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BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Ben-ja-min Har-ri-son was the third son of
John Scott Har-ri-son and grand son of Will-iam
Hen-ry Har-ri-son, the ninth Pres-i-dent of the U-ni-ted
States. His kin in this land came down in a straight line
from John Rolfe who wed Poc-a-hon-tas, child of the red
chief Pow-hat-an, at James-town, Vir-gin-ia, A-pril, 1614.
Ben-ja-min Har-ri-son's great grand-fa-ther was one of the men sent to the Con-gress which made the "Dec-la-ra-tion of In-de-pen-dence." The Har-ri-sons had large tracts of land on the banks of the O-hi-o. As a young boy Ben-ja-min did work on his fa-ther's farm. Each year the crops were sent in flat boats to New Or-leans, and fa-ther and son, and men to help the work, went with them.
