These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Harrison, Harrison.
CORRA MAY (WHITE), an American writer, born at Farm Hill, Ga., in 1869. In 1887 she married Rev. Lundy Howard Harris. She began writing in 1899. Her published books include "The Jessica Letters" (1904); "A Circuit Rider's Wife" (1910); "Eve's Second Husband" (1910); and "In Search of a Husband" (1913). She visited Europe during the World War and contributed articles to the "Saturday Evening Post."
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) JOEL CHANDLER, American journalist and story writer; born in Eatonton, Ga., Dec. 8, 1848. began life as a printer's apprentice, and afterward studied law, drifting into journalism. He had a ad a thorough familiarity with the negro of the bellum period, and while editing an Atlanta paper he produced for it the series of "Uncle Remus" sketches and songs which immediately made him known. "The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation" appeared in 1880, followed by "Nights with Uncle Remus" (1883); "Mingo and Other Sketches" (1883); "Daddy Jake, the Runaway" (1889); "On the Wings of Occasion" (1900); "Told by Uncle Remus" (1905); "Uncle Remus and Br'er Rabbit" (1907). He died in 1908.
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Joseph (1828-1892), an agricultural author. Born in the village of Shawbury, England. He took part in the famous Rothamsted agricultural experiments. Coming to this country in 1849, he wrote Walks and Talks for the Genesee Farmer and for the American Agriculturalist. He advocated high farming--bringing the whole farm into the condition of a garden. Manure, tilth, and freedom from weeds were his doctrines. He wrote Harris on the Pig, Talks on Manures, and other practical works. It is to such plain thinkers as Mr. Harris that our present extension of agricultural science and education is due.
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William Torrey (1835-1909), an American educator. He was born at North Killingly, Connecticut. He attended Yale College but was not graduated. He taught in the St. Louis schools 1857-67, and was superintendent of schools in that city 1867-1880. He was United States Commissioner of Education 1889-1907. Mr. Harris is known as a metaphysical writer. He founded the Journal of Speculative Philosophy in 1867. He was one of the organizers of the Concord school of philosophy. As an author, he wrote Hegel's Logic: a Critical Exposition, The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia, Introduction to the Study of Philosophy, and Psychologic Foundations of Education. Mr. Harris' writings were by no means clear to the layman; but their very ponderosity and the kindly, simple manner of Mr. Harris himself, did much to fasten upon the American teacher an exaggerated notion of the importance of psychology in the working outfit of the teacher.
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a city of Illinois, the county-seat of Saline co. It is on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis and the Southern Illinois Railway and Power Company railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural and coal mining region. Its industries include flour mills, wagon shops, sawmills, etc. It has a library, a post office, and other important public buildings. Pop. (1910) 5,309; (1920) 7,125.
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MARY ST. LEGER (LUCAS MALET), an English novelist, daughter of Charles Kingsley, born in Eversley, Hampshire, married to the Rev. William Harrison. Her books acquired a wide popularity in England and in the United States. Among the best known are: "Colonel Enderby's Wife" (1885); "The Wages of Sin" (1891); "The Golden Galleon" (1910); and The "Wisdom of Damaris."
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MRS. BURTON (CON- STANCE CARY), an American novelist and miscellaneous writer; born in Vaucluse, Va., April 25, 1846. She wrote: "Woman's Handiwork in Modern Homes" (1881); "Old-Fashioned Fairy-Book" (1884); "Bar Harbor Days" (1887); and the novels "The Anglomaniacs"; "An Errant Wooing"; "A Bachelor Maid"; "A Son of the Old Dominion" (1897); "A Princess of the Hills" (1901); a play, "The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch" (1901); "Recollections Grave and Gay" (1911).
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BENJAMIN, an American patriot; born in Berkeley, Va., about 1740. He was elected to the House of Burgesses soon after attaining his majority. In 1773 he was chosen a member of the committee which united the colonies against Great Britain. Shortly afterward he was elected to Congress and five times re-elected. On July 4, 1776, he reported, as chairman of the committee of the whole House, the Declaration of Independence, of which he was one of the signers. He opposed the ratification of the Federal Constitution, but, on its adoption, supported the National government. He died in April, 1791. .
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a city in Hudson co., N. J., on the Passaic river, opposite Newark, with which it is connected by several bridges; and on the Pennsylvania, the Lackawanna, and the Erie railroads. It has extensive manufactures of cotton, thread, electric supplies, wire cloth, harness, trunks, leather goods, steam launches, iron and steel ordnance, and furniture, foundries, breweries, slaughter houses, etc. There are electric lights, and street railways, daily and weekly newspapers, public library, high school, and an assessed property valuation of $4,000,000. Harrison was settled in 1668, and incorporated in 1873. Pop. (1910) 14,498; (1920) 15,721.
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FREDERIC, an English writer; born in London, Oct. 18, 1831. He was educated at King's College School, London, and Wadham College, Oxford. A Positivist in religion and an advanced Liberal in politics, he argued his opinions in many vigorous and wellwritten articles in the magazines and reviews. Of his works the chief are "The Meaning of History" (1862); "Order and Progress" (1875); "The Present and the Future" (1880); "Lectures on Education" (1883); "On the Choice of Books" (1886); "Oliver Cromwell" (1888); "The Meaning of History" (1894); "Literary Essays" (1895); and "William the Silent" (1897); "Creed of Layman" (1907); "Among My Books" (1912) "The German Peril" (1915) etc.
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CARTER HENRY, an American public official, born in Chicago in 1860. He graduated from St. Ignatius College in 1881 and afterward studied law at Yale. He engaged in the real-estate and publishing business in Chicago and was elected mayor of that city for 5 terms from 1897 to 1905 and from 1911 to 1915. During the World War he was in charge of the American Red Cross activities in 12 hospitals in France.
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