Bio: Dr. John R. R. Harrison, Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker
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Dr. John R. R. Harrison is one of the oldest settlers of Caddo Parish, La.,
having been a resident of this place since 1846.  He was born in Fairfield
District, S. C., March 26, 1824, his parents, Willoughby and Elizabeth
(Rieve) Harrison, being also born there, the former dying in Lowndes
County, Ala., when the subject of this sketch was four years of age.  He
had been a soldier in the War of 1812, and had moved from South Carolina to
Alabama shortly after his marriage.  His father, Willoughby Harrison, was a
South Carolinian, and was a Revolutionary soldier, taking part in many
battles.  In the State of Alabama Dr. John R. R. Harrison grew to manhood,
but since 1846, as above stated, he has been a resident of Caddo Parish.
He was a student of medicine under Dr. John Hall, in Alabama, and with some
additional study after coming to Louisiana, he, in 1854, graduated from the
University of New Orleans, and has since practiced in Caddo Parish, nearly
half a century, his practice extending over a very large area.  He has made
a special study of the eye, and during his practice has effected some
miraculous cures, a number of his patients being pronounced incurable by
New Orleans specialists and the physicians of Shreveport.  He has been a
very successful financier, and has become the owner of 3,940 acres of fine
land, all in Ward 2, and has 600 acres under cultivation.  He was married
July 4, 1845, to Miss Narcissus Barlow, whose father, Thomas Barlow, was a
Georgian, moving afterward to Alabama.  She was born in Georgia, but was
reared in Alabama.  She was born in Georgia, but was reared in Alabama, and
died July 13, 1890, having been a member of the Missionary Baptist Church
from girlhood.  She became the mother of one son, who died during the war,
when sixteen years of age.  Dr. Harrison is a member of, and has been
deacon in the Missionary Baptist Church, and socially is a Royal Arch
Mason, which order he joined in Alabama, prior to coming to Louisiana.  He
is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and is a Democrat, politically.
During the late war he was detailed to practice medicine in this parish.