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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

DREW FRANK HARRISON.
    Drew Frank Harrison, a restaurant proprietor of El Dorado, was born in
Hillsboro, Union county, Arkansas, February 7, 1880. His father, C. F. Harrison,
who died in I9IS, was one of the pioneer settlers of the city of Cleveland,
Arkansas, and contributed to the early development and progress of the state. He
came of a family distinctively American in its lineal and collateral branches
through several generations. Throughout the greater part of his life he followed
the occupation of farming, though for a short time he was engaged in commercial
pursuits. He had two brothers who served through-cut the entire period of the
Civil war, also another brother who was killed while fighting at the front. C.
F. Harrison was united in marriage to Miss Laura Sanders, who departed this life
in 1913. She was born and reared in Union county, Arkansas. where her father had
settled in pioneer times. She also belonged to one of the old American families,
her ancestors having lived on this continent for an extended period.

    Drew F. Harrison was educated in the country schools of Union county and in
early youth worked in different positions, being employed in various ways until
1912. With an accumulated capital of two hundred and fifty dollars, saved from
his earnings, he then started a restaurant in a small way. In the succeeding
years he has built up a business which represents an investment of twenty
thousand dollars and of which he is the sole owner. He has ever maintained high
standards in the service given to the public, and his restaurant is a popular
establishment, a traveler or a fellow townsman being always assured of a good
meal if he visits the Harrison place of business. In addition to the conduct of
his restaurant Mr. Harrison owns a cotton gin in Upland, Arkansas, and has one
hundred and sixty acres of land near there, his tract being situated only a
short distance from the oil fields, with possibilities that oil may also
underlie his place. He is likewise a stockholder in the El Dorado Natural Gas
Company.

    On the 24th of September, 1904, Mr. Harrison was united in marriage to Miss
Carrie Thompson of El Dorado, who was born and reared near Waldo, Arkansas, and
belongs to an old family from Chattanooga, Tennessee. They have become the
parents of two sons and a daughter, but the daughter, Mabel, died in 1912, at
the age of five years. The two sons are: Asberry Columbus, now sixteen years of
age; and Drew Frank, Jr., a lad of six.

    Mr. Harrison belongs to El Dorado Lodge, No. 13, A. F. & A. M., also to the
Eastern Star and to Columbia Camp of the Modern Woodmen. The religious faith of
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison is that of the Baptist church, and their interest centers
in those channels through which flow the greatest good to the greatest number.
Mr. Harrison gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and is
interested in everything that pertains to the welfare and progress of his
community, his cooperation being a tangible asset in the work for public
improvement.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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