1IARRUE. HART. 235 Congress was chairman of the committee on naval affairs. On retiring from Congress, March 4, 1883, he actively resumed his legal prac- tice, his son, Robert O. Harris, becoming a member of the firm of Harris & Tucker. On the 7th of September, 1887, he was appointed by Governor Ames judge of probate and insolvency for the county of Plymouth, to succeed Hon. Jesse E. Keith, deceased, which office he now holds. The firm of Harris & Tucker was dis- solved January 1, 1SS9, Mr. Harris and his son each having an office in East Bridgewater, and Mr. Tucker continuing the business alone in Boston. Mr. Harris was married in Boston, June 4, 1850, to Julia A., daughter of Robert and Melinda (Wilbor) Orr, by whom he had four children, three of whom are now living : Robert O. Harris, of East Bridge- water, Mary M. Edson, wife of Charles II. Edson, of Whitman, Mass., and Alice M.White, wife of Hon. John I). White, of Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Harris died October HARRUB, FRED MAGOUN, son of George W. and Mary Harrub, was born in Plympton, Plymouth county, July 2, 1848. His early educational training was re- ceived in the common schools. In 1S67 he began business life as a tack manufacturer. Later on he became a dealer in carriages, sleighs and harnesses. Mr. Harrub was married in Plympton, Januarv 14. 1S68, to Juliet T., daughter of Ebenezer T. and Rebecca Dean. Of this union is one daughter, Mary L. Harrub. Mr. Harrub was elected representative to the General Court from the 4th Plym- outh representative district in 18S3 and '84, serving on the committee on manufac- tures both years, and acting as chairman the latter year. He was elected selectman and assessor in 1879, and held those offices continuously by election until 1884. HART, Thomas Norton, was born on January 20, 1829, at North Reading, Middlesex county. His father was Daniel Hart, whose ancestors settled in Lynnfield. He died when the present mayor was a child, and is buried in Lynnfield. Mayor Hart's mother was Margaret Norton, a woman of exceptional refinement. Her father was Major John Norton, of Royals- ton, who fought in the revolution. Thomas N. Hart received a modest edu- cation, such as the country schools afford- ed in the thirties. In 1 S42 he came to Bos- ton to earn his living, and found employ- ment with Wheelock, Pratt & Co., dry- goods dealers. In 1844 he entered a hat store ; he became later on a partner in the firm of Philip A. Locke & Co. He after- wards founded the house of Hart, Taylor & Co., which became in its line one of the largest in the country. He retired from business some ten years ago, but soon after assumed the presidency of the Mount Vernon National Bank, which posi- tion he still holds. Mr. Hart was married at Boston, 1850, t<> Elisabeth, daughter of John and Elisa- beth (Potter) Snow, of Bowdoin, Maine. They have one child : a daughter. Mr. Hart is identified with many socie- ties. He is treasurer of the American Unitarian Association, an officer in the Church of the Unity, a member of the Algonquin Club, of the Hull Yacht Club, and of many eleemosynary institutions. His city home is at 298 Commonwealth Avenue, his summer home at Galloupe's Point, Swampscott. In politics Mr. Hart has always been a loyal Republican. He was a member of the Boston common council in 1879, '80 and '81 ; of the Boston board of aldermen in 1882, '85 and '86. In 1886 he was nominated mayor by the Republican city convention, and received the like honor in 1S87 and '88. He was elected in 1888, the official vote being Hart, 32,712 ; O'Brien, 30,836. From the outset he proclaimed the principle of equality, equal rights, and equal duties, as against government by fac- tion or for faction. He holds that the mis- sion of the Republican party is not so much to establish Republican party government as to secure good government. For this reason he believes that a Republican ad- ministration should not employ exclusively Republicans, though it should purge the public service of those who abuse the gen- erous policy of the Republican party. Mr. Hart was formally supported, in 1887 and '88, by independent conventions. He has never sought a nomination for office. HART, WILLIAM H., son of William and Elizabeth (Bruce) Hart, was born in Lynn, Essex county, December 22, 1836. He received his early educational train- ing in the public schools of his native city. Choosing the profession of law, he entered Boston University law school, and was graduated in the class of 1874. Previous to this he had become acquainted with business life in the shoe trade, in which he had been brought up, and in which he con- tinued up to the breaking out of the war of the rebellion.
