a company of the 70th Indiana regiment, was commissioned colonel on the completion of the regiment, and served through the war, receiving the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers on 23 Jan.. 1865. He then returned to Indianapolis, and resumed his office of supreme court reporter, to which he had been re-elected during his absence in 1864. In 1876 he was the republican candidate for governor of Indiana, but was defeated by a small plurality. He was a member of the Mississippi river commission in 1879, and in 1880 he was elected U. S. senator, taking his seat on 4 March, 1881. (See Supplement.)
HARRISON, Carter Henry, politician, b. in
Fayette county, Ky., 15 Feb., 1825. He was gradu-
ated at Yale in 1845, read law, engaged in farming,
travelled for two years in foreign countries, and,
after receiving his degree from Transylvania law-
school, Lexington, Ky., settled in Chicago, where
he engaged in real-estate operations. After the
great fire of 1871 he served as county commissioner
for three years. After returning from a second
European journey, in 1874, he was elected to con-
gress, as a Democrat, by so close a vote that his
competitor, who had defeated him in the preced-
ing election, gave notice of contest. He was re-
elected, and when his second term was ended, in
1879, was chosen mayor of Chicago, in which office
he was continued for four biennial terms.
HARRISON, Constance Cary, author, b. in
Vaucluse, Fairfax co., Va., about 1835. She mar-
ried Burton Harrison, a lawyer of Virginia, in
1867, and several years later removed with him to
New York citv, where she now (1887) resides. She
has published "Golden Rod" (New York, 1880);
"Helen Troy" (1881); "Woman's Handiwork in
Modern Homes" (1881); "Old-Fashioned Fairv-
Book" (1885); and " Bric-a-Brac Stories" (1886).
She has written plays, chiefly adapted from the
French, among them " The Russian Honeymoon,"
produced at Madison Square theatre in 1883.
HARRISON, Gabriel, dramatic author, b. in
Philadelphia, 25 March, 1825. When he was six
years old his father, a man of classical education
and a bank-note engraver, removed to New York,
where his house soon became a favorite resort of
the literary people and artists of the city. The
son's love of dramatic art was determined by wit-
nessing Edwin Forrest at the Park theatre in
1832. He soon became a member of the American
histrionic society, and in November, 1838, made
his first public appearance at Wallack's national
theatre, Washington, D. C, as Othello. In 1841,
two years after Daguerre's discovery, Mr. Harrison
produced pictures by the former's process which
won the inventor's warmest praise, and which took
various prize medals. They were remarkable for
their tone, and of a size that had been previously
untried. He became a member of the Park theatre.
New York, in 1845, being a favorite support of
Charles Kean in his Shakespearian revivals, and in
1851 he organized the Brooklyn dramatic acad-
emy, a private association. He was manager of
the Adelphi theatre, Troy, N. Y., in 1859, and in
1863 opened the Park theatre, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
where he successfully organized an English opera
troupe. But his high ideal of every detail con-
nected with the setting and production of pieces
upon the stage was a source of financial disaster
to him, and he finally retired from the practice of
his profession. He was afterward for a time lessee
and manager of the Brooklyn academy of music.
In 1867, as corresponding secretary of the Brooklyn
academy of design, he raised the funds to pay its
debts, and brought its free-art schools to a state of
great prosperity. In 1872 he was one of the chief
organizers of the Faust club of Brooklyn, and
to his efforts that city is largely indebted for the
fine bronze bust of John Howard Payne that was
placed by the club in Prospect park. Mr. Har-
rison has done some good work as an artist,
both in landscape and portraiture, including a
picture of Edwin Forrest as Coriolanus. He is
now (1887), after many years of nervous prostra-
tion, a teacher of elocution and acting in Brook-
lyn. He has published " The Life and Writings
of John Howard Payne " (Albany, 1873), and vari-
ous pieces for the stage, including a dramatization
of Hawthorne's " Scarlet Letter" (privately print-
ed, 1876). which was successfully put upon the
stage in February, 1878 ; " Melanthia," a tragedy,
written for Matilda Heron ; " The Author " ; " Dart-
more " ; " The Thirteenth Chime " ; and " Magna,"
besides an adaptation to the English stage of
Schiller's " Fiesco " and " Don Carlos." He is the
author of the critical essays on Forrest's acting, in
Alger's life of that actor, of whom he was a warm
personal friend and admirer, and has contributed
poetry to the public press. His latest work is the
chapter on " The Progress of Drama. Music, and
the Fine Arts in Brooklvn"in the "History of
Kings County " (New York. 1884).
HARRISON, George Leib, philanthropist, b.
in Philadelphia, Pa., 28 Oct., 1811 ; d. there, 9
Sept., 1885. He entered Harvard, but owing to
feeble health was not able to complete his course.
He subsequently read law and was admitted to the
Philadelphia bar. but never practised. He then
engaged in sugar-refining, and amassed a large
fortune, of which he gave liberally. He was a
trustee of the Protestant Episcopal divinity-school
of Philadelphia, and was several times a delegate
to the general convention of his church. He was
appointed a member of the board of state charities
in 1869, and was for several years the president of
that body. In 1874 he was president of the first
general convention of the board of public charities
held in New York, and afterward sent to the Brit-
ish government, by request, much information on
the subject of public charities, for which he re-
ceived the thanks of that government. By ap-
pointment of the governor of Pennsylvania, he
went to England to solicit the removal of the re-
mains of William Penn to Philadelphia, but his
mission was unsuccessful. On his return he pub-
lished an account of it. He also wrote " Chapters
on Social Science as connected with the Adminis-
tration of State Charities" (Philadelphia. 1877),
and compiled " Legislation on Insanity," a collec-
tion of lunacv laws (1884).
HARRISON, Gessner, educator, b. in Harrisonburg, Va., 26 June, 1807; d. near Charlottesville, Va., 7 April. 1862. In 1825 he entered the University of Virginia and received degrees from the schools of ancient languages and medicine in 1828. He was then appointed professor of ancient languages on the retirement of Prof. George Long, and served till 1848, when he established at Belmont, Va., a classical school, which had a wide
