Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Charles Custis HARRISON
HARRISON, Charles Custis, philanthropist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 3, 1844; son of George Leib and Sarah Ann (Waples) Harrison. His father (1811-1885) was an honorary graduate of Harvard, where he studied for two years, receiving his A.M. degree in 1878; was the founder of the Franklin sugar refining company; president of the state board of charities; trustee of the P.E. divinity school, Philadelphia, and author of "Chapters on Social Science as Connected with the Administration of State Charities" (1877) and "Legislation on Insanity" (1884). Charles Custis was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, Greek salutatorian, A.B. in 1862, A.M. in 1865. He was senior partner of Harrison, Frazier & Co. until the [p.108] dissolution of that firm. He was elected a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania in 1876; chairman of the committee of ways and means in 1885; and on the resignation of William Pepper as provost, in 1894, he succeeded as acting provost and in June, 1895, was elected provost of the university. He was manager of the P.E. hospital, Philadelphia; a member of the American academy of political and social science, of the American philosophical society, of the Pennsylvania historical society, and of the Numismatic and Antiquarian societies. He was married in 1870 to Ellen Nixon, daughter of Edward Waln of Philadelphia, and great granddaughter of Robert Morris. He endowed the "George Leib Harrison Memorial Foundation" of the University of Pennsylvania by a gift to the institution of $500,000, and later, in conjunction with Mrs. Harrison, gave another sum of $250,000 to the general purposes of the university. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Columbia university in 1895 and from Princeton university in 1896.
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