Ford County IL Archives Biographies.....Farris, Henry 
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Source: History of Ford County, Illinois: from its earliest settlement to 1908, volume 2, pages 512-515
Author: Gardner, Ernest Arthur

Henry Farris is a farmer of Ford county owning and cultivating a tract of two 
hundred acres of rich land in Drummer township. His parents were Christopher 
and J. (Stauffer) Farris. The father, a native of Hanover, Germany, emigrated 
with his family to America when his son Henry was but a small boy. As his 
financial resources were limited he rented a farm for a few years, or until he 
was able to purchase property, when he became the owner of eighty acres, which 
he afterward sold at a good profit. In 1887 he bought two hundred acres, 
constituting the old family homestead, and as the years passed, brought this 
under a high state of cultivation.

Henry Farris was reared to farm life, early becoming familiar with all the 
duties and labors incident to the cultivation of the fields. He attended the 
public schools, his time being divided between the acquirement of an education 
and the assistance which he rendered his father, with whom he remained until 
his marriage. He was, however, absent in the south during the period of the 
Civil war, having enlisted on the 6th of August, 1861, as a member of Company 
F, Seventy-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He participated in a number of 
important engagements, and the hardships and rigors of war so undermined his 
health that he was obliged to return home before the cessation of hostilities.

In 1872 Mr. Farris was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Bonnen, a daughter of 
B. Bonnen, the wedding being celebrated in Paxton. They had six living 
children: Elizabeth, the wife of August Rosenan, of Iowa, and the mother of 
three children; Bennett, who lives in Minnesota; Margaret, Richard, John and 
Katherine, all at home. The wife and mother died December 22, 1907.

The family residence stands in the midst of a good farm of two hundred acres 
on section 32, Drummer township, which Mr. Farris now owns. He devotes his 
land to the cultivation of corn, oats and other cereals best adapted to the 
soil and climate and now has a well developed property, having brought his 
fields under a high state of cultivation. Besides his property in this county 
he owns a quarter section of land near Storm Lake, Iowa, where his daughter 
resides. In politics Mr. Farris is independent, voting for men and measures 
rather than party. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church and 
his belief guides his life and shapes his conduct in his relations to his 
fellowmen.

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