was recalled in 1829, and for 12 years was clerk in a county-court in Ohio. In 1836 he received 73 electoral votes for the presidency against Van Buren's 170; but four years later, the Whig party having united, he defeated Van Buren, obtaining 234 votes to the latter's 60. He died one month after his inauguration, on April 4, 1841, John Tyler, the vice-president, succeeding him.
Har′row, a great English public school, is located at Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex. The school was founded in 1571 by an English yeoman, John Lyon. At first merely local, in 1660 the school began to attract pupils from a distance. Harrow School has upwards of 600 pupils, whose instruction and discipline follow the Etonian model. The great linguist and oriental scholar, Sir William Jones, was educated at Harrow; as were Lord Palmerston, Lord Shaftesbury, Archbishop Trench, Bruce the African explorer, Reel, Admiral Rodney, Byron, Sheridan, Anthony Trollope, Theodore Hook, Merivale and Cardinal Manning. The town has an interesting memorial in the church of St. Mary, said to have been founded by Archbishop Lanfranc.
Hart, Joel T., an American sculptor, was born in Kentucky in 1810. He had very little education, but learned to read by the light of a woodfire, and read everything he could get hold of. While working as a stonecutter in Lexington, Ky., he began modeling busts in clay, and succeeded in making fine likenesses. One of Cassius M. Clay brought him his first order for a bust in marble, and soon after the Ladies' Clay Association of Virginia ordered a marble statue of Henry Clay, which is now in the capitol of Richmond, Va. The colossal bronze statue of Clay at New Orleans and the statue of Woman Triumphant in the courthouse at Louisville, Ky., are his work. He went to Florence, Italy, in 1849, and died there on March 1, 1877. See Book of the Artists by Tuckerman.
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Harte, Francis Bret, an American writer, was born at Albany, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1839. Going out to California in 1854, he tried school-teaching, mining and type-setting in turn. While working in the office of the Golden Era in San Francisco, he wrote his first sketches of the mining- regions and people he was familiar with. In this he struck a new vein in literature, and became popular at once, his success gaining him a place as editor on the Golden Era. He founded the Overland Monthly in 1868, and some of his best stories were contributions to it; such as The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Truthful James. Returning to the east, he contributed to the Atlantic Monthly, and lectured upon pioneer life in California. He was United States consul at Crefeld and Glasgow. After 1885 he lived in London. He wrote a great deal, and showed power in several directions, notably in romances, in Thankful Blossom, Two Men of Sandy Bar, A Phyllis of the Sierras and in the poems John Burns of Gettysburg, Dickens in Camp and The Heathen Chinee, but was most effective in the line of his first work. He died on May 5, 1902.
Hart′ford, the capital of Connecticut, is situated on the right bank of Connecticut River, 50 miles above its mouth and 112 from New York. Since the original Dutch fort of 1633, which occupied the same site, the settlement in 1635-36 by a colony from Massachusetts and its incorporation as a city in 1784, it has risen to the rank of the second city of Connecticut in population. It shared with New Haven the rank of capital up to 1873, when it became the sole capital. It is a handsome city, with fine public buildings and many tasteful private houses. It is perhaps best known for being the headquarters of a number of great insurance companies and of the extensive manufactories of Colt's pistols and gatling guns. Engines, machines, boilers, hardware, stoves and wooden-wares are largely made, and it has a very considerable trade in Connecticut tobacco. It has an imposing state capitol of white marble, a state arsenal and a United States post-office and courthouse. The Wadsworth Athenæum and a fine high-school building are among the other equipments of the city, together with a Congregational theological seminary, a large hospital, asylums for orphans, the deaf and dumb and the insane; and, also, several important libraries. On the outskirts are the new buildings of Trinity College (Episcopal), founded on the present site of the capital in 1823. One of the “sights” of the city for many years was the “Charter Oak,” in which, it was said, was hidden the charter of Connecticut, when its surrender was demanded by Governor Andros. Population 98,915. See River Towns of Connecticut by Charles M. Andrews.
Hartford Convention, The, was an assembly of delegates from the New England states, held at Hartford, Dec. 15, 1814, as proposed by the Massachusetts legislature. The war with Great Britain (1812-14) had from the first been opposed by the majority of the people of New England, who were Federalists and regarded the war as merely a
