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

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Abraham's son. Thomas Ludlow Ogden, lawyer, born in Morristown, NJ, 12 Dec 1773; died in New York city, 17 Dec 1844, was
graduated at Columbia in 1791, and then studied under his father, completing his legal education in the office of Richard Harison.
In 1796 he was admitted to the New York bar, and later he was associated with Alexander Hamilton, having charge of the latter's
law business during his occupations elsewhere. Subsequently Mr. Ogden was legal adviser of many important corporations, notably
the Holland land company when it held 3,000,000 acres of land in the western part of New York; also one of the trustees of the
Indian reservation lands and sole trustee of Sackett's Harbor.
He was law officer of the corporation of Trinity Church, for thirty-five years clerk and member of its vestry, and at the time of his
death senior warden. Mr. Ogden was an early patron of the General Theological Seminary and one of the original trustees under the
act of incorporation, also one of the founders of the Protestant Episcopal Society for Promoting Religion and Learning in the State of
New York, of which at the time of his death he was vice-president. From 1817 till his death he was trustee of Columbia College.
William Henry Harison, b. 29 Apr 1795; d. 1 May 1860; m1. Gertrude H. Ogden, b. 1806; d. 1839. d/o Thomas Ludlow Ogden,
(1773-1844); Children: 6 (Harison) sons.
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http://books.google.com/books?id=KwcOAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22dixon+ryan+fox%22&hl=en&ei=Uw_DTLGfM4O0
lQeW6JUE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=harison&f=false page 12.
E. B. O'Callaghan, "Biographical Sketch of Francis Harison," N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. ix, pp. 49-51. This
article notices the descendants of the subject; N. Y. Civil List, 1881, p. 240.
One who at first was burdened with the record of a loyalist was Richard Harison, the son of a Tory councilor who had fled to
England; but he had regained the public favor by his kindness and urbanity, spiced just frequently enough with dashes of sharp wit.
When Washington appointed him a federal district attorney, there had been some who questioned the propriety of calling to official
station one who, however sound in law and scholarship, had given comfort to the enemy. But the appointment was defended on the
very ground that his Toryism had been so notorious. It was thought necessary that, if all of this class were to be won to the support
of the new government, the Federalist party must evince a liberality which might equal that of Governor Clinton, who, with the
coming of the peace in 1783. had foreborne to execute those drastic laws which would have banished Loyalists to Nova Scotia.1
But Harison was well fitted in many other ways to contribute to the prestige of the party, and celebrated no less for his piety and
public spirit than for his strong and constant loyalty to the principles of Federalism, he was often called upon to make the statement
of the party faith in public meeting.
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1831 - Also, to let at auction, same day, for one year from the 1st of April, unless previously sold at private sale, the Mansion House
and Grounds late the residence of Richard Harison, deceased, on the 8th avenue. See advertisement in the Courier & Enquirer,
signed William H. Harison.
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“Robert Troup: A Quest for Security in a Turbulent New Nation, 1775-1832,” by Wendell E. Tripp, page 84-85.
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TO2EC&pg=PA84&dq=%22richard+harison%22+%22robert+troup%22&hl=en&ei=W2DETIvHBoOglAe2j8EH&sa=X&oi=book_resul
t&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22richard%20harison%22%20%22robert%20troup%22&f=false
. . . Robert Troup worked in cooperation with a number of lawyers during this phase of his law career. He very frequently consulted,
and was consulted by, Richard Harison, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and John Laurence. And in 1792, in this seventh year of
practice in New York City, he entered into partnership with Richard Harison. Harison had been a classmate of John Jay’s at
King’s, class of 1767. He was a loyalist, was temporarily disbarred, but had returned to practice by 1786. He remained a
conservative and became a vehement Federalist, though he seems not to have been active in party politics. He was one of the
outstanding legal practitioners of the period. William Duer, writing in later years, place him in the first rank of lawyers (Duer by
implication placed Troup in the second rank0; James Kent gave him equal credit with Hamilton in introducing “sound principles” to
New York practice in the 1790s.
Troup’s partnership with Harison lasted for seven years, though for the final two years Troup was on the federal bench. Extant
documents give no explicit statement of the circumstances that brought them together, but they were politically congenial, both were
active in the affairs of Trinity Church, and they had worked together on a number of cases and presumably held for each other a
mutual respect. Their partnership, like most partnerships of the period, was eminently flexible. They shared counsel in some cases,
but more often conducted independent practices while using each other as consultants from time to time. At times Troup seemed to
be completely unaware of Harsion’s professional actions; and one of Troup’s clients did not know of the partnership till a year after
it had been formed. Whether the two men were particularly close in uncertain. . . . but even after he and Harison ended their
partnership they remained close associates in Trinity Church affairs. And Troup made very frequent use of Harison’s legal
counseling in later years when he (Troup) became agent for the Pulteney land purchase.
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