This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jhh.2ACIB/4844 Message Board Post: This might help someone. >From the April 1909 issue of the Daily Ardmoreite, published in Ardmore, Carter Co., Oklahoma: Durant, April 5—By the death of an uncle, B. M. Harrison, a Bryan County farmer residing east of Caddo and ten miles north of this city, may soon come into possession f more than $11,500,000. This vast wealth represents a fortune that the uncle acquired by prospecting in the Klondike. The old gentleman died March 10, leaving Mr. Harrison, so far as he knows, the only surviving heir. The news of Mr. Harrison’s impending good fortune came to him in a notice from Probate Judge Gordan of Seattle, Washington, advising him that his uncle Alexander McDonald of Fair Haven, Washington had died, and that as soon as an inventory could be made of his estate, some property including a very valuable hop farm near Seattle would be sold. Mr. Harrison owns an adjoining farm and, on leaving the West in 1892, he arranged with his uncle that in the event of the old gentleman’s death, he should be notified and given an opportunity to bid upon his uncle’s property ! when offered for sale… On the same mail came another letter from a friend of former years advising Mr. Harrison that since he left Washington I the early nineties, his uncle had prospered with great success in the Klondike when the gold fever reigned there in 1898… He was the only brother of Mr. Harrison’s mother, an native of Ireland, came to America I the early forties and was an old bachelor… McDonald was a civil engineer and in 1879, assisted in the surveying the route of the Great Northern Railroad from St. Paul, Minn., west to the Pacific coast. Harrison, who was then a young man, accompanied his uncle on this long survey, carrying the chain for the surveyors. After reaching Washington, both uncle and nephew decided to remain on the Pacific coast… After assisting in building one line (railroad) through the territories to Red River, Harrison sold his construction company and settled down to the more quiet pursuit of farming and st! ock raising… since that time he has made his home at Caddo where he now owns considerable land… worth more than $50,000… being 49 years old and has a family of five children… will remain an Oklahoma farmer, even after becoming a millionaire… a typical Irishman, but American born, being a native Virginian. He is well known in railroad construction circles.