Mrs. Fred G. Benton Collection

Scope and Content

The Benton Collection consists of eight pages of genealogical data: part is an account of his family written by Burgess Hunter Harrison, and part are other items. Families mentioned in the history are Harrison, Cockerham, Chaffe, Gamble. The area is the Red River valley. There is a short memoir of Harrison’s youth during the late 1800s, mentioning social life, steamboats, crops, and schooling.