Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Gen. John Harrison and Rachel [Unk]




Husband Gen. John Harrison 1

           Born: 8 Jan 1775 - Hanover Twp, Lancaster (later Dauphin) Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Feb 1827 - Hanover, Lebanon Co, PA 2
         Buried: 


         Father: Isaac Harrison (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Sarah [Unk] (      -      ) 2


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Frances Rodgers (1771-1813) 2



Wife Rachel [Unk] 2

           Born: 1787 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 10 Nov 1829 2
         Buried: 


Children

General Notes: Husband - Gen. John Harrison


He was brought up on his father's farm, received a good education, and at his majority engaged in the manufacture of iron. He served as county commissioner of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, from 1807 to 1810, and in 1814 marched as a private in Capt. Thomas McIlhenny's company of volunteers to the defense of Baltimore. He was elected a member of the House of Representatives, session of 1821-22, and in 1823 to the State Senate, but resigned the year following for some cause unexplained. He was brigadier-general of volunteers, and hence the title of Gen. John Harrison. He died at his residence in Hanover, and is buried in the old graveyard there.

This person should not be confounded with Gen. Harrison of Ohio, afterwards President of the United States. The president was a Virginian of a very prominent family, this Gen. Harrison was of Pennsylvania, of the excellent Presbyterian race of Provincial days.

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Sources


1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 74.

2 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 273.


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