Harrison Demund was born in Ovid, Seneca County, NY in 1850. He was a son of Quam Demund and his second wife, Phebe Darrow Demund, of Seneca County and the brother of Clara Demund Webb of Caroline. 

Research about the Demund family appears in: Judith Wellman, Tanya Warren, Historical New York Research Associates "Discovering the Underground Railroad, Abolitionism, and African America Life in Seneca County, New York, 1820-1880," sponsored by the Seneca County Historian's Office, 2006, 41-47, and as Tanya L. Warren, "The Demund Family of Ovid and Lodi," also in this publication, no page numbers, available on the Seneca County Historian's Website: https://www.senecacountyny.gov/gov/admin/historian/