Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Harrison, Thomas E. February 25, 1836 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 October 25, 2008, 12:31 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Harrison, Thomas E., Winfield, was born in Litchfield, February 25, 1836, a son of Stephen Harrison, who came from England and settled first in New Hartford, and then in Litchfield about 1833. He married Mary Watson, and they had eight children, five living: John W., Thomas E., William H., Rosa R. and Elizabeth. The three deceased are Margaret, Mary Jane and Eliza A. Thomas E. Harrison married, May 24, 1885, Olive E. Alexander of Litchfield, and they have three children: Mary Eliza, Herbert Alexander and Leonard E. Mary Eliza was educated first at the West Winfield Academy, then at the State Normal School at Albany, where she graduated in the class of 1888. She is now a teacher in Selden, Long Island. Herbert Alexander was educated at the West Winfield Academy, and graduated there; then taught school two years. He read medicine with the late Dr. E. S. B. Spencer of West Winfield, and entered the New York Homeopathic Medical College of New York City in October, 1891, and is still attending that college, from which he will graduate in 1894. Leonard E. Harrison is now attending the West Winfield Union School and Academy. Mrs. Olive E.Harrison is a daughter of Joseph and Eliza Alexander of Litchfield. They have two children: Esther Jane and Olive E. Thomas E. Harrison has been justice of the peace for four years, and was re-elected last spring. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/harrison504gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb