Harrison SCHOOLER

   General Notes:

!Juanita Stevens somewhere found his name listed as James Harrison Schooler. Could this be the answer to the question about his being named Harrison Schooler when he had an older living brother named Charles Harrison Schooler??? Harrison Schooler was born in Champaign Co., Ohio abt 9 years after his parents moved there from Harrison Co., Kentucky. His mother died shortly after his birth while his father was serving in the War of 1812. Many hardships were faced by these frontier families, unfortunately a diary or journal has not been handed down to tell us of these events or the interesting things happening to then. Harrison and his son Richard are listed as registered voters and member of the Militia in Agency, Wapello, Iowa. About 1865-66 Harrison and his sons, Richard and William, and their families decide to move West again. Kay Schooler figured out the route that they must have taken on the journey West. The only well traveled "road" west of the Mississippi River was the Oregon Trail, so she assumed that was the course they traveled after reaching Independence, Missouri. They followed a trail which ran in a northwesterly course to Fort Kearney, Nebraska. Then they traveled up the Platte River and its north branch to Fort Laramie, Wyoming. From this point, they continued along the North Plate to its Sweetwater branch, and crossed through South Pass in the Rocky Mountains to the Green River Valley at Fort Bridger, Wyoming. The route turned northwest to Fort Hall on the Snake River, in Idaho and crossing the Snake at "Three Island Crossing" continued on to Fort Boise. This trek usually took about six months. William & Richard are on a Tax List of Boise Valley 1866, where they raised grain. Sometime after the move to Idaho they started a freight company. They moved freight from the Umatilla landing to the Boise area and from the Boise area to Utah where the railroad ended. They also hauled freight up to the mines in northern Idaho. About 1873-4, Harrison and Mary and most of their family, Richard and his family, and Hannah and her family moved to Texas with Frank and Arabella Fulton and their family. At this time William and Frances are back in Iowa with Frances' parents, but they later joined the rest of the family in Texas for a couple of years before they all moved back to Idaho. Hugh Allen had family in Arkansas, and they went to get them before moving to Arkansas. I suppose it is possible they first went to Iowa to pick up William and Francis and their family. The extra traveling meant that they arrived in Texas late in the year and they were not at all prepared for winter. The move to Texas was not a good one all the way around for Harrison and Mary, Richard and Mary, and William and Francis. They were not happy there and did not prosper in the two years that they were there. So, leaving Hugh and Hannah Allen in Texas, they went back to Idaho, poorer but wiser. They started the freight company again and ran freight from Kelton, Utah to Boise until the railroad was finished in 1882. After that they began freighting all over Southern Idaho, even from Shoshone to Twin Falls, when Twin was building until 1905, when the railroad came there. Harrison and Richard together with William purchased an enclosed wagon with fine teams sometime before 1900 and begin the "Schooler's Gramaphone and Sciopticon Company". It was kind of a movie theatre on wheels. The name was decoratively written on the sides of the wagon. Harrison taught his children how to read and write by having them study, each evening from the Holy Bible. In 1900 Harrison is living with his son William, age 87, but dies shortly afterward but no date is known. He is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery with his wife.The black wrought iron fence that is partially around the Pioneer Cem. in Hagerman is the fence the Schooler's built around the area of the Schooler plots there. But the fence was moved to the outer edge of the Cemetery in later years by Dick Cook. !BIRTH:Harrison's birth is listed in the Schooler Family Bible which was in the possession of Lillie Schooler Graham. Since her death the location of the Bible is unknown, but we have photocopies. !MARRIAGE:Logan Co., Ohio Marriage Records pg 108 !LAND:Harrison was issued a land patent, dated 2 December 1850, for the SW of SW section 26, township 72, 40 acres for $50.00 in Wapello Co., Iowa. !CENSUS:1847 Special Census Wapello Co., Iowa, Agency pg 18 !CENSUS:1850 Wapello Co., Iowa, Agency !CENSUS:1856 State Census Wapello Co., Iowa, Agency pg 13, it states he has lived in the state 10 years. !CENSUS:1860 Wapello Co., Iowa, Washington twp pg 163 living 6 houses away are the Acton's (his future daughter-in-law's family) !CENSUS:1870 Ada Co., Idaho Territory, Boise District 13 pg 34 living two houses away are Frank and Arabella Fulton. She is the author of "Tales of the Trail" which tells about their trip to Texas. !CENSUS:1880 Ada Co., Idaho Territory, Boise District 2 pg 37 !CENSUS:1900 Lincoln Co., Idaho, Malad precinct living with his son, William.

   Marriage Information:

Harrison married Mary Elizabeth DILLON on 24 Dec 1834 in Logansville, Logan, Ohio. (Mary Elizabeth DILLON was born on 24 Jul 1813 in , Clark, Ohio, died on 15 Oct 1898 in Hagerman, Gooding, Idaho and was buried in Oct 1898 in Hagerman Cem., Hagerman, Gooding, Idaho.)