HARRIS, FRANK
Adair's New Encyclopedia · 1923 · p. 4
(1854); an Irish American editor and writer, 6.in Galway, Ireland. He came to the United States at the age of sixteen and later studied. at the universities of Kansas, Paris, Heidelberg, Stra burg, G6ttingen, Berlin, Vienna and Athens. In 1875 he was admitted to the Kansas bar, but later returned to Europe, becoming editor of The Evening News and The Fortnightly Review, in London. He later returned to the United States, becoming owner and editor of Pearson’s Magazine, in New York. He is the author of ‘The Bomb—a Story of the Chicago Anarchists of 1886’, 1909; ‘The Man Shakes eare’, 1909; ‘Unpathed Waters’, 1913: Days’, a novel, 1914; ‘The Life and pute lon g of Se 1916; and wo er series of his ‘Contem Portraits’, 1919 and 1921. pepe HARRIS, "ISHAM GREEN (1818. 1897), an American sateen ge in Tullahoma, Tenn. From 1849 to 1853 he was a member of Congre and was Governor of Tenne ee from 1857 to 1863. He served as an officer in the Confederate army during the latter part of the Civil War. After the end of the war he engaged in the practice of law in Memphis, and in 1887 was elected United States Senator. He was succe ively re-elected until his death. In 1893 he was chosen president pro tempore of the Senate. 1908), an American writer, b. in Eatonton, Ga. Asa youth he served a term as a printers’ apprentice, then took up newspaper work, becoming a member of the staff of the Savannah Daily News in 1871. Five years later he became connected with the Atlanta Constitution, on whose staff he remained for over 25 years. It was in that paper that his famous ‘Uncle Remus’ sketches first appeared. His negro dialect stories have facinated the children of two generations, and are now as widely read as ever. Among his many books are Folk Lore of the Old Plantations, 1880; Daddy Jake, the Runaway, 1889; Balaam and His Master, 1890; Mr. Rabbit at Home, 1895
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