JOSIAH S. HARRISON, who has been m a resident of Lebanon, Ind., for eleven years, descends from an old English family that came to this country over a hundred years before the Revolutionary war, several members of which settled in Maryland. Robert H. Harrison, Gen. Washington's private secretary in the war of the Revolution, and later one of the associate judges of the supreme court of the United States, was one of the same family.
Greenbery Harrison, great-grandfather of Josiah S., was born in Maryland. In 1784 he removed to Hardin county, Ky., and resided in the neighborhood of the grandfather of President Lincoln. Josiah Harrison, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was also born in Maryland, and Simpson Harrison, the father, was born in Kentucky, and later came to Boone county, Ind., where ho married Martha Roberts in May, 1837, and settled on a farm on the north side of Sugar creek, in Clinton township, where he remained until his death in 1876, at the age of sixty-three. To Simpson and Martha Harrison were born seven children, viz: John, Amy R. , Josiah S., Edward D., Avis G., Sarah A. and Flora, all of whom lived to years of maturity except John, who died at the age of three years. Politically he was a whig until the dissolution of that party, then a republican, and strong in his convictions. He was a Methodist, and his home was a favorite stopping place for the itinerant preachers, and a preaching point for many years.
Josiah S. Harrison was born October 9, 1843, near Mechanicsburg, Boone county, Ind. He received an ordinary common school education. He has always been a republican, and cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln, and subsequently voted for Grant, Ha3'es, Garfield, Blaine and Harrison. With him principle was everything, but he regarded the republican party the proper medium through which principle was to be maintained. July 23, 1861, he enlisted in the Eleventh regiment of Indiana volunteers, called the Zouave regiment, and commanded by Lew Wallace, later Gen. Wallace. He was a true and faithful soldier until he was discharged at Crump's Landing, Tenn., March 31, 1862, on account of general disability.
August 20, 1863, he married CAROLINE RILEY, daughter of James and Matilda E. (Garret) Riley. To them were born three children, namely Ira E. , Edward J. and John B. Edward J. died at the age of seven years; Ira E. was married in Lawrence, Douglas county, Kans. , to Theodosia A. Bishop, in 1884, and moved to Lebanon, Boone county, Ind., where he resides at this writing.
April, 1878, the subject of this sketch was elected trustee of Washington township, and served two years, and afterward was appointed to fill the unexpired term of George E. Conrad, who had resigned. April, 1SS2, he was elected his own successor, which trust he held until September 10, 1883, when he resigned and moved to Lebanon, and accepted a deputyship under John W. Hawkins, county treasurer. In 1 886 Mr. Harrison was elected county treasurer, and filled the office with so much ability and fidelity that, in 1888, he was reelected with an increased majority. At the expiration of his office, he engaged in the abstract and loan business, at which he is still engaged. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the I. O. O. F. and of the Methodist church. After the death of Caroline (Riley) Harrison, he married Elizabeth A. Keys, August 11, 1880, daughter of John and Frances (Hawkins) Keys.
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Greenbery Harrison, great-grandfather of Josiah S., was born in Maryland. In 1784 he removed to Hardin county, Ky., and resided in the neighborhood of the grandfather of President Lincoln. Josiah Harrison, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was also born in Maryland, and Simpson Harrison, the father, was born in Kentucky, and later came to Boone county, Ind., where ho married Martha Roberts in May, 1837, and settled on a farm on the north side of Sugar creek, in Clinton township, where he remained until his death in 1876, at the age of sixty-three. To Simpson and Martha Harrison were born seven children, viz: John, Amy R. , Josiah S., Edward D., Avis G., Sarah A. and Flora, all of whom lived to years of maturity except John, who died at the age of three years. Politically he was a whig until the dissolution of that party, then a republican, and strong in his convictions. He was a Methodist, and his home was a favorite stopping place for the itinerant preachers, and a preaching point for many years.
Josiah S. Harrison was born October 9, 1843, near Mechanicsburg, Boone county, Ind. He received an ordinary common school education. He has always been a republican, and cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln, and subsequently voted for Grant, Ha3'es, Garfield, Blaine and Harrison. With him principle was everything, but he regarded the republican party the proper medium through which principle was to be maintained. July 23, 1861, he enlisted in the Eleventh regiment of Indiana volunteers, called the Zouave regiment, and commanded by Lew Wallace, later Gen. Wallace. He was a true and faithful soldier until he was discharged at Crump's Landing, Tenn., March 31, 1862, on account of general disability.
August 20, 1863, he married CAROLINE RILEY, daughter of James and Matilda E. (Garret) Riley. To them were born three children, namely Ira E. , Edward J. and John B. Edward J. died at the age of seven years; Ira E. was married in Lawrence, Douglas county, Kans. , to Theodosia A. Bishop, in 1884, and moved to Lebanon, Boone county, Ind., where he resides at this writing.
April, 1878, the subject of this sketch was elected trustee of Washington township, and served two years, and afterward was appointed to fill the unexpired term of George E. Conrad, who had resigned. April, 1SS2, he was elected his own successor, which trust he held until September 10, 1883, when he resigned and moved to Lebanon, and accepted a deputyship under John W. Hawkins, county treasurer. In 1 886 Mr. Harrison was elected county treasurer, and filled the office with so much ability and fidelity that, in 1888, he was reelected with an increased majority. At the expiration of his office, he engaged in the abstract and loan business, at which he is still engaged. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the I. O. O. F. and of the Methodist church. After the death of Caroline (Riley) Harrison, he married Elizabeth A. Keys, August 11, 1880, daughter of John and Frances (Hawkins) Keys.
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JOSIAH S. HARRISON, who has been m a resident of Lebanon, Ind., for eleven years, descends from an old English family that came to this country over a hundred years before the Revolutionary war, several members of which settled in Maryland. Robert H. Harrison, Gen. Washington's private secretary in the war of the Revolution, and later one of the associate judges of the supreme court of the United States, was one of the same family.
Greenbery Harrison, great-grandfather of Josiah S., was born in Maryland. In 1784 he removed to Hardin county, Ky., and resided in the neighborhood of the grandfather of President Lincoln. Josiah Harrison, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was also born in Maryland, and Simpson Harrison, the father, was born in Kentucky, and later came to Boone county, Ind., where ho married Martha Roberts in May, 1837, and settled on a farm on the north side of Sugar creek, in Clinton township, where he remained until his death in 1876, at the age of sixty-three. To Simpson and Martha Harrison were born seven children, viz: John, Amy R. , Josiah S., Edward D., Avis G., Sarah A. and Flora, all of whom lived to years of maturity except John, who died at the age of three years. Politically he was a whig until the dissolution of that party, then a republican, and strong in his convictions. He was a Methodist, and his home was a favorite stopping place for the itinerant preachers, and a preaching point for many years.
Josiah S. Harrison was born October 9, 1843, near Mechanicsburg, Boone county, Ind. He received an ordinary common school education. He has always been a republican, and cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln, and subsequently voted for Grant, Ha3'es, Garfield, Blaine and Harrison. With him principle was everything, but he regarded the republican party the proper medium through which principle was to be maintained. July 23, 1861, he enlisted in the Eleventh regiment of Indiana volunteers, called the Zouave regiment, and commanded by Lew Wallace, later Gen. Wallace. He was a true and faithful soldier until he was discharged at Crump's Landing, Tenn., March 31, 1862, on account of general disability.
August 20, 1863, he married CAROLINE RILEY, daughter of James and Matilda E. (Garret) Riley. To them were born three children, namely Ira E. , Edward J. and John B. Edward J. died at the age of seven years; Ira E. was married in Lawrence, Douglas county, Kans. , to Theodosia A. Bishop, in 1884, and moved to Lebanon, Boone county, Ind., where he resides at this writing.
April, 1878, the subject of this sketch was elected trustee of Washington township, and served two years, and afterward was appointed to fill the unexpired term of George E. Conrad, who had resigned. April, 1SS2, he was elected his own successor, which trust he held until September 10, 1883, when he resigned and moved to Lebanon, and accepted a deputyship under John W. Hawkins, county treasurer. In 1 886 Mr. Harrison was elected county treasurer, and filled the office with so much ability and fidelity that, in 1888, he was reelected with an increased majority. At the expiration of his office, he engaged in the abstract and loan business, at which he is still engaged. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the I. O. O. F. and of the Methodist church. After the death of Caroline (Riley) Harrison, he married Elizabeth A. Keys, August 11, 1880, daughter of John and Frances (Hawkins) Keys.
A Portrait and Biographical Record of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties, Ind., 1895,
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Greenbery Harrison, great-grandfather of Josiah S., was born in Maryland. In 1784 he removed to Hardin county, Ky., and resided in the neighborhood of the grandfather of President Lincoln. Josiah Harrison, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was also born in Maryland, and Simpson Harrison, the father, was born in Kentucky, and later came to Boone county, Ind., where ho married Martha Roberts in May, 1837, and settled on a farm on the north side of Sugar creek, in Clinton township, where he remained until his death in 1876, at the age of sixty-three. To Simpson and Martha Harrison were born seven children, viz: John, Amy R. , Josiah S., Edward D., Avis G., Sarah A. and Flora, all of whom lived to years of maturity except John, who died at the age of three years. Politically he was a whig until the dissolution of that party, then a republican, and strong in his convictions. He was a Methodist, and his home was a favorite stopping place for the itinerant preachers, and a preaching point for many years.
Josiah S. Harrison was born October 9, 1843, near Mechanicsburg, Boone county, Ind. He received an ordinary common school education. He has always been a republican, and cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln, and subsequently voted for Grant, Ha3'es, Garfield, Blaine and Harrison. With him principle was everything, but he regarded the republican party the proper medium through which principle was to be maintained. July 23, 1861, he enlisted in the Eleventh regiment of Indiana volunteers, called the Zouave regiment, and commanded by Lew Wallace, later Gen. Wallace. He was a true and faithful soldier until he was discharged at Crump's Landing, Tenn., March 31, 1862, on account of general disability.
August 20, 1863, he married CAROLINE RILEY, daughter of James and Matilda E. (Garret) Riley. To them were born three children, namely Ira E. , Edward J. and John B. Edward J. died at the age of seven years; Ira E. was married in Lawrence, Douglas county, Kans. , to Theodosia A. Bishop, in 1884, and moved to Lebanon, Boone county, Ind., where he resides at this writing.
April, 1878, the subject of this sketch was elected trustee of Washington township, and served two years, and afterward was appointed to fill the unexpired term of George E. Conrad, who had resigned. April, 1SS2, he was elected his own successor, which trust he held until September 10, 1883, when he resigned and moved to Lebanon, and accepted a deputyship under John W. Hawkins, county treasurer. In 1 886 Mr. Harrison was elected county treasurer, and filled the office with so much ability and fidelity that, in 1888, he was reelected with an increased majority. At the expiration of his office, he engaged in the abstract and loan business, at which he is still engaged. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the I. O. O. F. and of the Methodist church. After the death of Caroline (Riley) Harrison, he married Elizabeth A. Keys, August 11, 1880, daughter of John and Frances (Hawkins) Keys.
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