Harry Ferguson

As printed in 1909

HARRY FERGUSON.

By the purchase of this book Harry Ferguson, of "West Lafayette, is permitted to have his obituary appear in this long list of the distinguished citizens of Coshocton county. ]Mr. Ferguson was born some years ago, but, being single, no one around West Lafayette is so unkind as to tell the date. Hence this item will have to be omitted. He is a son of Vincent and Rachel Ferguson, the former deceased. His birthplace Ls just east of West Lafayette, on "The Experiment Farm," where he now resides.

Mr. Ferguson Ls a self-made man, except the first twenty-five or thirty years of his life, during which time his parents very kindly assisted in supporting him. As above indicated, he is single, but not by his own choosing, and is doing all he can at this writing to obey the injunction: "It is not well for man, etc."

]Mr. Ferguson is editor and proprietor of The Indicator, an eight-page periodical circulating among the folks pretty generally between Turkey Lock and Po&sum Hollow, and now and then turning up most anywhere between the Androscoggin and the Sandwich Islands. The paper is a high class publication, printed on a perplex press just behind the stove. Every Thursday Dan. the foreman, and Mr. Ferguson alternate their number nine at the power plant.

On the side, Mr. Ferguson looks after "The Experiment Farm." a broad expanse of hard work and horse sorrel. This farm produces some of the finest elderberries in America, and blackberries and taxes grow in riotous profusion. And it has some old fence rows that produce as fine and complete a collection of natural history as can be found anywhere in America.

[This passage is too damaged in the scanned book to reproduce. See the original book.]

As printed in Centennial history of Coshocton County, Ohio (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.