(Excerpt from The Devon Carys, Vol. 1 of 2
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Excerpt from The Devon Carys, Vol. 1 of 2
It is hoped that an attempt to state such a claim, and incidentally to renew acquaintance with many interesting people, places, and events, may be justified Without incurring Clarendon's reproach Of the Earl of Arundel, that he thought no other parte of history considerable but what related to his owne family.'
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Roman Farm Management: The Treatises Of M. Porcius Cato And M. Terentius Varro (The Preppers Library) (Volume 1)
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Roman Farming Management: The Treatises Of Cato And Varro is actually two books in one. The first " De Agri Cultura" by Cato the Elder was written in the 2nd century B.C. and is a very straightforward description of how a farm was run in that period. The second more detailed , “Rerum rusticarum libri III” by Varro was written in the 2nd century A.D. and is a much more detailed description of what is needed to run a profitable farm as a business. Both are invaluable windows into ancient farming during the Roman period.
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Fairfax Harrison was an American lawyer, businessman, and writer. He served as a lawyer and later as president of the Southern Railway Company. He also wrote on Virginia history and the early history of the American Thoroughbred racehorse.
Background
Fairfax Harrison was born on March 13, 1869 in New York City. He was the oldest of the three sons of Burton Norvell Harrison and Constance (Cary) Harrison. He was christened Reginald Fairfax, though he never used his first name. His father, a member of an old Virginia family, served the Confederacy as private secretary to Jefferson Davis and, after the war, moved to New York City, where he practised law. Harrison's mother was also a Virginian, a descendant on her mother's side of the Fairfax family; during the late nineteenth century she was a popular writer of novels and other fiction.
Education
After attending several local private schools, young Harrison went to Yale, graduating, Bachelor of Arts, in 1890. During the next two years he studied at Columbia, taking courses in both the law school and the school of political science and receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1891.
He modestly refused several honorary degrees, even one from Yale, remarking that scholastic badges should not be worn by industrialists but reserved for scholarly achievement.
Career
Admitted to the New York bar in December 1892, Harrison practised law in New York City with the firm of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy & MacVeagh. Harrison's railroad career began in New York when he worked for two years on legal problems associated with the formation of the new Southern Railway. In May 1896 he was appointed solicitor for that railroad, a position which required him to move to Washington, and while in its employ he wrote A History of the Legal Development of the Railroad System of the Southern Railway Company (1901).
In 1903 he became assistant to the president of the Southern, Samuel Spencer, and in 1906 he was promoted to be vice-president in charge of financial affairs. Almost immediately he helped his company survive the rough financial weather which followed the panic of 1907. From 1910 to 1913 Harrison was president of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway (the Monon), a position which served as an apprenticeship to the presidency of the Southern Railway, to which he was elected in December 1913.
During his presidency he faced in turn the problems of war, prosperity, and depression. In 1917, as chairman of the Railroads' War Board, he aggressively led a cooperative attempt by the nation's railroads to unify their operations in the hope of avoiding government control. When the eventual federal operation ended in 1920, Harrison was one of the first railroad executives to reclaim his line from the government. During the 1920's a marked increase in the revenues of his road, plus economy in operation, permitted the payment, in 1924, of the first common stock dividend in the company's history. When the depression of the early 1930's reduced revenues to nearly the level of 1914, Harrison met the growing deficits with a vigorous policy of retrenchment which included reducing his own salary by half. When he retired from office in October 1937 the Southern Railway had made a substantial recovery from the depression.
Harrison was also a scholar. While in Chicago as president of the Monon he translated and published Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro (1913). Interested in genealogy, he produced several books concerning his own family: The Harrisons of Skimino (1910), The Virginia Carys (1919), and The Devon Carys (1920). His interest in early Virginia history is shown by a number of articles in scholarly journals and by several monographs, and he also published several volumes on the history of horse breeding. Virginia's history was further enriched by Harrison's generous support, both in time and money, of the research projects of others. Much of his own work was privately printed and therefore received only a limited circulation.
He died in a Baltimore hospital of prostatic hypertrophy and was buried beside his parents at Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia.
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Religion
Harrison was a member of the Episcopal Church.
Personality
Harrison's ability and versatility made him a perfectionist. Patrician in appearance and precise by temperament, he had but little tolerance for the "second rate, " either in ideas or in people. While born a Northerner, he became an avid Virginian and Southerner, especially after the family moved in 1907 to their new home, "Belvoir, " in Fauquier County, Virginia.
Often thought to be aloof and unapproachable in the business world, Harrison had an immense love for, and pride in, his family, their name, and their home in Virginia.
Harrison was described as "physically imposing", and gray-haired in his middle age.
Harry DeButts, an employee and protégé, described him as "a little cold when you first met him, but underneath he was a very warm, admirable, capable and wise man. "
Connections
On June 6, 1894, Harrison married Hetty Cary of Baltimore, who bore him four children - Constance Cary, Ursula Fairfax, Richard, and Sally Cary.