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Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin; published in 1891; page 288.



                      JOSEPH W. HARRINGTON
                         Abbeville, LA
Joseph W. Harrington, a prominent citzen of Ward 6, was born in
Vermilion parish, on Cow Island, March 4, 1832.  He is the son of
William and Sarah (Faulk)Harrington.  William Harrington was a
native of Alabama, but his parents removed to Bayou Teche,
Louisiana, when he was about three years of age, being the
first English peaking settlers who located on the Teche.  Mr.
Harrington died February 9, 1882, at a very advanced age -
probably from one hundred and one to one hundred and nine years. 
He was a soldier in the was of 1812, and was on his way
to New Orleans to participate in that celebrated battle, but did
not arrive on the scene of conflict until after the battle was
over.  His principal occupation in life was planting and stock
raising.   He was one of the most methodical of men, and
in his habits was strictly temperate, and to this he ascribed the
extraordinary age to which he attained.  In politics he was a
whig, and after that party was defunct he voted the repuplican
ticket.  As a planter and stock raiser he had the reputation of
being one of the most succussful in the section in which he
lived, but owing to extreme liberality he never amassed a
fortune, though he was comfortably situated.  The mother of our
subject died at the age of sixty-five years. Josep W. Harrington,
the subject of this sketch, is the sixth of a family of 
thirteen children.  He received his education in the schools of
his locality, and at twenty-one years of age, began life as a
planter and stock raiser on the plantation where he now resides,
which, at that time was wild prairie land.  His plantation is a
beautiful one, well inproved and favorably located.  In 1862
Mr. Harrington joined Fournet's Battalion, in which he served
until he was discharged, just before the battle of Camp Bisland.
By the war he lost heavily,  but with patient energy soon
regained a solid standing. In 1852 he married Miss Altha Faulk,
daughter of Benjamin Faulk. To them have been born five
children, three of whom are living, viz: Augustus, planter and
stock raiser of Vermilion parish; Zerilda, wife of John
Brookshier, of Abbeville; Robert C., farmer and merchant of
Vermilion parish. Mr. Harringrton is a member of the
Masonic order of Abbeville, and is president of the Farmers'
Alliance at this Place.