Alfred Craven Harrison

Alfred Craven Harrison (February 20, 1846 – July 30, 1927) was an American banker and sugar dealer.

Early life

Harrison was born on February 20, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a son of George Leib Harrison (1811–1885) and Sarah Ann ( Waples) Harrison (1816–1850). Among his siblings was Charles Custis Harrison, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and William Welsh Harrison (who built Grey Towers Castle).

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts in 1864,

He erected the Alfred Craven Harrison Building, at 4 South 15th Street, in Philadelphia. It was built between 1894 and 1895 (demolished 1969) and was designed by architects Cope and Stewardson. who married banker John White Geary, a son of Gov. John W. Geary. Alfred Craven Harrison, Jr. (1875-1925), physician and ethnographer, colleague of William Henry Furness III and Hiram M. Hiller, Jr. Kate Harrison Prentice (1878–1941), who married John Hill Prentice in 1899. Mildred Harrison (1879–1942), who married Count Karl von Holnstein of Bavaria, son of Count Maximilian von Holnstein. William Frazier Harrison (1884–1942), who married Alison Gowen. They divorced in 1931 and he married Lisa Norris, a daughter of John Cushing Norris, 1932. He left his estate to his four children valued at $6,445,357 which owed Federal taxes of $690,875.