Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Harrison, John K July 7, 1828 - 
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Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

JOHN K. HARRISON, mechanic, Morris, is a native of Oneida County, N. Y., born 
July 7, 1828, and raised in Montgomery County, N. Y. He learned the carpenter 
trade under his father, serving five years, and afterward served a two year's 
apprenticeship as millwright. He was married, December 31, 1847, to Miss Phila 
JONES, of New York. She was born March 2, 1830. Mr. HARRISON came to Morris in 
1852, since which time he has been engaged mostly at his trade. August 7, 
1862, he enlisted in Company C, Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, to 
which regiment he belonged till 1864, when he was transferred to the Sixty-
fourth U. S. C. I., acting as Commissary Sargeant. He continued in this 
regiment until January 1, 1866, when he was discharged. During his entire 
service, he was employed in the Quartermaster and Commissary Department. After 
the war, he came home, and remained about eighteen months, when he went South, 
and engaged in raising cotton in its season, and working at his trade in the 
winter. The family consists of eight children - only three living. They are 
William Henry, born in 1854; Thomas Jefferson, born in 1858; and Ida Isabel, 
born September 23, 1862. Those deceased are Adelphy A., born in 1847; Mary, 
born in 1849; both died in New York in December, 1857; John J. born in 1863, 
died in Grundy County in 1863; Josephine, born in 1852, died in Grundy County 
in 1853, and Eugene M., born in 1867, and died in Mississippi in 1875. Mrs. 
HARRISON is a Methodist; Mr. HARRISON is a Democrat.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

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