Harris, William

TORREY, A.M., LL.D., educator, born at Killingly, Conn., Sept. 10, 1835; studied at Yale College; subsequently taught in St. Louis, Mo., becoming superintendent of public schools there (1867); one of the founders of the Philosophical Society of St. Louis, and founder of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy (1867), which he has since edited, it being the first journal of its kind in the English language. He was appointed U. S. Commi ioner of Education (1889), a position which he still holds (1897). Has contributed to leading periodicals, and is the author of: The Logic of Hegel; The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Com media, . Harris, in Minnesota, a post-village of Chisago co., on St. Paul & Duluth R. R. Pop. (1895) 681.