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Harris, Samuel, educator, clergyumn. college pr«'Hi»i 'III. uuthor, was born June 14, 1814, in Kaat MachiaB, Maine. He ia a oongregatioBftl elergy-

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Kevelation of <3od; CliTlat's Prayer fbr the Doalh of His Kedecnied; and (iod: Crcutor and Ixird of Alt. He died June 25, 1899, in Litclifield,

Conn.

Harris, Samuel Smith, flcrjjyman, bishop, author, was born .Sept. 14^ l:i41, in Autauga county. Ala. He was the aeeond protestant episcopal bishop of Michigan. Ho wan the author of The Dignity of Man; Chrintianity And Civil Society; Thoughts *ocia-

tion from its organi zation; and was president of the association in i«ni. In I8nr> n7 lie was a repn s.ntativc to the fifty-fourth eonjrress as a republi-

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Hucyrus, Oliio. Harris, Tbaddeus Mason, clergyman, au-

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7, 1768, in CTiarfostoMm, In 170.3 lfi42 lie was .i unil.iriaii e!ei of Dorchester. He wa.s the author uf Diseouraes in Favor of Freemasonry; Journal of a Tour in fhe Northwest Tt>rritory; .Memorials of the Firsl Cluircli at Dorchester; Biogrupliical Memoirs of .Tames (^jrle(horpe; and Natural History of the Bible. He died April 8, 1842. in Dorchester. Mas«, Harris, Tbaddeus William, entomoin^r;,! physician, author, was bom Nov. 12. 171).'). In I>orchester, Mass. He was librarian of lla'vard university in IS.'U .It!. He was the author of Systematic Catalogue of the In-

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of Mamaehtisetts, and a valuable work He died Cambridge, Mass. Hanit, Thomas Cadwalader, naval ofDcer. was bom Nov. 18, I82ff, in Philadelphia, Pa, i;eots

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In-»l lege at Hartford, Conn., and in 1842 Im-^mu the praettce of law in Sprinj^field, III. In 184(5 lie was elected a nierttlf r of the Hli nois state senate, but did not accept, as he was serviii;; in the Mexican war. In 1840.»! and 18.').') ."ia he was a representative from Illinois to the thirty first, thirty-fourth and tiiirty-flfth contrresscs and was re elected to l

the thirty-sixth but did not serve. He die«l Nov. 24, 1858, in Petersburg. Til. Harris, Thomas Lake, pliilo-dpli. r. nitlmr. was born May 15, 1823, in England. He is a mystical philosopher, and founded the Hrotherhood of the New Life. He is the author of Epics of the Starry Heavens; Modem Spiritualism; Lyric of the Morning T^and Truth and Life in Jesus; The Millen;

of Chri.stianity ; and The of the Adepts; and God's Breath in

nium Ago; Arcana

Wisdom Man.

Harris, Thomas Le Grand, educator, banlcer, author, was bom in 1863. in Hamilton county, Tnd. He taught school for several ypars; and subsequently graduated from the Indiana university, in which institution he is an instructor in history. He is a suc-

banker and ftnan<*ier; and a member asHorlation and American hist Western association of writers. He is the anthor of Tbe Trent Affair and Kelations with England at the Banning of tbe Civil War.
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the war to scientific farminir: served a term in the lejrislaturc of West Virjrinia in 1867: was adiutant-general of the state in IRflO 70: and was pension agent at Wheeling in 1S71-77. He Is the author of medical nnnv* .1 tr;ic) I'l^fitled T.ilvini^m Vii"1ii"
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>f Harris, Townsend. merchant, diplomat, founder, was bom Oct. 6. 1803. In f^ndy Hill. N.Y. He was one nf the fntinders of the Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals : and of the Central nark museum f natural history. He was United States eon-Ill at Ninppo in 18.t4; in 18.5fi made a new treaty for the United States with Siamj and on the oneninp of .Tanan hv fommodore Matthew C. Perry, was selected as a fit person to follow up the work that had heeti he iinn bv Amerlean diploma ev. He died Feb. 2.1. 1878. in ITew Yoik CItv. Harris, Victor, educator, mnsicinn. composer yas born April 27. 1809. In New York ity He has published over fifty compoal1' tiona, mostly nongs. For ten years be was a I

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