W. H. Harrison    

W. H. HARRISON, carpenter and farmer, post-office Pardoe, was born September 15, 1837, in Jackson Township, this county, and his parents, William and Sarah Harrison, were natives, the father of England and the mother of either Scotland or England. The father came to America about the year 1808, and bought 200 acres of land, now on the site of Buffalo, N.Y. He was a cabinet-maker, and was induced by John North, an acquaintance, to locate in Mercer County, Penn., and to give up his claim in New York. He finally settled on land in what is now Cool Spring Township, and died in Jackson Township, on the farm where his son, Jesse, resides, in 1880. His wife died in 1869, having blessed him with eleven children: Joseph H., Anna J., George W., Isaac J., W. H., John J., Lizzie E., Sarah J., Jesse, Thomas L. and Mary L. The parents were members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. W. H. Harrison was educated in the common schools, and learned the trade of a carpenter with George Moon, and has followed that the greater part of his time since. He bought thirty acres where he now lives, and has farmed it in connection with the manufacture of doors and sash. He was married in 1863 to Nancy E. Evans, daughter of James and Barbara (Truxell) Evans. Her father came from Ireland to America in 1806, and settled in Findley Township, where Hugh Evans now resides, where he and his wife died, the parents of six children: Sarah, married William McKay; David, Hugh, James was in the war; Mary J. and Nancy E. Our subject and wife have had six children: Hugh E. farming; Sarah A., Nettie D. and Anna M. are dead; John L. and James B.  Mr. Harrison enlisted in Company I, Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served three months. His brothers, George W., John J., Jesse and Isaac J., were in the service of their country; John J. died during the battle of the Wilderness, and Isaac J. was in a New York cavalry regiment. Mr. Harrison and wife are members of the Methodist Church at Pardoe, and he is a Republican.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.