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William Henry Harrison was the seventh and youngest child of Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison. Born on February 9, 1773, at Berkeley Plantation , the home of the Harrison family of Virginia on the James River in Charles City County , [ 1 ] he became the last United States president not born as an American citizen. [ 2 ]
William Welsh Harrison died in 1927, and in 1929 Beaver College (now Arcadia University), then located in Jenkintown, purchased the estate from his widow for $712,500. Classes were split between the two locations until 1962, when the college moved permanently to the Grey Towers property.
Founded by William Henry Harrison, VU, along with the University at Buffalo and the University of Virginia, are the only colleges founded by United States presidents. For over two hundred years, VU was the only two-year university in Indiana , although baccalaureate degrees in seven select areas are now available and were available prior to 1889.
Benjamin Harrison: Purdue University: Board of Trustees: 1895–1901 Grover Cleveland: Princeton University: Board of Trustees: 1901–1908 William McKinley: American University: Board of Trustees: 1899–1901 Theodore Roosevelt: American University: Board of Trustees: 1900–1919 Harvard University: Board of Overseers: 1895–1901, 1915–1916 ...
[b] [10] First president to be inaugurated in New York City. [2] First president to fill the entire body of the United States federal judges; including the Supreme Court. [11] First president to deliver a State of the Union address (1790). [12] First president to have a first lady older in age. [c] [13]
William Harrison Gallup (May 17, 1840 – October 26, 1929) was an American journalist and politician. Gallup was born on May 17, 1840, in Summit, New York, to parents Nathan Gallup and Pamela Baird. [1] After attending schools in Warnerville, Charlotteville, and Fredonia, [1] and a seminary, he began teaching.
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The inauguration of William Henry Harrison as the ninth president of the United States was held on Thursday, March 4, 1841, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 14th inauguration and marked the commencement of the only four-year term of both William Henry Harrison as president and John Tyler as vice ...