Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Harris, J.M. 1848 - ? ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Crook jlcrook@rof.net March 24, 2006, 4:28 pm Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado The cattle industry of Gunnison county, Colorado, is great in magnitude and mighty in commercial importance, and every day on the ranges and in the valleys where it is conducted are enacted the comedies and tragedies whose vivid portrayal in the mimic arena thrill the older communities with interest and delight, but here they are only ordinary experiences and scarcely awaken more than passing thought. Still, through them and the volume and importance of the business, the industry has laid all sections of our common country under tribute to its expanding requirements, and as the demand for its products increased the producers have kept coming and the business has continued to grow. Among the number of men of brain and brawn who have been attracted to its promising fields is J.M. Harris, of Howeville, who has a well improved and productive ranch of two hundred acres in the East river country, and who is one of the energetic and progressive contributors to this vast volume of trade. He is a native of Ohio, born in 1848, the son of Eli and Marris (Eveline) Harris, who were natives and worthy citizens of that state. The father died there in 1891, having survived his wife twenty-six years, she having passed away in 1865. Their son, who is the subject of this narrative, grew to manhood and was educated in his native state, and after reaching years of maturity rented a farm there and conducted it for two years. In 1872 he moved to Missouri and there worked in the mines for seven years. He then came to Leadville, this state, which was at the time the Mecca of gold seekers from all over the world, and for two years was engaged in freighting to and from that camp. In 1883 he moved to Gunnison county and settled permanently on the ranch he now occupies near East river. Here he has devoted his energies to the production of a high grade of cattle for the markets, at the same time giving proper care to keeping up the breeds and maintaining the standard of condition and general excellence at which he aimed in the inception of his enterprise. Mr. Harris is unmarried, but is none the less interested in the general growth and progress of his section of the county, and omits no effort on his part to advance its elements of substantial good and promote its welfare in every way. He is accorded a high place in the respect and good will of his fellow men as a force of potency and influence in the public life of the community, and a citizen whose daily life accords with elevated ideals of public duty and private worth. Additional Comments: From Progressive Men of Western Colorado. Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/gunnison/bios/harris392gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb