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HARSHBERGER

one of the most exciting canvasses ever witnessed in the history of national politics, in which the " log cabin " '"hard cider, '" "Tippecanoe and Tyler too " and other campaign cries bore a conspicuous part, he was elected the ninth President of the United States, his popular vote aggregating 1,375,017 to 1,128,703 for Van Buren and 7009 for James G. Birney, Abolitionist. In the electoral college in 1841 he received 334 votes to 60 for Van Buren. He was inaugurated March 4, 1841, and selected as his official family: Daniel Webster of Massachusetts as secretary of state; Thomas Ewing of Ohio as secretary of the ti-easury; John Bell of Tennessee as secretary of war; George E. Badger of North Carolina as secretary of the navy; Francis Granger of New York as post- master-general and John J. Crittenden of Ken- tucky as attorney-general. After confirming the various presidential appointments the U.S. sen- ate adjourned, March l.j, 1841, and on March 17 President Harrison directed congress to reconvene in extra session on May 31, 1841, to consider financial questions. He became ill immediately after and on March 37 a chill was followed by bilious pneumonia and lie died on Sundaj^ morn- ing, April 4. His wife had not yet been able to take up her residence in the White House and was not present at his death-bed. His body was temporarily deposited in the congressional bury- ing-ground at Washington, but was subsequently removed to North Bend and placed in a tomb. The tomb was rebuilt by the family in 1897. On May 30, 1896, an eques- trian statue in bronze ex-

ecuted by

Louis T. Re- bisse, sculptor, erected by the citizens of Cin- cimaati at a cost of §37,000 besides the cost of the pedestal, was unveiled in that city, his grandson, Benjamin Harrison, ex- President of the United States, and his grand- daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison Eaton, being present. President William Henry Harrison died at Washington, D. C., April 4, 1841.

HARRISON, William Pope, clergyman, was born at Savannah, Ga., Sept. 3, 1830. His father removed to Covington, Ga., in 1835, and there established one of the first newspapers in that section of the state. The son received his educa-

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tion in the preparatory school of Emory collego and i-n 1850 entered the itinerant ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He preached in various places until 1879, when he was elected chaplain of the U.S. house of representatives, and served as such during the 46th and 47th con- gresses, 1879-83. In 1883 he was elected book editor in the ]3vibhshing house of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church, to which position he was re-elected in 1886, 1890, 1894 and 1898. He was editor of the New Monthly Magazine.; of the Quarterly lieview; secretary of the general conference in 1890 and a member of the ecumen- ical conferences at London (1881) and Washing- ton (1891). He received from Emory college the honorary degree of D.D. in 1866 ftnd that of LL.D. in 1891. He is the author of: Thenphilus Walton, or the Magnets of Truth (1858); Lights and Shadows of Forty Years (1883); The Living Christ (1884); The Higher Churchman Disarmed (1886); Methodist Union (1893); The Gospel among the Slaves (1893); and contributions to the religious press. He died Feb. 7, 1895.

HARRY, Joseph Edward, educator, was born at Pylesville. Harford county, Md., Oct. 1, 1863; son of David and Maria Jane (Warner) Harry; and grandson of Joel and Elizabeth (Pyle) Harry, and of Joseph and Margaret (Pyle) Warner. His paternal ancestors emigrated from England with William Penn and settled in Phila- delphia; his maternal ancestors came from England in the early part of the 17th century and settled in Bucks county, Pa. He attended the public schools of JIaryland and Pennsylvania and was graduated from the ^laryland state normal school with salutatory honors in 1880. He taught in public schools, 1880-83, and prepared himself at the same time for college. He entered Johns Hopkins university in 1883, receiving the Hopkins scholarsliip in 1884, and graduating in 1886. He received a university scholarship in 1887; a fel- lowship in Greek in 1888, and the degree of Ph.D. from the same institution in 1889. He spent two summers studying and travelling in Europe, and became professor of Greek at Georgetown college, Ky. , in 1889. He was a corporate member of the Oriental society from 1891, of the American philo- logical association from 1896, and of the Archaeo- logical institute of America from 1898. He was married, Aug. 37, 1890, to Cora, daughter of Amos and Mary (Richardson) Day. He con- tributed to various journals and periodicals and edited for the college series of Greek authors the Hippohjtus of Euripides with introduction, notes and a critical appendix (1899).

HARSHBERGER, John William, educator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 1, 1869; son of Dr. Abram and Jennie (Walk) Harshberger; grandson of David and Nancy (Rhone) Harsh-