United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . American boys,in attendance at school and athome duties on the farm. He wasa student at the institution calledFarmers College for two he attended MiamiUniversity, at Oxford, Ohio, andwas graduated therefrom in June,1852. He took in marriage thedaughter of Dr. John W. Scott,President of the University. After a course of study he entered theprofession of law, removing to Indianapolis and establishing himselfin that city. With the o
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . American boys,in attendance at school and athome duties on the farm. He wasa student at the institution calledFarmers College for two he attended MiamiUniversity, at Oxford, Ohio, andwas graduated therefrom in June,1852. He took in marriage thedaughter of Dr. John W. Scott,President of the University. After a course of study he entered theprofession of law, removing to Indianapolis and establishing himselfin that city. With the outbreak of the War he became a soldier of theUnion, and rose to the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General of the close of the War he was elected Reporter of Decisions ofthe Supreme Court of Indiana. In the period following the Civil War General Harrison rose to dis-tinction as a civilian. In 1876 he was the unsuccessful candidate ofthe Republican party for Governor of Indiana. In 1881 he was electedto the United States Senate, where he won the reputation of a leaderand statesman. In 1884 his name was prominently mentioned in con-. BENJAMIN HARRISON. HARBISONS ADMINISTRATION. 697 nection with the Presidential nomination of his party, but Mr. Blainewas successful. After the lapse of four years, however, it was foundat Chicago that General Harrison, more than any other, combined inhimself all the elements of a successful candidate; and the event justi-fied the choice of the party in making him the standard-bearer in theensuing campaign. General Harrison was, in accordance with the usages of the Gov-ernment, inaugurated President on the 4th of March, 1889. He hadsucceeded better than any of his predecessors in keeping Ins own coun-sels during the interim between his election and the inauguration. No-one had discerned his purposes, and all waited with interest the ex-pressions of his Inaugural Ad-dress. In that document he setforth the policy which he shouldfavor as the
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