Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Shelby Co.

G. W. HARBISON was born in 1829 in Shelby County, Ky., and is the seventh
son of a family of eleven children born to Col. Samuel H. and Sarah E.
(Crawford) Harbison.  The Harbisons came from Virginia and located at
Lexington in 1800, where they resided some time, and later moved to Shelby
County where Samuel H. reared his family, and where only two sons now
reside--Samuel and G. W.--the others being dead.  The father was always a
farmer and stock raiser, and served as magistrate at one time; was born
March 30, 1781, and was in the war of 1812-1813; under Gen. Harrison.  He
was an elder forty years in the Presbyterian Church, and died in 1858. Our
subject has also followed the pursuits of the farm, owns 300 acres of very
valuable land, and is greatly interested in stock raising.  In 1861-66 he
was sheriff of Shelby County, when there was a great deal for a sheriff to
do, owing to the presence of guerrillas in the county.  He has been a
member of the Presbyterian Church for thirty-three years, and an elder
for twenty years.  He has been continuously superintendent of the Sabbath-
school for twenty-three years.  In 1853 he married Miss Emma M. Miller of
Lebanon, Ohio, a daughter of Jacob Miller, a prominent Methodist minister.
They have five children: Flora P., S. Marshall, Eugene D., Arthur M. and
Emma T., the first named three of whom are married.  Mr. Harbison is a
man of great moral worth and integrity.

Harbison Crawford Miller
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Lexington-Fayette-KY VA

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