My Genealogy Hound

BENJAMIN L. HARRISON was born in the town of Stockton, Chautauqua county, New York, on March 1st, 1841, and is the son of George S. and Mary (Springer) Harrison. His parents were natives of Madison county, New York, where his father was born in 1810 and practiced medicine. From Madison county the elder Harrison had removed to the State of Ohio, from which State he came to Chautauqua county in 1825 and continued the practice of medicine over a range of territory comprising Cassadaga, Stockton and Sinclairville for about forty-four years. He died at the age of seventy-eight, was a democrat in politics, a man of moral and upright life, but with no particular denominational adherence, and in Free Masonry had been advanced to the degree of Master Mason. He was of English descent.

Benjamin L. Harrison was reared and spent his life upon his father’s farm on the banks of Lake Cassadaga. He received his education through the common schools, Ellington academy and at the University of Michigan, which latter institution he attended one year with a view to fitting himself for the profession of medicine. He then went South, where he engaged in teaching school until the outbreak of the civil war, when he returned to Sinclairville and re-commenced farming, since which time he has become a very successful and progressive farmer in the town of Gerry. He is a democrat in politics and has served as alderman in the city of Dunkirk and is likewise a Mason of high standing.

In April, 1862, Benjamin L. Harrison united in marriage with Lucy Pitman, a daughter of Abner Pitman of the town of Charlotte. Only one child has been the result of the marriage — Louis P., of the Brooks’ Locomotive Works, Dunkirk, New York.