He was chairman of the State Democratic conven- tion in 1884, and a delegate to the Chicago National Democratic convention of that year. — His brother, William Anderson, educator, b. in Augusta county. Va., 16 July, 1827, was graduated at the Virginia military institute in 1851, and practised law for some time in Virginia. He has been presi- dent of Sparta institute, Ga., of Lagrange female college, Ga., of Martha Washington college, Va., and in 1866 became president of the Wesleyan female college, Staunton, Va., where he still remains (1887). In 1875 Randolph-Macon college, Va., con- ferred upon him the degree of D. D.
HARRIS, John Woods, jurist, b. in Nelson
county, Va., in 1810 ; d. in Galveston, Tex., 1 April,
1887. On arriving at manhood he accumulated
money sufficient to enable him to pursue a collegi-
ate course and study law. He removed to Texas
in 1837, and began practice in 1838. In the same
year he was a member of the first congress of the
republic, which met at Austin, and in 1841 pro-
posed abolishing the Mexican laws, and engrafting
the common law on the jurisprudence of the re-
public. In 1846 he was appointed attorney-general
of the new state, and was reappointed for a second
term. In 1854 he was one of a commission to revise
the laws of the state. He was a Democrat of the
strictest Jeffersonian school, and was opposed to
secession, but accepted it, and gave his support to
the cause of the Confederacy. After the war, his
private fortune being large, he confined his prac-
tice chiefly to important cases in the higher courts.
HARRIS, Miriam Coles, novelist, b. in Doso-
ris, L. I., 7 July, 1834. Her maiden name was
Coles. She was educated at St. Mary's hall, Bur-
lington, N. J., and in New York city, and in 1864
married Sidney Harris, of that city, where she has
since resided. Her first novel, " Rutledge " (New
York, 1860), was published anonymously. Her
other works include " The Sutherlands " (1862) ;
" Louie's Last Term at St. Mary's " (1863) ; " Frank
Warrington " (1871) ; " Richard Vandermark "
(1871); " Roundhearts, and Other Stories" (1871);
" A Perfect Adonis " (1880) ; " Missy " (1882) ; and
"Dear Feast of Lent" (1883).
HARRIS, Peter, last of the Catawba Indians,
b. in the Catawba reservation, S. C, in 1750 ; d.
there about 1830. The Catawba Indians sustained
friendly relations with the settlers, and were allies
of the colonists during the Revolution, rendering
good service against the British. Peter Harris was
a warrior during this struggle, and his petition,
dated in 1822, is preserved among the colonial
records of South Carolina. He asked for an annu-
ity in the following words : " I fought the British
for your sake ; the British have disappeared ; you
are free ; yet from me have the British took noth-
ing, nor have I gained anything by their defeat.
The deer are disappearing, and I must starve. In
my youth I bled in battle that you might be inde-
pendent ; let not my heart in my old age bleed for
want of your commiseration." The legislature
granted him an annuity of $60.
HARRIS, Robert, Canadian artist, b. near
Carnarvon, North Wales, 17 Sept., 1849. He
came to Canada, was educated at Charlottetown,
Prince Edward island, and was for some time
a land-surveyor. He was self-educated in art till
about 1877, after which he studied in London
and Paris. He was elected a member of the
Royal Canadian academy of arts in 1879, and vice-
president of the Ontario society of artists in
1880. He has exhibited pictures in the salon of
Paris and the Royal academy of London. He
painted, by order of the Canadian government, in
1883, the large picture, now in the parliamentary
building, Ottawa, of the meeting of delegates in
Quebec that resulted in the formation of the Do-
minion of Canada. Among his other pictures are
"Meeting of School Trustees," exhibited in the
Colonial exhibition in London in 1886, and pur-
chased by the government of Canada for the Cana-
dian national gallery, and numerous portraits.
HARRIS, Samuel, apostle to Virginia, b. in
Hanover county, Va., 12 Jan., 1724; d. there prob-
ably in 1794. During his early manhood and in
middle life he occupied many public offices, was
church-warden, burgess for the county, sheriff,
justice of the peace, colonel of militia, and com-
missary. While riding through the country in
full military dress, he came upon a camp-meeting
in the woods. Two itinerant Baptist clergymen
were haranguing the assemblage, and, on seeing
the colonel, at once directed their discourse to
him. So greatly was he impressed with their argu-
ments that he was baptized, and became an ex-
horter among the poor white settlers. In 1770 he
was ordained, and the Baptist association to which
he belonged invested him with the office of " apos-
tle." He relinquished his large property, lived
with extreme frugality, and suffered much perse-
cution from the established church, of which he
had formerly been a member. He exercised a
great influence over the masses, and was distin-
guished as an exhorter.
HARRIS, Samuel, clergyman, b. in East Ma-
ehias, Me., 14 June, 1814. He was graduated at
Bowdoin in 1833, and at Andover theological semi-
nary in 1838. After teaching till 1841, and hold-
ing pastorates at Conway and Pittsfield, Mass., he
was professor of systematic theology in Bangor
seminary in 1855-'67, and then president of Bow-
doin, and professor of mental and moral philoso-
phy there till 1871. In that year he became pro-
fessor of systematic theology at Yale, where he
still (1887) remains. He received the degree of
D. D. from Williams in 1855. He has published
" Zaccheus ; the Scriptural Plan of Beneficence "
(Boston, 1844) ; " Christ's Prayer for the Death of
his Redeemed " (1863) ; " Kingdom of Christ on
Earth " (Andover, 1874) ; and " Philosophical Basis
of Theism " (New York, 1883).
HARRIS, Samuel Smith, P. E. bishop, b. in
Autauga county, Ala., 14 Sept., 1841 ; d. in London,
Eng., 21 Aug.," 1888. He was graduated in 1859,
and admitted to the bar in 1860. After practising
law for several years, he became a candidate for
holy orders, was ordained deacon, 10 Feb., 1869,
and priest on 30 June. He held pastorates at
Montgomery, Ala., Columbus, Ga., New Orleans,
La., and Chicago, 111., and was a delegate to the
general convention of 1874 from Georgia, and in
1877 from Illinois. In 1878 he was elected to the
bishopric of Quincy, but declined. That year,
with the Rev. John Fulton, he founded the " Liv-
ing Church," and was its editorial manager for six
months. In September, 1879, he was consecrated
bishop of Michigan. He received the degree of
D. D. from William and Mary in 1874. and that of
LL. D. from the University of Alabama in 1879,
and published, besides occasional sermons and re-
views, " Bohlen Lectures" (Ann Arbor, 1882).
HARRIS, Thaddeus Mason, clergyman, b. in Charlestown, Mass., 7 July, 1768; d. in Dorchester, Mass., 3 April, 1842. He was a descendant in the sixth generation of Thomas Harris, of Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, England. His father was a Revolutionary patriot, who died during the war, leaving his family destitute. Thaddeus was sent to earn his living with a farmer in the township
