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year to year. Though knowing that his life was despaired 
of by his physicians and friends, he never spoke of his 
illness, but with silent courage and indomitable will, worked 
on cheerfully, attending to his regular duties until pros- 
trated by cerebral hemorrhage a week before his death, 
which occurred on Sunday, November 6th, 1887, at his 
home 14 University Place. Funeral services were held at 
the house on the Tuesday following, the Rev. E. S. Lines, 
and his classmate and friend Professor Beckwith, officiating. 
May 13th, 1875, he married Miss Jessie Craig of New 
Haven, who, in the highest sense, was his helpful and 
sympathizing companion. Only the few whose privilege 
it was to be included in the little circle of those who en- 
joyed his every-day companionship, and who feel that 
their lives have been made better by the example of his 
pure and inflexibly truthful life, can fully appreciate his 
loss. 
Of Mr. Harger’s undergraduate college life, his class- 
mate, Professor H. P. Wright, writes as follows in the 
Biographical Record of the Class of 1868 in Yale College: 
“As an undergraduate he excelled in all departments, but 
was especially fond of mathematics and natural science. 
Even then he had the spirit of an investigator, and was 
never quite willing to accept anything as true until he 
had himself proved it. Many of the class will recall the 
rude experiments in physics which he performed in his 
room, 48 South Middle College, in our Junior year. He 
was obliged to practice the greatest economy, and sup- 
ported himself in part by doing mathematical work under 
the direction of Professor Newton, chiefly upon valuation 
tables for the Insurance Department of the State of New 
York.” 
The following appreciative estimate is from the pen of 
Professor Newton of Yale University : 
“You ask me to give you in a few words the impression 
which Mr. Harger made upon me both while a student 
and in his later years. 
‘No one, I think, could know Mr. Harger without being 
impressed with the definiteness with which he held and 
