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Born 1836
From Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri (1901), Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 2) (1899)
Harrison, Edwin, who has long been one of the most prominent citizens of St. Louis, was born in the year 1836, in the town of Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas, son of James Harrison, known for many years as one of the most distinguished of Western manufacturers. The son came to St. Louis as a child, and when twelve years of age, through the friendship which existed between his father and the noted Jesuit missionary, Father De Smet, he was sent to Namur, in Belgium, where he attended school for several years thereafter. In 1851 he returned to St. Louis, and continued his studies for two years thereafter at Wyman’s school. In 1853 he entered the Lawrence Scientific School. a department of Harvard University, where he studied mechanics and engineering, graduating in 1855. While in this school he was under the preceptorship of the distinguished educators and scientists, Agassiz and Ава Gray, and his training under the first named professor having especially qualified him for geological pursuits, he was appointed, in 1859, assistant to State Geologist G. C. Swallow, of Missouri. Не served some time as assistant to Drs, Schumard and Norwood in the field of the Missouri Geological Survey, and then went to Santa Fe, Mexico, where he was engaged in merchandising from 1860 to 1862. He crossed what was then called the Great American Desert several times with trains of “prairie schooners,” when antelope and buffalo were almost innumerable in that region, and when hostile tribes of Indians made the crossing of the plains always a perilous adventure. Among the acquaintances which he
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Hospital Association, of the Mercantile Library Association, of the Missouri Historical Society, of the managing committee of the Manual Training School, and of other publicenirited organizations. He has also been oné of the warm friends of Washington University and the St. Louis Fair Association, was for many years a director in each, and was one of the incorporators of the St. Louis Club. In the spring of 1897 he was nominated for mayor of St. Louis, but was defeated by reason of factional differences in the Democratic party, with which he has always affiliated, and in which he has wielded large influence. Mr. Harrison married, in 1873, Miss Laura E. Sterne, of Glasgow, Missouri, and two sons and a daughter have been born of his marriage.
Mrs. Harrison is a lady of social tastes and high degree of literary attainment. She was an original member, and is at this time president, of both the leading literary clubs of this city—the Wednesday Club and the Dante Club. Her years of service in the management of the Episcopal Orphans’ Home in various official capacities, and as president of the Humanity Club (now an auxiliary of the National Red Cross Society), testify to her activity and her altruistic nature.
As printed in Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 2) (1899). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Harrison, Edwin, one of the most prominent citizens of St. Louis, was born in 1836, in Washington, Arkansas, son of James Harrison, one of the most distinguished of Western manufacturers. He came to St. Louis as a child, and when twelve years of age, through the friendship which existed between his father and Father De Smet, he was sent to Namur, in Belgium, where he attended school for several years. In 1851 he returned to St. Louis, and continued his studies at Wyman's school. In 1853 he entered the Lawrence Scientific School, a department of Harvard University, where he studied mechanics and engineering, graduating in 1855. While in this school he was under the preceptorship of Agassiz and Asa Gray. He was appointed, in 1859, assistant to State Geologist G. C. Swallow, of Missouri. He served some time as assistant to Drs. Schumard and Norwood in the Missouri Geological Survey, and then went to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was engaged in merchandising from 1860 to 1862, and returning to Mexico in 1862, he became head of the firm of E. Harrison & Co., manufacturers of pig iron. In 1870 he was elected president of the Iron Mountain Company, and of the
Giouteau, Valle & Harrison Iron Company, owners of the Laclede Rolling Mills. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the St. Louis Smelting & Refining Company, and of its branch, the Harrison Reduction Works, on the site of the present city of Leadville, Colorado. He was president of each of ten corporations for fifteen years, and at the same time engaged in many mining enterprises. The Hope and Granite Mountain mines, of Montana, were both enterprises with which he was identified from their inception. Governor B. Gratz Brown appointed him to membership on the board of managers of the State Geological Survey, and by reappointment of Governors Hardin and Woodson, he served until the survey was discontinued. In 1876 he was commissioner from Missouri to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, but other duties compelled him to decline. He has served as president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in St. Louis; of St. Luke's Hospital Association, of the Mercantile Library Association, of the Missouri Historical Society, of the managing committee of the Manual Training School, and of other organizations. He has also been a warm friend of Washington University, and the St. Louis Fair Association; was for many years a director in each, and was one of the incorporators of the St. Louis Club. In 1897 he was nominated for mayor of St. Louis, but was defeated by reason of factional differences in the Democratic party, with which he has always affiliated. Mr. Harrison married, in 1873, Mss Laura E. Sterne, of Glasgow, Missouri, and two sons and a daughter have been born of his marriage.
As printed in Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: James Harrison
Their biographies name Edwin Harrison: George Frederick Hulbert (b. 1855) Barton Able (b. 1823) Walter L. Sheldon
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