August 24, 2011

Harvey Thomas Harrison was born in Sevier County in 1884. Being the son of an itinerant Methodist minister, he received his education in several rural Arkansas schools. In 1906, he graduated from Hendrix College with a bachelor of arts degree. He soon took up the study of law and was admitted to the Arkansas Bar in 1911. Much of his legal work involved representing the railroads. In 1940, he became the president of the Arkansas Bar Association. He died in 1942.