Background
Lowell Hayes Harrison was born on October 23, 1922, in Russell Springs, Kentucky, United States, to Chester A. Harrison and Cecil Mae (Hayes) Harrison.
Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
Western Kentucky University
New York, United States
New York University
London, United Kingdom
London School of Economics and Political Science
Canyon, Texas, United States
West Texas A&M University
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"Much has been written about the famous conflicts and battlegrounds of the East during the American Revolution. Perhaps less familiar, but equally important and exciting, was the war on the western frontier, where Ohio Valley settlers fought for the land they had claimed – and for their very lives. George Rogers Clark stepped forward to organize the local militias into a united front that would defend the western frontier from Indian attacks. Clark was one of the few people who saw the importance of the West in the war effort as a whole, and he persuaded Virginia's government to lend support to his efforts. As a result Clark was able to cross the Ohio, saving that part of the frontier from further raids. Lowell Harrison captures the excitement of this vital part of American history while giving a complete view of George Rogers Clark's significant achievements. Lowell H. Harrison, is a professor emeritus of history at Western Kentucky University and is the author or co-author of numerous books, including Lincoln of Kentucky, A New History of Kentucky, and Kentucky's Governors."
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Lowell Hayes Harrison was born on October 23, 1922, in Russell Springs, Kentucky, United States, to Chester A. Harrison and Cecil Mae (Hayes) Harrison.
Harrison obtained Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Kentucky State Teachers College (now Western Kentucky University) in 1946. Then he moved to New York University, where he became Master of Arts in 1947 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1951. He also attended London School of Economics and Political Science, for a year from 1951.
Harrison's first working position was at the New York University, where he worked from 1947 till 1950 as an instructor in history. Harrison worked as an assistant director of Foreign Students Center of that same university, from 1950 to 1951. For seven years from 1950, he served as an associate professor of history at the West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University). During the next decade, Harrison held the positions of a professor and department head of the West Texas A&M University. He served as a professor of history and graduate adviser at the Western Kentucky University from 1967 to 1988, and as a faculty member for three years from 1971.
He retired from teaching in 1988. From that same time, Harrison concentrated on writing books. In addition, he was a contributor of more than a hundred articles to history journals.
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Quotations:
"Kentucky has a rich and fascinating past, and the Commonwealth has played an important role in our national history. In my writing I have tried to fill in some of the gaps in our state history. Kentucky was relatively a much larger and more important state before the Civil War than has been true in the twentieth century. It has been interesting to try to understand the reasons for the relative decline of the state’s position in the Union."
"While I have abandoned the quill pen, I am one of the historians who still does the first draft in longhand. Later I do a typed copy, and still later the manuscript is committed to a computer for final editing and rewriting."
Harrison was a member of the Organization of American Historians, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the American Association of University Professors, the Southern Historical Association, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, the Kentucky Historical Society, the Filson Club Historical Society, the Phi Kappa Phi and the Phi Alpha Theta.
Harrison married Elaine M. Maher on December 23, 1948.