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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rary of .Anglo-Saxon Poetr>-. .Amonghis works are: Group of Poets and TheirHaunts: (i88i) ; Story of Greece (1885> ;Dictionary of .Anglo-Saxon Poetry with Ba*-kerville f iSS6> : etc. Harrison, Joseph, .American engineer: b.Philadelohia 20 Sept. 1810: d. there 27 March1874. In i8.V4 he began the construction oflocomotives, and in 1840 designed for the Read-ing railway an engine which was copied and in-troduced into Russia with such success that hewas invited to Russia, and there with two other.American engineers concluded a contract withthe Russian government to build the rolling-stock and locomotives of the St. Petersburg andMoscow railway. He executed also other im-portant contracts with that government, and ini8?2 retumed to the United States, where hesubsequently patented a safety-boiler and re-ceived both the gold and silver Rumford medalsfrom the American .Academy of .Arts andSciences. In 1869 he published a folio containinghis autobiography, incidents of his Russian ex-
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BEXJAMIX IIARKISOX. TWKNTV-THIRD PRESIDENT OK THE UNITED STATES. HARRISON perience, and his poem, The Ironworker andKing Solomon. Harrison, Lowell Berge, American artist:b. Philadelphia 28 Oct. 1854. He studied withAlexander Cabancl in Paris, became known forhis landscapes, especially snow-scenes, and ob-tained medals :\t the Paris Salon of 1887 andthe Cohimhian Exposition (1893). His worksinclude: Friends, or Foes?; A Waif fromthe Sea : Calling Home the Cows ; and No-vember, purchased by the French governmentfor the Marseilles Museum. Harrison, Mary Saint Leger (LucasM.\lkt). English novelist; b. Eversley, Hamp-shire. She is a daughter of Charles Kingsley(q.v.) and was married to Rev. William Harri-son, rector of Clovelly, who died in 1897. Sheinherits the talent of the Kingsleys and hernovels published under the pseudonym of LucasMalet have been as widely popular in Americaas in England. They arc marked by vigorouscharacterization and skilful construction, andinclude: Mrs. Lorimer (

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