Ross granville harrison biography template

(b. Germantown, Pennsylvania, 13 January 1870; d. New Haven, Connecticut, 30 September 1959)

biology.

Harrison, who was to become one of the pioneers of experimental embryology, was the only son of Samuel Harrison and Catherine Barrington Diggs.

Ross granville harrison biography template

Samuel Harrison was a grandson of William Harrison, who came to Philadelphia from England in 1798 under contract to the Bank of the United States to design bank notes; William’s son, Ross’s grandfather, was an engraver and cartographer.

Samuel Harrison, Ross’s father, was a mechanical engineer; he spent ten years in Russia designing rolling stock for the firm of Joseph Harrison (not related) of Philadelphia, who was under contract to the czar to build the railroad from St.

Petersburg to Moscow.

Ross Harrison’s education began in Germantown and was continued in Baltimore, Maryland, where his family moved during his boyhood. He entered the Johns Hopkins University in 1889; his work was sponsored by William K