Excerpt from History of the American Nation, Vol. 5

Benjamin Harrison, the great-great-grandfather of the present President, was a native of the Colony of Virginia. We infer he was held in high respect by his fellow-colonists, inasmuch as he was at times a member, and also Speaker, of the House of Burgesses. In 1765 he took decided ground in opposition to the famous Stamp Act. He was a member of the greatly influential Continental Congress of 1774, 1775 and 1776. As a member of the latter he signed the Declaration of Independence. The second son of Benjamin Harrison, - William Henry, - was elected President of the United States by an unprecedented majority. He was the grandfather of the Benjamin Harrison who was elected President in 1889.

Benjamin Harrison was born in the homestead of his grandfather at North Bend, Ohio. He grew up a farmer's son, and did his share of work when not at school. After being prepared at an academy in the vicinity he entered Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1852, in his nineteenth year.

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