Henry Robert Harrower (1883 - 1953)

Born 30 Apr 1883 in London, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Bessie Isadore (Waggoner) Harrower — married 18 Mar 1906 (to before 1932) in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States

Husband of Olive May (Vince) Canright — married 1932 (to 1953) in Los Angeles, California, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Jan 1953 at age 69 in Los Angeles, California, United States

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Biography

Henry Harrower is Notable.

Henry was born in 1883 in London.^[1][2] In 1903, he traveled to Battle Creek, Michigan to enroll in the American Medical Missionary College, where he met and studied under John Harvey Kellogg. He also met his first wife, Bessie Wagoner, who married in 1906 in Battle Creek, Michigan.^[3]

After graduating from the American Medical Missionary College, he began his formal study of "organotherapy" or the treatment of disease by the use of animal organs or their extracts,^[2] moving to Illinois with Bessie.^[4] In 1909, they had a daughter named Verna Irene.^[5] In 1912, he published Practical Hormone Therapy, moving the young family to New York in the meantime.^[6]

In 1915, the family moved to Glendale, California, where Henry would live for the rest of his life.^[7][8][9] In 1918, he established The Harrower Laboratory and Clinic in Glendale^[1] and in 1920, he followed his first book with the publication of Practical Organotherapy.

In 1930, his daughter Verna married a man named Robert Boyd Haining.^[10] During the 1930s, Henry and Bessie divorced, and Henry married Olive Vince.^[9] By the early 1940s, the clinic was sold to the Lambert Pharmaceuticals Company, makers of Listerine.^[11]

He passed away in 1953 in Los Angeles County, California.^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Sherer, John Calvin. "Glendale, California Biographies: Dr. Henry R. Harrower" in From History of Glendale and Vicinity. 1922, pgs 402-405. The Glendale Publishing Company. Available online here: http://theusgenweb.org/ca/losangeles//GlendaleBios/Harrower_Dr_Henry_R.htm
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Schwartz, T. B. "Henry Harrower and the Turbulent Beginnings in Endocrinology." 1999, Annals of Internal Medicine, volume 131, issue 9, pgs 702–706. American College of Physicians. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-131-9-199911020-00012.
3. ↑ "Michigan Marriages, 1822-1995", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCHX-W2Q : 18 February 2021), Henry Harrower, 1906.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKDP-4C9 : accessed 6 October 2021), Dr. H R Harrower, Kankakee Ward 6, Kankakee, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 105, sheet 3A, family 62, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 298; FHL microfilm 1,374,311.
5. ↑ "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQBZ-QX3 : 18 May 2016), Henry Robert Harrower in entry for Verna Irene Harrower, 02 May 1909; Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, reference/certificate 6806, Cook County Clerk, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,288,169.
6. ↑ "New York State Census, 1915", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K92V-7C7 : 18 May 2021), Henry R Harrower, 1915.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQW-TGH : 31 January 2021), Henry R Harrower, 1920.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJ5-27N : accessed 6 October 2021), Henry R Harrower, La Crescenta, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1042, sheet 5B, line 96, family 120, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 131; FHL microfilm 2,339,866.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K97P-HVP : 5 January 2021), Henry Harrower, Glendale Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 19-231, sheet 2B, line 66, family 55, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 232.
10. ↑ "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8N1-YLY : 9 March 2021), Henry Robert Harrower in entry for Robert Boyd Haining and Verna Irene Harrower, 07 Aug 1930; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 2,074,796.
11. ↑ "Historic Resource: Harrower Lab" in the Glendale Register for Historic Places, adopted by the City Council on September 30, 1997. Available online here: https://www.glendaleca.gov/home/showdocument?id=12760
12. ↑ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPKW-YHC : 26 November 2014), Henry Robert Harrower, 02 Jan 1953; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.

See also

• "Henry Harrower" on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Harrower
• Find a Grave, database and images (Find A Grave: Memorial #33104767: accessed 06 October 2021), memorial page for Dr Henry Robert Harrower (30 Apr 1883–2 Jan 1953), Find a Grave Memorial ID 33104767, citing Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA ; Maintained by KHaining (contributor 47077356).

Acknowledgments

This profile was created by Cathryn Hondros on September 1, 2020, who has managed it since its creation. Extensive family research by K Haining, a relative of Robert Boyd Haining, on FindAGrave has helped wikitreers connect the Hainings and the Harrowers to the global family tree.

This profile was provided a new, in-depth biography by U Swanson on October 6, 2021.