Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-19
HARRISON'S GENEALOGY.
Ancestry Of the Present Presi-
dent Of the United States

Ancestry Of the Present Presi.
dent Of the United States
he Descended from Master John Harrison,
yirginia's First Governor, and Is No
Relation to CromwelTs AIinion-
His Family Tree and Crest.
There have been many statements made
TO the effect that the President was a de-
scendant from Cromwe1's General Harri-
son, writes the Washington correspondent
Of the Chicago Tribune. The President has
been written toon the subject, and his wide
Unpublished reply went TO show that il he
did not believe that the associate OF the
bloody CROMWELL was his ancestor he
was not entirely sure d The fact
am able TO asseverate and corciusively
prove, I think, that the President Of the
United States is no more descended from
the regicide than ne is from the regicide's
chief
Mr.. B. E. Blackboard, originally Of Freder-
icksburg, Va, but a resident of Washin gton
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 ancestry of the old Virginia families.
He fought beneath the Stars and Bars in the
rebellion, and in his Democracy he is note
worthy and unrelenting. These facts gave
an additional emphasis when he said to NE
the other day:
"As an old Virginian I resent the idea
that the descendant of one of the Oldest Of
our Virginia families and the President of
our country should for moment be con-
sidered TO have sprung from regicides. The
glazing character Of the misstatement can
be shown in few words. Cromwelrs Gen
eral Harrison is merely supposed to have
come TO America after Cromwelrs death,
in 1850 Now, as I will prove to you,
the ancestor Of the President was governing
Virginia in 1923, twenty-seven years before
the Cromwellite is said TO have come TO
America
MASTER JOHN HARRISON.
"Among the second importation OF Vir-
GINA colonists under John Smith about the
year 1909 was one Master John Harrison,
gentleman. In 1923 the Virginia Company,
as private corporation, was extin guished,
and Master John Harrison was made Gov
ernor of Virginia To him IN 1645 was born
son, who in due time became known as
Benjamin 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 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 Houora-
bic Benjamin Harrison, Esquire,
who did justice, loved mercy, and
walked humbly With his God; was
always loyal to his Prince, and
great benefactor to his country.
"This worthy man." continued Mr. Black
ford, left three sons. The eldest was a
Benjamin Harrison, of Berkeley, who died
in April, ITO, at the age of thirty-seven. A
monument was erected to his memory in
Westover at the expense of the State. He
left son named Benjamin, who married
daughter Of Robert Carter, of Corotoman,
called King Carter, and a celebrity in those
days. This Benjamin Harrison was, with
his two daughters, killed by lightning. Of
his sons the first was Benjamin, the great
grandfather Of the President and one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence.
1t could not have been said of him that he
was always loyal TO his Prince, but it can be
said that he was the father Of a ruler and
the great grandfather Of 8 ruler of a coun-
try far more great and happy than ever
Prince or King drew bounty from.
THE signer Of the Declaration Of hide
pendence married Miss Basseta They had
three sors-Benj amin, Carter "a member of
Cougress) and William Henry, ninth Pres
ldeut of the United States. There was one
daughter, who married Randolph d. VII
ton.
President Earrison's son, John Scott,
was the father OF the President, and (
think you will admit that the succession
from Master John to the gentleman who
succeeded Mr.. Cleveland has been clearly
shown"
EARRIsoS's FAMILY TREE.
Mr.. Blackford rapidly drew a partias
genealogical tree, which tells its own story
at glance:
MASTER JOHN HARRISON.
FIRST Governor Of Virginia IN 1914
BENJAMIN HARRISON. OF SURREY,
Born 16i5.
HIS son,
BENJAMIN HARRISON. OF BERKELEY,
Died April 1910.
His son.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Killed By lightning
His son.
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
Great grandfather Of the President
HIS son,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
President Of the United States
His SOP,
JOHN SCOTT HARRISON,
Father Of
THE PRESIDENT
"Hugh Griggsby," continued my geneal-
ogical enthusiast, who insisted on supple
mentlng his facts with documentary evil
deuce, "in his book on the Convention OF
I176,' saws of the Harrison family: of all
the ancient families in the colony tia. of
Harrison, if not the Oldest. is one Of the old
est"
Mr.. Blackford also showed me the coat Of
arms Of the Harrison family and described
them as follows in heraldIc vernacular:
"Perpale or, and az ; an eagle displayed
or lnurally gorged 4 -le first, between two
pheons II Jesse arg, chief indented err
minois-
Crest The faces fessivise ppr. banded
GA, surrounded By an anchor erect, eu-
twined by q ca6le-all sold
"a prominent English family, the Harri-
sons of Tynemouth,n said Mr. Blackford in
conclusion, ''of record in Burke's Landed
Gentry, has adopted these arms and the
crest, although their geaealogy is not trace
able 10 the far older family, the Harrisons
of Virginia"
Hawk and . Trap.
a hawk which was caught in trap near
Gettysburg the other day suddenly made q
bold dash for freedom and rose in the sir
carrying the trap with il Farmer Geesey
saw the performance and then drove on
He had gone nearly two miles when be saw
big hawk lowering and Tutoring over q