Harrison C. Kerrow

 

Harrison C. Kerrow. A merchant of Clarendon, one whose substantial position in the community is beyond all question. Harrison C. Kerbow began his career as a farmer on a small acreage, and has been steadily prospered. Harrison C. Kerbow was born in Georgia, in Jackson County, March 6, 1856, the third in a family of four sons and five daughters born to Francis Marion and Frances (Hoosh) Kerbow, both of whom were Georgians by birth. The paternal ancestors were early Scotch and Welch settlers of Carolinas, and on the mother's side the ancestry was Dutch, also South Carolina residents. Francis M. Kerbow moved to Texas in 1866, settling in Red River county. During the war he had served in a Virginia company, under the famous cavalry leader Jube Early, and was through most of the campaigns of the war. He was wounded twice, once at the battle of Spottsylvania, Pa., and again at Cold Harbor battle, and was granted a furlough which lasted until end of war. He followed farming as his occupation, was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Methodist church. His first wife, Frances Hoosh, died in 1870. In 1874 he married Mrs. Hashaw who is still living in Texas. Mr. Kerbow was educated in the country schools of Georgia, and from the age of ten years has lived in Texas, where he also had the advantages of the public schools. At the age of twenty-four he left the home farm, and started out on his own account to manage a thirty-acre place in Delta county. He worked this land and gradually acquired more and followed farming with considerable success until 1900. In that year he moved to Fisher county, where he followed both mercantile and stock farming enterprise, and in 1905 came to Clarendon, arriving on June 13. In this flourishing town of Northwest Texas, he bought an interest in the hardware and furniture store of A. L. Daily, after which the firm was known as Daily and Kerbow Company, until February, 1907. Mr. Daily then sold his interest to Mr. Asher, and the new firm continued for seventeen months. Mr. Kerbow then bought out the entire business, and has since conducted it alone. He is a stock holder in the Farmers State Bank, owns his store and residence and has many evidences of material prosperity and a great number of friends, and the esteem and confidence of his associates. Mr. Kerbow is a Democrat and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. On Christmas day of 1879, in Delta county, Texas, he married Miss Arizona Redus, who was born in Mississippi, a daughter of Wesley Redus. Of the eight children born to their union seven are now living.

 

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