Excerpt from A Twentieth Century History of Marshall County Indiana, Vol. 2 The father was evidently a whig in politics; and what was more natural than that he should name his son after the whig candidate for the presidency, William Henry Harrison, then in the heat of the wonderful Log Cabin and Hard Cider campaign, which swept the country like wild fire, and at the November elections landed, by an overwhelming majority, the famous old Indian fighter in the White House at Washington? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.