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HARRISON, GEORGE HUGH (1866-1950)

HARRISON, GEORGE HUGH, principal of the Chatham Grammar School, 1889-93 and 1912-46; b. White's Cove, N.B., 7 Oct 1866, s/o George Harrison and Margaret Tilley; m. 1899, Annie Mabel VanWart, of Woodstock, N.B.; d. Chatham, 20 Feb 1950.

G. Hugh Harrison was educated at Mount Allison University (BA 1887, MA 1890) and received a grammar school license at the Provincial Normal School in 1888. After acquiring a year of teaching experience at Upper Sackville he was named principal of the Chatham Grammar School, at age twenty-three. At that time the grammar school was located in a brick building which had been erected by the Highland Society and leased to the school trustees.

In 1891, Harrison was among the residents of the boarding house conducted in Chatham by the family of Alexander McN. Marshall. In 1893, he resigned his position at the school and moved to Woodstock, where he became principal of the Carleton County Grammar School. He retired from the profession in December 1905 to enter the insurance field in Woodstock, but he later reversed his decision, and in September 1910, was named principal of the grammar school at Bathurst. Two years later, he took on the Chatham principalship again, and he retained it for the next thirty-four years. A thoroughly conscientious pedagogue, he would conduct tutorial classes on the weekends for students who needed extra assistance or who were preparing to write examinations.

Harrison was elected to a one-year term as president of the Teachers' Institute in 1891 and to several other terms in later years. In 1922, he was secretary of the New Brunswick Teachers' Association. In 1925 he was one of a group of New Brunswick educators who, along with their spouses, were given a study tour of England and the continent by Lord Beaverbrook. When he retired in 1946, at nearly eighty years of age, Mount Allison University granted him an LLD degree. "He was a truly great teacher," stated the school inspector J. E. Carten, "and merits unbounded praise."

Harrison was president of the Miramichi Natural History Association in 1918-19 and secretary-treasurer for some years of the Miramichi Golf & Country Club. He was a member of the Masonic order and the Methodist-United Church. He and his wife, Annie M. VanWart, had an only son who died in a car accident in 1924, and at least one daughter.

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[b] census (day and month); tombstone [m] Commercial World 29 Dec 1960 [d] Leader 24 Feb 1950 / Advance 28 Feb 1889, 24 Sep 1891, 24 May 1893, 4 Jan 1894; Commercial World 16 May 1946, 23 May 1946, 23 Feb 1950; Educ. reports 1925-26, 1942-43; Educ. Review, Jan 1906, Sep 1910; Fraser (C); Leader 28 Apr 1922; MacMillan; World 26 Sep 1914, 29 Sep 1917


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