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commanded a brigade. He was brevetted briga- dier-geueral of volunteers, March 18, I860; was secretary of state of New Hampshire, 1865-66; governor of the state, 1867-68; naval officer at Boston. Mass., by appointment of President Grant, 1869-77, and a representative to the gen- eral court in 1881. Dartmouth college made him an honorary A.M. in 1867. He published History of Warner, X.H. (1879); &ud In the Orient (1883). He died at Concord, N.H., July 25, 1884.

HARRINGTON, Calvin Sears, educator, was born in East St. Johnsbury, Vt., May 17, 1826;

son of Isaac and (Wright) Harrington. He

was graduated at Wesleyan university in 1852, and taught Latin in the New Hampshire confer- ence seminary and female college, Sanbornton Bridge, N.H., 1852-55. He joined the New Hamp- shire conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, 1854; was principal of the New Hamp- shire conference seminary, 1855-60; professor of the Greek language and literature in Wesleyan university, 1861-63, and of the Latin language and literature, 1863-86. He was a delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episco- pal church in 1872, and in 1873 he travelled extensively in Europe. He was married to Eliza C, daughter of Abner and Mary (Goss) Chase of Lempster, N.H., Aug. 10, 1852, and their son Karl Pomeroy was graduated at Wesleyan in 1882. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon Professor Harrington by the Ohio Wesleyan university in 1877. He was on the committee of re- vision of the Methodist Episcopal church hj-mnal, 1878. He published T. Macci Plauti Captivi, with English notes, critical and explanatory, in 1870, besides many poems and articles for the Methodist Quarterly Beview and the Ladies'' Sepository. He died in Middletown, Conn., Feb. 16, 1886.

HARRINGTON, Henry Hill, educator, was born in Chickasaw county, Mi.ss., Dec. 14, 1859; son of John T. and Margaret W. (Belk) Harring- ton: grandson of James and Sallie Harrington, and of William and Nancy Belk, and a descendant of Charles Harrington. He was graduated from the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Mississippi, A.B., 188a? A.M., 1885; and was en- gaged in special chemical investigations before graduating, in the Michigan Agricultural and Mechanical college, 1882. He was assistant pro- fessor of chemistry and physics in the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical college, 1882-88. He studied in the Connecticut experiment station at New Haven, Conn., in 1885, and at the Rensse- laer polytechnic institute in 1888. He was elected professor of chemistry and minei'alogy at the Agricultural and Mechanical coUege of Texas, and chemist of the Texas-United States experi- ment station in 1888. He was vice-president of the Texas academy of science in 1899. He is the

author of numerous papers on economic agricul- ture, and of a bulletin of the Texas geological survey on the Soils and Water of West 2'exas.

HARRINGTON, Karl Pomeroy, educator, was born in Great Falls, N.H., June 13, 1861; son of Calvin Sears and Eliza (Chase) Harrington, and

grandson of Isaac and (Wright) Harrington,

and of Abner and Mary (Goss) Cliase. He was educated at the public high school in Middletown, Conn., and at Wesleyan academy, Wilbraham, Mass., and was graduated from "Wesleyan univer- sity, A.B., 1882, A.M., 1885. He was classical master in the high school, Westfield, Mass., 1882- 85 ; professor of Latin, Wesleyan academy, 1885- 87; student in the University of Berlin, 1887-89; travelled in Greece and Italy in 1889 ; was a tutor of Latin at Wesleyan university, 1889-91 ; a grad- uate student in Yale, 1890-91 ; professor of Latin in the University of North Carolina, 1891-99, and accepted the professorship of Latin in the Uni- versity of Maine in 1899. He was organist and choir director at Stamford, Conn., 1882-85, at the American church in Berlin, Germany, 1888-89; at Middletown, Conn., 1889-91; at Chapel Hill, N.C., 1891-99, and at Orono, Maine, after 1899. He was director of the Chapel Hill choral society, 1897-99, and president of the Bangor festival chorus in 1899. He was elected a member of the American philological association in 1892, and of the Archaeological institute of America in 1898. He was married, Nov. 25, 1886, to Jennie Eliza Canfield. He is the author of : Helps to the Intel- ligent Study of Colleije Preparatory Latin (1888) ; Harrington and Tolman's Greek and Roman Mythol- ogy (1887); and editor of Songs of the Psi Upsi- lon Fraternity (1891) ; and of New College Songs (1900). He also edited various songs and quar- tettes, sacred and secular, and contributed many articles and papers to the Proceedings of the American philological association and to reviews and other periodicals.

HARRINGTON, Mark Walrod, scientist, was born at Sycamore, 111. , Aug. 18, 1848 : son of James and Charlotte (Walrod) Harrington ; grandson of Lot Harrington, and a descendant of the early Harringtons of Eastern Massachusetts and of tlie Walrodts of the Mohawk valley. He was gi'adu ated from the University of Michigan in 1868, and remained there as curator of the museimi till 1870. He was tlien instructor in mathematics and assistant curator of the museum, 1870-72, meanwhile visiting Alaska, 1870-71, in the employ of the U.S. coast and geodetic survey; instructor in geology, zoology and botany, 1872-73; and as- sistant professor of the same branches, 1873-76. He studied in Leipzig, 1876-77, and was professor of mathematics and astronomy in the United States foreign office cadet school, Peking, 1877- 78. Resigning because of ill health, he returned