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R            Harrison, Samuel Aaron, 1842-1940.

78                    Genealogical records, n.d.

                                    One folder, photocopies.

 

 

 

This is “Samuel Aaron Harrison, 1842-1940; His Ancestors and Descendants,” by S[amuel] Claude Null.  Null was a grandson of Samuel Aaron Harrison.  It is an account of the life of  Har­ri­son, with detailed genealogical information.  Included is an “Insert on the Ances­try of Presi­dents Harrison,” and a general history of the surname of Harrison.

 

Samuel Aaron Harrison was born at Hazelton, Texas County, Missouri, on 10 April 1842.  Proba­bly he was related in some manner to William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison, Presi­dents of the United States. 

 

Null’s compilation includes several photographs and clippings concerning Samuel A. Har­ri­son's long life.  In “A Brief History of Samuel Aaron Harrison, 1842-1940,” Null reviewed the major events.  A member of the Eighth Missouri Volunteers (Confederate), Harrison was cap­tured and interned at the notorious Federal prisoner-of-war camp at Alton, Illinois.  In 1938 Har­rison re­visited the prison and selected a stone from its walls that later served as his tomb­stone.  Har­rison died at his home in Anutt, Dent County, Missouri, on 30 August 1940, at the age of ninety-eight.

 

Most of the volume is devoted to an organized listing of Samuel A. Harrison’s many de­scen­dants, by family groups.

 

 

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