The following is a biography of Harvey Thomas Harrison.
Rev. WILLIAM RINGGOLD HARRISON
ALICE VIRGINIA (GRADY) HARRISON
HARVEY THOMAS HARRISON
NELLIE EVANS (MC CAUGHEY) HARRISON
JOHN MC CAUGHEY HARRISON
THOMAS STEVEN BUZBEE
Copied from CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF ARKANSAS, VOLUME II published in 1922
by the S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago-Little Rock.
Pages 478-9.
HARVEY THOMAS HARRISON
Harvey Thomas Harrison of Little Rock was born January 6, 1884,
in Lockesburg, Sevier county, Arkansas, and is a son of the Rev. WILLIAM
RINGGOLD and ALICE VIRGINIA (GRADY) HARRISON. The father was born
December 22, 1853, on a farm in Itawamba county, Mississippi, while the
mother's birth occurred on a farm in Sevier county, Arkansas, December
25, 1864. They were married at Lockesburg, Arkansas, on the 4th of
October, 1882, and through the intervening years Rev. Mr. Harrison has
devoted his life to the work of the ministry, laboring earnestly at
various places to which he has been called. His political allegiance is
given to the democratic party. To him and has wife have been born five
sons and four daughters, of whom two daughters died in infancy.
Harvey T. Harrison, who was the eldest in his father's family,
obtained his education in various towns of Arkansas as his father went
from place to place, according to the itinerant custom of the Methodist
ministry in that day. At length he became a student in Hendrix College
at Conway, Arkansas, and there won his Bachelor of Arts degree upon
graduation with the class of 1906. Thus he laid broad and deep in his
literary training the foundation upon which has been reared the
superstructure of his professional knowledge. He afterward took up the
study of law and was admitted to the Arkansas bar in June, 1911. Since
that time he has steadily engaged in practice. He became assistant
attorney for the Rock Island Railway Company for Arkansas on the 15th of
March, 1915, and on the 1st of January, 1916, he became a partner in the
firm of Buzbee, Pugh & Harrison, a connection that has since been
maintained. Mr. Buzbee is the attorney for the Rock Island in Arkansas
and Louisiana and the two other members of the firm are acting as
assistant attorneys. They also enjoy an extensive private practice and
the clientage of the firm has connected them with much important
litigations heard in the courts of the southwest.
On the 14th of December, 1911, was celebrated the marriage of Mr.
Harrison to Miss NELLIE EVANS McCAUGHEY, who was born in Camden,
Arkansas, August 30, 1887. She attended Galloway college of Arkansas and
afterward continued her education in Bellmont College in Tennessee. By
her marriage she has become the mother of one son, JOHN McCAUGHEY, who
was born October 27, 1912.
Mr. Harrison is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church,
South, of Little Rock and his political allegiance is given to the
democratic party. He belongs to the Country Club, to the Spring Lake
Club and to the Dilly Club and is much interested in these organizations.
His genial, social nature makes for popularity wherever he is known and
his friends in Little Rock and the state are legion.
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Charlotte Broze