Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Harrison, Elizabeth Wood 1840 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

MRS. ELIZABETH HARRISON.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison, well known in Lowell, was born in Center township.
Lake county, Indiana, on the 17th of August, 1840. Her father, Dr. James A.
Wood, was a native of Medina county, Ohio, and when a young man came to Indiana.
He was married in the former state to Miss Anna Jacobs, whose birth occurred in
New York, on the 7th of January, 1818. It was in the year 1838 that they removed
to this state, settling in Porter county, and soon afterward they came to Lake
county, taking up their abode in Center Prairie. Dr. Wood was a well-known
physician and practiced for many years in Lake county, carrying professional
assistance and relief into many of the households, where his labors proved of
great value in the alleviation of human suffering. At the time of the Civil war
he served as assistant surgeon in the First Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and then
returned to his practice in Lake county. He followed his profession here in the
early days when the work of a physician demanded that he take long rides across
the country, for the homes were widely scattered. This involved many personal
sacrifices and hardships, but Dr. Wood faithfully performed his duties as a
physician and frequently responded to a professional call when he knew that he
would receive no remuneration for his services. He became very widely known
through Lake and adjoining counties, and his professional skill, combined with
his broad humanitarian principles and kindly spirit, won for him the respect and
love of the great majority with whom he was associated. He died only twenty-six
days before the eighty-fourth anniversary of his birth, and his wife passed away
in her eightieth year. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom two
died in infancy, while three died in childhood.

    Mrs. Harrison, the third child of this family, was reared in Lake county and
began her education in the common schools. She afterward continued her studies
in Crown Point, Indiana, and in Valparaiso. She afterward engaged in teaching
school in Indiana, Illinois and Kansas. In 1873 she went to Jewell county,
Kansas, where she took up a claim on which she remained for about two years, and
during that period she continued teaching. She then returned to Lake county to
take care of her parents, and remained with them until their death.

    On the nth of November, 1878, Miss Elizabeth Wood gave her hand in marriage
to John Harrison, who was born in Dorchester, England, and died on the 1st of
January, 1884. Soon after her husband's death Mrs. Harrison returned to Lowell,
where she has since resided. With the exception of two years spent in the
Sunflower state her entire life has been passed in Lake county, and she is
numbered among the worthy pioneer women of this part of the state. She belongs
to the Christian church, is a very active worker therein, has long been a
teacher in the Sunday-school and is now a teacher of the old people's Bible
class. She is well known throughout Lake county, and her Christian character,
her many kindly traits and good deeds have won for her the love and good will of
those with whom she has been associated.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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