President william h harrison biography of mahatma

Early Years

Harrison was born on February 9, , in Charles City County, the youngest of seven children of Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth Bassett Harrison. Harrison grew up among the elite of Virginia. Benjamin Harrison was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and in he became the fifth elected governor of Virginia.

William Henry Harrison (1773–1841)

His friends included George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry. Harrison grew up at Berkeley, a tobacco plantation owned by his family and farmed by enslaved African Americans. When he was fourteen, he was sent to Hampden-Sydney College, where he was educated in the classics. He developed an interest in military history, especially Roman military history.

In , he entered what is now the University of Pennsylvania medical school in Philadelphia to study under Dr. Benjamin Rush, who was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

On April 24, , Benjamin Harrison died at age 65 while he was Speaker of