Person

John J. Harrison (Ohio County, KY, attorney)

b. 1809?

Ohio County, Kentucky, attorney. Virginia native. Married to Sarah Harrison. Father of John Harrison, Thomas Harrison, James Harrison, Mary Harrison, Harriet Harrison, and Lycurgus Harrison. Married to Judah Ann Petty Harrison on January 16, 1853, in Ohio County. Attorney in Ohio County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Ohio County in 1850. Delegate to Ohio County Democratic Party Convention in Hartford, Kentucky, on December 6, 1858.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1, 36B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1, p. 310.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, 506A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio County Marriages, Film #000494956, p. 240.

“Democratic Meeting in Ohio,” The Louisville Daily Courier, December 11, 1858.

Citation

Harrison, John J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197208 (November 12, 2026).

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