This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: King Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6787 Message Board Post: Benjamin Harrison King, br. 10 Feb 1891,at Dressen,Harlan, KY. He joined the Army at age 15, but told them he was 18. He served a long military time in the Army and Marines. When WWI started he was serving on the battleship USS Pennsylvania. In France he was in charge of a large mobile cannon that was fired from a railroad carriage.At his discharge from service he was rated as his character was Very Good, Excellent Military efficiency obedience and sobriety. After discharge Harrison was a street car conductor in New York City. He married Catherine Buckler, 27 Dec 1920. They had no children. Harrison died at age 34 from a disease he contacted at his last duty station, Republic of Hati. He died at Brooklyn Naval Hospital, New York,N.Y. on 23 Aug 1925. He was brought back to Harlan for burial in George Ball Cem. where his parents are buried.