This gentleman made his first appearance in this place in June, 1823, as clerk for John Connor, in his country store.  He was from one of the Whitewater towns.

 

    He was for several years a well known and successful merchant, and is at this time engaged in banking, in connection with his son-in-law, John C. S. Harrison, Esq. 

 

    Mr. Harrison is opposed to any innovations upon the primitive customs that prevailed at the time he first arrived in this place; to illustrate--he seems to be in favor of the old fashioned way of going to mill, i.e., by placing a stone in one end of the bag and the grain in the other. 

 

    I understand he opposes the introduction of organs and other instruments into church music; he also is opposed to the renting of pews or seats in the house of God.  he favors separating the male from the female portion of the congregations, i.e., the goats from the lambs.

 

    He is a mind of negative man in many things, especially in banking, and primitive in nearly all things.  It seems, by some fortuitous circumstances, that he has been placed two or three generations behind the time he should have been upon these mundane shores. 

 

 

Nowland, John H. B., "Early Reminiscences of Indianapolis, with Short Biographical Sketches of Its Early Citizens, and of a Few of the Prominent Business Men of the Present Day," 1870, p. 156.