Biography of Benjamin Harrison
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY
W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]
Page 1048
BENJAMIN HARRISON, farmer, P.O. Range, was born February 8, 1815. He was a son of Batteal and Elizabeth (Scott) Harrison, natives of West Virginia. The former came to Ohio with an uncle and aunt in 1797, and located in Belmont County, where he remained until the breaking-out of the war of 1812, when he enlisted and served until the close of the war. He married Miss Scott in Chillicothe, while acting as a United States recruiting officer. In the fall of 1815, he moved to Fayette county and engaged in raising stock until his death. He was a colonel of the militia in 1857, and in 1828 and 1836 represented Fayette County in the State Legislature. He had six children, viz.: Benjamin, Walter Scott, born February 13, 1817, and is deceased; William, born October, 1819; David G., born in January, 1822; John Joseph, born in 1824, died in Georgia while in a rebel prison in 1861; and May, born April 11, 1828. Our subject married on March 9, 1837, and has five children, all living. Mr. Harrison now owns 1,550 acres where he lives. He was twice elected County Commissioner, and has filled minor township offices. His wife is a member of the Methodist Church.
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