The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . Twenty-third President. Born in North Bend, Ohio, August 20, 1833. Grandson of Gen. William HenryHarrison, niftth President. Graduated at Miami University, 1852. Admitted to the barin Cineinnati, and settled in Indianapolis, 1854. Elected Reporter of the Indiana SupremeCourt, t86o. Entered the Union Army as Colonel of the Seventieth Indiana VolunteerInfantry, 1S62 ; was brevetted Brigadier-General, February, 1865 ; mustered out of theservice, yune, 1865. While in the field, October, 1864, was re-
The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . Twenty-third President. Born in North Bend, Ohio, August 20, 1833. Grandson of Gen. William HenryHarrison, niftth President. Graduated at Miami University, 1852. Admitted to the barin Cineinnati, and settled in Indianapolis, 1854. Elected Reporter of the Indiana SupremeCourt, t86o. Entered the Union Army as Colonel of the Seventieth Indiana VolunteerInfantry, 1S62 ; was brevetted Brigadier-General, February, 1865 ; mustered out of theservice, yune, 1865. While in the field, October, 1864, was re-elected Supreme Court lie-porter; served four years. Defeated as Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana, member of the Mississippi River Commission, 1879. Elected U. S. Senator,1S80. Elected President of the United States, November, 1888. Vice-President, Levi P-Morton. Inaugurated March ^, BEMIAMIM FRANKLIN. Born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 17. 1706. Attended Grammar School two to his brother, a printer, 171S. Settled in Philadelphia, 1726. Founder ofthe Public Library. Clerk General Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1736. Postmaster, to Assembly, 1747. and the ten succeeding years. Brought down electricityfrom the clouds, 1752. Discoverer of the utility of lightning rods. Deputy Postmaster-General of the British Colonies in America. 1753. Founder of the Academy of Sciences,same year. From 1757 spent several years in England as agent of several by Congress as Commissioner to France, 1776. Was a commissioner to arrangetreaty of peace. Appointed Minister to France. Participated in the framing of theFederal Constitution, 17S7. Died April 17, i7go.
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