1875.] Obb [Sellers. 



" To Thee 



Who Hast Been 



For More Than Half My Life 



My Truest Friend, 



My Coukselob, 



My Wife." 



During the latter part of Ms life he was connected with the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal Church,* and had been a regular attendant at Divine ser- 

 vice at all times. He made no outward show of religious bias, but ever 

 bore himself as an honest, upright citizen striving to do what was right. 

 His worth and ability led to his being asked to fill many positions of 

 honor and trust, and he received many substantial evidences of apprecia- 

 tion of his woi'k. For what he had done in the direction of safety in 

 steam-boiler construction he was, on May 30, 1871, made the recipient of 

 the great gold and silver Rumford medals by the American Academy of 

 Arts and Science "for the mode of constructing steam boilers invented 

 and perfected by" (Mr. Harrison), which "secures great safety in the 

 use of high-pressure steam, and is, therefore, an important improvement 

 in the application of heat. ' ' 



Mr. Harrison was elected a member of this Association July 15, 1864; 

 signed the Constitution and was introduced to the presiding officer. 

 Judge Sharswood, Vice-President, December 2d, 1864, having accepted 

 his membership by letter dated September 26, 1864. He was also a mem- 

 ber of other learned societies, but with the exception of few papers read 

 by him he did not take a very active part in the business of any of them. 

 Of him it cannot be said that fortune was more kind than to others. His 

 success was the legitimate outgrowth of his beginning. There may be 

 some who "when they have planted their feet on the first rung of a ladder 

 must needs mount ; " with some the ladder of life is an unbroken one and 

 to fall in climbing can be but from sheer carelessness. But his life was 

 not without many trials. There were many missing rungs in that ladder, 

 and these gaps, sometimes very wide, had to be crossed with prudent 

 care. To him was intrusted the keejiing of many talents, and he proved 

 himself a good and faithful steward. 



* Mr. Harrison was conflrmed by Rt. Rev. Wm. Bacon Stevens, at the Ohurch of the 

 Holy Trinity (Nineteenth and Walnut streets), Sunday, May 2d, 1869. Rev. Phillips 

 Brooks, Rector. 



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