Harrison, Anna
(1775-1864)
Anna Harrison (1775-1864) was a social hostess and later first lady and the spouse of William Henry Harrison. William Henry Harrison was a public official and military officer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Anna Harrison to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Born in Morristown, New Jersey and later dying in North Bend, Ohio, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. Including Anna Harrison in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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Anna Harrison was born on Jul 25, 1775 in Morristown, New Jersey. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Anna Harrison with work or public activity as a first lady, hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Anna Harrison died on Feb 25, 1864 in North Bend, Ohio. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
















