William Harris

As printed in 1882

WILLIAM HARRIS is one of the solid men of Union City, a man of sterling enterprise, who takes pride in his business, and is an honor to the city in which he resides. He was born in Ovid, Seneca Co., N. Y., in August, 1845, being the son of William Harris, a carriage-nsker of that county, who died before his son William was born. William resided at Ovid till twenty years old, and in 1865 moved to Findlay, Hancock Co., Ohio. After clerking there for six mouths, he found his w,ay lo Union City, Ind. During three years he was in the employ of W..S, Osborn, egg and butteV packer, having an " interest" in the establishment during the last year. In 1868, he entered the firm of Turpen 'i Harris, of which he has been a member ever since. In 18B8, he married Anna E., daughter of Enos H, Turpen, and they have had six children, five of them living, all daughters. In political sentiment, he is a Democrat. He has been a member of the Board of Control of Union City, for four years, and Treasurer of the School Board for two years. Mr. H. is a man of enlightened bminess views and energetic temperament, having done much to advance theinterestsof the city, and is highly respected by his fellow-citizens. His career in the egg, butler and poultry business is a striking example of what maybe done, even in a small interior town, by intelligent skill and faithful devotion to business. 'We give elsewhere a detailed account of the establishment of which he is the chief manager, Mr. Harris, from being a poor man without means or the apparent prospect thereof, has become, in the course of twelve or thirteen yeiirs, and solely by his active, enlightened and judicious enterprise, one of the.solid men of the city. In the fall of 1880. he purchased the beautiful and commodious mansion erected and owned by Dr. Joel N. Converse, one of the pioneers and so long one of the chief men of Union City, at a cost, it is understood, of $15,000, He is still in the prime of life and health, and of business.activity, and it is to be hoped that he may long be spared to his friends and to the community, that his activity may continue to be in the future, aa it has already been in the past, a fountain of material good nnd financial blessing to himself and to the country,

As printed in History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.