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

Mr. Harison was active in community and church affairs all of his life. He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church where he
served as Treasurer for 12 years. He was a Vestry man and Senior Warden. He was Chairman of the House of Bishops meeting
when they convened in Augusta. Mr. Harison was elected to the Richmond County Hospital Authority in 1966 where he served as
Treasurer, Vice-Chairman and Chairman in 1974. In the absence of an administrator, the Hospital Authority authorized Mr. Harison
and the late Harry Jernigan to be Co-Administrators. He served on the Board of Walton Rehabilitation Hospital and was Chairman of
the Foundation. When a personal tragedy occurred which rendered one of his sons a quadriplegic, he organized and led the work
for a capital campaign to build an independent living facility to assist physically disabled people. Harison Heights opened its doors in
1999.
As an active community leader, he was elected director of Trust Company Bank in 1957 and served as Chairman of the Trust
Committee for years. He was on the Board of Directors of J. Smith Lanier & Co. He served on the boards of The Episcopal Day
School, The American Cancer Society, the Augusta Radiation Center, the Augusta Area Mental Health Association, Historic
Augusta, Tax Assessors Board of Equalization, the Augusta Speech and Hearing Center, The Augusta Historical Society, The First
Tee and University Health Care Foundation. He served as a Trustee of the Summerville Cemetery and the Creel Foundation where
he was President for 15 years. He was a member of The Pinnacle Club, The Augusta Assembly and a charter member of The
Heritage Club. An avid golfer, Mr. Harison was the GIAA Golf State Champion in 1942. He was a member of the Augusta Country
Club and the Augusta National Golf Club. He had witnessed every Masters Golf Tournament since its inception in 1934 and served
as the Official Starter and Pairings Committee Chairman from 1947 until 2007.
Survivors include a daughter, Eleanor H. Taylor and her husband, Michael; two sons. Phil S. Harison, Jr. and his wife Julie and
Richard Campbell Harison and his wife, Margaret: and five grandchildren, all of Augusta
102 Warner Ct, Evans, GA 30809-8048
(706) 860-3714
Age: 40-44; Household: Margaret M Doyle, R Hanson, Cam Harison, Frank Doyle, John Smith,
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Trinity Church – Wall Street History
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Historical Note:
Richard Harison was a Vestryman in 1783 and from 1788 to 1811, and a Church Warden from 1811 to 1827. He was a delegate to
the New York Constitutional Convention, a member of the New York Assembly from 1788 to 1789, and the first U. S. District
Attorney for New York. Harison was a lawyer by profession and a member of the Federalist Party. In 1815, he was appointed the
first comptroller of Trinity Church.
Scope and Content Note:
The records of Richard Harison were donated to Trinity Church by a descendant, Elizabeth Harison. They include the 1644 deed to
freeman Symon Congo, the 1667 reconfirmation of the Congo deed, letters from Bishop Henry Hobart, Bishop William White, and
Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk, and letters on Harison’s resignation as comptroller and Church Warden due to the infirmities of age.
There is also a booklet in which deeds and leases were copied, and the minutes of the Standing Committee dealing primarily with
real estate issues.
Historical Note:
William H. Harison was the son of the first Comptroller Richard Harison. Also a lawyer, he served Trinity Church as Vestryman
from 1833 to 1852 and as Warden from 1852 to 1855. He resigned as comptroller because of failing health in 1853. Mr. Harison’s
tenure covered the beginnings of a major fight between Trinity Church and downtown property owners over a plan to have Albany
Street extended through the Churchyard to Broadway. Trinity strongly opposed the extension based on the Churchyard’s status as a
more than 200 year old burial ground and their claim that the remains of patriots who had been imprisoned by the British in the
Sugar House north of the Churchyard during the Revolutionary War were interred there. At a town meeting discussing the issue in
1852, the suggestion was made that a monument be erected in honor of the martyrs of the Revolution. The Soldier’s monument on
the northeast corner of the churchyard was erected soon thereafter.
Scope and Content Note:
Letters in this collection are a donation from Elizabeth Harison and relate to Trinity Church matters. There is material on the Albany
Street extension and on the beginnings of St. Luke’s Hospital as a Christian hospital for the poor.
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MR. CLEMENT C. MOORE,
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AT a meeting of the Alumni of Columbia College, held at the College Chapel on Wednesday last, it was unanimously resolved, that
the thanks of the meeting be presented to Mr. MOORE, for the interesting and impressive address delivered by him this day; and that
he be requested to furnish a copy of the same for publication.
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