Hanson Harrison of Portsmouth, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 1079

   HANSON HARRISON, general farmer and dairyman in the town of
Portsmouth, owning 85 acres of land, was born in Maccan, Nova Scotia,
April 15, 1847, a son of Edward and Mary Jane Harrison.  His parents never
came to the United States.  He was educated in the common schools of Nova
Scotia and then began farm life, which he has followed ever since.  The
other children of his parents' family were Lovell, Henry, Stephen, Thomas,
Elvira, Hannah and Mary Jane.  Mr. Harrison came to this locality in 1892
and has been prosperous as a farmer.  He keeps about fifteen head of cattle,
including some graded Holsteins.  He married Elizabeth Schurman McCallan,
daughter of John B. and Mary Jane (Schurman) McCallan, her father being
a farmer.  She had seven sisters and one brother, namely: Eunice, Minnie,
Clara, Elvira, Retta, Sadie, Kate and William C.  Mr. and Mrs. Harrison
are the parents of three children: Walter Stanley, Lewis Adair, and J. E.
Ford Harrison.  Walter S. Harrison married first Lucy Willey and, secondly,
Helen Giles.  Lewis A. married Margaret N. Beane.  The other son, John
Edward Ford, is connected fraternally with the Red Men and in politics votes
independently.  The family attend Court Street Christian Church.