John Scott Harrison (1804 - 1878)

Born 4 Oct 1804 in Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Ramsey (Irwin) Harrison — married 12 Aug 1831 in Cincinnati, Ohio

Descendants

Died 25 May 1878 at age 73 in North Bend, Ohio, USA

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Biography

John Harrison is Notable.

His biography from the Biographical Directory of the American Congress:

HARRISON, John Scott, (son of President William Henry Harrison of Ohio, grandson of Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, father of President Benjamin Harrison of Indiana, and great-grandfather of William Henry Harrison [1896- ]), a Representative from Ohio; born in Vincennes, Knox County, Ind., 04 October 1804; completed preparatory studies; studied medicine but abandoned the profession; engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (04 March 1853 - 03 March 1857); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; retired to his estate "Point Farm," near North Bend, Ohio, and died there 25 May 1878; interment in the Harrison Tomb, North Bend, Ohio.

From Wikipedia:

The day of Harrison’s funeral it was discovered that the body of young Augustus Devin, which had been buried the previous week in an adjoining grave, had been stolen. The following day, one of John Harrison’s sons, together with a friend of Devin, traveled to Cincinnati to look for his body. With search warrants in hand they went to the Ohio Medical College, where they discovered not Devin’s body but the naked body of John Scott Harrison hanging from a rope down a chute beneath a trap door. Devin's body was later found preserved in a vat of brine at the medical college of the University of Michigan.

The outrage over the act, amid changing sensibilities regarding death, contributed materially to passage of the Ohio Anatomy Law of 1881, a landmark statute, whereby medical schools were provided with unclaimed bodies, which in turn discouraged grave robbers by removing their primary market. As to the personal results, suits were brought against the Ohio Medical College; the Harrison estate was entered in a separate damage suit, in the amount of $10,000. The end result and decision in the three civil suits brought, has been lost to us in the passage of time, and no documentation is known to exist with this specific information.

Birth

Birth:

Date: 4 Oct 1804

Place: Vincennes, IN, USA

Marriage

Husband: John Scott Harrison

Wife: Lucretia Knapp Johnson

Marriage:

Date: 22 Nov 1795

Place: North Bend, OH, USA^[1]

Occupation 1853 successful farmer, served two terms in the Congress of the United States, Whig congressman from the 2nd Ohio district

Death

Death:

Date: 25 May 1878

Place: Point Farm, North Bend, OH, USA

Sources

1. ↑ By Bill LaBach (1938-2013)

• Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume One, Published in cooperation with the New England Historic genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, Carl Boyer 3rd, Santa Clarita, California, 1998

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scott_Harrison

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• Microsoft Encarta 98, "Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901)", (1998), "Electronic."

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• The First Ladies, Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison, web page,

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 July 2020), memorial page for John Scott Harrison (4 Oct 1804–25 May 1878), Find A Grave: Memorial #8624, citing William Henry Harrison Tomb State Memorial, North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .