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* HARRISON. 591 HARRISON. born at Eversley rectory, and was educated at home and at University College, London. In I87(i she married William Harrison, a young elergy- uian in whom her father had been much inter- ested, and afterwards settled at Clovelly, in Dev- onshire, amid the scenes of her fatlicr's boyhood. Her husband died in 1897, after which she visited the Continent, America, and India in search of health. Her popular novels of English life are written with an ethical purpose. Among them are: Mrs. Lorimcr (1882); The Wages of Sin (1801): The Carissima, a Motlern Grotesque (1806); The Oatelesi Barrier, a ghost story (1900): .and Sir Ifichard Calmady (1901), a painful but powerful novel. HARRISON, Susan Fr. ces (pen-name Se- K.vxLS) (1800 — ). A Canadian author, bom of Irish parents at Toronto. In 1879 she married J. W. T. Harrison, an English musician and mu- sical critic. She contributed numerous sketches, stories, and songs to newspapers and periodicals in Canada, the United States, and England. In her short stories, as Crowded Out ( 1888), she did for French Canada a work similar to that of George W. Cable for the Creoles of Louisiana. Some of her verse was collected in Pine, Rose, and Fleur-de-Lis ( 1801 ) . She also edited a Canadian anthology entitled Tlir Canadian Birthday Book (1887). Consult Stedman, Victoriati Anthology (New York, 1895). and Rand, Treasury of Cana- dian Verse (ib.. 1900). HARRISON, TnoMAS (1606-60). An Eng- lish regicide and religious fanatic. He was born at Neweastle-under-Lyme. Staffordshire, and al- though of humble parentage received a good edu- cation. He studied for the law in an attorney's office in Clifford's Inn. London, but at the open- ing of the Civil War in 1042 joined the regiment of life guards raised by Essex. He distinguished himself in several actions and rose to the rank of major-general. In 1646 he was elected mem- ber of Parliament for Wendover. He was in com- mand of the escort that conveyed King Charles from Hurst Castle to London, and was one of the most energetic advocates of the King's trial and execution. In 1650, during Cromwell's ab- sence in Ireland, he was commander-in-chief of the Tnilitary forces in England, and the following year was elected a niemlier of the Coimcil of State, to which he had been nominated two years pre- viously. His connection with the Fifth Jlonarchy Men (q.v.) and his conspiracies against Cromwell resulted in imprisonment and the loss of his com- mission and offices. At the Restoration he refused to save himself by flight, and as one of the seven regicides excluded from the Act of Indemnity was arrested and condemned to death. Justifying his actions and bearing himself bravely on the scaf- fold, he was executed on October 13, 1660. HARRISON, (Thomas) Alexander (1853 — ). An American genre and landscape painter. He was born in Philadelphia, .January 17. 185.3. He was a pupil of Gerome (q.v.). at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and has been strongly influenced by the works of C'azin and Bernard. His work is characterized by grace of line and by luminous color, delicate in its effect. He is especially noted for his marines, which are rendered with broad surfaces that well express the transparency of the ever-changing color of water and sky. He received medals at the exhibition of the Penn- sylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1887 ; a gold medal at the Paris Exposition in 1889; the sec- ond medal of honor at Brussels and Ghent in 1801 ; tlie gold medal of honor at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1894. His chief works are as follows: In 1881, "Au Bords de la Jler," •"Shipwrecked," "Coast of Brit- tany"; 1882, "Chateaux en Espagne" (Castles in Spani) ; 1883, "The Amateurs," "Little Slave": 1884. "Breton Garden," "Twilight," "Seashore"; 1885, "The Wave." He exhibited at Buffalo in 1901. "The Golden Mirror," "Le tlrepuscule" (Twilight), "Autumn." "Child with Doll" He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and Officer of Public Instruction by the French (.iov- ernment ; is a member of the Society of American Artists. New York; of the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil Colors, London, and a correspond- ing member of the Societies of Secessionists, Ber- lin and Munich. HARRISON, William (1534-93). An Eng- lisli divine and historian, born in London. He was educated in the Saint Paul and Westminster schools, took art courses at O.xford and divinity at Cambridge, became chaplain to Lord Cobham of Kent, and afterwards rector of Radwinter, Essex. He was also canon at Windsor, where he died; but he is most widely known by his work in the Chronicles of Holinshed. the source whence Shakespeare drew the material for his historical plays. Harrison's share therein is invaluable for the local color of the sixteenth cen- tury, being An Historicall deseription- of the Hand of Britaine, loith a brief rehcrsall of the nature and qualities of the people of England and sueh commodities as are to he found in the same comprehended in three books and ic-rittcn by W. H. The New Shakespeare Society brought out a modern edition of this work in 1877-81. HARRISON, William Henry (1773-1841). Ninth President of the United States. He was the son of Benjamin Harrison (1740-91); was born at Berkeley, Charles City County, Va., February 9, 1773 ; was educated at Hampden-Sidney Col- lege, and although the profession of medicine had been chosen for him. entered the army as an en- sign in 1791, became a lieutenant in .June. 1792, and served against the Indians as au aide-de- camp on the staff of General Wayne, taking part in the battle of the Maumee and in other engage- ments, and becoming a captain in May, 1797. Resigning in June. 1708. he was soon afterwards appointed Secretary of the Northwest Territory under Gen. Arthur Saint Clair, but in October, 1799, resigned that position to become a Terri- torial Delegate in Congress. In 1801 he was made Governor of the so-called Indiana Territory, which then comprised the region later embraced in the States of Indiana, Illinois. Michigan, and Wisconsin, and for a time subsequent to the treaty of 1803 his jurisdiction also ext<'nded over that part of the lands then acquired from France by the Louisiana Purchase (q.v.), which was known as the District of Louisiana, Harrison's executive work in the Northwest continued until 1813, and was marked by conspicuous success in a variety of difficult undertakings, in which he secured the hearty appreciation of the people affected by his administration and the marked approval of the National Government. He was largely instrumental in effecting a change of the organization nf Indiana from a Federal district to a Territory with representative government and