Mary Gillett Blair and Arthur Robert Harrison
REV. ARTHUR ROBERT HARRISON was born February 5, 1905 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana,7377 and died April 17, 1964 in Charlevoix, Charlevoix, Michigan.10045
He married MARY GILLETT BLAIR on April 6, 1940 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,10044 daughter of SUSAN BROKENSHIRE GILLETT and REV. HERBERT EDGAR BLAIR. She was born December 21, 1908 in Taiku, South Korea,629 and died January 16, 1995 in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.613
Personal Information
- Mary Gillett Blair graduated from Park University, Parkville, Platte, Missouri in 1928.9775
- Arthur Robert Harrison was a minister in the Congregational Church.10045
Marriage Announcements and News
Evening Star, March 10, 194010044
Miss Mary Blair Selects April 6 For Wedding Day
Miss Mary Blair of Bethesda, Md., has selected April 6 as the date of her marriage to the Rev. A. Robert Harrison of Barre, Mass.
Miss Huldah Blair, a younger sister of the bride-elect, who has frequently visited in Bethesda, will be the maid of honor at the wedding. In the absence of Miss Blair's father, Dr. Herbert Blair, who is in the mission field in the Far East as a representative of the Presbyterian Church of America, Miss Blair will be given in marriage by Mr. Norman Garvin of Bethesda.
Miss Blair has been a resident of Bethesda for several years while she has been acting as secretary of the Bethesda Presbyterian Church. She will leave at the end of the month for a short visit with Dr. and Mrs. Walter C. Erdman of Germantown, Pa., at whose home the wedding will take place.
Obituaries
Petoskey News-Review, April 25, 196410045
Rites Monday for Charlevoix Pasto
CHARLEVOIX — The Rev. A. Robert Harrison, 59, minister at the First Congregational church here since June 1962 died unexpectedly at his home last Friday.
Funeral services will be held at the church here at 2 p.m. Monday with burial in Brookside cemetery.
A native of Indianapolis, he was educated at Earlham College School of Theology at Richmond, Ind., Whittier (Calif.) College, Boston University and Yale University. He served churches in the Bronx, Taunton, Barre and West Brookfield, Mass., Moultri, Ga., Aberdeen, N. C., Ludlow, Vt. and Oxford, Michigan. He came here from the First Congregational church in Saginaw where he had served as associate minister. He had also served as director of religion at Pawtuckett, R.I. He was a member of the Charlevoix Kiwanis club and the Charlevoix Ministerial Association.
Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Gillet Blair whom he married in 1940; three sons, Julian P., of Alma, Philip G., a student at the University of Detroit School of Dentistry and Herbert A. serving in the Pacific with the U. S. Navy; two daughters, Susan L., a student at the University of Michigan and Mary C. at home; one grandson and seven brothers, Merritt of Indianapolis, Raymond of Mobile, Ala., Carlos of Kirkwood, Mo., Russell and William of Whittier, Calif., Thomas of Knoxville Tenn., and Clifford of New York City.
The body is at the Winchester Funeral Home here.
The Adult Fellowship of the First Congregational Church has suggested that persons wishing to honor the memory of Rev. Harrison may do so by contributing to the A. Robert Harrison Scholarship Memorial Fund which is to be established to insure the completion of the education of his daughters, Mary and Susan.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| April 4, 19307642 | Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey |
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