William H. Harrison

As printed in 1901

WILLIAM H. HARRISON.

The subject of this sketch, who is successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits on sections 27 and 28, Bertram township, was born in this county, on the i8th of September, 1859, and is a son of Jacob and Ardelia (Look) Harrison, natives of New Jersey and New York, respectively. He was born in West Milford, Passaic county. New Jersey, February 16, 1835. They were married in the latter state, at Painted Post, and in 1856 started for Kansas, but on reaching Mt. Vernon, Iowa they decided to stop on account of the mother being in ill health. For sometime ]\Mr. Harrison was engaged in cutting timber, and also worked for a time in the Belden sawmill and then rented a farm, being engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1863, when he went to Idahoduring the gold excitement in that state. When he left for the mountains he sent his family to New York, and about the close of the Civil war he rejoined them in that state, bringing them back to Linn county, Iowa. He purchased what is now known as a part of the Caldwell farm, in Bertram township, on which he lived for ten years, and in 1885 bought the James Berry farm of two-hundred acres, which he disposed of, though he afterward moved to another farm, where he lived for nine j-ears. His first wife died October 2, 1890, and was buried in Mt. Wernon. He sul)sequently spent one year with a married daughter on the old home farm, and then went to California. He has since been back and forth a number of times, but has resided permanently in that state since his second marriage with Mrs. Millie Kupple in the fall of 1899, having sold his possessions in Iowa. The children by his first union were Almeda, wife of Walter Berry, of Bertram township; W. H., our subject; Mary wife of Frank Brown, who lives on the old homestead farm; Jacob J., who married Hannah Berry and lives in- Bertram township; Lucinda J., wife of

As printed in Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.