1791, and he was continued as first auditor through the successive administrations till 1 Nov., 1836.
HARRISON, Robert Alexander, Canadian
jurist, b. in Montreal, 4 Aug., 1833 ; d. in Toronto
in 1878. He was educated at Upper Canada and
Trinity colleges, and was admitted to the bar
in 1855. He was appointed chief clerk of the
Crown lands department in the same year, an
office that he held for four years, represented West
Toronto in parliament from 1867 till 1872, and be-
came chief justice of Ontario in 1875. During his
career in the legislature he promoted important
legal measures, and as a lawyer was retained as
counsel in many cases. He was editor of the
" Upper Canada Law Journal," being at one time a
contributor of poetry to the " Daily Colonist," of
Toronto, and is the author of " Digest of Cases in
the Queen's Bench, Upper Canada, from 1823 to
1851" (1853); "Common Law Procedure Act"
(1856) ; " Statutes of Upper Canada " to 1856 ;
" Sketch of the Legal Profession in Upper Cana-
da " (1857) ; " Manual of Costs in County Courts "
(1857) ; " Rules of Practice and Pleading in the
Courts of Upper Canada " (1858) ; and " Municipal
Manual of Upper Canada " (1859).
HARRISON, Robert Hanson, jurist, b. in
Maryland in 1745 ; d. in Charles county, Md., 2
April, 1790. He was educated for the law, suc-
ceeded Joseph Reed as secretary to Gen. Washing-
ton on 6 Nov., 1775, with the rank of lieutenant-
colonel, and remained in the military family of
the commanding general till the spring of 1781.
He was appointed by congress in November, 1777,
a member of the board of war. but declined the
office. He became chief justice of the general
court of Maryland on 10 March, 1781, but declined
the appointment of judge of the United States
supreme court in 1789.
HARRISON, Samuel Bealy, Canadian states-
man, b. in Manchester, England, 4 March, 1802 ; d.
23 July, 1867. He was distinguished as a lawyer,
represented Kingston in the 1st parliament of
United Canada from 1 July, 1841, till 23 Sept., 1844,
and in the 2d parliament was member for Kent
from 12 Nov., 1843, till 3 Jan., 1845. He was a
member of the executive council of Canada from 10
March, 1841, till 30 Sept., 1843 ; during this period
was provincial secretary, and from 21 Dec, 1841,
till 3 Oct., 1844, was a member of the board of
works. While in parliament he greatly aided Lord
Sydenham in carrying out the union act. He was
for many years a county and surrogate judge.
HARRISON, Sarah, Quaker preacher, b. in
Delaware county, Pa., about 1748; d. in
Philadelphia, Pa., 29 Dec., 1812. She was the daughter
of Rowland Richards, and after her marriage to
Thomas Harrison settled in Philadelphia. She
first preached in the Quaker meetings during the
Revolution, and was acknowledged a minister in
1781. Accompanied by Mary England she
attended the yearly meeting of Friends in Virginia
in 1786, and was afterward liberated by her monthly
meeting to attend the meetings of Friends in the
southern states. In 1787 she attended the North
Carolina yearly meeting, in which the question of
slavery was discussed, and a committee appointed
to visit slave-holders. She returned to Philadelphia
in 1788, and in 1792 visited London and Dublin
and travelled on the continent of Europe, where
she was held prisoner for several days by the
French on suspicion of being an English spy. —
Her son, John, manufacturer, b. in Philadelphia,
Pa., 17 Dec., 1773; d. there, 19 May, 1833. His
early education was obtained in Philadelphia, after
which he spent two years in Europe, devoting his
attention to acquiring a knowledge of the processes
used by chemists in manufacturing, and also in
studying chemistry under Dr. Joseph Priestley.
In 1793 he began in Philadelphia the manufacture
of chemicals, and was the first successful
maker of sulphuric acid in the United States. He
had a lead chamber capable of producing 300
carboys, and in 1807 so increased his plant that
an annual output of 3,500 carboys was possible.
The use of glass retorts for the concentration of
the acid was then prevalent, and Dr. Eric Bollman,
who was familiar with the metallurgy of
platinum, constructed for Mr. Harrison the first
platinum stills that were used in the United States
in connection with the manufacture of sulphuric
acid. Subsequently the plant was again increased
by the building of white-lead works, resulting in
the production of various lead compounds and
other chemicals. Mr. Harrison is credited with
doing more to influence the establishment of
chemical industries in Philadelphia than any man
of his time. The business is now carried on by his
grandsons. From 1821 till 1824 he held the office
of recorder of deeds in Philadelphia.
HARRISON, Thomas, Canadian educator, b.
in Sheffield, Sunbury co., New Brunswick, 24 Oct.,
1839. He was graduated at Trinity college, Dub-
lin, in 1864, and received the degree of LL. D. from
that institution in 1870. He became professor of
the English language and literature and of mental
and moral philosophy in the University of New
Brunswick in 1870, and president of the university
and professor of mathematics in 1885. Prof. Har-
rison has been superintendent of the meteorological
chief station at Fredericton, N. B„ since 1874, and
is the author of the reports of tri-hourly observa-
tions published in " Meteorological Observations
of the Dominion of Canada."
HARROD, James, pioneer, b. in Virginia in
1746 ; d. near Harrodsburg, Kv., about 1825. He
emigrated to Kentucky in 1774. and built the first
log cabin on the present site of Harrodsburg. He
was one of the most efficient of the early military
leaders, a successful farmer, and an expert with
the rifle. He was distinguished at the battle of
Point Pleasant in 1774, and afterward represented
Harrodsburg (which was named in his honor) in the
Transylvania assembly. He was in the habit of
making solitary excursions into the forest, and from
one of these trips, which was undertaken at an ad-
vanced age, he never returned, nor was any trace
of him ever discovered.
HARROW, William, soldier, b. in Indiana
about 1820. He was engaged, as colonel of the
14th Indiana infantry, at the battle of Antietam,
where more than half of his regiment were killed
or wounded. He was commissioned as brigadier-
general of volunteers on 29 Nov., 1862, and re-
signed on 20 April, 1865.
HARSHA, David Addison, author, b. in Argyle, N. Y., 15 Sept., 1827. He received a classical education and studied theology, but was prevented from entering the ministry by a chronic bronchial affection. "Mr. Harsha is a frequent contributor to the press, and has spent most of his life in his native town, engaged in literary pursuits.
Among his works are "The Heavenlv Token" (New York, 1856); "The Star of Bethlehem" (Chicago, 1864); "Manual of Sacred Literature " (New York, 1866); "Lives of Charles Sumner, Doddridge, Baxter, Addison, and Bunyan" (1868); "Lives and Selected Works of Isaac Watts, George Whitefield, James Harvey, and Abraham Booth" (1869); "Devotional Thoughts of Eminent Divines" (1869); "The Golden Age of English Lit-
