John Cleves Symmes Harrison
(1798-1830)
BIRTH
October 28, 1798
PLACE
DEATH
October 30, 1830
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
William Henry Harrison
(1773-1841)
MOTHER
Anna Harrison
(1775-1864)
BROTHER
William Henry Harrison
(1773-1841)
SISTER
Elizabeth Bassett Harrison
(1796-1846)
SISTER
Lucy Singleton Harrison
(1800–1826)
SISTER
Mary Symmes Harrison Thornton
(1809-1842)
SISTER
Anna Tuthill Harrison Taylor
(1813-1865)
BROTHER
Benjamin Harrison
(1833-1901)
BROTHER
Carter Bassett Harrison
(c. 1756-1808)
SISTER
Marie
(dates unknown)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
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MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
John Cleves Symmes Harrison (1798–1830) was a son of William Henry Harrison and Anna Symmes. He married Clarissa Brown Pike in 1819 and lived in the Ohio Valley. A surviving 1824 letter from Vincennes to Moses Dawson discusses securing subscribers for Dawson’s publications and encloses a list. His family’s papers preserve land and financial dealings in Ohio. He died at Sugar Grove, Kentucky, more than ten years before his father became president in 1841.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of John Cleves Symmes 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 John Cleves Symmes 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
John Cleves Symmes Harrison died on Oct 30, 1830. John Cleves Symmes Harrison was a son of William Henry Harrison and Anna Symmes. He married Clarissa Brown Pike in 1819 and lived in the Ohio Valley. A surviving 1824 letter from Vincennes to Moses Dawson discusses securing subscribers for Dawson’s publications and encloses a list. His family’s papers preserve land and financial dealings in Ohio. He died at Sugar Grove, Kentucky, more than ten years before his father became president in 1841. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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