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R. S. HARRISON, AUSTIN, Died in that city at his home, corner of Eighth and San Antonio streets, about 8 a. m., Tuesday, February 25, 1903. He was born in Petersburg, Va., July 25, 1843, the son of Dr. W. J. Harrison, a prominent physician; was a student at Columbia College, Washington, D. C., at the beginning of the war between the States; returned to Sussex county in April, 1861, on the secession of Virginia, and enlisted as a private in Company H, Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry; was appointed adjutant of the regiment in 1863; participated in the battles of Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, and the Wilderness and nearly all the important engagements fought by the army of Northern Virginia; took part in Gen. J. E. B. Stuart’s famous raid through Pennsylvania; at Appomattox Court House, assisted in filling out the paroles of Gen. William H. F. Lee’s division of cavalry, to which his regiment belonged; from the surrender until January, 1869, farmed in Sussex county, Virginia; moved to Washington county, Texas, in that month; went to Austin in 1872, where he was for some time bookkeeper in the State treasury (under Treasurer Graham); shouldered a musket and helped seat Richard Coke in the gubernatorial chair in January, 1874; was chief bookkeeper in the Comptroller’s department from 1874 to 1887; engaged in the real estate business until 1891; and was appointed State Revenue Agent by Gov. Hogg, June 13, 1891, and filled the position until February 7, 1895. For several years prior to his decease he was in very feeble health. Mr. Harrison’s wife (nee Miss Alice Hollingsworth), three grown children, William L. and Misses Grace and Alice, and a brother, Henry D. Harrison, survive him. He was a deacon of the First Baptist Church, of Austin, a leading teacher in the Sunday school, and a most exemplary Christian. He was a classmate of William L. Wilson, of West Virginia (one time Democratic leader in the United States House of Representatives and Postmaster General under President Grover Cleveland), and a warm personal friendship existed between them, the ties of which were only severed by death.
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