Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Herrington, Major B. F. November 18, 1843 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

  	Major B F Herrington, a farmer and stock grower of 
Franklin Township, was born in Greene County, Penna, 
November 18, 1843, and is a son of Thomas Herrington and 
Caroline Kramer Herrington. His father was a manufacturer of 
boots and shoes, and carried on his business for many years 
in the southern part of Greene County. His family consisted 
of ten children of whom B F Herrington is the sixth. He 
received his early education in the common schools of his 
native county, and subsequently attended Duff's Commercial 
College at Pittsburgh, Penna. Mr Herrington was employed as 
a clerk in a store for a number of years and engaged in the 
mercantile trade at Morrisville, Penna, in 1861.
  
  	The year following he enlisted as a private in Company 
A, Eighteen Pennsylvania Cavalry. When the regiment was 
organized, he was elected Second Lieutenant of Company G, 
and was subsequently promoted to the position of First 
Lieutenant and then Captain. He was taken captive and 
suffered the horror of prison life for sixteen months in 
Libby, Macon, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina. Major 
Herrington was one of the six hundred officers who were 
placed under the fire of the Union gun when the Union men 
bombarded Charlestown, South Carolina. soon after his return 
home, he was commissioned Major of the eighth division of 
the National Guards of Pennsylvania and served five years, 
was commissioned again with the same rank and assigned to 
duty on the staff of General Gallagher as commissary of 
division.  He again engaged in the mercantile business in 
Waynesburg where he had a good trade and liberal patronage. 
  
  	The Major was united in marriage in 1860 with Miss 
Maggie Johns. She died in 1877, leaving a family of three 
children: Ella Herrington; Herman Herrington; and Daisy 
Herrington. In 1887 he began farming and was united in 
marriage the same year with Nannie Wisecarver Worley.  Major 
Herrington is a Republican and a member of the I O O F. He 
was the first Commander of the McCullough G A R Post, No 
367. 

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