Charles M. Harrison Biography


	This biography appears on page 1666 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CHARLES M. HARRISON, a leading member of the Spink county bar and 
practicing his profession at Redfield as senior member of the well-known 
firm of Harrison & Everitt, was born June 22, 1851, at Springfield, 
Ohio. He is the son of the Rev. Thomas Harrison, D. D., of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, who was a native of Yorkshire, England. Rev. Harrison 
came to the United States when a young man, and located at Springfield, 
Ohio. When sixteen years of age he was ordained to the ministry. For a 
period of eight years he occupied the editor's chair of the Western 
Christian Advocate, published at Cincinnati, and subsequently he became 
president of Moore's Hill College, a church institution located at 
Moore's Hill, Dearborn county, Indiana. He was a man of high scholarship 
and fine executive ability and he accomplished much in his field of 
endeavor. 

Charles M. Harrison was educated in the public schools and at 
Moore's Hill College, taking a six-years course at the latter. After 
leaving college he taught school in Indiana, and was in turn principal 
of the high schools of Connersville, Lafayette and Kokomo. He read law 
and was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1876, and was actively engaged in 
the practice of his profession in that state until 1883, when he came to 
what was the territory of Dakota, locating at Huron. There he engaged in 
the practice of law, and was appointed agent and attorney for the 
Milwaukee Loan Company, with which he continued until 1893. In that year 
he removed to Sioux Falls to take the financial management of the 
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company for its loan business in 
South Dakota, a position he held for eight years. In 1902 Mr. Harrison 
removed to Redfield to enter into a partnership with the Hon. T. A. 
Everitt in the practice of law, negotiating of mortgage loans and the 
buying and selling of real estate. 

	Mr. Harrison is a Republican in politics, and in 1891 was elected 
to the second general assembly of South Dakota from Beadle county. He is 
a Mason of the Knights Templar degree, and is also a member of the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 

	On January 20, 1880, Mr. Harrison was married to Anna R. Shirk, of 
New Castle, Indiana, the daughter of the Hon. Benjamin Shirk. He was a 
prominent citizen of Indiana, and served in both the house and senate of 
the Indiana legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison are the parents of three 
children: Ruth, Ben-Tom and Florence.