Colusa County Biographies

Nathaniel P. Harrison

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            Nathaniel P. Harrison was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, 
December 31, 1831.  He was sent to the public school of his locality, and early 
in life began learning the carpenter�s trade.  In 1853 he went to Tippecanoe 
County, Indiana, where he resided for twelve years.  He came to Marysville, 
California, in 1865, and to the town of Colusa in 1867, where he was engaged as 
a contractor and builder.  He began making his permanent abode at Williams in 
1882, where he always secured contracts in the erection of the largest buildings 
in the place.  Prominent among these are Stovall�s large warehouse, Fouch�s drug 
store building, and Crutcher & Manor�s building.  Mr. Harrison is a distant 
relative of President Harrison.  He is a prominent member of the Odd Fellows� 
organization, and about as vigorous and robust in personal appearance as even 
Virginia can produce or California preserve from looking old.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 455-456