Record. XXXV 
EDWIN HARRISON. 
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE BY G. C. BROADHEAD. 
James Harrison was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, 
October, 1803. He married Maria Louisa Prewitt of Howard 
County, Missouri, in 1830. He was of north of Ireland ex- 
traction and of English ancestry and of strong mental and 
physical vigor. He early traded in Northern Mexico and from 
1834 to 1840 was in business in Arkansas, maintaining several 
trading establishments in different towns. 
In 1840 he moved to St. Louis and in 1843 became part 
owner of the Iron Mountain property. In 1845 he organized 
the Iron Mountain Company, which soon became one of the 
strongest companies of the West. He was a director of the 
Tron Mouiians Railroad Company and also of the Missouri 
Pacific. 
Edwin Harrison, the subject of our sketch, was the son of 
James Harrison and was born in Washington County, Ar- 
kansas. He was also of fine form and physical vigor, strong 
mind and clear judgment. 
When he was four years of age his father moved to St. 
Louis, which was ever aftertheirhome. In 1846 he attended 
a school in Ste. Genevieve. At the age of twelve he was 
sent to a school at Nanauer in Belgium, where he remained 
for several years. In 1851 he returned to St. Louis and 
attended Wymans School for two years. In 1853 he 
entered the Lawrence Scientific School at Cambridge, 
Mass., graduating from it in 1856. While there he had for 
preceptors the great Naturalist and Zoologist, Louis Agassiz, 
and Asa Gray, the Botanist. He had a great admiration for 
Agassiz, and with a natural love for Science this association 
had its effect in his after life. Although often burdened with 
the accumulation of business, he always loved to further the 
needs of Science. 
In 1873 he married Miss Laura E. Sterne of Glasgow, 
Mo., who with their two sons and a daughter survives him. 
