History of Reedsburg and the Upper Baraboo Valley, by Merton Edwin Krug, Publ. February 1929 by the author. Printed by Democrat Printing Company, Madison, Wis., Page 348-350

Other settlers of 1848 were Mr. and Mrs. George HARRISON. Mr. HARRISON was born at Yorkshire, England, where he grew to manhood and married Martha BOTTOMLEY. At an early date the family immigrated to the United States, and located in the East, prior to coming to LaValle. For a time they resided in Connecticut, but went to Massachusetts later, where the mother and older daughter were employed in the textile mills. The father, George HARRISON, with his sons George and James, the latter having lost his young wife in England the year before, and Martha, a girl of twelve years, came west in 1848 and took up land. After a time the mother came to LaValle and the girl, Hannah, went east to work in the mills; but within a few years the sisters decided to join their parents, and came to LaValle to live. In 1856 James HARRISON married Martha PEARSON, and his children are named in the PEARSON chronicle: George HARRISON married Mary CAMERON, and had two children: Chester, deceased, and Linnie, wife of August BRATZ, Mendota, Wis.

The HARRISON sisters, daughters of George and Martha, were: Jemina, who married Abram CLARKSON, and resided in the town of LaValle.

Rachel, who married Jack INMAN, and had ten children, as follows: George INMAN, who married Mary Ann PEARSON; Elissa, wife of Orin RYINGTON, now of California, Martha, wife of David FULLER, who resided near Cazenovia; Jemimah, wife of John BREWER, deceased; Jack, deceased; Rachel; Willie, Chicago; Charles, who married Anna LUDWIG, deceased, and Sam of Alabama.

Malissa HARRISON, who married Samuel ANDREWS of Ironton, and was a life-long resident of that locality. The children of Malissa and Samuel ANDREWS were seven: Walter, married Lucy FITZGERALD, and now residing in California; Martha (Mrs. Martha JOHNSTON), Baraboo; George ANDREWS, married to Eliza COOPER, now residing in Baraboo; Jane, widow of John O'GORMAN, Duluth; Eleazer, deceased; Joseph, of Chicago; David, married Clara ROYCE, LaValle; and two who died in infancy.

Hannah HARRISON married in 1856 John THORNTON, and resided in the town during her life time. The children of Hannah and John THORNTON were: Jane and Edward, who died in infancy; Rachel, wife of John CONKLIN, deceased; Harry THORNTON, who married Sarah PEARSON, and remained a life long resident of the town; and Martha, wife of Charles CLARK of Reedsburg.

Two other children of George and Martha HARRISON, Eleazer, who married in Connecticut, and Selina, who married in Massachusetts, never came to Wisconsin to live.

Submitted by Carol