attend to its delivery, for which purpose he was to make four trips a week. The project recommended itself to business men, and was particularly ac- ceptable to the press, to which Mr. Harnden made bimself useful in the voluntary transmission of news in advance of the mail. In 1840 Dexter Brigham, Jr., his New York agent, became his part- ner, and soon afterward went to England, where he laid the foundation of Harnden and Company's foreign business. During the same year their line was extended to Philadelphia, and later to Albany. The business grew with great rapidity, but Mr. Harnden's health failed, and he soon died. For several years the company was continued by the remaining members of the firm, but in 1854 it was consolidated with others to form the Adams express company. In 1866 a monument was erected to Mr. Harnden's memory in Mount Auburn ceme- tery, near Cambridge, Mass., by the " express com- panies of the United States."
HARNETT, Cornelius, statesman, b. probably
in North Carolina, 20 April, 1723 ; d. in Wilming-
ton, N. C, 20 April, 1781. He acquired property
at Wilmington, N. C., and first became known in
public affairs through his opposition to the stamp-
act and kindred measures. He represented the
borough of Wilmington in the provincial assembly
in 1770-'l, and was chairman of the more impor-
tant committees of that body. In 1772 Mr. Har-
nett, Robert Howe, and Judge Maurice Moore were
named by the assembly a committee to prepare a
remonstrance against the appointment, by Gov.
Martin, of commissioners to run the southern
boundary-line of the province. In 1773 Josiah
Quincy, while travelling in the south for his health,
spent a night at the residence of Mr. Harnett,
whom he styled "the Samuel Adams of North
Carolina." As the Revolution approached, Har-
nett became its master-spirit throughout the Cape
Pear region. In December, 1773, he was placed on
the committee of continental correspondence for
the Wilmington district. In the Provincial con-
gress of 1775 he represented his old constituents ;
and when a provincial council was appointed to
fill the vacancy caused by the abdication of Mar-
tin, he was made its president and became the act-
ual governor of North Carolina. He was a mem-
ber of the Provincial congress at Halifax, N. C, in
the spring of 1776, and, as chairman of a committee
to consider the usurpations of the home govern-
ment, submitted a report that empowered the North
Carolina delegates in the Continental congress to
use their influence in favor of a declaration of in-
dependence. Soon afterward Sir Henry Clinton,
with a British fleet, appeared in Cape Pear river,
and honored Harnett and Robert Howe by except-
ing them from his offer of a general pardon to
those who should return to their allegiance. When,
on 22 July, the Declaration of Independence ar-
rived at Halifax, Harnett read it to a great con-
course of citizens and soldiers, who took him on
their shoulders and bore him in triumph through the
town. In the autumn of the same year he assisted
in drafting a state constitution and bill of rights,
and to his liberal spirit the citizens are indebted
for the clause securing religious liberty. Under
the new constitution Harnett became one of the
council, and was, in 1778, elected to fill Gov. Cas-
well's seat in congress. His name is to be found
signed to the " articles of confederation and per-
petual union." When the British subsequently
took possession of the Cape Fear region, Harnett
was taken prisoner and died in captivity.
HARNEY, John Hopkins, journalist, b. in
Bourbon county, Ky., 20 Feb., 1806 ; d. in Jefferson
county, Ky., 27 Jan., 1867. Being left by the death
of his parents in straitened circumstances, he was
compelled to educate himself, and developed a
talent for mathematics. At the age of seventeen
he successfully solved a problem in surveying that
had been referred to him by two rivals, which
attracted so much attention that he was soon
made principal of the Paris, Ky., academy. The
money thus earned he devoted to the purchase
of a scholarship in the University of Oxford, Ohio,
where he was graduated in 1827 in belles-lettres
and theology. He was appointed professor of
mathematics in the University of Indiana in 1828,
and in 1833 accepted the corresponding chair at
Hanover college, Ind., and began the preparation
of his " Algebra." In 1839 he was made president
of Louisville college. This office he retained until
1843, when the college was closed. The year fol-
lowing, Mr. Harney began the publication of the
Louisville " Democrat," which he continued to
edit until his death. He was elected trustee of the
Louisville school-board in 1850, and afterward
president, and established many reforms. In 1861-2
he was elected to the legislature, and as chairman
of the committee on Federal relations, when Ken-
tucky was invaded by the Confederate army, he
drafted the famous resolution, " Resolved, That
Kentucky expects the Confederate, or Tennessee,
troops to be withdrawn from the soil uncondition-
ally." Mr. Harney declined a re-election and de-
voted himself to protesting in the "Democrat"
against the arbitrary arrest and deportation of
citizens, opposing the grant of " another man or
another dollar " until the liberties of the citizen
were assured. This led to his arrest, but Gen.
Burnside, after looking into the matter, disapproved
the action of his subordinates, and the journalist
was released. At the close of the war Mr. Harney
urged the repeal of the severe laws against self-
expatriated Confederates, and succeeded in carry-
ing a measure of full restoration ; but in 1868 he
opposed the nomination of such rehabilitated citi-
zens for high office, on the ground that it would
provoke further arbitrary arrests. His "Algebra "
(Louisville, 1840) ranks high as a text-book for
advanced pupils. — His son, William Wallace,
journalist, b. in Bloomington, Ind., 20 June, 1831,
was educated at Louisville college and at home, and
graduated at the law department of Louisville
university in 1855. He was principal of a ward
school in the latter city in 1852-'6, and afterward
became the first principal of the Louisville high-
school. During the two years succeeding he occu-
pied the chair of English and ancient languages in
the State university at Lexington, Ky. He then
became associate editor of the Louisville " Demo-
crat," and in 1869 its editor-in-chief. In the lat-
ter year he removed to Florida, where he planted
an orange-grove. From September, 1883, till
March, 1885, he edited " The Bitter Sweet " at Kis-
simmee, Fla. Besides his labors as a journalist,
Mr. Harney has been a frequent contributor to pe-
riodicals, and has written several essays oh orange-
culture. His fugitive poems and his sketches of
southern life are popular.
HARNEY, John Milton, poet, b. in Sussex county, Del., 9 March, 1789; d. in Bardstown, Ky., 15 Jan., 1825. He was a son of Thomas Harney, an officer in the war of the Revolution. In 1791 the family emigrated to Tennessee, and subsequently removed to Louisiana. Young Harney studied medicine and settled at Bardstown, Nelson co., Ky. While on a visit to Europe he received a naval appointment, and spent several years in ; Buenos Ayres. On his return to the United States
