Biography of Joseph Harrison, MD, Butler, Alabama

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JOSEPH HARRISON

     Joseph Harrison, of Greenville, Alabama, ws born at the junction of the 
	 French Broad and Suwanee rivers, in Buncomb county, three miles from 
	 Asheville, North Carolina, February 22, 1828.  He was the son of Nathaniel 
	 and Sarah [Smith] Harrison, and a grandson of Joseph Harrison, a native of 
	 Charles City county, Virginia; also a grandson of Daniel Smit, a native of 
	 New Jersey, both soldiers of the Revolutionary struggle for independence, 
	 the latter a captain in the Continental army.  He was a lineal descendant 
	 of the old stock of Harrisons, who emigrated from England in the early Colonial 
	 days of Virginia.  He is of pure English blood, so far as is known.  His early 
	 school days were passed at old Newton Academy, near his native village. At the age 
	 of fourteen he emigrated to Georgia, where his education was completed at an academy 
	 in that State...  He located at Carrolton.  After remaining there four years during 
	 which time he married Miss Mary L. Tomlinson, he removed to Greenville, Alabama.  
	 When the war commenced he entered the Confederate army as assistant surgeon and was 
	 assigned to duty in the military hospitals of Mobile....  He has been established at 
	 Greenville and engaged in a successful practice of general medicine and surgery.

Ref:  Stone, R. French, M. D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 1894, 
      Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, p. 201.