HARRISON, THOMAS: 1813-1903.
Thomas Harrison was born in Yorkshire, England, on Jan. 19, 1813. When he was fourteen years old he was apprenticed to a printer for seven years and, following his term of service, came to the United States , where he settled in Springfield, O., and became the publisher of a political newspaper.
From 1841 to 1848 he was an assistant editor of the WESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE and the LADIES REPOSITORY. He held a position in the Ohio Conference High School in Springfield and four years later established Linden Hill Academy in New Carlisle, O., which soon became known as a place of learning in the West.
Professor Harrison came to Indiana in 1864 as president of Moore's Hill (now Evansville) College, a position he held for six years. He was later president of a college in Brookville, Ind., and principal of Shelbyville High School.
About 1890 he retired from public life and settled in Shelbyville, where he conducted classes for private pupils until his last illness.
He was ninety years old when he died on Apr. 18, 1903.
Information from the Carnegie Public Library, Shelbyville, Indiana.
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