Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-30
LAST RITES OVER DEAD
OF BURTON NORVELL
HARRISON TOMORROW.
The Interment to Be Made in Ivy Hill
Cemetery, Near Alex
andria, Va.

Funeral services over the remains of the
late Burton Norvel Harrison. whose death
occurred last night after lingering Illness
with heart disease at his winter residence,
No. 1712 N street northwest. will be held at
the family residence at an early hour to-
morrow morning land will be private. The
remains will be conveyed to Alexandra on
the 1890 ferry boat for interment in Ivy
Hill cemetery, near that city.
Victim of Heart Trouble.
Mr.. Harrison was sixty-five years old
His wife, Mrs. Burton Harrison, the
authoress, and three sons, Representative
Francis Burton Harrison OF the thirteenth
congressional district of the state of New
York Archibald Cary Harrison and Fairfax
Harrison of this city, survive him.
Mr. Harrison was born in New Orleans
July IA, 1888, and spent the early years
Of his life in Mississippi, Kentucky and
Maryland. After receiving common school
education he went to Yale and graduated
with honors in 1859. AS soon as he had
graduated he was invited to take the chair
of mathematics and astronomy at the Uni
versity of Mississippi. of which DR.. F. A p.
Barnard. later of Columbia University, New
York, was then the head.
Secretary to Jefferson Davis.
At the outbreak.of the civil war Mr.. Har-
tention of enlisting in the confederate
army, but was intercepted by a telegram
from Jefferson Davis asking that he come
at once to Richmond, Va, to take the posi-
ton as private secretary to the president
of the confederacy. This position he ac-
cepted, and went to Richmond, where he
became member of President Davis per-
sonal household and remained with him to
the end of the civil war, as much in the
relation of a son as Of a private secretary.
Rather than forsake Mr.. Davis at the end
Mr.. Harrison shared in the capture Of the
president of the confederacy.
At the time Mr.. Davis was taken to Fort
Monroe for Imprisonment Mr.. Harrison was
sent to the Capitol prison and was later
transferred to the prison at the arsenal in
this city, and was finally transferred to
the prison at Fort Delaware, where he re-
manned In solitary confinement until Janu-
airy, 1885, whea.l,s was released by Presi.
dent Johnson, through the influence of
Francis p. Blair 3
While in the Delaware prison Mr.. Harri-
son managed to take up the study of law.
and after his release went into the law Of
fees of ex-Judge Fullerton in New York,
and since that time had been In the active
practice of his profession in the metropolis.
His Wife Virginian.
Mr.. Harrison married Miss Constance
Cary of Virginia; the ceremony taking place
at the residence of Miss Cary's uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Gouveneur Morris of
Old Morrisania, .Westchester county, N. Y.
Mr.. Harrison was member of the Bar
Association. University and Century clubs.
Southern Society and other leading organ
izations of New York, and was distinguish
ed for his learning and wide and varied in
formation not only in his profession but In
all matters generally affecting human In
terest and progress.
He had always taken I'm active interest
in political life, but duriAg Mr.. Cleveland's
second administration declined the appoint
ment of ambassador to Rome. and subse-
quently that of assistant secretary of state
In earlier life Mr.. Harrison served as Sec
rotary to Mayor Wickham of New York.
and was largely instrumental in the prose-
cution of the Tweed ring, having in partic-
ular been one of the counsel who secured
the Impeachment of Judge McCann