University of Maryland School of Medicine - Terrae Mariae Medicus (Baltimore, MD)

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2-Xrrliihalh Qlnnningham Earriann, 111119. ,gmffi fTGkgB aepfs 685.-it HE subject of this sketch, to whom the class book is this year dedicated, is a representative son of Virginia. , As a descendant of the emigrant, Richard Harrison, of early Colonial history, he is a member of a family particularly dis- tinguished in public service in that it has given to the State, with many others less conspicuous, two Presidents of the Republic and a Signer of the Declaration of lndependence, the signer 'becoming later 7 Governor, for two terms, of the N irginia Commonwealth. ' Dr. Harrison is a grandson of Thomas Randolph Harrison, the oldest of fourteen children of Randolph Harrison, of Clifton Randolph Harrison was a son of Carter Henry Harrison and a grandson of Benjamin, the son of the emigrant. ' Dr. Harrison's father was Dr. Thomas Randolph Harrison, of New Kent County, a practitioner of medicine for many years, and his mother, still living, is a daughter of the Statesman Publicist, Benjamin XN'atkins Leigh. i Dr. Archibald Cunningham Harrisonwas born on january 6th, in the fate- ful year 1864. The place of his birth was a schoolhouse, converted into a rude dwelling, on the estate of Mr. Charles Old, in Amelia County, where his mother, with her children and a few faithful servants had found refuge a few months before. Their own home, in' New Kent County, had' been appropriated by the invading Northern army and their dismantled residence converted into a stable. In the years immediately following the war, Dr. Harrison's parents, like many others of the South, were hard pressed for means of livelihood, and he was perhaps twelve years old before his education received much consideration. At about that time he was sent to a small private school and from there attended later, the 1Vinchester High School and the Hanover Academy. He hnally entered the University of Virginia, taking there, in addition to academic studies, his hrst year in medicine. In 1886 he was enrolled at the University of Mary- land, from which school he graduated in medicine in 1887. Following his graduation, he entered Bay View Hospital as assistant, becom- ing full resident in April, 1888. After two years' service at Bay View he began practice in East Baltimore, at the same time working at experimental surgery, under Dr. Halsted, in the Hopkins Laboratories. ' ln the autumn of 1890 he moved to Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, where he remained for eight years in large, successful practice. All of this he relinquished 5