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80 iiuliutiul

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juri-sUs

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and

lawyers

iic'ld in tSt. Louis, Mo.; and in li)U8 wua a delegate fruiu Luuiaiana lu the national divorce congress; and abu tu Ihe senatorial congrei>s held at Des Moinis in the same year, lor over thirty years he has practiced law; for several years was a nieiuber of the executive committee of the Louisiana bar association; was a nieniher of the constitutional convention of Louisiana of 1UU8; was

jtresideutial elector in 19UU; and a member of the national democratic convention of 1UU8. In I9U7 he delivered a course of lectures on jurisprudence of Louisiana to the law school of the J^ouisiana state university. In 1908 he was appointed a member of the

commission to revise the iana; and

is

now

civil code of Louisactively engaged in that

work. Hart, William Henry Harrison, lawyer of San Francisco, Cal., was Ixirn Jan. 25, 1848, in Yorkshire, England. Ue served throughout the civil war. lie is an eminent lawyer, and has made a specialty of criminal, commercial and corporation law. In 1890-94 he was iittorney general of California. Hart, William, artist, was born March 31, 1823, in Scotland. At the organizatitm of the Brooklyn academy of design in 1805, he became its president, and continued in that office

several

years.

He

exhibited

at

the

The September Snow; the Woods of Maine; Scene

National academy.

and Autumn in on the Peabody River, light

in water colors; Twion the Brook. He died June 17, 1894, Vernon, N.Y

in .Mount

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Francis Bret, journalist, autlior, born Aug. '£3, 1839, in Albany, N.Y. He is a California writer who first drew public attention in 1808 by a short Harte,

poet,

w«is

.story

oulU^<l

The Luck

of

lloaring

Camp,

published in the Overland Monthly, which This tale and the now famous lie edited. Language from Trulhtul James, established his reputation. From 1871 to 1878 he resided in New York, and since that date lived abroad, mainly in Ijondmi from 18S.1. In 1878 80 he was C iiited St^ites consul at Crcfeld, (Jermany; and at Glasgow, Scotland, in 1880-85. He died May 5, 1!H»2, in London, England. His writings include Condensed Novels; The Luck of Roaring Camp, and other Sketches; Mrs. Skagg's Husbands; Tales of the .•rg«)naut.s (iabriel Coiiroy; Two Men of Sandy Rar, a play; The Story of a Mine; Drift from Two Shores; Thankful Blo'>som; The Twint* of Table Mountain; Ry Shore and Sedgi'; Flip, and Found at Blazing Star; in the Car.Maruja; qiiine/. Wo<m1s; On the Frontier; Snow-Roinul at Kgie's; The Queen of the Pirate lsli a Child's Story; A Millionaire of Rough and-Ready ; The Crusade of the Kxcelsior; A Phyllis of the Sierras; The Argonauts of North Liberty; Cressy; The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh; A Waif of the Plains; A Ward of the Goldtn Gale; A Sappho of Green Springs; Colonel Starbottie's Client; A First Family of Tasajara; peoiii. I'lain



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Susy; Proti-ge of Jack Hamlin's; Sally of Angel's; Clarence; and In a Hollow of the Hills; Barker's Luck. In verse he has published East and West Poems; Echoes of the Foot Hills. Harte, Richard Hickman, physician, surg»-oii, author, was born Oct. 23, 1855, in Rock Island, 111. Since 1902 he has been
 * issociat4> professor of surgery in the university of Pi>nnsylvania; is surgeim to the

Pennsylvania and the Orthopaedic hospituls and consulting surgeon to St. Mary's, to St. Timothy's and to Bryn Mawr hospitals of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of lIuiidlKjok of Local Therapeutics. Harte, Walter Blackburn, author, was born in 1800 in Canada. He is the author

Dows; The Bell-Ringer

of Meditations in Motley.

Harter, George Abram, educator, mathematician, college president, was born Nov. In 1888-96 he 7, 1S53, in Leitersburg, Md. was professor of mathematics and physics; and since 1890 has been president of Dela-

ware college of Newark, Del. Harter, Michael D., banker, manufacturer, congressman, was l)orn April 0, 1840, in Canton, Ohio. In 1891-95 he was a representative from Ohio to the fifty-second and fifty third congresses as a democrat. He tiled

Feb. 22, 1890, in Fostoria, Ohio.

Hartley, Cecil B., litterateur, author. He of Louis Wetzel, the Virginia Ranger; Lives of Empress Josephine, Francis Marion, Daniel Boone; Hunting Spots in the West; Lives of the Three Mrs.

was the author

Judsons; and Pictorial Teaching and Bible Illustration.

Hartley, Henry Alexander Satumin, ch-rmissionary, physician, author, was born Dec.18,1801, in Port of Spain, Trinida«L He has filled pastorat^'s the .merican nu'thodist episcopal church in Bridgeport. Conn.; Amherst 9I^^H

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and Nova Scotia. He graduated from the law department of Central Tennea-

waA

see

admitted to the nessee 94 he

In

was

medical

missionary in the diocese of Georgia. In 1894-95 he was rector of St. Mary's church" of Keokuk, Iowa, am! subsw|uently rector of St. Mary's church and principal of St. Mary's collegiate school of Viekr-burg. Miss. In 1895-90 he was medical missionary in diocese of British Guiana;
 * ind in 1897-98 was consul for the republic

of Lil>eria. In 1899 he was medical missionary in diocese of British Guiana: and in 1H97 98 was con .ul for the republic of Liberia. In 1809 he was medical missionary ill the diocese of Honduras: and since 1900 has lM»en eiigjiged in educational and missionary work ill Hayti. He is the author of