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HARRISON

elation and a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science; was the founder of the PJiilosophic society of St. Louis in 1800; president of the National educational association in 1875. and for fifteen j-ears an officer of the American social science association. He received the honorary de;?ree of A.M. from Yale in 1869; that of LL.D. from the University of the state of Missouri in 1870; from the University of Penn- sylvania in 1894; from Yale in 1895, and from Prin<-eton in 1896; and that of Ph.D. from Brown in 1893 and from the University of Jena (Ger- many) in 1899. He edited and published the Journal of Spenilfttire Philosophy of which he was the founder in St. Louis in 1867. He was on the editorial staff of Johnsnn's Universal Cydopocdia and editor of Appleton's International Education Seriis and also edited the A. E. Kroeger transla- tion of Fichte"s Science of Ethics (London, 1897). He is the author of: Introduction to the Study of Philosophy (1890); HegeFs Logic (1890); The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia (1891); Psyrhnlonic Foundations of Education (1898), and nuiiitTou- contributions to various periodicals.

HARRISON, Anna Symmes, wife of William Henry Harri.son, nintli Pre.sident of the United States, was born at ^lorristown, N.J., Jul}- 25, 1775; daughter of Col. John Cleves and Anna (Tuthill) Symmes. Her mother died soon after the birth of Anna, who was brought up by her maternal grandpar- ents at East Hamp- ton, L.I., where she attended school. She completed her school course at the Isabella Graham scliool, New- York city. In 1794 with her father and step-mother she re- moved to North Bend, Ohio, and in 1795 while on a visit to \, » • , her sister at Lex-

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'c^. .^W^-i</^'-v. "^^*' Captain Har- rison, who was in command of Fort Washington, now Cincin- nati, Ohio. They were married at North Bend Nf.v. 22, 1795. during the temporary alisence of Colonel Symmes. who ojjpo.sed the match, and after visiting Philadelphia and different army posts in Ohio and Indiana with her husband, slie settled in a liome at North Bend, where she had the care and charge of the education of her ten cliildren. On account of delicate health she did not accompany her husband to Wasliington when he was inaugurated President of the United States and before slie could as.sume the duties of

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mistress of the White House her luisband died, April 4. 1841. Mrs. Harrison remained at North Bend and continued the education of her children and in 1855 she made her home with her only surviving son, John Scott Harrison, at Cleves, Ohio, where she died, Feb. 25, 1864.

HARRISON, Benjamin, signer of the Declara- tion of Independence, was born at "Berkeley," Charles City county, Va., in 1726; son of Ben- jamin and Anne (Carter) Harrison; grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Burwell) Harrison and of Robert and Betty (Landon) Carter; great- grandson of Benja- min and Hannah Harrison and great ^ grandson of Benja- min and Mar}- Harri- son. His great-grand- father, Benjamin (born at Southwick Parish, Va,, Sept, 20, 1645; died Jan. 30, 1713-13), was sent to England as commis- sioner from the col- ony against Commis- sary Blair; and was a member of the coun- cil of the province from 1699; and his great^ grandfather. Benjamin, w-as clerk of the coimcil of Virginia and a mem- ber of the house of burgesses, 1642. Benjamin (born 1726) was educated at William and Mary college. He was a member of the house of burgesses and in 1764 was on the committee that memorialized the king and parliament, but in 1765 protested against the stamp act resolutions of Patrick Henry, which he declared to be injudi- cious. He was a member of the committee of correspondence in 1773 and a delegate to the conti- nental congress, 1774-78. He refused the presi- dency of that body and when John Hancock was elected he is said to have expressed his approval of the choice by actually carrying the Massachu- setts i)atriot to the chair. He was a follower of Edmund Pendleton and advocated " general united opposition." As cliairman of '" the whole house of congress," June 10, 1776, he introduced the resolution drafted by Ricliard Henry Lee, declaring the independence of the American colonies, and on July 4, 1776, he re{X)rted the Declaration of Independence, of which he w-as a signer. He was speaker of the Virginia house of delegates, 1778-81; governor of the common- wealth of Virginia. 1782-85; member of the Virginia legislature, 1786-91; member of the convention that ratified the Federal constitution. Nov. 21, 1789, and with Henry Monroe and others opposed its ratification, but supported the action