Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Harrah, David Osborn 1807 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   DAVID OSBORN HARRAH, an early settler of Greene County, Ind., is descended
from an old Irish family, who were amongst the first pioneers of the great
Commonwealth of Virginia, which was the place of his own birth in 1807, and that
of his father, Robert Harrah, in 1781. According to family tradition, the
maternal grandparents of Mr. Harrah, in coming to America, experienced hardships
and privations unparalleled. The party, consisting of the two parents and a
small babe, took passage on board a sailing ship, which, on account of
continuous and adverse storms, was driven from her course, and drifted about on
unknown waters for weeks, during which time the supplies of the vessel had
become exceedingly short, and all on board despaired of ever again seeing land.
During this extremity, the husband gave his rations to his wife, while himself
and babe derived nourishment from the wife and mother's breast. David O. Harrah,
when a small lad, removed with his parents to Kentucky, where he was reared upon
his father's plantation, and derived the rudiments of his education from the
neighboring schools. After living in Fleming and Montgomery Counties for a
number of years they came to Greene County, Ind., in November, 1825, and entered
a tract of land near the Harrah Chapel, which was named in honor of the family,
and near where David O. Harrah owns a well-improved farm. He was married in 1833
to Miss Rebecca Words, who died in 1875. Robert Harrah, father of our subject,
was married in Virginia, July 8, 1806, to Elizabeth Baldwin, who was born in one
of the New England States in the year 1777.

Additional Comments:
Grant Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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