1421 Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior 1833-1865, by Henry J. Sievers, S.J. (read 27 Nov 1976) This is the first volume of a three volume biography of Harrison. It has few faults as a work-a-piece biography, the main fault being that it is laudatory to excess. Harrison was born Aug 20, 1833, in southwestern Ohio and after attending Miami of Ohio and studying law in a law office in Cincinnati he began practice in Indianapolis in 1854. He had a hard struggle at first, but rose fairly rapidly and in 1860 was elected (?) Supreme Court Reporter for the Indiana Supreme Court. He went to war in 1862 and was a one-star general by war's end. The book is well-organized, chronological, well-footnoted--in a word, definitive. So I will read the other two volumes. (And I did, the second one on 11 Dec 1976 and the third on 27 Sept 1992!) ( )

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