Monterey-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Harris, Ebenezer F. 1833 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

EBENEZER F. HARRIS, a California pioneer, came to the State as early as 1850. He
is a native of Rowan county, North Carolina, and was born May 10, 1833. His
father, Jesse Harris, was a successful cotton planter and tobacco grower, who
left North Carolina and removed to Missouri, locating in Nodaway county.

  Our subject lived with his parents until about seventeen years of age, when he
came to the Golden State and spent six years in the mines of El Dorado county.
He was a successful miner, but sold his interests in 1856, and went to San
Francisco. From there he went to the Salinas valley, where he farmed for two
years, and in 1858 he again went to the mines and spent a year there, but
returned to Salinas valley the following year.

  In 1860 he married Lovina, a daughter of the late George Groves, a respected
pioneer of Salinas. Mrs. Harris died, July 16, 1886, aged fifty-two years,
leaving four sons and one daughter, namely: Thomas, a farmer of Salinas; George,
of San Lucas; Martin and Edgar of Salinas; Maria is the wife of Salvino Boronda,
a farmer of Salinas.

  Mr. Harris pursued farming for twenty-two years at Salinas, and finally
retired from active life. A man of industry, he found no satisfaction in
idleness, so purchased an interest in the Fashion livery stables of Mr. S. Leon,
and now devotes a share of his time to that business. No citizen is better known
for his probity and business integrity than the subject of this sketch. Of a
practical turn of mind and great energy, he has been fairly successful in his
business undertakings.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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