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William Rainey Harper

American academic administrator (1856-1906).

Born July 26th, 1856 in New Concord.

Died January 10th, 1906 at 49 years old in Chicago.

Occupations
linguist, university teacher

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson