hi* Friends." "MiofO/ 1 "Little Mr.Thimble- 



"On the Plantation." "Daddy Jake, the Run- 



aam and 11 Mr Rabbit at 



Story of Aaron," "Sister Jane," " Free 



orgia." "Aaron in the Wild Woods." 



"Tale* of the Home Folks," " Georgia, From the In- 



"f De Soto to Recent Times," Evening; Tal. -." 



"Storie I oiks," " Chronicles of Aunt Minerva 



Ann." ",i the Wim- ..f o. , : ,MO n. ..... Phe Making of a 



\\ally Wanderoon." 



ut." "The Tar Baby Story and other 



Rhyme us," etc. 



-on. li.-n j.umii. twenty third President of the 



United State*: born in North Mend. <> . August 20, 1833. 



He was a great-gran tn ..f Itenjamin Harrison, signer 



f Independence. ami grandson of 



. ninth President of the t'niteil 



States. Hawasgraduatedat Miami University; -tu.i.,-.i 

 law in Cincinnati; retm>ve.| to Indianapolis, Iml . m 

 of n line legal i 

 . IIIK with . 



ous gallant rv in the Atlanta campaign, finally returning 

 ^eofthev rank of brevet 



Republican 



overnor f Indiana in i^7>. but was defeated; was 



lected to the United States Senate m I KM. where he 



n SOIK., I thinker and a polished 



ebater. publican convention heM m Chicago. 



e wa-* nominate*! for the pr 

 ni tn I States; elected in the ensuing November; and 



inaugurated March 4. 1889. His administration was 

 quiet, successful and measurably popular. It was 

 marked by the amicable settlement of the trouble with 

 Chile and by the passage of the McKinley tariff bill. 

 In 1892 he received again the nomination in the National 

 Republican Convention, but by this time the able and 

 persistent attacks of the Democracy on the high tariff 

 policy led to a general revulsion against it. and he was 

 defeated at the election by Cleveland. He thereupon 

 pursued a private law practice, occasionally giving public 

 addresses. He died m Indianapolis. Ind., March 13. 

 1901. 



Harrison, William Henry, born in 1773; ninth 

 president of the United States, di.stineiiished hun-elf m 

 wars with the Indians, and in that of is 12-1 5 with Great 

 Britain. He was for some time governor of the newly- 

 formed Territory of Indiana, and was made in 1828 min- 

 ister to Colombia. After his recall he was an unsuccess- 

 ful candidate for the presidency, but was elected in 1 v; 

 in opposition to the Democrat, Van Buren. He diet! 

 suddenly soon afterwards. 



Hart, Albert Bushnell, professor of history. Har- 

 vard; born in Clarksville. Pa., July 1. 1854; graduated 

 at Harvard, 1880 (Ph. D., Freidburg, Baden, 1883; 

 LL. D., Richmond College, 1902). Author: "Intro- 

 duction to the Study of Federal Government." "Epoch 

 Maps," "Formation of the Union." "Practical Essays 

 on American Government." "Studies in American Edu- 

 cation," "Guide to the Study of American H 

 (with Edward Channing), " .Salmon Portland Chase," 

 " Handbook of the History, Diplomacy and Government 

 of the United States," "Foundations of American For- 

 eign Policy," "Actual Government." "Essentials of 

 American History." Editor: "Epochs of American 

 History" (three volumes), "American History Tojd by 

 Contemporaries" (four volumes), "American Citizen 

 Series." "Source-Book of American History." "Source 

 Readers in American History" (four volumes). "The 

 American Nation." Joint editor: "American 1 

 Leaflets," "Harvard's Graduates' Magazine," "Ameri- 

 can History Review since 1895." 



Harte, Francis Bret, American writer; born in 

 Albany in 1839; was at different times a miner, school- 

 teacher, printer, and editor. From 1864 to 1870 he was 

 in San Francisco as secretary of the United States Mint, 

 where, in 1869, he published "The Heathen Chinee " 

 He was named American consul at Crefeld in 1S78, and 

 at Glasgow in 1880, and after leaving the latter in lsv~>. 

 lived in London. Chief among his works are " Condensed 

 Novels," "The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other 

 Sketches," "Poetical Works," "Tales of the Argonaut*." 

 "The Twins of Table Mountains and Other Stories." 

 "By Shore and Sedge" "A Millionaire of Hough and 

 Ready and Devil's Ford," " A Ward of the Golden Gate." 

 etc. Died. 1902. 



Harvard, John, born in 1607; son of a butcher in 

 Southwark. was educated at Emmanuel College, Cam- 

 bridge, and in 1637 married and went to New England, 

 but died next year (1638). and left one half of his estate 

 to be devoted to the foundation of a college at Cambridge. 

 Massachusetts, which subsequently became Harvard 

 University. 



Harvey, GeorRo Ilrlnton >l. ( lell.ni. -liter of 

 "North American Review," and president of Harper ft 

 Brothers; born in Peacham, Vt., February 16. 1864; 

 educated at Peacham Academy; was con 

 porter "Springfield Republican." "Chicago News, and 

 f 'New York World"; managing editor "New York 

 World"; insurance commissioner. New Je 

 and aide-de-camp of governors Green and Abbrtt. New 

 Jersey; constructor and president of various electric 

 railroads; bought "North American Review. 

 1899: president of Harper \ Hn. there. October. 1900; 

 bought "Mctro|M)litan Ma^i/me." 1903. 



Barrey, William, Knglish phyatolo- 



d the cirrulatK.n of thebbod H- 

 at Cambridge and at Padua, and. on his return 

 land, became physician at St. Bartholomew's 1 

 and delivered the Lumleian lecture*. His great dis- 

 covery was described in "Bnrdtai 

 Motu Cordis et Sanguinin," puhh-hcd m lrt2H. He was 

 afterwards pi, hanes I. and warden of Merton 



II H M. !.h adminn- 



trator in ut to Bengal as a writer in 1T.V). but 



was seven years later appointed agent of the En 

 Company at the court of the Nabob of Bengal. In 1764, 

 he returned (o I iinlnnH. where he remained four yean 

 studying Knstrrn literature. On his return to India he 

 became a member of the council of Madras, nnd in 177'J. 

 Governor of Bengal, a position which, m 1774. became 



..f India. He w.i T 

 volved in quarrels with his council, and sent in his resig- 



