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Daniel G. Harrison was born near Winchester, Franklin Co., Tenn., January 19, 1840, the second of ten children of David and Eliza (McCoy) Harrison. He is of English descent, and after remaining with his parents and attending the common schools until nineteen years of age he joined the Sixteenth Alabama Infantry and served in the late war four years. He was wounded at Chickamauga and was disabled from duty one year. He was captured at Murfreesboro, but was soon exchanged at Richmond, Va. He was finally released from duty, owing to the wound he had received just prior to the close of the war. August 27, 1865, he was married, in Lauderdale County, Ala., to Sarah A. Dickson, daughter of Thomas Dickson, a prominent planter of that county. Mrs. Harrison was born in Lawrence County, Tenn., September 17, 1839, and is the mother of the following children: William T., Daniel M., David L., Lulu E., Eliza E., Charles O’Connor, James K. Polk and Sarah A. Mr. Harrison is an old line Democrat and has been magistrate of his district for sixteen years. He has a fine farm of 240 acres, and is succeeding well financially. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Subject’s father was born in Virginia in 1813, and was reared by an uncle, his parents having died when he was a small lad. He came to Franklin County, Tenn., at an early period, and after sixteen years’ residence in that county moved to Alabama, where he resided until his death in the autumn of 1879. The mother is yet residing in Lamar County, Ala. She was born about 1821 and is a native of Winchester County, Tenn.