Leon Harrison

Leon Harrison (August 13, 1866 – September 1, 1928) was an English-born American rabbi who ministered in St. Louis for 37 years.

In 1880, he was admitted to New York City College at the head of 920 candidates, ranking above every other student.

He then moved to St. Louis and officially began working as Temple Israel's rabbi in the start of 1891.

He was vice-president of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society, director of the Tenement House Improvement Association, co-editor of the Semitics section of the Editor's Encyclopedia, and a founder of the Social Settlement League and the Fresh Air Society in St.

[5] He gave a eulogy at Henry Ward Beecher's funeral service in Brooklyn when he was twenty-one, delivered a memorial address for William McKinley in St. Louis, and delivered the Thanksgiving oration as a representative of the Jewish community in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

[6] On September 1, 1928, Harrison fell in front of a subway car at the 116th Street–Columbia University station in New York City.