John Scott HARRISON

1804 - 1878  (73 years)

• Name	John Scott HARRISON
  Born	4 Oct 1804	Vincennes, Knox, Indiana
  Gender	Male
  Cause of Death	Influenza
  Died	25 May 1878	N Bend, Hamilton, Ohio
  Person ID	I36633	Main
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	President William Henry HARRISON,   b. 9 Feb 1773, Berkeley, Charles, Virginia ,   d. 4 Apr 1841, White House, Washington DC  (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Anna Tuthill SYMMES,   b. 25 Jul 1775, Sussex County, New Jersey ,   d. 25 Feb 1864, N Bend, Hamilton, Ohio  (Age 88 years)
  Married	25 Nov 1795
  Family ID	F30601	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Ramsey IRWIN,   b. 18 Jul 1810, Mercersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania ,   d. 15 Aug 1850, N Bend, Hamilton, Ohio  (Age 40 years)
  Married	12 Aug 1831	Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio
  Children	1. President Benjamin HARRISON,   b. 20 Aug 1833, N Bend, Hamilton, Ohio ,   d. 13 Mar 1901, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana  (Age 67 years)
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F19227	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Capt William CARLTON,   b. 8 Apr 1744, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 5 Jul 1791, Barbados, West Indies  (Age 47 years)
  Children	1. William CARLTON,   b. 1771,   d. 24 Jul 1805, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 34 years)
  Last Modified	28 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F13077	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  m1 1824 Lucretia Knapp JOHNSON m2 1831 Elizabeth Ramsey IRWIN —— The day of Harrison’s funeral it was discovered that the body of young Augustus Devin, which had been buried the previous week in an adjoining grave, had been stolen. The following day, one of John Harrison’s sons, together with a friend of Devin, traveled to Cincinnati to look for his body. With search warrants in hand they went to the Ohio Medical College, where they discovered not Devin’s body but the naked body of John Scott Harrison hanging from a rope down a chute beneath a trap door. Devin's body was later found preserved in a vat of brine at the medical college of the University of Michigan. The outrage over the act, amid changing sensibilities regarding death, contributed materially to passage of the Ohio Anatomy Law of 1881, a landmark statute, whereby medical schools were provided with unclaimed bodies, which in turn discouraged grave robbers by removing their primary market. As to the personal results, suits were brought against the Ohio Medical College; the Harrison estate was entered in a separate damage suit, in the amount of $10,000. The end result and decision in the three civil suits brought, has been lost to us in the passage of time, and no documentation is known to exist with this specific information. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] Wikipedia.