Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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JOHN D. GARRISON

John D. GARRISON, ex-sheriff of Harrison County, and ex-President of the Iowa Sheriff's Association, who has been a resident of the county since 1871, will form the subject of this biographical notice.

He was born in Orleans County, N.Y., June 3, 1837, the son of Ezra and Charlotta (BUTTS) GARRISON, natives of the Empire State, who trace their ancestry back to Holland. John D. is the youngest of a family of twelve children. His parents are both deceased, and buried in Rock County, Wis. He spent his early life, and received his early education in the common schools of New York, and finished in Milton, Rock County, now quite a noted place as an education town. The family came to Rock County, Wis., in 1848; and in 1854 our subject went to Illinois, and from there to Delhi, Delaware County, Iowa, where he was engaged on its brickyard one year, and then went to Butler County, remained until 1866, and engaged in the grain business at Madison, Wis. We next find our subject in the grand and stock business in Harrison County, Iowa, which he followed until 18790, and then went to Pottawattamie County. He was elected Sheriff of Harrison County in 1883, by one hundred and eighty-seven majority; was re-elected in 1885 by a majority of forty-four; in 1887 by a majority of five hundred and thirty-seven; and in 1889 by a majority of four hundred and fifteen.

Politically, Mr. GARRISON is a radical Democrat, of the old line stripe. He is a member of the Baptist Church at Logan, and belongs to Masonic Lodge No. 423, (Neola) A.F. & A.M.; Avoca royal Arch Chapter; and Neola Lodge, No. 410, of I.O.O.F.

He was united in marriage January 1, 1857, at Clarksville, Iowa, to Mary FARLOW. Daughter of Alfred and Sinah (FRAKES) FARLOW. Mr. and Mrs. GARRISON are the parents of three living children; Tillie, born October 3, 1857; Orra A., November 11, 1860; and Sherman L., June 9, 1865

Our subject enlisted August 20, 1862, at Waverly, Iowa, as a member of Company B., Thirty-eighth Iowa Infantry, as Fourth Sergeant. He was at the siege of Vicksburg, and up the Yazoo on special service, and discharged at New Orleans November 1, 1863.

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