James Findlay Harrison
(1825-1907)
BIRTH
March 9, 1825
PLACE
Cincinnati, Ohio
DEATH
February 14, 1907
PLACE
Mound City, Kansas
FAMILY
FATHER
William Henry Harrison Jr.
(1802-1838)
MOTHER
Jane Irwin Harrison
(1804-1847)
BROTHER
William Henry Harrison
(1828-1849)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
James Findlay Harrison (1825–1907) was a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, born in Cincinnati to William Henry Harrison Jr. and Jane Irwin. He later lived in Mound City, Kansas, working as a county surveyor and serving as a soldier. His obituary gives a March 9 birth and February 14 death. He is distinct from the president’s infant son of the same name and from later namesakes. His obituary supplies the identity beyond a shared family name.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of James Findlay Harrison’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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.
No distinct public profession or office for James Findlay Harrison is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
James Findlay Harrison died on Feb 14, 1907, in Mound City, Kansas. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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