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John Scott Harrison Birthplace marker in North Bend, Ohio. Harrison was born on August 20, 1833, in North Bend, Ohio, the second of Elizabeth Ramsey (Irwin) and John Scott Harrison's ten children. His ancestors included immigrant Benjamin Harrison, who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, circa 1630 from England. Harrison was of entirely English ...
Fort Benjamin Harrison near Indianapolis, Indiana was named for President Benjamin Harrison, who was born in Ohio. [72] The Shenandoah Harrisons also lent their names to Harrison Hall at James Madison University , Daniel Harrison House in Dayton, and memorials at the University of Virginia.
Hunting Quarter, c. 1770s, Sussex County, Virginia, Home of Captain Henry Harrison (c. 1736 – 1772), son of Benjamin Harrison IV of Berkeley, brother of Benjamin Harrison V and uncle of William Henry Harrison. Kenmore Plantation, 1770s, Fredericksburg — home of George Washington's sister Betty Lewis
His son Benjamin Harrison IV built the three-story brick mansion that became the seat of the Harrison family, one of the First Families of Virginia. Colonels Albert V. Colburn, Delos B. Sackett and General John Sedgwick in Harrison's Landing, Virginia, during the Peninsula Campaign, 1862. Using bricks fired on the Berkeley plantation, Benjamin ...
In May, the Harrison Presidential Site in Indiana revealed $6.8 million in upgrades including renovations on the home of President Benjamin Harrison.
Benjamin Harrison Indiana: 25 William McKinley Ohio: 26 Theodore Roosevelt New York: 27 William Howard Taft Ohio: 28 Woodrow Wilson New Jersey: 29 Warren G. Harding Ohio: 30 Calvin Coolidge Massachusetts: 31 Herbert Hoover California: 32 Franklin D. Roosevelt New York: 33 Harry S. Truman Missouri: 34 Dwight D. Eisenhower Kansas [b] 35 John F ...
May 11, 1976 (Arlington: Arlington: A boundary stone associated with Benjamin Banneker, (1731–1806), an African American surveyor, mathematician and astronomer who assisted Andrew Ellicott during the first two months of Ellicott's 1791–1792 survey of the boundaries of the original District of Columbia.
The Harrison family chose a site at the crest of Mt. Nebo on the family estate and the interment occurred July 7, 1841. In 1871, John Harrison sold all but 6 acres (2.4 ha) of the estate. He offered this portion, containing the tomb and other burial sites, to the state of Ohio in exchange for a pledge of perpetual maintenance. [3]