USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, was born at Berkeley, his family’s plantation on the James River in Virginia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Harrison was in fact a scion of the Virginia planter aristocracy. He was born at Berkeley in 1773. He studied classics and history at Hampden-Sydney College, then began the study of medicine in Richmond. Suddenly, that same year, 1791, Harrison switched interests.

Detailed explanation-3: -Harrison, who became a national hero during his own lifetime, was born in Virginia, but as an adult he settled in North Bend, Ohio, on land overlooking the wide, northward sweep of the Ohio River.

Detailed explanation-4: -William Henry Harrison | Ohio Statehouse.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1814, Harrison resigned from the Army as a major general and moved with his family to a farm in North Bend, Ohio. Two years later, Harrison was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio. In 1819, he became a state senator.