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HARKER

ogy and geology at Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, 1888-91, and of biology at Syracuse univer- sity, N.Y., from 1891. He was associate director and lecturer of the Marine biological laboratory of the Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences. 18i»- G3. and in 1894 conducted investigations in the Naples zoological station. Italy. He receiveil the degree of Ph.D. from Ohio university in 1890. He is the author of numerous scientific papers, reviews, etc., contributed to various scientific journals in Europe and America. He was elected a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, and a member of the American society of naturalists, the Amer- ican morphological society, and of other scien- tific organizations. He was president of the New York State science teachers" association in 1898. He was married, July 2G, 1877, to Susan E., daughter of the Rev. Enoch G. Wood, D.D. of Indiana.

HARGROVE, Robert Kennon, ME. bishop, was lH)rn in Pii-keiis (-(ninty. Ala., Sept. 17, 1829. He entered the soplioinore cla.ssof the University of AlaUima and was graduated in 1852, receiving his A.M. degree in 18.j5. He was instructor in matliematics, 1852-53, at the University of Ala- bama; succeeded Professor Benagh as professor of mathematics in 1853; and was associate pro- fessor of mathematics, 1854-57. He was licensed as a Methodist minister in 1857, and was pastor of churches in Columbus, Miss., Mobile. Ala., and el-sewhere, 1857-05; was president of the Centenary institute, Summerfield, Ala., 1865-67; president of the Tennessee female college, Frank- lin, Tenn., 1868-73; and preached on stations, 1873-82. He was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in 1882, and was the first to urge tfie adoption of the bond-scheme that .saved the book concern at Nasiiville from bankruptcy. He originated the department of woman's work to secure comfortable Iiomes for the clergj-men of the clmrch, forced by the itin- erant system to make frequent changes of resi- dence, and was a member of the commission which in 1876 established fraternal relations between the Methodi.st churches, north and soutli. He succeeded Bi.shop McTyeire as presi- dent of the Ijoar.l of trustees of Vanderbilt uni- versity in May, 1889. was a member of the committee on federation, AVashington, DC, Jan- uary, 1N99; wKTftary of the college of bishops, 1884-1900. and cliairman of committees on uppli- ciitions. and on translation, for foreign mi.ssions.

HARINQ, John, representative, was born in Taj.pan, N.Y., Sept. 28. 1739. His giandi»arents were natives of Holland and settled in Orange county. N.Y. He was a representative in the first four i>rovincial congresses of the colony of New York and a delegate to the Continental con-

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gresses of 1774-75 and of 1785-87. He was elected a member of the New York assembly of 1776. which assembly never organized. He was a justice of the county sessions. 1778-88; state senator 1781-90; a minority member of the state convention that ratified the Federal constitu- tion; and a commissioner from New York to set- tle with Mas- sachusetts the COAKJRE.SS claim for the halu

western do- main claimed by New York, through royal

grant, through.

purchase from ^

the Indians,

and through the British treaty. The state voted,

A]n-il 19, 1780, to transfer it to the Federal union

and it became the vast northwest territory. He

died in Blauveltville. X.Y., Ai)ril 1. 1809.

HARK, Joseph Maximilian, educator, was born in l^liiladelpliia. Pa., June 4, 1849; son of Josejih and Marie Louise (Bute) Hark, and grandson of Gotlob Hark of Germany, and of George Bute, M.D. He was graduated from Nazareth Hall, Nazareth, Pa., in 1865 and from the Moravian college and theological seminary at Bethlehem, Pa., in 1870. He was pastor of the Moravian church at Lebanon, Pa., 1873-76; of the second Moravian church in Philadelphia, 1876-81, and of the Moravian church in Lancas- ter, Pa., 1881-93. In 1893 he became principal of the Moravian seminary and college for women at Bethlehem. Pa., the oldest women's school in America, having been established in 1749. He was one of the founders of the Lancaster count7 historical society, of the Pennsylvania German .society, a member of the Cliosopliic club and a founder and the first cliancellor of the Pennsyl- vania Cliautauqua. He received the degree of D.D. fi-om Franklin and Marshall college, Lan- caster, Pa., in 1887. He was associate editor of the Moravian and of the Pennsylvania School Journal. He is the author of The Unity of the Truth in Christianity and Evolution (1888); Choni- con £'7)/irrt(«?>ise translated and ec'ited (1889); and numerous contributions to the OutlooJ,-. the »V?i7i- (lay School Times, the Christian Uni(jn and the

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HARKER, Charles G.. soldier, was born in Sweedsboro, N.J., Dec. 2, 1837. He was gradu- ated at the U.S. military academy in 1858, and assigned to the 2d U.S. infantry. He was pro- moted 1st lieutenant and transferred to the 15th infantry. May 14, 1861; and captain. Oct. 24, 1861. when he was made lieutenant-colonel of the 65th Ohio volunteers, being promoted to the rank of colonel, Nov. 11, 1861. He served with