Excerpt from Harrison and Reid: Their Lives and Record, the Republican Campaign Book for 1892, With a Handbook of American Politics Up to Date, and a Cyclopedia of Presidential Biography

Hon. Benjamin harrison, the Republican nominee for President, chosen on the first ballot at the National Convention, held at Minneapolis. June 7 to J une 11, 1892, was born August 20, 1833, at N orth Bend, Ohio, and is therefore in his 59th year. He is the son of J ohn Scott Harrison by a second marriage, his mother's maiden name being Elizabeth Irwin, daughter of Captain Archibald Irwin of Pennsylvania. His father's first wife was Miss J ohnson of Kentucky. There were two daughters and one son by the first marriage. Both daughters are still living. By the second marriage there were ten children, four of whom are now alive, Carter Barrett Harri son, J ohn Scott Harrison, Anna Harrison - now Mrs. Anna Morris - and Ben jamin Harrison, who was elected President of the United States in N ovem ber, 1888, and is still serving his country in that exalted office, for which he has just been renominated to the great satisfaction of many members of the Republican party.

It may be of interest to review briefly the pedigree of this distinguished man. It is a matter of history that one of President Harrison's ancestors, major-general Thomas Harrison, was a military commander during the pro tectorate of Oliver Cromwell, the great English Republican. It fell to his turn to convey Charles I. To Windsor, and thence to Whitehall, where he was called upon to sit as one of the judges and then to sign the king's death war rant. After the death of Cromwell and the restoration of Charles Major General Harrison was condemned for treason, hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross. He died a martyr to the cause of liberty.

Some members of the Harrison. Family came over to Virginia from Lanca shire in 1635, a quarter of a century before the execution of their kinsman. The leader of these colonists was the first Benjamin Harrison to land on American soil. The party decided to make a home in Surry county, not far from the' colony of J amestown, which had been settled nearly thirty years before. A son, Benjamin, the second of that name, married Hanna Churchill, who claimed affinity with the world-renowned Duke of Marlborough. They took up residence in Surry county, where a son was born, and named after his father.

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