Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Ferris, James H 1849 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

JAMES H. FERRIS, President of the Joliet News Printing Company, is worthily 
filling the responsible position, to which he brings a large amount of 
experience and practical knowledge. The News was established in April, 1877, 
by a rambling printer, named Charles F. Dutcher, and published in the Phoenix 
office, then under the editorial control of Mr. Ferris. October 1, of that 
year, a firm composed of R. W. Nelson, James H. Ferris and H. E. Baldwin, 
bought the little News plant for a "song," and continued the publication. The 
last two above-named partners have continued the business to this date, 
excepting the years 1881-82, when Mr. Ferris published a paper in Maine. The 
politics of the Daily News, with its four thousand circulation, has been 
Greenback-Labor ever since the fall of 1877, and the weekly edition ten years 
after that turned its forces in with the Prohibition party. Its circulation is 
two thousand. Mr. Ferris was born in the town of Oswego, Kendall County, Ill., 
in 1849. His father, William H. Ferris, removed from Clinton County, N. Y., in 
the '40's, and now resides at Bristol, Kendall County, this State. His wife's 
maiden name was Eliza M. Brown, and her native home, Erie County, Pa. The 
subject of this sketch began his newspaper career at Yorkville, Ill., where he 
and Frank H. Hall published a Peter Cooper Greenback paper a year or two, both 
finally coming to Joliet in 1876. Mr. Ferris married Miss Olive E. Hunt, of 
Huntsville, Canaan County, Conn., in July, 1880.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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