CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
APRIL 28, 1892
It Shut Up
Miss Ella Harrison had quite an alarming but at the same time laughable accident happen to her this morning. She was cleaning house and had removed the mattress and bedding from a folding bed in order to clean and dust it. During the dusting process she stepped on the wire mattress to reach the top of the bed, when it closed with a snap and she was a prisoner; at least the most of her was. Her screams soon brought assistance, the trap was speedily unsprung and the young lady rescued from her uncomfortable position. She was considerably bruised up by the mishap, but will suffer no serious inconvenience from it. All the same, she will never again see anything funny in the comic paragraphs regarding the collapse of the folding bed.
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Miss Ella Harrison, was a single woman and a practicing attorney. She resided on Chestnut and Orner Streets in Carthage, Missouri at the time of her death at age 74 years, 7 months & 27 days from heart disease.
FATHER: Dixon Alexander Harrison
Birthplace: Washington Courthouse, Ohio
MOTHER: Elizabeth Williams Harrison
Birthplace: Washington Courthouse, Ohio
Missouri Death Certificate
Informant: Harry Putnam
Carthage, MO
Burial arrangements under direction of Knell Mortuary
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ELLA HARRISON
Ella Harrison, a leader in the woman suffrage cause in the 1800's, was born April 18, 1859, in Sandusky, Ohio, the youngest of eight children of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Harrison. Her family moved to southwest Missouri in 1869 by way of Sedallia. They settled on a farm northeast of Carthage and later moved into town.
Workers hauled lumber from Sedalia to build a school near the Harrison farm home, and Mr. Harrison became the first teacher of the school. The daughter, Ella was the first woman to teach in the school give the name Summitt by Ella's mother.
When the family moved into Carthage, Mr. Harrison took up the practice of law. Ella was graduated from Carthage High School and taught school in the Carthage area for several years. She was the first woman to study and teach typewriting and shorthand. In 1889, she studied law at the University of Iowa. Later she majored in English at Stanford University in 1893-1894. While there, she met Herbert Hoover, who was completing his senior year.
Interested in women studying important subjects, Ella became a reader for the Chautauqua for four years in the 1890's. She organized the Century Club, divided into five sections of twenty members each to study civil government. Through this effort, she hoped to encourage women to want to vote. Active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Miss Harrison assisted in organizing the union in southwest Missouri. She became district president of Jasper County WCTU in 1892.
She joined the Equal Suffrage Association, and served as it's state president in 1987; she presided at the state convention in Bethany, Missouri, that year.
Ella became interested in newspaper writing and spent time as a roving newspaper-woman. She worked in New York City, Washington, D. C. and Seattle, Washington. In Douglas, Arizona when war broke out in Mexico in 1911, Ella served as war correspondent for the New York American while the war raged in the Arizona vicinity.
She decided to homestead on a claim she had been relinquished and lived on this land, located in the Chirianchua Mountains just off San Simon Valley, sixty-five miles southwest of Douglas, When Arizona became a state, Ella worked as a stenographer for the House of Representatives in the first legislature of 1913.
The illnesses of her sister, Mrs. Walter Putnam, and her brother, Charles Harrison, brought Ella back to Carthage, where she taught Spanish to a number of students in 1914.
She went to Oklahoma for two years for the U.S. Agriculture Department in home demonstration work where her country advanced from thirtieth to first place.
An ardent Republican, Miss Harrison served as Justice of the Peace in Jasper, a town her father had laid out. She also worked with her brother, Carthage attorney Tom Harrison, before his death.
Ella was the only surviving member of the D. A. Harrison family at the time of her death on December 15, 1933. Her ashes are buried in Park Cemetery, Carthage, Missouri.
-Eleanor Coffield
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REFERENCES
Bethany Democrat, December 9, 1897
OTHER FAMILY:
Brothers and sisters:
J. F. Harrison
Charles Harrison
Sarah Harrison Putnam
Henry Thomas Harrison
APRIL 28, 1892
It Shut Up
Miss Ella Harrison had quite an alarming but at the same time laughable accident happen to her this morning. She was cleaning house and had removed the mattress and bedding from a folding bed in order to clean and dust it. During the dusting process she stepped on the wire mattress to reach the top of the bed, when it closed with a snap and she was a prisoner; at least the most of her was. Her screams soon brought assistance, the trap was speedily unsprung and the young lady rescued from her uncomfortable position. She was considerably bruised up by the mishap, but will suffer no serious inconvenience from it. All the same, she will never again see anything funny in the comic paragraphs regarding the collapse of the folding bed.
______________________
Miss Ella Harrison, was a single woman and a practicing attorney. She resided on Chestnut and Orner Streets in Carthage, Missouri at the time of her death at age 74 years, 7 months & 27 days from heart disease.
FATHER: Dixon Alexander Harrison
Birthplace: Washington Courthouse, Ohio
MOTHER: Elizabeth Williams Harrison
Birthplace: Washington Courthouse, Ohio
Missouri Death Certificate
Informant: Harry Putnam
Carthage, MO
Burial arrangements under direction of Knell Mortuary
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ELLA HARRISON
Ella Harrison, a leader in the woman suffrage cause in the 1800's, was born April 18, 1859, in Sandusky, Ohio, the youngest of eight children of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Harrison. Her family moved to southwest Missouri in 1869 by way of Sedallia. They settled on a farm northeast of Carthage and later moved into town.
Workers hauled lumber from Sedalia to build a school near the Harrison farm home, and Mr. Harrison became the first teacher of the school. The daughter, Ella was the first woman to teach in the school give the name Summitt by Ella's mother.
When the family moved into Carthage, Mr. Harrison took up the practice of law. Ella was graduated from Carthage High School and taught school in the Carthage area for several years. She was the first woman to study and teach typewriting and shorthand. In 1889, she studied law at the University of Iowa. Later she majored in English at Stanford University in 1893-1894. While there, she met Herbert Hoover, who was completing his senior year.
Interested in women studying important subjects, Ella became a reader for the Chautauqua for four years in the 1890's. She organized the Century Club, divided into five sections of twenty members each to study civil government. Through this effort, she hoped to encourage women to want to vote. Active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Miss Harrison assisted in organizing the union in southwest Missouri. She became district president of Jasper County WCTU in 1892.
She joined the Equal Suffrage Association, and served as it's state president in 1987; she presided at the state convention in Bethany, Missouri, that year.
Ella became interested in newspaper writing and spent time as a roving newspaper-woman. She worked in New York City, Washington, D. C. and Seattle, Washington. In Douglas, Arizona when war broke out in Mexico in 1911, Ella served as war correspondent for the New York American while the war raged in the Arizona vicinity.
She decided to homestead on a claim she had been relinquished and lived on this land, located in the Chirianchua Mountains just off San Simon Valley, sixty-five miles southwest of Douglas, When Arizona became a state, Ella worked as a stenographer for the House of Representatives in the first legislature of 1913.
The illnesses of her sister, Mrs. Walter Putnam, and her brother, Charles Harrison, brought Ella back to Carthage, where she taught Spanish to a number of students in 1914.
She went to Oklahoma for two years for the U.S. Agriculture Department in home demonstration work where her country advanced from thirtieth to first place.
An ardent Republican, Miss Harrison served as Justice of the Peace in Jasper, a town her father had laid out. She also worked with her brother, Carthage attorney Tom Harrison, before his death.
Ella was the only surviving member of the D. A. Harrison family at the time of her death on December 15, 1933. Her ashes are buried in Park Cemetery, Carthage, Missouri.
-Eleanor Coffield
__________________
REFERENCES
Bethany Democrat, December 9, 1897
OTHER FAMILY:
Brothers and sisters:
J. F. Harrison
Charles Harrison
Sarah Harrison Putnam
Henry Thomas Harrison
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
APRIL 28, 1892
It Shut Up
Miss Ella Harrison had quite an alarming but at the same time laughable accident happen to her this morning. She was cleaning house and had removed the mattress and bedding from a folding bed in order to clean and dust it. During the dusting process she stepped on the wire mattress to reach the top of the bed, when it closed with a snap and she was a prisoner; at least the most of her was. Her screams soon brought assistance, the trap was speedily unsprung and the young lady rescued from her uncomfortable position. She was considerably bruised up by the mishap, but will suffer no serious inconvenience from it. All the same, she will never again see anything funny in the comic paragraphs regarding the collapse of the folding bed.
______________________
Miss Ella Harrison, was a single woman and a practicing attorney. She resided on Chestnut and Orner Streets in Carthage, Missouri at the time of her death at age 74 years, 7 months & 27 days from heart disease.
FATHER: Dixon Alexander Harrison
Birthplace: Washington Courthouse, Ohio
MOTHER: Elizabeth Williams Harrison
Birthplace: Washington Courthouse, Ohio
Missouri Death Certificate
Informant: Harry Putnam
Carthage, MO
Burial arrangements under direction of Knell Mortuary
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ELLA HARRISON
Ella Harrison, a leader in the woman suffrage cause in the 1800's, was born April 18, 1859, in Sandusky, Ohio, the youngest of eight children of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Harrison. Her family moved to southwest Missouri in 1869 by way of Sedallia. They settled on a farm northeast of Carthage and later moved into town.
Workers hauled lumber from Sedalia to build a school near the Harrison farm home, and Mr. Harrison became the first teacher of the school. The daughter, Ella was the first woman to teach in the school give the name Summitt by Ella's mother.
When the family moved into Carthage, Mr. Harrison took up the practice of law. Ella was graduated from Carthage High School and taught school in the Carthage area for several years. She was the first woman to study and teach typewriting and shorthand. In 1889, she studied law at the University of Iowa. Later she majored in English at Stanford University in 1893-1894. While there, she met Herbert Hoover, who was completing his senior year.
Interested in women studying important subjects, Ella became a reader for the Chautauqua for four years in the 1890's. She organized the Century Club, divided into five sections of twenty members each to study civil government. Through this effort, she hoped to encourage women to want to vote. Active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Miss Harrison assisted in organizing the union in southwest Missouri. She became district president of Jasper County WCTU in 1892.
She joined the Equal Suffrage Association, and served as it's state president in 1987; she presided at the state convention in Bethany, Missouri, that year.
Ella became interested in newspaper writing and spent time as a roving newspaper-woman. She worked in New York City, Washington, D. C. and Seattle, Washington. In Douglas, Arizona when war broke out in Mexico in 1911, Ella served as war correspondent for the New York American while the war raged in the Arizona vicinity.
She decided to homestead on a claim she had been relinquished and lived on this land, located in the Chirianchua Mountains just off San Simon Valley, sixty-five miles southwest of Douglas, When Arizona became a state, Ella worked as a stenographer for the House of Representatives in the first legislature of 1913.
The illnesses of her sister, Mrs. Walter Putnam, and her brother, Charles Harrison, brought Ella back to Carthage, where she taught Spanish to a number of students in 1914.
She went to Oklahoma for two years for the U.S. Agriculture Department in home demonstration work where her country advanced from thirtieth to first place.
An ardent Republican, Miss Harrison served as Justice of the Peace in Jasper, a town her father had laid out. She also worked with her brother, Carthage attorney Tom Harrison, before his death.
Ella was the only surviving member of the D. A. Harrison family at the time of her death on December 15, 1933. Her ashes are buried in Park Cemetery, Carthage, Missouri.
-Eleanor Coffield
__________________
REFERENCES
Bethany Democrat, December 9, 1897
OTHER FAMILY:
Brothers and sisters:
J. F. Harrison
Charles Harrison
Sarah Harrison Putnam
Henry Thomas Harrison
APRIL 28, 1892
It Shut Up
Miss Ella Harrison had quite an alarming but at the same time laughable accident happen to her this morning. She was cleaning house and had removed the mattress and bedding from a folding bed in order to clean and dust it. During the dusting process she stepped on the wire mattress to reach the top of the bed, when it closed with a snap and she was a prisoner; at least the most of her was. Her screams soon brought assistance, the trap was speedily unsprung and the young lady rescued from her uncomfortable position. She was considerably bruised up by the mishap, but will suffer no serious inconvenience from it. All the same, she will never again see anything funny in the comic paragraphs regarding the collapse of the folding bed.
______________________
Miss Ella Harrison, was a single woman and a practicing attorney. She resided on Chestnut and Orner Streets in Carthage, Missouri at the time of her death at age 74 years, 7 months & 27 days from heart disease.
FATHER: Dixon Alexander Harrison
Birthplace: Washington Courthouse, Ohio
MOTHER: Elizabeth Williams Harrison
Birthplace: Washington Courthouse, Ohio
Missouri Death Certificate
Informant: Harry Putnam
Carthage, MO
Burial arrangements under direction of Knell Mortuary
* * * * * * * *
ELLA HARRISON
Ella Harrison, a leader in the woman suffrage cause in the 1800's, was born April 18, 1859, in Sandusky, Ohio, the youngest of eight children of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Harrison. Her family moved to southwest Missouri in 1869 by way of Sedallia. They settled on a farm northeast of Carthage and later moved into town.
Workers hauled lumber from Sedalia to build a school near the Harrison farm home, and Mr. Harrison became the first teacher of the school. The daughter, Ella was the first woman to teach in the school give the name Summitt by Ella's mother.
When the family moved into Carthage, Mr. Harrison took up the practice of law. Ella was graduated from Carthage High School and taught school in the Carthage area for several years. She was the first woman to study and teach typewriting and shorthand. In 1889, she studied law at the University of Iowa. Later she majored in English at Stanford University in 1893-1894. While there, she met Herbert Hoover, who was completing his senior year.
Interested in women studying important subjects, Ella became a reader for the Chautauqua for four years in the 1890's. She organized the Century Club, divided into five sections of twenty members each to study civil government. Through this effort, she hoped to encourage women to want to vote. Active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Miss Harrison assisted in organizing the union in southwest Missouri. She became district president of Jasper County WCTU in 1892.
She joined the Equal Suffrage Association, and served as it's state president in 1987; she presided at the state convention in Bethany, Missouri, that year.
Ella became interested in newspaper writing and spent time as a roving newspaper-woman. She worked in New York City, Washington, D. C. and Seattle, Washington. In Douglas, Arizona when war broke out in Mexico in 1911, Ella served as war correspondent for the New York American while the war raged in the Arizona vicinity.
She decided to homestead on a claim she had been relinquished and lived on this land, located in the Chirianchua Mountains just off San Simon Valley, sixty-five miles southwest of Douglas, When Arizona became a state, Ella worked as a stenographer for the House of Representatives in the first legislature of 1913.
The illnesses of her sister, Mrs. Walter Putnam, and her brother, Charles Harrison, brought Ella back to Carthage, where she taught Spanish to a number of students in 1914.
She went to Oklahoma for two years for the U.S. Agriculture Department in home demonstration work where her country advanced from thirtieth to first place.
An ardent Republican, Miss Harrison served as Justice of the Peace in Jasper, a town her father had laid out. She also worked with her brother, Carthage attorney Tom Harrison, before his death.
Ella was the only surviving member of the D. A. Harrison family at the time of her death on December 15, 1933. Her ashes are buried in Park Cemetery, Carthage, Missouri.
-Eleanor Coffield
__________________
REFERENCES
Bethany Democrat, December 9, 1897
OTHER FAMILY:
Brothers and sisters:
J. F. Harrison
Charles Harrison
Sarah Harrison Putnam
Henry Thomas Harrison
Gravesite Details
Ella Harrison was cremated and her ashes scattered in the location of her stone.
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