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| | Knox County, Ohio, Mt. Vernon, History |
 | | He served as township clerk sixteen years, and as justice of the peace six years; was elected county commissioner in the year 1867, by the Republican party, and served three years; and was nominated again in 1870 for the same office, but the Republican ticket was defeated that year in the county. |
 | | He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 23, 1826, and is one of a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to maturity, and ten of whom were sons who averaged six feet in height and were all men of tine mental and physical development. |
 | | His father, B. Harrison, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and came to Harrison county, Ohio, with his parents at the age of eighteen months, and remained there until he reached the age of twenty-four years when he removed to Wayne county, remained there till 1855 and then came to Knox county. |
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