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 HERRINUSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHT. Harrah, Charles Jefferson, nuTrhant, wan Uorn Jan. 1, IS 7, in i'lnludelphia. I'a, In 1852-57 he wais proprietor Of A ship yard at Kio Janoiro; and then enpaged in railroad and navigation enterpriscH. nnuiH.sing a large fortune, with which he rt turnod to his native city in 1H74. lis died Feb. 18, 1

1890, in Philadelpbiti, Pa. Harrell, Mrs. Sarah Carmichael,

ance reformer, waa burn Jan. b. Brookville. 1m1. Tn 1891 she waa appointed a


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Harrieay William Henry, soldier, lawyer, congressman, tras bom Jan. 16, 1843, in ^lontgomery county, Ohio. In 1864 lu- was commissioned captain of company F. third United States veteran volunteers; and was discharged from the army in 1866. H<' h^s been county attorney two terms; and in

1891-03 he was a representative to the fifty* second congress as a democrat, lie was appointed collector of internal revenue in 1894 for the state of Minnesota. Harriet, mother superior, was bom May Tn 1865 she 7, 1823. in Charleston. S.C. <oiiiiininit

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-'>. Issi. ill Concord, N.H. Harrington, C. E., educator, poet, composFor many years he was professor of latin in the Wesleyan university of Middletown, Conn. He died in Middletown, Gonn. Harrington, Charles, niucitor. pliy>iiian, iiuthor. was born July 20, 185G, iu Salem, .Mass. In 1898-1906 he was assistant proft ^..or of hygiene at Harvard medical schnol and is now professor of hygiene. For nine year he was chemist to the state board of

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of the legislature of New Hampshire. He is the author of The Draft of Young Men in Re lation to the Churcln -. Harrington, Ebeneser Burke, Uwyer, state senator, author, was bora in 1813 near Lyons, N.I I. He u;i-i eli ctcd a nicniVK r of the .Micliigau state senate in 1839; and acted as state reporter in 1830-44. He was the anfhor of Harrington's Chancery Reports. He died in 1S44 in l)etroit, Mich. Harrington, Henry Hill, educator, college president, ch* mist, author, was born Dec. IJ. ls.-,0. in lUicna Vista, Mis.s. hi ISS.*} he graduated from the agricultural and mechanical college of I^Iississippi and did special work in chemistry in the Michigan agriIn 1885 (ultural and mechanical college. he was with the Ck>nnecticut experiment station at New Haven and in 1882-88 was assistant professor of clicniistry and physics at the agricultural and mechanical college of Mississippi. Tn 1890-1906 he was state hi en chemist of Texas; and sincc 18SS Vi chemist in the Unitt^d States experimental stations in Texas. He is the author of sevNfoni>;.'rap1i'* on Economic Agriculture. cr;il He is now president of the agricultural and mechanical college of Texas; is professor of