HARRY BRISLEY
History of Arizona, 1896

Few persons realize the magnitude and importance of the drug 
business, and to be successful in it requires that a man must 
have good judgment, must be careful  and painstaking and must 
have a thorough and experienced knowledge of the calling.  A 
man particularly worthy of note in this line is Harry Brisley, 
who has been a prominent and successful druggist of Prescott 
Arizona since 1888.  

Mr. Brisley was born in the County of Kent, England in 1862 and 
received his education in a leading commercial school of the same 
county.  After leaving school he was apprenticed for five years 
to the drug business in London England and in 1881 he came to 
America, where he graduated at the Chicago College of Pharmacy 
in 1886.  After this he clerked in a drug store at Oak Park, a 
suburb of Chicago for about two years and then went to Arizona 
Territory for his health.

He settled in Phoenix and was there permanently cured of his 
lung trouble.  Seeing that the climate agreed with him, Mr. 
Brisely decided to go into business at Prescott and having 
purchased a half interest in a drug store there, entered 
actively upon his career as a business man.  A year later 
he purchased the entire business and it has grown to be one 
of the best in Northern Arizona.  Mr. Brisley also owns and 
conducts a drug store at Jerome, the only store of the kind 
in the county outside of Prescott.

He is a progressive, wide awake stirring young man and is well 
posted on all that pertains to his business. He is a full 
fledged American citizen, having his adopted country's interests 
at heart.  In the year 1888, he marred Miss Clara Pinchon, a 
native of England and they have two children, Mabel, aged four 
years and Harold R., aged eight months.

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