Bryan and Josephine Harrison


Bryan Harrison and Josephine Baecht Wedding picture 1916	50^th Anniversary

1916 Letters from Jo to Bryan and from Bryan to Jo before they were married.

PDF Documents (some are large files)

From Josephine

July 27,1916	09/08/16	10/09/16
07/29/16	09/10/16	10/10/16
08/01/16	09/19/16	10/11/16
August 3,1916	09/21/16	October 12,1916
08/08/16	09/22/16	10/18/16
08/13/16	September 27,1916	10/19/16
08/15/16	September 28,1916	October 22, 1916 – staying at the Herron House in Payson
08/17/16	10/01/16	10/23/16
September 2, 1916 - fried squirrel for lunch	10/03/16	11/02/16
September 3,1916	October 3, 1916 #2	11/07/16
09/04/16	10/05/16	11/11/16

From Bryan

Not sure of the date being charged 50 cents a meal	08/16/16	09/26/16 - being manager of Angler’s Inn
July 28,1916 – bugs and passengers on trip	08/30/16	10/03/16
07/30/16	09/04/16	10/18/16
08/02/16 – getting a car and charging passengers to pay expenses	09/07/16	11/02/16 – getting a car for $2.50 a day
08/10/16		November 7,1916

1941 Arizona State Guide part 1	1941 Arizona State Guide part 2	1941 Arizona State Guide part 3
Marriage certificate and other documents	Angler’s Inn mention	Harrison Airstream activities
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E velyn Harrison and Josephine Baecht	A ngler’s Inn	F irst home of Bryan and Jo in Gila County, AZ

Notes

Paul and Grady were brothers of Bryan Harrison. They were all born in Soccorro, New Mexico

Josephine Baecht was born in San Francisco

From family history written by Russell Edwards

Andrew and Julia were married in 1873 and went to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon.

Andrew gave up teaching and with his brother-in-law went west to make his fortune on the Colorado frontier. When that went bust Andrew Harrison looked for new opportunities. At this time, Socorro in the Rio Grande Valley showed promise. The cattle industry was booming and a new sliver strike was made in the mountains west of Soccorro. Andrew and Julia lived in Socorro for the next twenty years. A.T. Harrison’s hardware store was a busy frontier rendezvous. The Harrison’s home was on Upper Reservoir street, know as “Death Alley”.

Five additional children were born in Socorro: Paul Jones Harrison named for two great evangelist preachers – Paul of the Bible and Sam Jones, noted evangelist to the “new South born October 1882

Elizabeth Marvin Harrison born, November 1885, Julia Fitzgerald born February 1888.

Henry Grady – named for two great American advocates of Liberty - Patrick Henry of Revolutionary days and Henry Grady, Atlanta publisher of the “Voice” of the “new South” Born August 1891

Jefferson Bryan – named for the great democrats, Thomas Jefferson and William Jennings Bryan was born May 1894. Bryan was the last Harrison child to be born in Socorro.

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