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In 184tf he was appoiiitod

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llv diuti reappoiuttid I'ur u accoud ttTin. 1, 1887, in Cialveston, Toxus. Harris, Jonathan Newton, nu'n liant, banker, state senator, philanthropist, was born Nov. 18, 1815, in bulem, (.onn. in 1S48 he establiahed the lirm of J^. Harris and Conver, of Ciii'^innati, Ohio, whieh has continued tor half a tiiiiun. He was a menibt r of tlu* legislature in 1855, and of the statu Hviiule in 1864. He founded the Harris scliool of >Lience in Kioto, .Ttipan. He died Oct. 18, 18U(i, in iievi Loudou, (Jonn. Harris, Joseph Smith, railroad prv«ident, autlior, was born April "if, 183G, in t lu'ster county, Pa. Since 1893 he has been dent uf tlu' Philadelphia and Heading rail lie is the author of RccHird ol tlu; road. llarrib Family; Record of the Siuilh Fani ily; and Ancestry of Children of .lo>eph

April

hniith Harris and Delia SSilliman Brodhead. Harris, Lee 0., soldier, educator, author, li.Htvr poet, was born Jan. 30, 1830. in county. Pa. lie served in the union army during the cItU war; and was major of the Indiana ii-gioii. He is the aullior of a novel (

entitlcil The

Man Who Trampuj and

a

vol-

ume

of poems entitled Interludes. Harris, Linnie Sarah, litti ratfnir. imtlinr. was born Jan. 15, 1808, in l-^ist .laLlii;i>, Maine. She ia the author of Bertlui'.-. Sum iner Itoarders; Xlie Young Capitalist; and

Swer

t l'egg>'.

Harris, Mark, state senator, inn'. from Maine to the beveulcenth congrc^M to He died March 2, 1843, in fill a vacancy. New V.Mk. Harris, Maurice Henry, clergViTiaii. ;nitli<>r. was Imrn Nov. M, 1859, in London. Kn^daud. Mis ciirly rdiication was reeeivi-d in Loii dun; and in 1887 he graduated from tWr llr Columbia university of New York lias received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. Since 1883 he has been rabbi of the temple

was born

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Israel of llarloni, N.Y. president of the society

Ilf

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for aid of .iewinh prisoners; and has been second viee-pre»i.|i lit of the N< v York luiard of .lewish minHe ia the autiior of Selected Adisters. dresses, in three volumes; and lN'o|tle of the H«M>k, a T?ili!iral

in thrc-e volume-'.

lli-itorv

Merrimam

Colbert, stildier. elergynnm. insliop, auihnr. w.ii born .Inly !), 1640, He served three years in Heall-iville, Ohio. in the iwelfth Ohio vohinleer cavalrj' dnring the civil war. In 1H73 St» lie was a mis Harris,

sionary in Japan; and

in

1886 1904 wa.s su-

Sinee IIXU lie has lieen I'ranei^co, Cal. methodist episcopal bisliop of Ja|>an and Korea.
 * >erint«ndent of the .Iai>ahe«te mission in San

He

is

the author of

One Hundred Years

of .li^»i<«ns; .lapane^e I'roverlw; and Japan an a Mission Field. Harris, Mrs. Miriam, anflior, was lH»rn. Inly 7, 1834, in Dosoris, L.l. She i» the an •

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lands;

Kiehanl 'andermarck Philip's;

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Happy Go Lueky

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^y; Frank Warrington; A Perfect Adonis; I'hoebe; An L tter Failure; Louie's I^ist Term al St. Mary's; and The Rosary for Lent, a compilation. Harris, Nathaniel E., soldier, lawyer, railroad president, statesman, was born Jan. 21, 1846, in Jonesboro, Tenn. In 1870 he gradIn uate4 was eleete«l a member of the state senate. In 1872 he l>egan the practice of hiw; since 1880 has been wan a tiustee ut the university of (Jeorgia a Sounder and trustee of the (jieorgut school of technology since 1880; and president of the Maeon and" Northern railway. He be;
 * erved on statr; and until 1805 wa:. on duty

of Maeon camp number 1477 of Georgia; and in lOOS delivered the address jit the United confederate eteriin>' HMinion at l..ouisviUe, Ky. In l!M)y he niaf Chicago, 111. Harris, Robert, congressman, was born in l>an]>lnn cminfy. I'a. In 1823-27 he was a ie|)ii-,i iii;itie from Pennsylvania to the ei;{lit4enth and nineteenth congresses. He

came commander .iMMual

nian. was born Feb. 23, 1809. g<'oi|etie snrv. .

in

KIbert county,

111

the

Ceoi'^'i:!

(Ja.

He

!ei.'i>la1 urr-.

served one term

He moved

to

.MalMUia: and was there appointed prosecutInf! attorney for the state. In 1847'67 he

was

representative from Alabama to t'le thirty-first, thirty-second, iliirtyhirty-fourth eongre.sse-i. He died April 1, 1857, it' V:isliington, D.C. Harris, Samuel, cler;.'y!nan. waa born Jan. 1:!. !7i-'l. ill Hsniover county, Va. He was a colonel of the militia and a baptist divine; and was ordained an apoetle by the gentral a

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