HARRISON
HARRISON
HARRISON, (Lovell) Birge, artist, was born
in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 28, 18.>4; son of Appol-
los Wolcott and Margaret (Belden) Harrison;
grandson of Alexander and Sarah (Goodsell)
Harrison and of Thomas and Margaret (Case)
Belden; and a descendant of Thomas Harrison,
who was major-general to Oliver Cromwell,
signed the death warrant of Charles I., and
conducted him to the scaffold; and whose son,
Thomas, emigrated from England in 1640 and
settled at Branford, Conn. Birge was educated
at the private academies of Philadelphia; went
to Paris in 1875 and studied painting in the Ecole
des beaux arts, under Alexandre Cabanel. He
made a trip around the world, painting in Aus-
tralia, the South Seas, California and among the
American Indians, 1889-93. He was elected a
member of the Society of American artists, and
received a silver medal at the Exposition univer-
sal in 1889 and a unique medal from the World's
Columbian exposition, Chicago, in 1893. He was
married in 1883 to Eleanor Ritchie of Melbourne,
Australia, who died, May 1, 1895. On Nov. 28.
1896, he was married to Jenny Seaton Harrison of
Plymouth, Mass. In 1882 a large painting from
his brush was bought by the French government
for the National museum, and a large painting of
a California landscape was sent to the Paris ex-
position of 1900. He contributed to the mag-
azines many articles on the South Seas with
accompanying illustrations.
HARRISON, Lynde, lawyei-, was born in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 15, 1837; son of James and Charlotte NicoU (Lynde) Harrison; grand- son of Philemon and Sarah (Wolcott) Harrison and of John Hart and Elizabeth Deall (Nicoll) Lynde; and a descendant of Roger Wolcott, colonial governor of Connecticut in 1754; Henry Wolcott of Windsor, one of the nineteen to whom Charles II. granted the charter of Con- necticut; Thomas Harrison, born in Yorkshire, England, one of the first set- tlers of Branford and 7// X"'^' I ^ delegate from thai
^'/.JPi town to the colonial
jr/' . q/- assembly after the
«>^-:^^ yfa^oUi/irLO^ union of the New ■^ Haven and Hartford
colonies; Judge Simon Lynde of Boston; the Hon. Thomas Hart of Farmington, speaker of the colo- nial assembly; Abraham Pierson, first pastor at Branford; Jolin Davenport, first pastor at New Haven; and other early settlers of New England.
He was prepared for college in the schools of
New Haven and was graduated from the Yale
law school in 1860. In December, 1863, he settled
in the practice of law in New Haven. He was
clerk of the Connecticut house of representatives
and senate in 1862, 1863 and 1864, and was
elected as a Republican to the state senate in
1865 and 1866. In 1871 he was appointed by the
general assembly judge of the city court of Nevv
Haven, resigning in 1874 to enter the state house
of representatives as a delegate from Guilford,
his summer home and legal residence. He served
in the legislature until 1877, being speaker of
the house the latter year. He was judge of the
court of common pleas of New Haven county,
1877-81, and again a representative in t'le general
assembly, 1881-82, serving as chairman of the
judiciarj' committee. He served for many years
ujion the Republican state central committee,
being its chairman for about five years; and was
a delegate to the Republican national conventions
of 1876 and 1880. During his service in the state
legislature he drafted many important bills
which became laws, and he also drafted and
secured the pas,sage of twelve amendments to
the constitution of the state. After 1881 he
confined himself to the practice of his profession,
principally in connection with the settlement of
estates and management of coriwrations, in
several of which he was made a director and
general counsel. He was elected a member of
the American academy of political and social
science. He was married, May 2, 1867, to Sara,
daughter of Samuel O. Plant of Branford. She
died in 1879, and on Sept. 30. 1886, he was manied
to Harriet S., daughter of Luther C. White of
Waterbury, Conn.
HARRISON, Napoleon Bonaparte, naval officer, was born in Virginia, Feb. 19, 1823. He was wan-anted as midshipman in the U.S. navy, Sept. 36, 1838, and received regular promotion, reaching the grade of lieutenant, Jan. 6, 1853; commander, July 16, 1863, and captain, April 28, 1868. He served k,^^^
in the Pacific ^x 'Ci""^
squadron, 1847-
»>
48. and in Cali-
fornia. 1848-
49; and was a
volunteer in
the expedition
that rescued _ -'.--g; — ""-^l,.^ " "r^' -S^^ —
General Kear- " " "^-^5^-^ 'Z^-'2^ =s -&
ny-s command. ^-^-^ Miaj>veSOTA.
He was stationed at Washington observatory, 1850; was on coast survey duty, 1851-52; and served in the East Indian squadron, 1853. In the civil war he commanded the Cayuga flag- ship of Captain Bailey of the west gulf squadron.
