The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-14

1888, Aug. 20. Born at North Bend, o.,
in the house of his grandfather. William
Henry Harrison. Early education obtained
from tutors in his fathers household.
1S4I- With his brother Irwin sent TO
Cary's Academy on College Hill. near Gin
c%inanti, O., where he remained two years.
1850. Went to Miami University, oxford.
o. Same year Joined Presbyterian Church
at Oxford.
! 1852, June. Graduated from Miami Unit
versity. Ranked fourth in a class of six
teen.
1852, fall. Entered law office of Storer &
Gwynne. Cincinnati, where he remained
two years.
1853, Oct. 2S. Married Caroline L. Scott.
daughter of Rev. DR.. John w. Scott, pres
ident of Oxford Female Seminary.
1854. Admitted to the bar in Cincinnati.
1854. March. Moved to Indianapolis
First money was earned in position Of
crier of Federal Court at $3.50 per day.
1854. later. Entered office of John II. Rea.
clerk of United States District Court.
1854. later. Participated in first jury trial.
assisting Major Jonathan w. Gordon in
prosecution of Point Lookout burglary
case. Was opposed by Governor David
Wallace.
1855. Formed law partnership with Will
liam Wallace.
1860. Formed law partnership with Will
liam P. Fishback. which continued until
outbreak of civil war.
1860. fall. Elected reporter of the Su-
preme Court of Indiana. Issued Volumes
Is and 10 and nearly completed Volume IL
of the Supreme Court reports when he en-
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joined the First Presbyterian Church IN
Indianapolis, of which he was an active
member to the time of his death.
1862, July. Refused offer of or a
regiment, made by Governor Morton. OBJ
tanned a second lieutenant's recruiting COM
mission and raised and took the first COM
pany (A of the SEVENTEEN Indiana lnfan-
try into camp. In less than thirty days
Lieutenant Harrison was in Kentucky with
loo men. 1t was the first regiment in the
field under that call. Entered active mill
tary service as colonel.
1864. Reelected reporter Supreme Court
while he was still in the field.
1860. Tune 8. Mustered out after receiving
commission as brevet brigadier general.
1865, July. Entered law firm of Porter
& Ffshback, which then became Porter,
f1dIIlSOH a. Il lSHDdCh.
1876. Unanimously chosen as the Repub-
lican nominee for Governor of Indiana,
after withdrawal of Godlove S. Ortiz late
in the campaign. Defeated.
1879. Member Mississippi River Commits
sion by appointment of President Hayes.
1880. AS chairman of Indiana delegation
in Republican national convention cast
nearly the entire vote of the State for
James A. Garfield for President.
1881. Chosen United States senator from
Indiana. Declined offer of Cabinet position
from Senator Garfield. Was senator until
1887.
1883. Nominated for President on eighth
ballot in Republican national convention
at Chicago. Elected in November, receiv-
ing 2S3 electoral votes against los cast for
Grover Cleveland.
1883. Inaugurated President of the United
States, March 4.
1892. Renominated for President in ma
lis. Defeated in November election.
1893. Returned to Indianapolis and re-
sumed practice of law by himself.
1S9S-19W. Came into public notice by his
connection with the dispute between Great
Britain and Venezuela, being retained as
leading counsel by Venezuela at an enor-
nous fee. His employment required him
TO make a trip to Europe in the summer of
1899. when he delivered a brilliant argu
ment before the international tribunal sit.
ting in Paris.