Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Harrison and Eliza Jane Sampson




Husband John Harrison 1 2

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           Died: 1879 - ? Allegheny Co, PA 1 3
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 



Wife Eliza Jane Sampson 2 4

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: John Sampson (1785-1854) 4
         Mother: Jane Dampster (      -      ) 4




Children
1 F Alice M. Harrison 1 2

           Born: 28 Dec 1855 1
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Hiram Hultz Wray (1848-1919) 5 6 7
           Marr: 7 Sep 1880 1 2



General Notes: Husband - John Harrison


He was of English descent and related to the well-known Featherstone family. He came to America at the age of nine and was reared to manhood at Germantown, Philadelphia. He emigrated to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he was noted as a farmer and as an importer and breeder of English and Scotch draft horses, an occupation which he followed until his death, which occurred from an accident.

He and his wife had seven children.


General Notes: Wife - Eliza Jane Sampson


Her father was a soldier in the war of the Revolution.

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Sources


1 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 614.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 593.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 594.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1496.

5 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 284x, 614.

6 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 592, 593.

7 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 281.


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