Constitution, and at length became its editor. By this time he had made a loving and faithful study of the negro in the south. Recognizing the darkey's artistic possibilities in literature, he set himself to portray negro-life and dialect, as he so intimately and accurately knew it. How admirable was the study is manifest from even his first book, which appeared in 1880, entitled Uncle Remus. Never before had the negro and plantation-life been so aptly sketched as in “Brer Rabbit” and his darkey brothers in Georgia. This and his subsequent writings gave the author a secure place in American literature. His later books include Mr. Rabbit at Home; On the Plantation; Sister Jane; Balaam and His Master; The Story of Aaron In the Wildwood; Plantation Pageants; and Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann. Among his works in a more serious vein are H. W. Grady and The Making of a Statesman. He also wrote Tales of the Homefolks; Stories of Georgia and Georgia. He died on July 3, 1908.
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| JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS |
Harris, Robert, C.M.G., has been president of the Royal Academy of Canada since 1893. He was born in Wales and came as a child to Charlottetown, P. E. I., where he early displayed artistic talent. He studied at the Slade school in London, under Bonnat in Paris and in Italy, Belgium and Holland. He was the director of the Art school in Montreal from 1883 to 1887. His paintings are nearly all devoted to Canadian subjects, and he has painted many portraits of Canada's leading men. He has exhibited and gained prizes at the expositions in Paris, Chicago and Buffalo.
Harris, William Torrey, an American educator He was born at Killingly, Conn., Sept. 10, 1835, and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, Yale College and Germany. He was superintendent of the St. Louis public schools from 1868 to 1880; was founder of the Philosophical Society of St. Louis and of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, the first periodical of its kind in America. He was made president of the National Educational Association in 1875, represented the United States government at the Brussels International Congress of Educators in 1880, and in 1889 prepared the official Statement of the System of Education of the United States for the Paris and Vienna Expositions, and was appointed United States commissioner of education by President Harrison. This important office he held from 1889 to 1906, when he resigned.
Har'risburg the capital of Pennsylvania, was founded in 1785, and became the state capital in 1812. It is situated in the midst of beautiful scenery, on the Susquehanna, which is crossed by two bridges for railroads and two for driving. It contains the capitol, state arsenal, state insane asylum and 81 churches, including a Roman Catholic cathedral, with 222 good public-school buildings, and several institutions for higher education, besides state, public and school libraries. The prosperity of Harrisburg is to a large extent due to its facilities for communication with the coal and iron districts of the state. It has a number of blast-furnaces and rolling-mills and large manufactories of steel and iron, including boilers, machinery, nails, files, agricultural implements, engines, cotton goods, flour, bricks, shoes, brooms, gents' furnishings, woolen, knit and silk goods, electrical and plumbers' supplies, furniture, stoves and typewriters are also produced, and there is a large trade in lumber. Harrisburg has the service of seven railroads and two electric street-railways, besides electric interurban lines. Population 64,186.
Har'rison, N. J., formerly called East Newark, a town in northeastern New Jersey, on the Passaic, connected by a bridge across it with Newark. Its industries include large steel-works, shade-roller and trunk factories, cloth, thread, wire, cutlery and machineshops and establishments for the manufacture of electrical supplies, marine engines, machinery, tubes, leather, ink and refrigerators. The famous Worthington pumpworks, although not yet completed, employ between five and seven thousand men. Its civic outfit includes, besides good schools and churches, the usual adjuncts of an ambitious, modern city, and it has the service of three railroads. Population 14,498.
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| BENJAMIN HARRISON |
Harrison, Benjamin, twenty-third president of the United States, was born at North Bend, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1833. His grand-father, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth president, and Benjamin's father was William Henry's third son. Benjamin Harrison graduated at Miami University, at Oxford, O., in 1852, and two
