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Rh a company of the 70th Indiana regiment, was commissioned colonel on the completion of the regiment, and served through the war, receiving the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers on 23 Jan.. 1865. He then returned to Indianapolis, and resumed his office of supreme court reporter, to which he had been re-elected during his absence in 1864. In 1876 he was the republican candidate for governor of Indiana, but was defeated by a small plurality. He was a member of the Mississippi river commission in 1879, and in 1880 he was elected U. S. senator, taking his seat on 4 March, 1881. (See Supplement.)

HARRISON, Carter Henry, politician, b. in Fayette county, Ky., 15 Feb., 1825. He was gradu- ated at Yale in 1845, read law, engaged in farming, travelled for two years in foreign countries, and, after receiving his degree from Transylvania law- school, Lexington, Ky., settled in Chicago, where he engaged in real-estate operations. After the great fire of 1871 he served as county commissioner for three years. After returning from a second European journey, in 1874, he was elected to con- gress, as a Democrat, by so close a vote that his competitor, who had defeated him in the preced- ing election, gave notice of contest. He was re- elected, and when his second term was ended, in 1879, was chosen mayor of Chicago, in which office he was continued for four biennial terms.

HARRISON, Constance Cary, author, b. in Vaucluse, Fairfax co., Va., about 1835. She mar- ried Burton Harrison, a lawyer of Virginia, in 1867, and several years later removed with him to New York citv, where she now (1887) resides. She has published "Golden Rod" (New York, 1880); "Helen Troy" (1881); "Woman's Handiwork in Modern Homes" (1881); "Old-Fashioned Fairv- Book" (1885); and " Bric-a-Brac Stories" (1886). She has written plays, chiefly adapted from the French, among them " The Russian Honeymoon," produced at Madison Square theatre in 1883.

HARRISON, Gabriel, dramatic author, b. in Philadelphia, 25 March, 1825. When he was six years old his father, a man of classical education and a bank-note engraver, removed to New York, where his house soon became a favorite resort of the literary people and artists of the city. The son's love of dramatic art was determined by wit- nessing Edwin Forrest at the Park theatre in 1832. He soon became a member of the American histrionic society, and in November, 1838, made his first public appearance at Wallack's national theatre, Washington, D. C, as Othello. In 1841, two years after Daguerre's discovery, Mr. Harrison produced pictures by the former's process which won the inventor's warmest praise, and which took various prize medals. They were remarkable for their tone, and of a size that had been previously untried. He became a member of the Park theatre. New York, in 1845, being a favorite support of Charles Kean in his Shakespearian revivals, and in 1851 he organized the Brooklyn dramatic acad- emy, a private association. He was manager of the Adelphi theatre, Troy, N. Y., in 1859, and in 1863 opened the Park theatre, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he successfully organized an English opera troupe. But his high ideal of every detail con- nected with the setting and production of pieces upon the stage was a source of financial disaster to him, and he finally retired from the practice of his profession. He was afterward for a time lessee and manager of the Brooklyn academy of music. In 1867, as corresponding secretary of the Brooklyn academy of design, he raised the funds to pay its debts, and brought its free-art schools to a state of great prosperity. In 1872 he was one of the chief organizers of the Faust club of Brooklyn, and to his efforts that city is largely indebted for the fine bronze bust of John Howard Payne that was placed by the club in Prospect park. Mr. Har- rison has done some good work as an artist, both in landscape and portraiture, including a picture of Edwin Forrest as Coriolanus. He is now (1887), after many years of nervous prostra- tion, a teacher of elocution and acting in Brook- lyn. He has published " The Life and Writings of John Howard Payne " (Albany, 1873), and vari- ous pieces for the stage, including a dramatization of Hawthorne's " Scarlet Letter" (privately print- ed, 1876). which was successfully put upon the stage in February, 1878 ; " Melanthia," a tragedy, written for Matilda Heron ; " The Author " ; " Dart- more " ; " The Thirteenth Chime " ; and " Magna," besides an adaptation to the English stage of Schiller's " Fiesco " and " Don Carlos." He is the author of the critical essays on Forrest's acting, in Alger's life of that actor, of whom he was a warm personal friend and admirer, and has contributed poetry to the public press. His latest work is the chapter on " The Progress of Drama. Music, and the Fine Arts in Brooklvn"in the "History of Kings County " (New York. 1884).

HARRISON, George Leib, philanthropist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 28 Oct., 1811 ; d. there, 9 Sept., 1885. He entered Harvard, but owing to feeble health was not able to complete his course. He subsequently read law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. but never practised. He then engaged in sugar-refining, and amassed a large fortune, of which he gave liberally. He was a trustee of the Protestant Episcopal divinity-school of Philadelphia, and was several times a delegate to the general convention of his church. He was appointed a member of the board of state charities in 1869, and was for several years the president of that body. In 1874 he was president of the first general convention of the board of public charities held in New York, and afterward sent to the Brit- ish government, by request, much information on the subject of public charities, for which he re- ceived the thanks of that government. By ap- pointment of the governor of Pennsylvania, he went to England to solicit the removal of the re- mains of William Penn to Philadelphia, but his mission was unsuccessful. On his return he pub- lished an account of it. He also wrote " Chapters on Social Science as connected with the Adminis- tration of State Charities" (Philadelphia. 1877), and compiled " Legislation on Insanity," a collec- tion of lunacv laws (1884).

HARRISON, Gessner, educator, b. in Harrisonburg, Va., 26 June, 1807; d. near Charlottesville, Va., 7 April. 1862. In 1825 he entered the University of Virginia and received degrees from the schools of ancient languages and medicine in 1828. He was then appointed professor of ancient languages on the retirement of Prof. George Long, and served till 1848, when he established at Belmont, Va., a classical school, which had a wide