“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

JONATHAN B. HARRISON, a farmer residing near Gibbs, in the northwest part 
of the county, is a son of Jonathan Tyler and Jemima (Osborn) Harrison, and a 
brother of William O. Harrison, a sketch of whom will be found in this work.  
Jonathan B., our subject, was born in Fairfield district, South Carolina, April 6, 
1852, and was reared in Anderson district, to which place his parents had moved 
when he was two years old.  He received an ordinary English education, and at 
the age of nineteen years, in 1870, he came to Texas, making his first stop in 
Panola county, where he remained one year.  Mr. Harrison next went to Marion 
county, and two years later, in the winter of 1873, came to Dallas county, first 
settling eight miles north of Dallas.  One year later he moved to Grapevine 
Prairie, settling in the vicinity of Grapevine Springs, near where he now lives, and 
after the expiration of three years, during which time he rented land, he 
purchased fifty acres which he improved, and afterward traded for his present 
farm.  He has bought other land, and now has a farm of 162½ acres, 100 acres 
of which is under a fine state of cultivation.  He raises an abundance of cotton 
and corn, also small grain, and is interested with his brother, William O., in the 
mercantile business at Gibbs, doing business under the firm name of W. O. 
Harrison Co.

Mr. Harrison was married in Cass county, this State, December 3, 1873, to 
Nannie L. Grubbs, a native of Anderson district, South Carolina, and a daughter 
of W. L. and Jane Grubbs, natives of South Carolina.  The parents came from 
Anderson district, South Carolina, to Texas when Mrs. Harrison was thirteen 
years of age.  Mr. and Mrs. Harrison ‘s fathers were comrades during the war.  
Mr. and Mrs. Grubbs came to Texas in 1870, settling first in Rusk county, next in 
Cass county, and afterward in Dallas county, and then in Young county, where 
they now reside.   Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have had the following children:  Nannie 
J., Jonathan Tyler, William G., one deceased, Sallie E., James W., Mary J., 
Fannie L. and Gracie.  Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, 
and the former is a Democrat in his political views.

Submitted by: L. Pingel