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LEFT HARROW 477 HARTFORD in command of Fort Washington, on the present site of Cincinnati, 0. On the conclusion of the war, he became Secre- tary of the Northwest Territory (1798), resigning the next year to enter Congress as delegate from that Territory. In 1801 he was appointed governor of Indiana Territory, and made superintend- ent of Indian Affairs. He made im- portant treaties with the Indians, and won considerable fame by a victory over a force of Indians, in the battle of Tippe- canoe, in 1811. In 1812 he was intrusted with full military command on the Northwest frontier, with the rank of Brigadier-General, and the following year was promoted to Major-General. During this year he distinguished him- self by his defense of Fort Meigs, and in the battle of the Thames. After the War of 1812, he was sent to Congress, 1816; to the Ohio State Senate, 1819; to to United States Senate, 1825; and as United States minister to Columbia, 1828. After a retirement of 12 years, he was nominated for the presidency by the Whig party, against Van Buren, in the famous "log-cabin" and "hard cider" campaign. Harrison was said by his op- ponents to live in a log cabin and to be given to the habit of drinking hard cider. These reproaches were turned into watch-words by the Whigs, and aroused unprecedented enthusiasm. He died April 4, 1841, just a month after his in- auguration, leaving the presidency to the Vice-President, John Tyler. HARROW, or HARROW-ON-THE- HILL, an English town in Middlesex. Its "visible church," which crowns the hill-top, was founded by Lanfranc, and rebuilt about the middle of the 14th cen- tury. HARROW SCHOOL was founded in 1571 by John Lyon, a wealthy yeoman, who died in 1592; but the original red brick school house (now the Fourth Form School) was not built till 1608- 1615. New buildings have been added since 1819, the chief of these being the Second-pointed chapel (1857), the Vaughan Memorial Library (1863), and the semicircular Speech-room (1877). The school was primarily intended to afford a free education to 30 poor boys of the parish; but the statutes; drawn up by the founder two years be- fore his death, provided also for the admission of "so many foreigners as the place can conveniently contain" and it is to that provision that Harrow, though not richly endowed, owes its proud posi- tion among the great schools of England. The age of admission is 12 to 14; and there are six or seven entrance scholar- Vol. IV— Cyc— EE ships, of from $150 to $400 per annum, offered every Easter. Of leaving schol- arships, the most valuable are Baring's three of $500 a year for five years to Hertford College, Oxford. Under the Public Schools Act of 1868 the govern- ing body comprises six members, elected respectively by the Lord Chancellor, the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, the Royal Society, and the un- dermasters. HART, ALBERT BUSHNELL, an American educator; born in Clarksville, Pa., July 1, 1854; became Professor of History at Harvard University. He wrote "Coercive Powers of the United States Government" (1885); "Introduc- tion to the Study of Federal Govern- ment" (1890) ; "Studies in Education"; "Life of Salmon P. Chase"; "Practical Essays on American Government"; "Essentials of American History" (1905); "The Southern South" (1911); "The War in Europe" (1914); "Na- tional Progress" (1918). Edited "Epochs of American History," etc. Exchange professor of Harvard with University of Berlin (1915). HARTE, FRANCIS BRET, an Amer- ican novelist and poet; born in Albany, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1839. He went to Cali- fornia in 1854, and figured as a coal dealer, a teacher, and a typesetter on the "Golden Era," in which appeared some of his earliest literary efforts. He next became editor of the "Californian," and in 1864 secretary to the United States Mint at San Francisco; in 1868 he be- came editor of the "Overland Monthly," in which appeared, in 1869. the humor- ous poem of "The Heathen Chinee." In 1878 he became United States consul at Crefeld, whence he was transferred to Glasgow in 1880, and remained there till 1885. Among his best known works ai-e "The Luck of Roaring Camp"; "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"; "The Argo- nauts of '49"; "Two Men of Sandy Bar"; "Gabriel Conroy"; "Mrs. Skagg's Hus- bands"; "East and West Poems"; "In the Carquinez Woods"; "Maruja, a Novel"; "Crusade of the Excelsior"; "A Waif of the Plains"; "A Ward of the Golden Gate"; "A Sappho of Green Springs"; "Susy"; "Three Partners"; "Tales of Trail and Town"; "Under tl^ Redwoods"; etc. He died May 5, 1902. HARTFORD, a city, capital of the State of Connecticut, port of entry and county-seat of Hartford co. ; on the Con- necticut river and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and the New Eng- land and New York railroads; 36 miles N. E. of New Haven. It is an important commercial and manufacturing city, and