Shelby County, KY - Bios:  Harbison, William Scott
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William Scott HARBISON 3629, Shelby Co. 

Surname: Harbison, Mahon, Robinson

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Shelby Co.

WILLIAM SCOTT HARBISON was born in Shelby County, Ky., February 17, 1816, and is the second 
son of William and Elizabeth (Mahon) Harbison. His grandfather, William Mahon, was a 
Presbyterian minister. He came from Virginia to Boyle County, Ky., in 1796, and died at the 
age of sixty-three in Marion County, Ky. David Harbison, paternal grandfather of W. S. Harbison, 
came from Ireland about 1778, with wife and infant son, James, remained a while in the State of 
New York, and then moved to Wythe County, Va., and settled on a farm. Before leaving Virginia, 
in 1805, four more sons were born: David, Samuel, John and William, who at that time were all 
grown up, and large men, none under six feet, and Samuel was six feet six inches. The eldest 
son, James, married and remained in Virginia. The other four came with their father to Kentucky; 
all are now dead. They stopped one year in Fayette County, Ky., and in 1806 moved to Shelby 
County and bought a farm near Shelbyville. The grandfather died aged ninety-one years. His wife, 
Esther, died aged seventy-five. He and all his sons were sober, industrious, strictly Sabbath 
keeping and successful business men. William Harbison, father of W. S. Harbison, was born August 
15, 1785, and died August 20, 1826. He served on campaign as an officer in the war of 1812, or 
1813. Her father was born in Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Harbison are members of the Presbyterian 
Church. He was elected ruling elder in 1856.