Biographical Sketch of Edward M. Harrison, Phelps County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Edward M. Harrison, druggist at Rolla, was born in Phelps County, Mo.,
March 5, 1867, and is the son of Thomas C. and Maria M. (Moore) 
Harrison, and grandson of John P. Harrison, who was born in Virginia, 
as was also his wife.  He immigrated to Missouri, but before the
admission of the State into the Union, settled near Arlington, and his
house was the only one in that country.  The maternal grandparents of
our subject were also early settlers in this section of Missouri. 
Thomas C. Harrison was born in Phelps County, Mo., February 21, 1822,
near Arlington, where by his own efforts he received a fair education.
He remained at home and assisted on the farm until nineteen years of 
age, when he married and began life for himself.  He engaged in merch-
andising at Arlington, which he continued until his death from a sun
stroke July 28, 1880.  During his life in this county he represented 
the people at Jefferson City; was also a prominent member of the 
Masonic order.  Maria M. Moore was born at Hartville, Wright County,
Mo., in 1840; was educated in that county, and married J. W. P. Poole.
After his death she married Mr. Harrison, and became the mother of five
children, three now living: Lizzie L., Daisy and Edward.  The two 
deceased were named Mamie and Mattie.  She was the mother of a child by
her first marriage, who was named Joseph W. Poole, and who is now liv-
ing in Rolla.  Mrs. Harrison died August 13, 1874.  Edward M. Harrison 
attained his growth near Arlington, and attended the district schools.
He came to Rolla when sixteen years of age, and April 4, 1881, entered
the public schools, attending two years, and received a first class
certificate of 96.5 percent.  He then entered the School of Mines,
attended two terms and took a select course.  He then clerked for two
years in a drug store at Newburg, after which he attended the Missouri
Medical College at St. Louis for one year.  He then returned to Newburg
where he clerked in a drug store for six months.  He then came to Rolla
worked in the county collector's office as deputy during the winter of
1887-88, and on March 14, 1888 was united in marriage to Miss Linda
Minium, daughter of John and Harriet Minium, natives of Pennsylvania,
who came to Missouri and settled near Rolla in 1869.  Mrs. Harrison was
born August 16, 1867, in Meadville, Penn.  April 23, 1888 Mr. Harrison
opened the drug store he now has, and is doing a profitable business,
his prescriptions running 5,000 a year.  He carries a full line of
drugs, chemicals, clocks, paints, oils, etc.  Mr. Harrison is a member
of the A. O. U. W. and Select Knights, and his wife is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.  They are both musicians, and Mrs. Harrison
is a graduate of Western Conservatory of Music.

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