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the Yale tlivinity scliool In July. 1891, he closed his work at Yale to accept the presiilency ot the University of Chicago, ami the head -professor- ship of the department of Semitic languages and

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literatures. In addition to these various duties in isso he conceived the idea of and instituted the Hehrew correspondence school, and in 1884 the American Institute of Hebrew was organized under his direction and incorporated under the laws of Illinois. ThLs later became the American institute of sacred literature. He was elected a member of the American historical association and of other learned societies. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him bj- CoU)y in 1891, and that of LL.D. by the University of Nebraska in 189:3. He edited the BihUcal World, the Ameri- can Journal of Semitic Laur/uaffes and Literatures (formerly Ilehraica) and is joint author of nu- merous text-books including the following: Ele- ments of Hehreio (1886); Introductory Method and Manual (1886); Inductive Greek Method (1888); In- ductite Latin Method (1888); Elements of Ilehrexo Syntax (1888); An Introductory Xew Testament, Greek Method {\>i%H) \ Hebrew Vocabularies {\%Q0) \ Inductive Latin Primer (1891); VirgiVs yEneid (1892); VirijiVs uEneid and Bucolics (1898); Caesar's Gallic War (1893); Inductive Greek Primer (1893); Greek Prose Composition (1893); Xeno- phon's Anabasis, seven books, with notes and vocabulary (1893); and Cicero's Orations and Selections from the Letters (1898).

HARPER, William St. John, painter and illu.strator, was l)orn in Rhinebeck, N.Y'., Sept. 8, 18.51; son of William R. and Mary J. (St. John) Harper; grand.son of John and Jane (Harkness) Harper of Harpersfield. Delaware county, N.Y'., and a descendant of Benjamin St. John of New Haven, Conn., ami Wilkesbarre, Pa., and a mem- ber of the St. John family which settled in Con- necticut in the seventeenth century. He was educated at Pittsfield, Mass.. and at the College grammar school Brooklyn. N.Y'., and studied art in the National academy of design. New Y'ork, and in Paris under Munkacsy and Bonnat: also in England and Holland. He was manager of the art

department of the New Y^ork Daily Graphic, the first illustrated daily paper published, 1878-79, and i)resideut of the Art Students' league of New York, 1881-83. He was elected a member of the New Y'ork etching club in 1884, and of the Na- tional academy of design in 1893, and received the Clarke prize in 1893, for his painting entitled '•Autumn.'" He was married, Aug. 5, 1886, to Maiy Palmer Hedderwick of London, England He made many etchings and dry points, both original and reproductive, and illustrated numer- ous line editions of the standard i)oets, romances, school books and historical works. His more im- portant paintings include: A Fairy Tale (1886); An Opera Night (1887); The Beach Patrol (1890); Spring Sunshine (1896); A Legend of Spring (1897); The Silent Snow (1898); Mayjloicers (1899); and October in East Hampton (1899).

HARRIMAN, Walter, governor of New Hamp- shire, was l)orn in \Varuer. N.H., April 8, 1817; sou of Beujainin E. Harriman, and a descendant of Leonard Harriman who came from England with the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers and settled in Rowlej-, Mass., in 1638. He was educated in the district school and at Hopkinton academy, and later taught school and studied theolog}'. In 1841 he was married to Ap- phia K., daughter of Capt. Stephen Hoyt of Warner, N.H., and became minister of the Universal ist church, Harvai-d,

Mass., where he re- mained in active ser- vice four years. He was again married in 1844 to Almira R. An-

drews. He built a new --^^^-^^,,^ church m Warner.

N.H., and served that congregation, at the same time engaging in secular business. He abandoned the ministiy in 18.")1; repre.sented his town in the general court of the state. 1850-.')1; was state treasurer, 1853-54; commissioner to classifj' and ai)in-aise Indian lands in Kansas, 1856; represent- ative in the general court, 1858; state senator, 1859-60; editor of the Union Democrat. 1861-63; and colonel of the 11th N.H. volunteers, 1863-65, his first battle being Fredericksburg, December, 1863. He was taken prisoner in the battle of the Wilderne.ss, May 6, 1864, and was under the fire of the Union guns at Charleston, S.C, for fifty-two days with forty-nine other Fed- eral oflicers. He was exchanged Aug. 4, 1864, and returned home on furlough but rejoined his regimeot before Petersburg in 1865, where he