John Howard Harris (April 24, 1847 – April 4, 1925) was president of

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from 1889 to 1919.

Biography

John Howard Harris was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania on April 24, 1847. Harris served in the

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. He obtained a BA from the

University at Lewisburg Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. ...

in 1869. In 1889, he was inaugurated as President of Bucknell University. He was president for 30 years. He died at his home in

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on April 4, 1925.

References

External links

Harris, John Howard, ''Inaugural address as president of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa: June 27, 1889: with salutary address by C.B. Ripley'' (1889)Harris, John Howard, and Harris, Mary Belle, ''Thirty years as president of Bucknell: with baccalaureate and other addresses'', Press of W. F. Roberts Company (1926)
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