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Rh He was chairman of the State Democratic conven- tion in 1884, and a delegate to the Chicago National Democratic convention of that year. — His brother, William Anderson, educator, b. in Augusta county. Va., 16 July, 1827, was graduated at the Virginia military institute in 1851, and practised law for some time in Virginia. He has been presi- dent of Sparta institute, Ga., of Lagrange female college, Ga., of Martha Washington college, Va., and in 1866 became president of the Wesleyan female college, Staunton, Va., where he still remains (1887). In 1875 Randolph-Macon college, Va., con- ferred upon him the degree of D. D.

HARRIS, John Woods, jurist, b. in Nelson county, Va., in 1810 ; d. in Galveston, Tex., 1 April, 1887. On arriving at manhood he accumulated money sufficient to enable him to pursue a collegi- ate course and study law. He removed to Texas in 1837, and began practice in 1838. In the same year he was a member of the first congress of the republic, which met at Austin, and in 1841 pro- posed abolishing the Mexican laws, and engrafting the common law on the jurisprudence of the re- public. In 1846 he was appointed attorney-general of the new state, and was reappointed for a second term. In 1854 he was one of a commission to revise the laws of the state. He was a Democrat of the strictest Jeffersonian school, and was opposed to secession, but accepted it, and gave his support to the cause of the Confederacy. After the war, his private fortune being large, he confined his prac- tice chiefly to important cases in the higher courts.

HARRIS, Miriam Coles, novelist, b. in Doso- ris, L. I., 7 July, 1834. Her maiden name was Coles. She was educated at St. Mary's hall, Bur- lington, N. J., and in New York city, and in 1864 married Sidney Harris, of that city, where she has since resided. Her first novel, " Rutledge " (New York, 1860), was published anonymously. Her other works include " The Sutherlands " (1862) ; " Louie's Last Term at St. Mary's " (1863) ; " Frank Warrington " (1871) ; " Richard Vandermark " (1871); " Roundhearts, and Other Stories" (1871); " A Perfect Adonis " (1880) ; " Missy " (1882) ; and "Dear Feast of Lent" (1883).

HARRIS, Peter, last of the Catawba Indians, b. in the Catawba reservation, S. C, in 1750 ; d. there about 1830. The Catawba Indians sustained friendly relations with the settlers, and were allies of the colonists during the Revolution, rendering good service against the British. Peter Harris was a warrior during this struggle, and his petition, dated in 1822, is preserved among the colonial records of South Carolina. He asked for an annu- ity in the following words : " I fought the British for your sake ; the British have disappeared ; you are free ; yet from me have the British took noth- ing, nor have I gained anything by their defeat. The deer are disappearing, and I must starve. In my youth I bled in battle that you might be inde- pendent ; let not my heart in my old age bleed for want of your commiseration." The legislature granted him an annuity of $60.

HARRIS, Robert, Canadian artist, b. near Carnarvon, North Wales, 17 Sept., 1849. He came to Canada, was educated at Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, and was for some time a land-surveyor. He was self-educated in art till about 1877, after which he studied in London and Paris. He was elected a member of the Royal Canadian academy of arts in 1879, and vice- president of the Ontario society of artists in 1880. He has exhibited pictures in the salon of Paris and the Royal academy of London. He painted, by order of the Canadian government, in 1883, the large picture, now in the parliamentary building, Ottawa, of the meeting of delegates in Quebec that resulted in the formation of the Do- minion of Canada. Among his other pictures are "Meeting of School Trustees," exhibited in the Colonial exhibition in London in 1886, and pur- chased by the government of Canada for the Cana- dian national gallery, and numerous portraits.

HARRIS, Samuel, apostle to Virginia, b. in Hanover county, Va., 12 Jan., 1724; d. there prob- ably in 1794. During his early manhood and in middle life he occupied many public offices, was church-warden, burgess for the county, sheriff, justice of the peace, colonel of militia, and com- missary. While riding through the country in full military dress, he came upon a camp-meeting in the woods. Two itinerant Baptist clergymen were haranguing the assemblage, and, on seeing the colonel, at once directed their discourse to him. So greatly was he impressed with their argu- ments that he was baptized, and became an ex- horter among the poor white settlers. In 1770 he was ordained, and the Baptist association to which he belonged invested him with the office of " apos- tle." He relinquished his large property, lived with extreme frugality, and suffered much perse- cution from the established church, of which he had formerly been a member. He exercised a great influence over the masses, and was distin- guished as an exhorter.

HARRIS, Samuel, clergyman, b. in East Ma- ehias, Me., 14 June, 1814. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1833, and at Andover theological semi- nary in 1838. After teaching till 1841, and hold- ing pastorates at Conway and Pittsfield, Mass., he was professor of systematic theology in Bangor seminary in 1855-'67, and then president of Bow- doin, and professor of mental and moral philoso- phy there till 1871. In that year he became pro- fessor of systematic theology at Yale, where he still (1887) remains. He received the degree of D. D. from Williams in 1855. He has published " Zaccheus ; the Scriptural Plan of Beneficence " (Boston, 1844) ; " Christ's Prayer for the Death of his Redeemed " (1863) ; " Kingdom of Christ on Earth " (Andover, 1874) ; and " Philosophical Basis of Theism " (New York, 1883).

HARRIS, Samuel Smith, P. E. bishop, b. in Autauga county, Ala., 14 Sept., 1841 ; d. in London, Eng., 21 Aug.," 1888. He was graduated in 1859, and admitted to the bar in 1860. After practising law for several years, he became a candidate for holy orders, was ordained deacon, 10 Feb., 1869, and priest on 30 June. He held pastorates at Montgomery, Ala., Columbus, Ga., New Orleans, La., and Chicago, 111., and was a delegate to the general convention of 1874 from Georgia, and in 1877 from Illinois. In 1878 he was elected to the bishopric of Quincy, but declined. That year, with the Rev. John Fulton, he founded the " Liv- ing Church," and was its editorial manager for six months. In September, 1879, he was consecrated bishop of Michigan. He received the degree of D. D. from William and Mary in 1874. and that of LL. D. from the University of Alabama in 1879, and published, besides occasional sermons and re- views, " Bohlen Lectures" (Ann Arbor, 1882).

HARRIS, Thaddeus Mason, clergyman, b. in Charlestown, Mass., 7 July, 1768; d. in Dorchester, Mass., 3 April, 1842. He was a descendant in the sixth generation of Thomas Harris, of Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, England. His father was a Revolutionary patriot, who died during the war, leaving his family destitute. Thaddeus was sent to earn his living with a farmer in the township