urn:taro:houpub.00125 Harrison Family Collection MSS.0182 Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library
500 McKinney St. Julia Ideson Building, 2nd Floor Houston, TX, 77002 832-393-1662
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-02-07T13:44-0600 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Harrison, Edwin Stafford Harrison Family Collection1880-1980MSS.0182 10.0 Linear feet, 8 document boxes Materials are in English. Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library Biographical note

Edwin Stafford Harrison was born in Houston in 1912. He graduated from Yates High School. At Prairie View A&M University, he lettered in track and tennis, and was voted All-American in football in 1933. He subsequently played semi-professional football in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

His sojourn in the Caribbean marked his last absence from Houston. Until his death forty-five years later in 1979, his interests and work in Houston involved him in an impressive range of activities. Mr. Harrison found strength in diversity and was a man who thrived on doing many things at the same time. From 1936 to 1941, he was a labor organizer for the CIO and an officer for its local division at Hughes Tool Company. He founded the Houston Colored Coaches and Officials Association in 1936 and served as its president. He was also a leader of the Third Ward Civic Club and an active member of the Harris County Democratic Party, which named him to its Executive Committee in 1977. Participation in these and many other organizations, such as the NAACP, Hester House and the Houston Negro Chamber of Commerce only supplemented Mr. Harrison's primary interests: the Boy Scouts of America and United Methodist Church.

 Arrangement

The collection is arranged chronologically and then by topic. Boxes 1 through 6 are documents related to Mr. Harrison's service to the Boy Scouts and the United Methodist Church. Boxes 7 and 8 are photocopied duplicates of the original Harrison photographs. Many are fully identified as to date, location and contents.

Personal Papers of Edwin Stafford Harrison Scouting, 1940 to 1980 United Methodist Church (Houston, Texas) Sermons, 1950 to 1978 Scrapbook Photographs Access Restrictions

None.

 Use Restrictions

Permission to publish or reproduce materials from the Harrison Family Collection must be obtained from the Houston Metropolitan Research Center or the appropriate copyright holder.

 Preferred Citation

Harrison Family Collection. Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library.

 Acquisition Information

Donated by: Mrs. Sylvia Harrison, April 23, 1981.

 Digitized Materials

A portion of this collection has been digitized and is available through the Houston Area Digital Archives. Please view the digitized material at: http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/images/id/1622/rec/9

Index Terms Boy Scouts of America Harrison family Harrison, Edwin Stafford United Methodist Church (Houston, Tex.) African Americans--Texas--Houston Civic leaders Personal Papers of Edwin Stafford Harrison 1 1 Membership Cards: Boy Scouts of America. 1939 to 1978 1 2 Membership Cards: YMCA. 1945 to 1950 1 3 Membership Card: American Camping Association. 1949 1 4 Membership Card: Hester House. 1958 ( ./c02> !<$kd> h h 5 ! `" Donation CeRuifiCat-: Boy's Vo÷j. 1956 ( 2 ` ° ±8/container> 6 Membership Cards: Coaches and Official's Association gf &he°Southwest. 1945 to 1950 h "<ämd> 1 7 Membership Cards: Houston Colored Officials Association. 1947 to 1949 1 8 Membership Cards: Houston Negro Chamber of Commerce. 1945 to 1958 1 9 Membership Cards: National Association for Advancement of Colored People. 1945 and 1967 1 10 Membership Cards: Third Ward Civic Club. 1946 to 1948 1 11 Membership Cards: Greater Third Ward Political and Development League. 1949 to 1950 1 12 Harris County Deputy Voter Registrar Card. 1976 1 13 Membership Card: Harris County Democratic Executive Committee. 1977 1 14 Methodist Minister's Courtesy Cards. 1965 to 1970 1 15 Harris County Hospital District Clergy Cards. 1978 to 1979 1 16 Membership Cards: Trinity East United Methodist Church. No date 1 17 Membership Cards: American Association of Group Workers. 1948 to 1951 1 18 Membership Cards: Free and Accepted Masons. 1954 to 1975 1 19 Membership Card: United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO, Local 2457, Hughes Tool Company. 1945 1 20 Membership Card: National Education Association. 1966 to 1967 1 21 United Fund Pledges. 1956, 1964, 1967 1 22 Selective Service Registration Card. 1945 1 23 Political material. 1970 to 1980 1 24 Athletic material. 1934 to 1945 1 25 Educational material. 1932 to 1963 1 26 Biographical material. 1 27 Miscellaneous material. 1907 to 1978 Series 2: Scouting, 1940 to 1980 2 1 Boy Scouts of America. 1940s 2 2 Boy Scouts of America. 1950s 2 3 Boy Scouts of America. 1960 to 1962 2 4 Boy Scouts of America. 1963 to 1964 2 5 Boy Scouts of America. 1965 to 1969 2 6 Boy Scouts of America. 1970 to 1974 2 7 Boy Scouts of America. 1975 to 1980 2 8 Boy Scouts of America. No date. Series 3: United Methodist Church (Houston, Texas) 2 9 Church Material. 1910 to 1957 2 10 Church Material. 1960 to 1969 2 11 Church Material. 1971 to 1975 2 12 Church Material. 1976 to 1977 2 13 Church Material. 1978 2 14 Church Material. 1979 to 1980 2 15 Church Material. No date. Series 4: Sermons of Reverend Edwin S. Harrison, 1950 to 1978 3 1 Sermons, 1950 3 2 Sermons, 1950 3 3 Sermons, 1950 3 4 Sermons, 1950 3 5 Sermons, 1951 to 1954, and 1958 3 6 Sermons, 1964 3 7 Sermons, 1964 3 8 Sermons, 1965 3 9 Sermons, 1967 to 1968 3 10 Sermons, 1969 4 1 Sermons, 1970 4 2 Sermons, 1971 4 3 Sermons, 1972 4 4 Sermons, 1973 4 5 Sermons, 1974 4 6 Sermons, 1975 4 7 Sermons, 1976 4 8 Sermons, 1977 4 9 Sermons, 1978 5 1 Sermons, No date 5 2 Sermons, No date 5 3 Sermons, No date 5 4 Sermons, No date Series 5: Scrapbook 6 Boy Scouts of America, Photographs and press clippings, 1940s to 1970s Series 6: Photographs General note

Where photograph is identified, a description is given.

 7 MSS 182.1 7 MSS 182.2 Seven Black male actors/singers. circa. 1900 7 MSS 182.3 Black male guitar player. circa. 1890 7 MSS 182.4 Group of Black people including one woman, one man and 16 children. circa. 1890 7 MSS 182.5 Miss Louise Young, Jefferson, Texas. circa. 1923 7 MSS 182.6 7 MSS 182.7 7 MSS 182.8 7 MSS 182.9 August Constant and her sister Maryanne Constant, Harrisburg, Texas. circa. 1900 7 MSS 182.10 Polia Kansas Fonsworth, Jefferson, Texas. circa. 1879 7 MSS 182.11 7 MSS 182.12 7 MSS 182.13 Residence of Ernesting Constant Sims, Clay Street, Houston, Texas. circa. 1916 7 MSS 182.14 7 MSS 182.15 7 MSS 182.16 7 MSS 182.17 7 MSS 182.18 7 MSS 182.19 Woman in Shreveport, Louisiana. circa. 1890 7 MSS 182.20 7 MSS 182.21 7 MSS 182.22 7 MSS 182.23 7 MSS 182.24 7 MSS 182.25 Edwin Cole as an infant, Shreveport, Louisiana. circa. 1890 7 MSS 182.26 Cecile-Constant-Mandry Fonsworth, Houston, Texas. circa. 1895 7 MSS 182.27 7 MSS 182.28 Louise Young, Jefferson, Texas. circa. 1920 7 MSS 182.29 7 MSS 182.30 7 MSS 182.31 7 MSS 182.32 Cecil Lloyd Fonsworth, Houston, Texas. circa. 1908 7 MSS 182.33 7 MSS 182.34 7 MSS 182.35 Mabel Young, Jefferson, Texas. circa. 1917 7 MSS 182.36 7 MSS 182.37 7 MSS 182.38 7 MSS 182.39 Louise Young, Jefferson, Texas. circa. 1917 7 MSS 182.40 Dr. T. E. Speed, Jefferson, Texas. 1918 7 MSS 182.41 7 MSS 182.42 Mrs. P. O. Smith, Houston, Texas. circa. 1930 7 MSS 182.43 7 MSS 182.44 7 MSS 182.45 Emile Charles Fonsworth as an infant, Houston, Texas. 1897 7 MSS 182.46 Mrs. Ernestine Sims, Houston, Texas. circa. 1905 7 MSS 182.47 The children of Leon and Mariah Constant: Left to right, Frank Constant, Leon Constant, Jr., Laverne Constant and Ethel Constant, Houston, Texas. 1903 7 MSS 182.48 Elmira Ernestine Fonsworth Murphy, Houston, Texas. circa. 1903 7 MSS 182.49 Mrs. Ernestine Sims, Houston, Texas. circa. 1915 7 MSS 182.50 Mary Ann Mandry Stephens, Houston, Texas. circa. 1900 7 MSS 182.51 7 MSS 182.52 Ethel Constant and Polia Kansas Fonsworth, Houston, Texas. circa. 1899 7 MSS 182.53 Mary Louise Speed, Jefferson, Texas. circa. 1908 7 MSS 182.54 On right Mrs. Bulah Parrish, Houston, Texas. circa. 1914 7 MSS 182.55 Emile Charles Fonsworth, Houston, Texas. circa. 1906 7 MSS 182.56 Family portrait: Mable Young Speed (wife), Mary Louise Speed (daughter) and Dr. T. E. Speed, Jefferson, Texas. circa. 1906 7 MSS 182.57 7 MSS 182.58 7 MSS 182.59 7 MSS 182.60 Mary Ann Mandry Stephens, Houston, Texas. circa. 1905 7 MSS 182.61 7 MSS 182.62 Dog owned by Ernestine Mandry Sims, Houston, Texas. circa. 1905 7 MSS 182.63 7 MSS 182.64 7 MSS 182.65 Napoleon Bonapart McMillan a.k.a. Buddy, Houston, Texas. 1912 7 MSS 182.66 7 MSS 182.67 From left: Elmira Ernestine Fonsworth, Emile Constant Mandry, Josephine Fonsworth, Houston, Texas. circa. 1914 7 MSS 182.68 7 MSS 182.69 From left: Emile Constant Mandry, Josephine Fonsworth, Houston, Texas. circa. 1914 7 MSS 182.70 Elmira E. Fonsworth, Houston, Texas circa. 1908 7 MSS 182.71 Emile Constant Mandry, Houston, Texas circa. 1912 7 MSS 182.72 Elmira Fonsworth, Shreveport, Louisiana circa. 1920 7 MSS 182.73 Son of Frank Constant, Houston, Texas circa. 1918 7 MSS 182.74 Mrs. Mattie Edward and sons, Galveston, Texas circa. 1916 7 MSS 182.75 7 MSS 182.76 Mrs. Mary Ann Constant Mandry Stephens, Houston, Texas circa. 1895 7 MSS 182.77 Pearl Samuels and Cecile C. Fonsworth, Saulnier Street, Houston, Texas circa. 1923 7 MSS 182.78 Emile Charles Fonsworth and Odie Lee Ferrand 1928 7 MSS 182.79 Choir for Sexton Trinity Episcopal Church, later the United Methodist Church. Third man from left is Stafford Harrison. Travis Street, Houston, Texas 1910 7 MSS 182.80 Fifth grade class of Miss Pinkie Yates. Boy at front row center is Emile Charles Fonsworth. 4th Ward High School, Houston, Texas 1908 7 MSS 182.81 Mrs. Ernestine Mandry Sims. Houston, Texas circa. 1907 7 MSS 182.82 7 MSS 182.83 7 MSS 182.84 7 MSS 182.85 7 MSS 182.86 7 MSS 182.87 7 MSS 182.88 7 MSS 182.89 7 MSS 182.90 7 MSS 182.91 7 MSS 182.92 7 MSS 182.93 7 MSS 182.94 From left: Elisha Richardson, Jr. and LeRoy Smallwood circa. 1923 7 MSS 182.95 7 MSS 182.96 7 MSS 182.97 7 MSS 182.98 Meeting of teachers and educators at Carnegie Library, Houston. Front row, fourth from left William E. Miller; Front row, fifth from left James D. Ryan. Front row, seventh from left E. O. Smith. Second row, second from left Mr. Catchins. circa. 1926 7 MSS 182.99 Photograph returned to donor. 7 MSS 182.100 Photograph returned to donor. 7 MSS 182.101 Photograph returned to donor. 7 MSS 182.102 Polia Kansas Fonsworth and his daughter Elmira Ernestine Fonsworth circa. 1904 MSS 183.103 to MSS 183.209 8