Seventh Generation

1871. Harrison BLACK was born on 4 Dec 1825 in Wyalusing, Bradford, Pennsylvania.⁵ Biography of⁷⁷⁵ HARRISON BLACK, farmer and stock grower, of Wyalusing township, P.O. Wyalusing, was born in Wyalusing township, this county, December 4, 1825, a son of John H. and Hannah (Ackley) Black. John H. Black was born, of Irish parentage, in the township where he was a farmer and mill owner, clearing a large amount of land and fitting it for cultivation. He died April 2, 1878; his wife had died in May, the previous year; of their family of six children, three only survive, viz., Harrison, N.A. and Nancy P., wife of John I. Ingham, architect, of Elmira. Harrison Black attended school at Merryall, and had but limited educational advantages; his boyhood was passed in the woods and in the mills of his father, and when twenty-three years of age he started out for himself as a farmer, which occupation he has followed until the present time. In 1846 he purchased a farm containing one hundred and twenty-five acres, which he has since added to until he now owns one hundred and ninety acres of land, a large portion of it being covered with fine timber. He does a general farm business; his farm is beautifully located and well improved, and stocked with Holstein and Jersey cattle, and horses. He was married March 28, 1849, to Henrietta M. Gregory, and they have a family of three sons; C.H., a farmer of Wyalusing, who married Carrie Spencer; G.L., educated at they Wyoming Seminary and now a surveyor and mine superintendent of Wyoming, and John G., a railroad engineer of Rock Springs, Wyoming. Mr. Black has had to depend largely on his own resources, and has long filled a foremost place in the ranks of Bradford county's most successful farmers. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he fills the position of trustee; he is a charter member of Wyalusing Lodge No. 508; of the I.O.O.F. at Camptown, has taken all subordinate degrees, and has passed all the chairs; in politics he is a Democrat, and he has filled all the various town offices, being at present town commissioner.

Harrison BLACK and Henrietta Maria GREGORY were married on 28 Mar 1849 in Wyalusing, Bradford, Pennsylvania.⁸⁶³ Henrietta Maria GREGORY was born about 1830 in Greenwood, Juniata , Pennsylvania.⁸⁶³