Richard [Nicholls] Harison / Harrison - Onondaga and Oswego ...

RICHARD M. HARISON.
(PREPARED BY JAMES M. VARNTJM, ESQ.)
Richard Morley Harison was born in the city of New York, September 23, 1833, and died at Astoria, Long Island, on December 22,
1895. Mr. Harison came of good old legal stock.
His father, William H. Harison, was a much respected practitioner in this city, and is still remembered as such by some of the older
members of the profession, though he practically retired from practice in the early forties.
His grandfather, Richard Harison, who was a very eminent lawyer of the period immediately following the Revolution, was appointed
by President Washington the first Attorney of the United States for the New York District, and was for many years Recorder of the
city.
His great-grandfather, George Duncan Ludlow, was Judge of the Supreme Court of the Province of New York, and afterwards Chief
Justice of New Brunswick.
His maternal grandfather, Thomas Ludlow Ogden, was an eminent chamber counsellor, and the latter's father, Abraham Ogden,
was U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and was himself the son of David Ogden, Judge of the Supreme Court of the
Province of New Jersey.
Richard M. Harison was graduated at Hobart College, in 1852, studied law with Orlando Mead, Esq., of Albany, and at the Albany
Law School, where he was graduated in 1859.
After graduation and admission to the bar he went into business in New York, in partnership with his brother George D. L. Harison,
and in connection with his relative and his father's former partner, Gouverneur M. Ogden. This partnership he dissolved in 1866, to
enter the office of the Hon. Alex. W. Bradford. Upon the death of Judge Bradford, in the following year, he formed, with Mr. Julien T.
Davies, the firm of Harison & Davies. This firm was dissolved in 1871, and Mr. Harison practiced by himself until, in 1873, he was
invited to join the firm of Varnum & Tnrney, the firm name being changed to Varnum, Turney & Harison. This firm was succeeded on
the death of Mr. Turney, in 1875, by the firm of Varnum & Harison, of which Mr. Harison continued a member until his death. Mr.
Harison was one of the founders of the Bar Association, and also of the Lawyers' Title Insurance Company, and was prominently
identified with many of the charitable and educational institutions of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
http://www.morley.northcountryny.com/ ; conniesterner@gmail.com
1858 Map - Thomas Ludlow Harison Land Office on left (built Harison Mill & Trinity Church)
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