Keith Graham Harrison was born in Dowagiac, Michigan, the son of John Barnard and Maxine Pearle (Lewis) Harrison. He was first married to Linda Diane (Dodson) in 1976, of which one son, Nathan Lewis Harrison, was born. He was later married to Jean Ann (Whitmer) in 1990. He currently resides in Holt, Michigan.

Mr. Harrison is a 1968 graduate of Cassopolis (Michigan) High School. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree (1972) in fisheries and wildlife biology from Michigan State University and a Master of Arts degree (1974) in ecology from Western Michigan University.

Mr. Harrison retired from Michigan state government in February 2005 after serving for 25 years. Prior to his state service, he had served as a Sanitarian with Cass County (Michigan) Health Department, Chief Environmental Planner with the Michiana Area Council of Governments, Environmental Programs Coordinator with the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission, and Senior Ecologist with an environmental engineering consulting company. During his state career, he served as a Public Health Consultant with the Department of Public Health, Senior Environmental Specialist with the Toxic Substance Control Commission, Environmental Affairs Manager for the Department of Corrections, Director of the Environmental Administration Division within the Department of Management and Budget, Director of the Office of Special Environmental Projects within the Department of Environmental Quality, Acting Director of the Office of the Great Lakes, and Executive Director of the Michigan Environmental Science Board. The latter two positions were gubernatorial appointments by then Michigan Governor John Engler. During his career, he received twelve Letters of Commendations and one certificate of Merit from the Governor Engler and, later, one Letter of Commendation from then Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. Upon his retirement, his public service career was acknowledged with tributes from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the Michigan State Senate, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, the U.S. House of Representatives, and then President and First Lady of the United States, George and Laura Bush. From 2005 - 2011, Mr. Harrison operated a small consulting firm, KGH Environmental PLC. He also served as a special federal employee on a subcommittee with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board during this time. He is now fully retired.

Memberships

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Past Commander-in-Chief)

• Michigan Commandery, MOLLUS (Past Commander)

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War - (Past Commander-in-Chief)

• Sons of Veterans Reserve, SUVCW (Past Commanding Officer - Brevet Brigadier General)

• Michigan Department, SUVCW (Past Commander)

• Lansing/Sunfield Curtenius Guard Camp #17 (Past Commander)

• Sons of the Revolution in the State of Michigan - (Past President)

• The Park/Parkes/Parks Society (Past President)

• 7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Company B., Inc. (Past President and Past Captain)

• Cumberland Guard (Chief of Staff - Major)

• Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (1988 and 2003 Commissions)

• Military Order of the World Wars

• Morgan's Men Association Inc.

• National Gavel Society

• Society of Colonial Wars in Michigan

• Society of Mayflower Descendants in Michigan

• Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Michigan.

Other Notes

Mr. Harrison is licensed as a Registered Sanitarian and as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist, and is nationally certified as a Senior Ecologist. He is a member of the Michigan Audubon Society and an emeritus member of the Ecological Society of America. He served as Chair of the Michigan Bird Conservation Initiative from 2009 to 2011 and currently is the President of the Michigan Bird Conservation Initiative Foundation. He belongs to the Masonic Lodge #252 of Okemos, Michigan and is a life member of the Civil War Research Lodge #1865 of Highland Springs, Virginia. In 1988, he was appointed by the Michigan Historical Commission as the Official Representative for the State of Michigan to the 125th Anniversary Ceremony Commemorating the Battle of Gettysburg. Also in 1988, he was awarded the Michigan Minuteman Citation of Honor by the Greater Michigan Foundation. He currently serves on the Board of the state-affiliated Friends of Michigan History, Inc. and also as the Chair of the Michigan Civil War Sesquicentennial History Partners, an affiliate of the Michigan Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.

Mr. Harrison has been a Civil War reenactor since 1982 and rose through the ranks. He remains a member and former Captain of the 7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Company B., Inc. and a Major, periodically serving in the capacity of Chief of Staff or Assistant Adjutant General with the Cumberland Guard, a nationally recognized Civil War reenactment association. Within the Congressionally Chartered SUVCW’s Sons of Veterans Reserve (SVR), he served as the Commanding Officer (Brevet Brigadier General) during 1996/97 and currently holds the rank of Major (Retired) in the SVR. He has participated in more than 550 reenactments, parades, living histories, and ceremonies, and served innumerable times at reenactments as an infantry company commander, infantry battalion commander, and overall Union army commander. He has participated in most of the national 125th - 145th anniversary Civil War battle reenactments and is beginning to now participate in the Civil War Sesquicentennial (150th) national reenactment events.

Authorships

Mr. Harrison’s professional research and work have resulted in more than 100 publications addressing a wide variety of environmental, environmental health, natural history, and natural resources management topics. He has been published in local, state, national, and international societal scientific journals. In addition, he authored a book on the Natural History of Cass County, Michigan (1979), and more recently, served as editor of three governmental publications on the State of Michigan's Environment (2003, 2005, and 2008). Mr. Harrison's interest in history and genealogy peaked with the 1983 birth of his son, and ultimately resulted in his publication in 1989 of a 350-page genealogy entitled, The Ancestry of Nathan Lewis Harrison. This first book identified more than 150 families and 1,600 individuals. In 2008, he published a 648-page update entitled, The Ancestry of Nathan Lewis Harrison - Revisited Nineteen Years Later. The second book documented over 1,500 ancestral families and over 6,000 individuals.

Listed In (Publications)

Conversations (with Keith G. Harrison) Michigan History Magazine , 2010.
Cambridge Who’s Who, 2010
Personalities of America, Contributions to Science and History, 1986.
Who’s Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, Marquis Who's Who, Inc, 1985.

"Fritzi" Ysabelita Kranz Martin, the daughter of Martin E. Kranz and Ysabelita Hamilton Kranz. Mrs. Loftin was born in New Orleans, LA and was raised at Chreitian Plantatoin in St. Landry, LA. She attended school in New Orleans, and holds a B.A. and M.A. from Tulane University.

Mrs. Martin was married for fifty-two years to Jack Loftin Martin, an Entomologist, graduate of Auburn University who owned Martin Chemical Company. They had two children, Hamilton Loftin Martin and Ysabelita "Bee" Martin Little. Upon the death of her sister, they raised nephew Martin Kranz Perilloux.

Memberships

• National Gavel Society

• National Society Daughter of American Colonists (past National President)

• National Society Southern Dames of America (past National President)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Honorary President General)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens (Honorary President General)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

Other Notes

Through the years her volunteer work included nine volunteer years with the Scouting program; five volunteer years teaching Great Books; chairing the Home and Garden tours for the Covington Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary for seven years.

Additionally, Mrs. Martin was a Vacation Bible School teacher and served on the board of the Salvation Army Ladies Auxiliary. She is a fifty (50+) year member of the Eastern Star.

Col. Stewart Boone McCarty, Jr., the son of Stewart Boone McCarty, Sr. and Vivian Myers Simmons, was born in Kansas City, MO. Col. McCarty and his wife, Janet Dorothy (McCord) McCarty, are the parents of Anne Stewart McCarty Parker and Elizabeth Boone McCarty.  The McCarty's lived in Fairfax, VA.

Col. McCarty graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with an AB in Economics.  He completed an MA in Management and Personnel Administration from George Washington University. Col. McCarty has completed graduate studies in Archaeology at Worcester College of Oxford University and the Catholic University of America.

A career military officer, Stewart Boone McCarty, Jr. entered active duty as an Officer Candidate March 1, 1944, and served as a Commissioned Officer in the Regular Marine Corps until retiring as Colonel on August 1, 1974.  Col. McCarty commanded units from platoon to battalion, in combat and in garrison, interspersed with staff assignments and attendance at military schools.  He has been awarded the Legion of Merit; Bronze Star Medals with combat "V" in Korea and Vietnam; the Purple Heart; the Meritorious Service Medal; as well as many other United States and foreign military awards.  Col. McCarty is currently a consultant in management and foreign trade matters.

Memberships

• General Society of Colonial Wars (past Deputy Governor General and past Governor of the Washington D.C. Society)

• National Gavel Society (past President)

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (past President General; Minuteman Award Recipient; Patriot Medal Recipient)

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots (past Governor General)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (past President of the Washington D.C. Society)

• Huguenot Society of Washington D.C. (past President)

• St. Andrew's Society of Washington D.C. (past President)

• Society of the War of 1812 (past President of the Washington D.C. Society)

• Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter (Treasurer of the American Friends)

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• Baronial Order of the Magna Charta

• Jamestowne Society

• Society of Boonesborough

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Officer Companion)

• Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (Grand Cross, former Grand Prior, Priory of St. King Charles the Martyr, Washington, D.C.)

• Knight of Grace of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem

Other Notes

Col. McCarty was a member of Alpha Mu Gamma, the Army Navy Club of Washington D.C., and the Chouteau Society.  He was a board member with three television stations, and served as Vice President of the Scientific Exploration and Archaeological Society. His avocations included skiing, scuba diving and biking.

Doris Grace Rosalie Roth was the daughter of Joseph Gordon Grace and Mary La Velle Jones, and was a native of Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Grace and his family moved to New York City when Doris was young and her father pursued his career in commercial art. Doris married Elmer Eugene Roth (deceased) of Havre de Grace, Maryland in 1942. He served in the U.S. Army during her youth. Doris was trained in voice at the Peabody Conservatory. She had a beautiful soprano voice and performed in concerts and in church and for weddings. Doris worked for the Department of the Army at Aberdeen Proving Grounds for the General in charge of The Ordinance School. She was highly valued and presented many commendations.

Doris Grace Roth held a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland and she earned a graduate degree from Johns Hopkins University.

The Roth’s had two daughters: Christine and her husband John Edward Bollinger, Jr., and Beth Ann Gregory Smith and her husband Mickey Smith (deceased). Doris is grandmother to Christine's four children Sandra, Patrick, Natalie & Marjorie, and Beth Ann's two children Tammy and Andrea. Doris was great grandmother to fourteen (“14”) great grandchildren.

Memberships

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (President General for Life)

• National Gavel Society

• National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede (Third Vice President General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (former Governor of the Maryland Branch)

• Colonial Dames of America

• Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America

• National Society Daughters of American Colonists (Past National Librarian; past Maryland State Regent)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (former Historian and Lady of the Council in the Maryland Society)

• Society of the Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, Great Britain

• Jamestowne Society

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

• United Daughters of the Confederacy

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

Chivalric Orders

Mrs. Roth’s hobbies included hospital volunteer work, Ladies Club of Roland Park, she attended and supported The Church of The Redeemer in Roland Park, and supported all of the grandchildren and great grandchildren by attending their concerts, sports, and events.

Robert Pond Vivian, Sr., youngest son of Leslie Langdon Vivian and Elinor Richardson Clement is a native of Plainfield, New Jersey. One of Mr. Vivian's ancestors, Robert Clements, founded Haverhill, MA, and his extensive line of New England forebears includes Elder William Brewster, Revs John Lothrop and Stephen Bachiller, MG Humphrey Atherton and Thomas Lord, a founder of Hartford, CT.

A graduate of The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT and Princeton University, Mr. Vivian served as an infantry platoon leader during the Korean War.

Before retiring early in 1991 to set up The Radley Group, a public relations firm, Mr. Vivian was Vice President of Corporate Communications for Crum & Forster Corporation, an $11 billion insurance holding company with responsibility for all internal and external communications.

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey

• General Society of Colonial Wars (Deputy Governor General Emeritus of the General Society for the State of New Jersey)

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Marshal)

• Military Order of the Crusades (Crusader Commander)

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (Past Governor General)

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (Past President of the New Jersey Society)

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (Past President of the New Jersey Society)

• Order of the First Families of Maine (former Treasurer General)

• General Society of the War of 1812 (District Deputy President General for New England)

• Colonial Order of the Acorn

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar

• National Order of the Blue and Gray

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Member of the Council)

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England

• Flagon and Trencher

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

• Founders of the New Haven Colony

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

• Descendants of the Founders of New Jersey

• Order of the Honorable Artillery Company

• Jamestowne Society

• Hereditary Order of the Descendants of the Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Piscataqua Pioneers

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

• Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge

Other Notes

Before moving to Maine Mr. Vivian was Vice-Chairman of the Westfield (NJ) Historic Preservation Commission and Vice-President-Community Affairs and newsletter editor for the Westfield Historical Society. He also served on the Board of Deacons for the Presbyterian Church in Westfield.