GEORGE DREW HARVISON. Through both sides of the family prominently identified with the history and development of the Creek Nation, George D. Harvison, now manager of the J. A. Patterson Mercantile Company at Okemah, Okfuskee county, was born at Fame, McIntosh county, Oklahoma, and is a son of Thomas C. and Susie (McIntosh) Harvison. His father is a native of Alabama and his mother is a daughter of Colonel D. N. McIntosh, a Confederate veteran of the Civil war. William McIntosh, the maternal grandfather, was one of the representatives of the Creek Nation in the early negotiations with the general government for the setting aside of Indian Territory and Oklahoma as a home for the Five Civilized Tribes. He was one of the commissioners in behalf of his people who signed the ordinance for the sale of the valuable Creek lands in Alabama, but owing to dissatisfaction on the part of some of the Indians over the transaction he was treacherously killed before the tribe started for their western reservation. The blood of the Creek Nation comes directly to Mr. Harvison through his maternal grandfather, who was Red Eagle, a renowned chief of the tribe.
Mr. Harvison attended the national schools of the Creek Nation, where he received his early education and completed his mental training at the Baptist Indian University at Muskogee. His first business experience was as a clerk connected with the J. A. Patterson Mercantile Company, of Muskogee, in whose employ he remained for about eight years. His services proved so valuable to his employer that he then secured an interest in the business and located at Morse, Indian Territory, as manager of one of the branch stores. In 1902 he located at Okemah and assisted in the incorporation of the J. A. Patterson Mercantile Company of that place, of which he was elected a director and its treasurer and secretary. Since that time Mr. Harvison has become a leading business man of the place and also a representative public citizen, having been elected to the mayoralty of Okemah as well as its treasurer. He is still the incumbent of the latter office. Mr. Harvison’s wife was formerly Miss Lulu E. Foster, and their children are: Nellie M., Thelma B., and Hazel V. Harvison.
[SOURCE: A History of the State of Oklahoma By Luther B. Hill, Lewis publishing Company, 1909, transcribed by Mary Kay Krogman.]
Mr. Harvison attended the national schools of the Creek Nation, where he received his early education and completed his mental training at the Baptist Indian University at Muskogee. His first business experience was as a clerk connected with the J. A. Patterson Mercantile Company, of Muskogee, in whose employ he remained for about eight years. His services proved so valuable to his employer that he then secured an interest in the business and located at Morse, Indian Territory, as manager of one of the branch stores. In 1902 he located at Okemah and assisted in the incorporation of the J. A. Patterson Mercantile Company of that place, of which he was elected a director and its treasurer and secretary. Since that time Mr. Harvison has become a leading business man of the place and also a representative public citizen, having been elected to the mayoralty of Okemah as well as its treasurer. He is still the incumbent of the latter office. Mr. Harvison’s wife was formerly Miss Lulu E. Foster, and their children are: Nellie M., Thelma B., and Hazel V. Harvison.
[SOURCE: A History of the State of Oklahoma By Luther B. Hill, Lewis publishing Company, 1909, transcribed by Mary Kay Krogman.]
GEORGE DREW HARVISON. Through both sides of the family prominently identified with the history and development of the Creek Nation, George D. Harvison, now manager of the J. A. Patterson Mercantile Company at Okemah, Okfuskee county, was born at Fame, McIntosh county, Oklahoma, and is a son of Thomas C. and Susie (McIntosh) Harvison. His father is a native of Alabama and his mother is a daughter of Colonel D. N. McIntosh, a Confederate veteran of the Civil war. William McIntosh, the maternal grandfather, was one of the representatives of the Creek Nation in the early negotiations with the general government for the setting aside of Indian Territory and Oklahoma as a home for the Five Civilized Tribes. He was one of the commissioners in behalf of his people who signed the ordinance for the sale of the valuable Creek lands in Alabama, but owing to dissatisfaction on the part of some of the Indians over the transaction he was treacherously killed before the tribe started for their western reservation. The blood of the Creek Nation comes directly to Mr. Harvison through his maternal grandfather, who was Red Eagle, a renowned chief of the tribe.
Mr. Harvison attended the national schools of the Creek Nation, where he received his early education and completed his mental training at the Baptist Indian University at Muskogee. His first business experience was as a clerk connected with the J. A. Patterson Mercantile Company, of Muskogee, in whose employ he remained for about eight years. His services proved so valuable to his employer that he then secured an interest in the business and located at Morse, Indian Territory, as manager of one of the branch stores. In 1902 he located at Okemah and assisted in the incorporation of the J. A. Patterson Mercantile Company of that place, of which he was elected a director and its treasurer and secretary. Since that time Mr. Harvison has become a leading business man of the place and also a representative public citizen, having been elected to the mayoralty of Okemah as well as its treasurer. He is still the incumbent of the latter office. Mr. Harvison’s wife was formerly Miss Lulu E. Foster, and their children are: Nellie M., Thelma B., and Hazel V. Harvison.
[SOURCE: A History of the State of Oklahoma By Luther B. Hill, Lewis publishing Company, 1909, transcribed by Mary Kay Krogman.]
Mr. Harvison attended the national schools of the Creek Nation, where he received his early education and completed his mental training at the Baptist Indian University at Muskogee. His first business experience was as a clerk connected with the J. A. Patterson Mercantile Company, of Muskogee, in whose employ he remained for about eight years. His services proved so valuable to his employer that he then secured an interest in the business and located at Morse, Indian Territory, as manager of one of the branch stores. In 1902 he located at Okemah and assisted in the incorporation of the J. A. Patterson Mercantile Company of that place, of which he was elected a director and its treasurer and secretary. Since that time Mr. Harvison has become a leading business man of the place and also a representative public citizen, having been elected to the mayoralty of Okemah as well as its treasurer. He is still the incumbent of the latter office. Mr. Harvison’s wife was formerly Miss Lulu E. Foster, and their children are: Nellie M., Thelma B., and Hazel V. Harvison.
[SOURCE: A History of the State of Oklahoma By Luther B. Hill, Lewis publishing Company, 1909, transcribed by Mary Kay Krogman.]
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