Harrison, Elias, Dd

Harrison, Elias, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born in New York city, January 22, 1790. He graduated from Princeton College in 1814, spent one year thereafter in the theological seminary there, was licensed by the New Brunswick Presbytery, ordained by the Baltimore Presbytery in 1817, and installed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Virginia, where he labored faithfully for forty-six years. He died February 13, 1863. See Genesis Cat. of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1881, page 20; Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1867, page 154.