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 1841

1841.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.

The "Log Cabin man," Wil-liam Hen-ry Har-ri-son, was our next and ninth Pres-i-dent. He was the son of a good and wise man, Gov. Ben-ja-min Har-ri-son, who put his name to the "Dec-la-ra-tion of In-de-pend-ence."

The boy had a chance to learn much both from books and from life. When half a score and nine years old, he went with the troops to fight the red foe in the West. The brave work he did when in charge of Fort Wash-ing-ton, where Cin-cin-na-ti now stands, led folks to send him to Con-gress in a few years. In 1801 he had charge of vast tracts of land held by In-di-ans who rose in 1811. Har-ri-son put them down at Tip-pi-ca-noe. For this he won the rank of Gen-er-al, and when the war with Eng-land came,