History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . Levi P. Morton. 36 EXPANSION [1888 Harrison, of Virginia, the ardent revolu-tionary patriot, signer of the Declarationof Independence. An older scion of the. Benjamin Harrison. family had served as major-generaJ inCromwells army and been executed forsigning the death-warrant of King CharleSI. The Republican candidate was born on i888] PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1888 37 a farm at North Bend, Ohio, August 20,1833. The boys earliest education wasacquired in a log schoolhouse. He after-ward attended Miami Univer
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . Levi P. Morton. 36 EXPANSION [1888 Harrison, of Virginia, the ardent revolu-tionary patriot, signer of the Declarationof Independence. An older scion of the. Benjamin Harrison. family had served as major-generaJ inCromwells army and been executed forsigning the death-warrant of King CharleSI. The Republican candidate was born on i888] PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1888 37 a farm at North Bend, Ohio, August 20,1833. The boys earliest education wasacquired in a log schoolhouse. He after-ward attended Miami University, in Ohio,where he graduated at the age of next year he was admitted to the 1854 he married, and opened a law officein Indianapolis. In i860 he became Re-porter of Decisions to the Indiana SupremeCourt. When the civil war broke out,obeying the spirit that in his grandfatherhad won at Tippecanoe and the Thames,young Harrison recruited a regiment, ofwhich he was soon commissioned services under Sherman at Resacaand Peach Tree Creek brought him thebrevet of brigadier. After his return fromwar, owing to his high character, his line-age, his fine war record, his power as aspeaker, and his popularity in a
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