. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin .. . /c/. /j^f/a^^^-i NINTH % ILLIAM HENRY HARRI-SO>J, the ninth President ofthe United States, was bornat Berkeley, Va., Feb. 9, father, Benjamin Harri-son, was in comparatively op-ulent circumstances, and wasone of the most distinguishedmen of his day. He was anintimate friend of GeorgeWashington, w as early electeda member of the ContinentalCongress, and was conspicuousamong the patriots of Virginia inresisting the encroachments of theBritish crown. In the celebratedCongress o
. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin .. . /c/. /j^f/a^^^-i NINTH % ILLIAM HENRY HARRI-SO>J, the ninth President ofthe United States, was bornat Berkeley, Va., Feb. 9, father, Benjamin Harri-son, was in comparatively op-ulent circumstances, and wasone of the most distinguishedmen of his day. He was anintimate friend of GeorgeWashington, w as early electeda member of the ContinentalCongress, and was conspicuousamong the patriots of Virginia inresisting the encroachments of theBritish crown. In the celebratedCongress of 1775, Benjamin Har-rison and John Hancock wereboth candidates for the office of)eaker. Mr Harrison was subsequentlychosen Governor of Virginia, andwas twice re-elected. His son,i William Henry, of course enjoyed in childhood all the advantages which wealth andintellectual and cultivated society could give. received a thorough common-school education, heentered Hampden Sidney College, where he graduatedwith honor soon after the death of his father. He-hen repaired to Philadelphia to study medicine underthe instructi
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