HARRY H. CORSON. In no other field of enterprise has there been so marvelous development and progress within the past two decades as in that of applied electricity, and among those who have been prominently concerned with practical developments and contributed in no insignificant way to this advancement is MR. CORSON, who is now the valued and popular incumbent of the office of district manager for the General Electric Company, with headquarters in the city of Nashville, Tennessee, where he has maintained his home since 1894 and where he has high standing in business circles and as a citizen of distinctive progressiveness and public spirit.
He has been long identified with scientific and practical electrical work, and that he is a specially able representative of this phase of business enterprise needs no further voucher than that afforded in his tenure of his present responsible position.
It will be recalled that Nashville was the second city in the United States to place in operation an electric street railway system, and MR. CORSON had the distinction of equipping and placing in operation the first electric car run over the streets of Nashville in April, 1889. He became deeply impressed with the manifold attractions and advantages of Nashville, so that it is a matter of much satisfaction to him to be able to call this city his home.
On the 14th of December, 1897, was solemnized the marriage of MR. CORSON to Miss Sadie Claire McGUIRE, who was born and reared in Nashville, and who is a daughter of the late Col. John P. McGUIRE, a distinguished citizen of this state. Mr. and Mrs. CORSON have but one child, Harry H., Jr.
Source: Hale, Will T, and Dixon L. Merritt. A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Company, 1913. Volume 4, pg. 856-857.
