History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 658.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

W. S. HAVILAND, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana.  There are but few families of
the Northern belt of the Blue Grass region who are able to trace the
genealogy of their ancestry back to the seventeenth century; and of these
few the name of William S. Haviland is worthy of more than passing
mention in this history.  His great grandfather, James Haviland, was born
in New York, May 25, 1740, and died Nov. 25, 1786.  He was a farmer, and
married Miss Ann Hanniwell; seven children were the issue of their union,
of whom was Israel Haviland, born March 12, 1765, in Harrison Purchase,
Weschester County, N. Y.  He was married to Miss Jane Anderson, Oct. 12,
1788, and died Oct. 23, 1819, in New York City, where for many years he
had resided, engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes.  There were
born to them fourteen children, of whom Robert S., father of our subject,
was the second son; he was born Nov. 11, 1796, and emigrated to Kentucky
in 1818.  April 6, 1820, he married Miss Mary C. Stewart; his death
occurred Aug. 8, 1858, at Havilandsville, Harrison County, Ky.  He was
educated for a sea captain, but spend most of his life in Kentucky.  Of
the nine children born to them, William S. our subject was the second son.
He was born March 22, 1823 in Harrison County, and Dec. 30, 1845, he
married Mary E. Whitehead, whose death occurred April 13, 1849.  He was
married a second time on June 13, 1854, to Miss Mary Ellen Jones.  His
children are by his first wife, Mary F., born Jan. 17, 1847; Bettie, born
April 11, 1849, and by his second wife, Charles B., born April 19, 1855,
Robert S., born Dec. 23, 1857; Carrie, born June 30, 1863.  Mr. Haviland
is one among the best known and prominent citizens of Harrison County, a
native of the county by birth; he has always taken a very active part in
her development, and has assisted largely in those enterprises which mark
the progress of civilization.  His early life was spent in assisting his
father to conduct a large mercantile and manufacturing business in
Havilandsville, at which place he at the age of twenty-one years embarked
in the manufacture and sale of cabinet-ware on his own account.  He
continued this business until 1850, when he engaged in establishing the
legality and collecting claims in the United States and foreign countries.
He is the owner of one of the finest houses in Harrison County, located
two miles north of Cynthiana on the Cynthiana and Falmouth Pike.  His farm
consists of 200 acres of choice land, and the brick residence erected by
his design, is spoken of as the finest farm residence in Harrison County.
He has always been an energetic and enterprising citizen, and bears a name
and reputation of which his children may well be proud.  Now, in the
latter years of his life he is surrounded with those comforts and enjoying
those pleasures that are ever the result of honesty, industry and economy.

Haviland Anderson Stewart Whitehead Jones Hanniwell
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Westchester-NY

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