Marion Fox Harrison

Background

Harrison, Marion Fox was born on September 1, 1911 in Chattanooga. Daughter of Cicero Gaston and Lucy Mae (Catlett) Fox.

Education

Graduate, Georgia State College, Milledgeville.

Career

Teacher Rossville Schools, Georgia, 1930—1935. Sales lady photography, 1935. With Austin Photography, Santa Barbara, California, 1936.

Bookkeeper Mazia Trucking Company, 1938—1940. Chemist Hercules Powder Company, Tyner, Tennessee, 1942—1946, Chattanooga Medicine Company, 1946—1949. Owner, manager Harrison Violins, Berkley, Michigan, from 1966.

Lutheir, from 1971; manager, part owner, from 1966. Violin maker, from 1971. Owner violin shop, from 1993.

Achievements

• Marion Fox Harrison has been listed as a noteworthy violin company official, violin maker by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Secretary Oak Park Symphony Society, 1968. Director, 1968, Southfield Symphony Society, Michigan, from 1981. Member of Violin Makers Association Arizona (2d place in tone award 1976-1983).

Connections

Married Edwin Andrew O'Neal, June 4, 1932 (divorced April 1945). Children: Anne E. O'Neal Langhaug, Sylvia I. O'Neal Nagel. Married Benjamin Frederick Harrison, September 24, 1948.

1 child Marion Fredericka Harrison LaBounty.

Father:

Cicero Gaston Fox

Mother:

Lucy Mae (Catlett) Fox

Spouse:

Edwin Andrew O'Neal

Spouse:

Benjamin Frederick Harrison

child:

Anne E. O'Neal Langhaug Harrison

child:

Marion Fredericka Harrison LaBounty Harrison

child:

Sylvia I. O'Neal Nagel Harrison