Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ^Qn^a^inin ^.ai^^mon^ .ENJAMIN HARRISON, the \ , „wenty-tbiid President, is>&> the descendant of one of tliehistorical families of thiscountry. The head of tiiefamily was a Major GeneralHarrison, one of OliverCromweUs trusted follow-ers and fighters. In the Crom-wells power it became the duty of thisHarrison to participate in the trial ofCharles I, and afterward to sign thedeaih warrant of the king. He subse-quently paid for this with his life, beinghung Oct. 13, IGGO. His descendants
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ^Qn^a^inin ^.ai^^mon^ .ENJAMIN HARRISON, the \ , „wenty-tbiid President, is>&> the descendant of one of tliehistorical families of thiscountry. The head of tiiefamily was a Major GeneralHarrison, one of OliverCromweUs trusted follow-ers and fighters. In the Crom-wells power it became the duty of thisHarrison to participate in the trial ofCharles I, and afterward to sign thedeaih warrant of the king. He subse-quently paid for this with his life, beinghung Oct. 13, IGGO. His descendantscame to America, and the next of thefamily that appears in history is Benja-min Harrison, of Virginia,great-grand-father of the subject of this sketch, andafter wliom he was named. Benjamin Harrisonwa:; a member of the Continental Congress duringthe years i774-5-G, and was one of the originalsigners of the Declaration of Independence. Hewas three times elected Governor of William Henry Harrison, the son of the distinguished patriot of the Revolution, after a suc-cessful career as a soldier du
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