Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Ferriss, James H 
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Author: Genealogical & Biographical Record

JAMES H. FERRISS, Joliet, president of the News Company, was born in Oswego 
Township, Kendall County, Ill., November 18, 1849, a son of William H. and 
Eliza (Brown) Ferriss, natives respectively of Clinton County, N. Y., and Erie 
County, Pa.  His ancestors on the father's side were Welsh Quakers.  Zebulon 
Ferriss, the head of the family, settled in Providence, R. I., in 1630.  The 
boyhood of James H. Ferriss was passed in the village of Bristol Station, 
Kendall County, where he early became familiar with the business of a cattle 
drover.  From 1869 to 1872 he lived upon a farm in Kansas. With one of his 
present partners, Frank H. Hall, he leased the Yorkville (Ill.) News during 
the campaign of 1876 and through the columns of the paper supported Peter 
Cooper for the presidency. Two years before this he had gained a knowledge of 
reportorial work through his connection with the Joliet Daily Sun, Hayward & 
Radeliff, proprietors.

In January, 1877, Mr. Ferriss, Mr. Hall and others established the Phoenix, an 
independent weekly paper, at Joliet and other business centers of Will 
County.  In October of the same year, with R. W. Nelson, now of New York, and 
H. E. Baldwin, one of his present partners, Mr. Ferriss purchased the Morning 
News, the name of which was afterward changed to the Joliet Daily News.  From 
that time to the present he has continued with the paper, excepting two years 
(1881-82), when he edited the Morning News, in Portland, Me.  He was married 
at Falls Village, Conn., June 30, 1880, to Miss Olive E. Hunt, a former 
resident of Bristol Station.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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