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HARRISON, GEORGE (1832-1914)

HARRISON, GEORGE, Methodist minister, Newcastle circuit, 1890-93; b. Wakefield parish, Carleton Co., N.B., 3 Aug 1832, s/o Hugh Harrison; brother of Frederick W. Harrison; m. Margaret Tilley, of Gagetown (a sister of Sir Leonard Tilley); d. Cambridge, Mass., 27 Jan 1914.

The son of a farmer, George Harrison was received into the Methodist ministry on trial in 1861. He was ordained in 1865 and served as a "revivalist preacher" for twenty-eight years in urban and small town circuits in the Maritimes. He was stationed at Tryon, P.E.I., before being assigned to the Newcastle circuit in 1890. When he completed his term at Newcastle in 1893 he retired in the town. In 1905 he and his wife, Margaret Tilley, moved to Sawyerville, Que., where their daughter Susan A. Harrison was living, as the wife of Dr Frederick P. Yorston. Around 1912 they moved again to join their son Charles Harrison in Cambridge, Mass. They had at least eight children, of whom three daughters and two sons were surviving in 1914. Two not named above were the school principal G. Hugh Harrison and Georgia Harrison, the wife of the Rev. Hammond Johnson.

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[b/d] annual 1914 / Advocate 23 Jul 1890, 6 Jul 1892, 3 May 1905; Cornish; World 31 Jan 1914


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