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Tiomical directorship, lie was appointed director of the Nautical Almanac on June 80.1897, and both of these otiices he held until his detachment from all duty on Dec. 15, 1899, preliminary to his retire- ment for age on Dec. 17, 1899, when he was pro- moted to the rank of rear-admiral. Professor Harkness was given the degree of A.M. by Lafay- ette college in 1865, and LL.D. by the University of Rochester in 1874. He wrote many scientific papers, was a member of numerous scientific so- •oieties, and president of the American association for the advancement of science in 1893. He died in Jersey City, N.J., Feb. 28, 1903.

HARLAN, Andrew Jackson, representative, was born in Clinton county, Ohio, March 29, 1815; son of Jonathan and Hannah (Morrison), and grandson of Enoch and Edith (Carter) Harlan. He tauglit school at Evansville, Ind., 1886-38, when he removed to Marion, Ind., and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was ■clerk of the house of representatives of the state, 1842-43; represented Grant county in the state legislature, 1846, 1847 and 1848; was a Cass and Butler elector in 1848, and a representative in the 31st and 33d congresses, 1849-51 and 1853-55. In congress he oppo.sed the Missouri compromise and was censured by his party when he joined the Republicans. In 1861 he settled in Dakota Territory and was a member, and speaker of the house of delegates. 1882-63. He removed to Sa- vannah, Mo., in February, 1863; was a member ■of the state legislature, 1864-68, and speaker, 1866-68. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1864, 1868, and 1876, and a candidate for lieutenant-governor of Missouri in 1870. He removed to Wakeeney, Kansas, in 1885: was postmaster, 1889-94, and returned to Savannah, Mo., in 1894.

HARLAN, George Cuvier, surgeon, was born in Pailadelphia, Pa., Jan. 28, 1835; son of Richard auil Margaret Hart (Simmons) Harlan. He attended Delaware college and w^as graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1858. He made a special study of the eye and in 1857 was resident physician of Wills eye hospital of Philadelphia. In 1858 he became resident phj'sician of St. Joseph's hospital and in 1859 of the Pennsylvania hospital. During the civil war he was surgeon in the Federal army, being for a time attached to the gunboat Union, and for three years serving with the 11th Penn- sylvania cavalry. In 1893 he was elected professor of diseases of the eye in the Philadelphia poly- clinic. He also became surgeon to the Wills eye hospital and to the eye and ear department of the Pennsylvania hospital, and was president of the American ophthalmological society. He was elected a member of the American academy of medicine in 1882. He contributed Diseases of the

Orbit, to Wood's Reference Hand Book, and Diseases of the Eyelids and OperpMons Performed Upon the Eyelids to the System of Diseases of the Eye by Nor r is and Oliver. He also revised the ophthal- mological portion of the American edition of The System of Suryery by Holmes and of The System of Surgery by Gross ; and contributed articles on his specialty to various professional journals.

HARLAN, James, representative, was born in Mercer county, Kentucky, June 22, 1800; son of James and Mary Harlan. His father was born in Berkeley. Va., and removed to Kentucky in 1774, with his brother, Maj. Silas Harlan, who was killed at the battle of Blue Licks in 1782. James attended the public schools and at the age of seventeen became a clerk in a mercantile house, remaining in that business until 1822. He then took up the study of the law, was admitted to the bar in 1823 and settled at Harrodsburg, Ky. In 1829 he was appointed prosecuting attorney for the circuit in which he resided and held the oftice four years. He was a Whig representative from Kentucky in the 45th and 46th congresses, 1877-81. He was secretary of state of Kentucky, 1840-44; served in the lower house of the legislature in 1845; and was attorney-general of the state, 1850- 63. He was one of the authors of the Kentuckj^ civil and criminal codes. He died in Harrods- burg, Ky., Feb. 23, 1863.

HARLAN, James, statesman, was born in Clark county. 111., Aug. 26, 1820; son of Silas and Mary (Conley) Harlan. The Conleys came from Maryland and the Harlans from Pennsyl- vania, both emigrating to Warren county, Ohio, and there Silas and Mary were married, removed to Clark county. 111., and settled on a farm. In 1824 they removed to the forests of Indiana, where they cleared a farm and made a new home. In May, 1841, James received his freedom and a gift of §100 from his father. He entered Indiana As- bury university,

Greencastle, Ind., and was graduated with the highest honors in 1845, receiving his A.M. degree in 1848. He paid his way through college by farm work and teaching a district school. He was married in 1845 to Ann Eliza Peck, and in 1846 they went to Iowa City, where he had received the appointment as princi- pal of the Iowa City college. In 1847 he was elected on the Whig ticket as state superintend-

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