Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Harrison, John
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bedminster Township


JOHN HARRISON farmer, P.O. Bedminster, is a native of 
Ireland, born in County Down July 4, 1824.  His parents came 
to this country when he was six years old and settled in 
Pittsburgh, where his father kept a store.  He was afterward 
in the same business in Beaver county, and died thee in 
1860.  His wife died many years before.  They had six 
children, of whom three are now living:  William, living 
with his brother; Eliza, widow of James Quay, in Beaver 
county; and John, who went, when old enough, into a cotton 
factory, and was afterward for three years in a wholesale 
liquor house in Pittsburgh.  In 1861 he returned to Ireland, 
buying a farm in County Derry, where he lived for twelve 
years, coming back to this country in 1873.  Landing in 
Philadelphia, he came thence to this county and bought the 
large farm where he has ever since lived.  He was married in 
Ireland in 1862 to Mary Higgins, who died in this township 
July 22, 1874, at the age of 35 years.  She had three 
children, all of whom are deceased.  Mr. Harrison has always 
been an industrious and careful man, and is the heaviest 
tax-payer in the township, and his ample means often enable 
him to come to the relief of his financially embarrassed 
neighbors.  He is an enterprising, energetic business man, 
and possesses those qualities which command success.