Following is a biography of Drew Frank Harrison
C. F. HARRISON
LAURA (SANDERS) HARRISON
DREW FRANK HARRISON
CARRIE (THOMPSON) HARRISON
MABEL HARRISON
ASHBERRY COLUMBUS HARRISON
DREW FRANK HARRISON, JR.
Copied from CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF ARKANSAS, VOLUME II published in 1922
by the S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago-Little Rock.
Pages 323-4.
DREW FRANK HARRISON
DREW FRANK HARRISON, a restaurant proprietor of El Dorado, was
born in Hillsboro, Union county, Arkansas, February 7, 1880. His father,
C. F. HARRISON, who died in 1918, was one of the pioneer settlers of the
city of Cleveland, Arkansas, and contributed to the early development and
progress of the state. He came of a family distinctively American in its
lineal and collateral branches through several generations. Throughout
the greater part of his life he followed the occupation of farming,
though for a short time he was engaged in commercial pursuits. He had
two brothers who served throughout the entire period of the Civil war,
also another brother who was killed while fighting on the front. C. F.
HARRISON was united to marriage to Miss LAURA SANDERS, who departed this
life in 1913. she was born and reared in Union county, Arkansas, where
her father had settled in pioneer times. She also belonged to one of the
old American families, her ancestors having lived on this continent for
an extended period.
Drew F. Harrison was educated in the country schools of Union
county and in early youth worked in different positions, being employed
in various ways until 1912. With an accumulated capital of two hundred
and fifty dollars, saved from his earnings, he then started a restaurant
in a small way. In the succeeding years he has built up a business which
represents an investment of twenty thousand dollars and of which he is
the sole owner. He has ever maintained high standards in the service
given to the public, and his restaurant is a popular establishment, a
traveler or a fellow townsman being always assured of a good meal if he
visits the Harrison place of business. In addition to the conduct of his
restaurant Mr. harrison owns a cotton gin in Upland, Arkansas, and has
one hundred and sixty acres of land near there, his tract being situated
only a short distance from the oil fields, with possibilities that oil
may also underlie his place. He is likewise a stockholder in the El
Dorado Natural Gas Company.
On the 24th of September, 1904, Mr. Harrison was united in
marriage to Miss CARRIE THOMPSON of El Dorado, who was born and reared
near Waldo, Arkansas, and belongs to an old family from Chattanooga,
Tennessee. They have become the parents of two sons and a daughter, but
the daughter, MABEL, died in 1912, at the age of five years. The two
sons are: ASBERRY COLUMBUS, now sixteen years of age; and DREW FRANK,
JR. a lad of six.
Mr. Harrison belongs to El Dorado Lodge No. 13, A. F. & A. M.,
also to the Eastern Star and to Columbia Camp of the Modern Woodmen. The
religious faith of Mr.and Mrs. Harrison is that of the Baptist church,
and their interest centers in those channels through which flow the
greatest good to the greatest number. Mr. Harrison gives his political
allegiance to the democratic party and is interested in everything that
pertains to the welfare and progress of his community, his cooperation
being a tangible asset in the work for public improvement.