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Edward M. Harrison, druggist at Rolla, was born in Phelps County, Mo., March 5, 1867, and is the son of Thomas C. and Maria M. (Moore) Harrison, and grandson of John P. Harrison, who was born in Virginia, as was also his wife. He immigrated to Missouri, but before the admission of the State into the Union, settled near Arlington, and his house was the only one in that country. The maternal grandparents of our subject were also early settlers in this section of Missouri. Thomas C. Harrison was born in Phelps County, Mo., February 21, 1822, near Arlington, where by his own efforts he received a fair education. He remained at home and assisted on the farm until nineteen years of age, when he married and began life for himself. He engaged in merchandising at Arlington, which he continued until his death from sun-stroke July 28, 1880. During his life in this county he represented the people at Jefferson City; was also a prominent member of the Masonic order. Maria M. Moore was born at Hartville, Wright County, Mo., in 1840; was educated in that county, and married J. W. P. Poole. After his death she married Mr. Harrison, and became the mother of five children, three now living: Lizzie L., Daisy and Edward. The two deceased were named Mamie and Mattie. She was the mother of a child by her first marriage, who was named Joseph W. Poole, and who is now living in Rolla. Mrs. Harrison died August 13, 1874. Edward M. Harrison attained his growth near Arlington, and attended the district schools. He came to Rolla when sixteen years of age, and April 4, 1881, entered the public schools, attending two years, and received a first-class certificate of 96 1/5 per cent. He then entered the School of Mines, attended two terms and took a select course. He then clerked for two years in a drugstore at Newburg, after which he attended the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis for one year. He then returned to Newburg, where he clerked in a drug store for six months. He then came to Rolla, worked in the county collector’s office as deputy during the winter of 1887-88, and on March 14, 1888, was united in marriage to Miss Linda Minium, daughter of John and Harriet Minium, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Missouri and settled near Rolla in 1869. Mrs. Harrison was born August 16, 1867, in Meadville, Penn. April 23, 1888, Mr. Harrison opened the drug store he now has, and is doing a profitable business, his prescriptions running 5,000 a year. He carries a full line of drugs, chemicals, clocks, paints, oils, etc. Mr. Harrison is a member of the A. O. U. W. and Select Knights, and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They are both musicians, and Mrs. Harrison is a graduate of Western Conservatory of Music.