Bios of Harrison, Baker (b.1841) Wabasha Co., MN
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Harrison, Baker (page 513), a former resident of Lake Township, where for
a number of years he was profitable engaged in agricultural pursuits, was
a pioneer settler in Minnesota. He was born in Kalamazoo county, Mich.,
September 4, 1841, son of Stillwell and Myra Harrison, the parents being
of old Kentucky stock. With them, he came to Minnesota in 1854, locating
at Central Point, Goodhue county, where his father conducted a hotel. In
1861 he enlisted for service in the Civil War, in Company G, Eighth
Minnesota Volunteers, and was in the army three years. Returning to this
region at the close of his military service, he took a homestead at Wells
Creek, near Frontenac, Goodhue County. To that farm he brought his bride,
being married July 4, 1871, to Mary, daughter of Tillinghast and Laura
Merrill, of Lake Township. There they lived three years, and then Mr.
Harrison sold out, and bought the farm of his wife's parents, in section
6, Lake Township, which he conducted for a number of years, dying there on
June 23, 1891, when in his 52nd year. His experience in the army had
undermined his health, for he was never very strong afterwards. His wife,
who was born in Otsego County, New York, February 12, 1851, came to this
section with her parents when about four years old. She is still living,
and a woman of bright intellectual faculties, though now has almost lost
her sight. Mr. And Mrs. Harrison had two children: Charles B., born
October 7, 1875, now residing in section 6, Lake Township; and Laura, born
June 9, 1872, who died in infancy.