Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-03-14
HARRIsON's GENEALOGY.
He Descended from Master John Harrison
virginia's First Governor-No Relation to
CrOmwelrs Butcher-His Family Tree.

HARRISON'S GENEALOGY.
He Descended from Master John H.rrisons
virginia's First Governor-No Relation to
CrOmwell's Butcher-His Family Tree.
There have been many statements
made in the last month to the effect that
the President-elect was descendant
from Cromwelrs Gen. Harrison, writes
the Washington correspondent Of the
Chicago Tribune The President elect
has been written to on the subject, and
his widely-publshed reply went to show
that if he did not believe that the as
sociate of the bloody Cromwell" was
his ancestor he was not entirely sure of
the fact.
1 am able to asseverate and con-
clusively prove, think, that the next
President of the United States is no
more descended from the regicide than
he is from the regicide's chief, whose
history is entirely damnable, and whose
name is an utter abomination.
Mr.. b. E. Blackford, originally of
Fredericksburg, Va, but resident of
Washington for the last five decades,
has made heraldry and genealogy his
fad for many years, and has made an
especial study of the lineage and ances-
try of the old Virginia families. He
said to me the other day:
As an old Virginian resent the idea
that the descendants OF one of the
oldest or our Virginia families and the
President-elect of our country should
for moment be considered to have
sprung from regicides and Cromwellian
satraps. The glaring character of the
mistatement can be shown in few
words. Cromwell's Gen. Harrison is
merely supposed to have come to
America after Cromwells execution, in
1860. Now, as will prove to you, the
ancestor of the President-elect was gov
erning Virginia in 1923, twenty-seven
years before the Cromwellite is said to
have come to America.
Among the second importation of
Virginia colonists under John Smith,
about the year 1909, was one Master
John Harrison, gentleman. In 1923 the
Virginia Company as private corpora
ton, was extinguished, and Master John
Harrison was made Governor of Vir-
ginia. To him, in 1915, was born son,
who in due time became known as Ben
iamin Harrison of Surrey. This son
was the first great landed proprietor of
his name in Virginia. He was buried
at Westover, on the James River, and a
monument was erected on the lawn of
the family estate. The monument,
which is still extant, bears the following
epitaph:
Here lyeth the body of Honora-
BILE Benjamin Harrison, Esquire.
who did Justice loved mercy. and
walked humbly with his God;
was always loyal to his Prince.
and great benefector to his
country.
"This worthy man." continued Mr..
Blackford, left three sons. The eldest
was a Benjamin Harrison of Berkeley,
who died in April, ITO, at the age of
81. 4 monument was erected to his
in Westover at the expense of
the State. He left son named Benja-
min, who married daughter of Robert
Carter of Corotoman, called King Carter,
and celebrity in those days. This
Benjamin Harrison was, with his two
killed by lightning Of his
sous lne hrst was DehJaniih, lue RTeaI
grandfather of the President-elect, and
one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. 1t could not have been
said Of him that ba was ALWAYS lovaI tn
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more great and happy than ever prince
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States. There was one daughter, who