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home and in 1879 was appointed professor of astronomy and director of the observatory in the University of Miciiigau. In 1891 lie became chief of the U.S. weather bureau at Washing- ton, D.C. He was a member of the Anier- iwm jissociation for the advancement of science, and in 1891 was made vice-pres- ident of the inter- iiational meteorolog- 1 al conference at Munich. He founded the American Jfcteor- oIoijii'ijJ Journal in 1884, and was its man- aging editor till 1892. He is the author of About the Weather (1899); and also contributed to various scientific journals and was an associate editor of Johnson's Universal Cyclopxdia (1894), and of the StamVinl Dictionary.

HARRINGTON, Purnell Frederick, naval offi cer, was born in Dover, Del., June 6, 1844. He was ordered into active service from the U.S. naval academy in September, 1863, promoted acting ensign, Oct. 1, 1863, and ordered to the Ticonderoga, and was attached to the Monomjahela, 1864-65. He served in the battle of Mobile Bay, Aug. 5, 1864, and in ^11 actions against the Con- federate defences of Mobile Bay during the sum- mer of 1864. He was promoted master May 10, 1866; lieutenant Feb. 21, 1867; lieutenant-com- mander March 12, 1868; commander May 28, 1881, and captain March 1, 1895. He commanded the monitor Puritan from April 15, 1896, to June

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18, 1898, serving in the war with Spain under Rear-Admiral Sampson, and was relieved of the command on account of illness. He was as- signed to the U.S. navy yard at Portsmouth, N.H.. Oct. 18. 1898.

HARRIS, Abram Winegardner, educator, was born in I'liiladelphia. P;i., Xr>v. 7, 1858; son of James Russell and Su.sanna (Reed) Harris. He was graduated from W'esleyau university, Conn.,

in 1880, and was a teacher of higlier mathematics in Dickinson seminary, Williamsport, Pa., 1880- 81; tutor in mathematics and registrar at Wes- leyau university, 1881-84; instructor in history in the siime institution, 1885-88; assistant direc- tor and then director of the office of experiment stations of the U.S. department of agriculture, Washington, D.C, 1888-93, and waf> elected pres- ident of the Universitj- of Maine in 1893. He was elected a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He received the degree of Sc.D. from Bowdoin college in 1894. He prepared scientitic and administrative docu- ments of the U.S. department of agi'iculture. and the annual re}>orts of the University of Maine.

HARRIS, Addison Clay, diplomat, was born in Wayne county, Ind., Oct. 1, 1840; son of Bran- son Lewis and Martha (Young) Harris, and grandson of James Harris, who removed to In- diana from North Carolina in 1809. His great^ grandfather, a Quaker, emigrated from Whales on account of his re- ligious principles, and settled in Vir- ginia, and from there went to South Caro- lina and later to North Carolina. Ad- dison was prepared for college by Quaker teachers, and in the public schools, and in 1862 was grad- uated from North- we.stern Christian university, which in 1877 became Butler college, and later was

made a part of the University of Indianaix)lis. He was admitted to the bar in Indiau<;polis in 1865, and practised in Indiana. He was a state senator, 1877-79; was the unsuccessful Republi- can candidate for rep>resentative in the 51st con- gress in 1888, and was apix)inted U.S. minister to Austria-Hungary by President McKinlej', Jan. 10, 1899.

HARRIS, Amanda Bartl^tt, author, was born in Warner, N.II., Aug. 15, 1824; daughter of Harrison Gray and Mary (Bartlett) Harris; granddaughter of Richard and Lydfti (Atherton) Harris, and of Richard and Mary (Currier) Bartlett, and a descendant of Thomas Harris, one of the settlers of Ipswich, Mass, as early as 1636, and Martha Lake, his wife, and also a descendant of Richard Bartlett, who came to Newburj-, Mass., in 1635. She received an academic educa- tion and from girlhood was engaged in writing. She contributed (under different names) to many periodicals, and is the author of: How We Went