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Anglo-Saxon Poetry (5 vols., 1883-97) and is the author of: Group of Poets and Their Jlauntti (lb74); Greek Viijnettes (1875); Spain in Prorile (1878); Hii^tory of Spain (1881; new ed.. 1898); Story of Greece (1885); and Autrefois: Tales of Old Xew Orleans ( 1888); and editor of Heine's lleisebilder (1883), of Mnie. de SfivignC's Letters (1899), of An Anfflo- Saxon Poetical Dictionary (1885); of Beoiculf (1882; 4th ed., 1894), of French Syntax (1882), of An Antjlo- Saxon Peader (1898); one of the editors of the Century Dictionary and of the Standard Dictionary besides contributing to the leading literary periodicals

HARRISON, James Thomas, lawyer, was born near Pendleton, S.C., Nov. 30, 1811; son of Thomas Harrison; and a descendant of Benjamin Harrison. His father was a captain in the war of 1812 and subsequently comptroller-general of South Carolina. The son was graduated from the University of South Ctirolina in 1829, was admitted to the bar in 1832, practised in Macon, Miss., 1834-;36, and in Columbus, Miss., 1836-7I». He served as a representative in the 1st and id Confederate congresses, and was elected in 1868 to the 41st congress, but was refused admission. He died in Columbus, Miss., May 22, 1879.

HARRISON, John Scott, representative, was born in North Bend, Ohio, Oct. 4, 1804; son of Gen. WiUiam Henry and Anna (Symmes) Har- rison, and grandson of Benjamin (the signer) and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harri.son and of John Cleves and Anna (Tuthill) Symmes. He was married, Aug. 21, 1831, to Elizabeth Irwin. He received a liberal education. He was a Whig representative in the 33d and 34th congresses, serving from Dec. 5, 1853, to March 3, 1857. He is the author of Pioneer Life at North Bend (1867), an adilress delivered befo e the Whitewater and Miami Valley pioneer association. He died on his farm at Nortli Bf^nd, Ob.io, May 26, 1878.

HARRISON, Joseph LeRoy, librarian, was born at North Adams, Mass., Oct. 12, 1862: son of John LeRoy and Ellen Maria (Hawks) Harri- son; and grandson of Jolm and Irene (Van Dyke) Harrison and of Elihu Smead and Sophia Eliza- l)eth (Abby) Hawks. His paternal grandfather, John Harrison, was born in Langton, England, and was of an old Yorkshire family; and his maternal grand fatlier. Dr. Elihu S. Hawks, was born in Deerfield, Mass., and was a direct descend- ant of John Hawks, who in 1659 left Windsor, Conn., and became one of the first settlers of the Deerfield Valley. Joseph L. Harrison was pre- pared for college at Drury academy. North Adams, Ma.s.s., and at Cascadilla .school, Ithaca, N.Y. He was a mem1)er of the class of 1886, Cornell university, leaving at the end of his junior year; attended the University of Heidel- berg, Germany, 1890, and the New York state

library school at Albany, N.Y., 1891-93, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Library Science from the Regents of the University of the state of New York in 1893. He was on the editorial staff of the New York Commercial Advertiser, 1885-88; assistant Washington correspondent on the New York Commercial Advertiser, the New York Com- mercial Bulletin and the Philadelphia Evening Telegram, 1888-89; sub-librarian, legislation, of the New York state library at Albany, 1893-94, and in 1894 became librarian of the Providence Athenaium, Providence, R.I. He was a member

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of the co-operative committee of the American library association. 1894-95; president of the New York state library school association, 1895-96, and vice-president, 1897-98; vice-president of the Massachusetts library club, 1898-99, working in connection with the New England education league on "Library and Post-office Movement," in 1899. In addition to these associations he was elected a member of the Rhode Island historical society, the Rhode Island school of design, the Hope club, the Art club and the Psi Upsilon club, all of Providence, and of the Psi Upsilon club. New York city. In March, 1900. he went to Paris to take charge of the installation of the American library association exhibit at the Paris exposition and remained in charge of the exhibit until July. He is the author of: The Great Bore; a Souvenir of Hoosac Tunnel (1891); editor of Cap and Goicn: Some College Verse (1893): joint author with W. G. Forsyth of A Guide to the Study of James Abbott McXeill Whistler (1895): joint com- piler of Comparative Summary and Index of State Legislation in 289.3 (1894) and of the same for 1894 (1895); and editor of With Pipe and Book; a Collection of College Verse (1897). He also con- tributed to the Xew England Magazine, the New York Tribune, and other periodicals. In 1900 he was appointed editor of the Co-nppratire Bulletin of the Providence Libraries: a, monthly record of additions to the Providence public library, the Providence Athenaeum and the Brown University library.