Records:  HARRIS, W. B., Unknown Co., KY
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Subject: BIO: W.B. HARRIS, son of S.B. HARRIS who was from KY,

Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.
Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Richland Township, p. 630

  HARRIS  CHAMBERS   BRANTON

W.B. HARRIS, editor-in-chief of the Monroe County Citizen, is the son of 
S.B. and Endemile (CHAMBERS) HARRIS, natives respectively of Kentucky and 
Indiana.  He was born March 6, 1856, in Ellettsville, Ind., where he passed 
his boyhood in going to school and working on a farm.  In 1872, he entered 
the Ellettsville Republican office, as a type-setter, for eighteen months, 
and then became editor for one year.  Soon after this, he went to 
Indianapolis, and assisted in the office of the Herald.  In 1875, he returned 
to Ellettsville, managed the Sun, and afterward published the Owen County 
People, which he disposed of in 1881, and retired to a farm for a year, when 
he purchased the Ellettsville News, and changed the name to the Monroe County 
Citizen, a popular and efficient journal, of Republican shade in politics.  
March 9, 1876, he married Miss Allie, daughter of Hiram BRANTON, and born 
November 30, 1856.  This union gave issue to four children - Carl B., 
Edmund B., Kate H. and Henry B.  Mr. HARRIS is a member of the I.O.O.F., and 
Mrs. HARRIS of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Data Entry Volunteer - Linda Jenkins Wensel
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