Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Harris, Jacob 1832 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JACOB HARRIS is one of the most enterprising and progressive farmers of Tuscola
County, and is residing on section 13, Watertown Township, where he has a
beautiful farm of eighty acres of improved land, which has upon it good
buildings and is under a good state of cultivation. He is the son of Israel
Harris, a native of New York. His mother was before her marriage a Miss Mary
Richardson, also a native of the Empire State. Our subject was one of a family
of nine children born to his parents, his natal day being March 23, 1832, and
Canada the place of his nativity. Our subject's father went to Canada at an
early day, and there he and his wife passed their last days.

  Jacob Harris passed his boyhood days amid Canadian scenes and when eighteen
years old went to New York, remaining a short time there, when he returned to
Canada, and then feeling a desire to know more about the States, came to
Michigan and was engaged with M. Murphy & Co. as fore man in their employ, being
under John Cole. Previous to making Michigan his home our subject was married in
Canada to Miss Lydia Gleason. To them was born one child, Mary E. by name. Mrs.
Harris died while still a resident of Canada, and our subject came to Michigan,
where he contracted a second alliance, his wife being Miss Jane Mills, a native
of Scotland.

  Our subject and his present wife are the parents of four children, viz:
Ernest, Lydia, George and Jacob W., all of whom are living. Mrs. Jacob Harris
was the daughter of William Mills, who resides in Canada. Mr. Harris is the
owner of eighty acres of land, which has been in his possession for twenty-one
years, and all the excellent improvements upon it have been the result of his
industry. His religious views led him to identify himself with the Baptist
Church, in which body he is an influential and devoted member. Politically he is
a believer in the principles as held by the Republican party. He has been
honored by his townspeople with the office of Treasurer of his school district,
and has also held other school offices. Our subject's father was a loyal soldier
in the War of 1812, and his grandfather was in the Revolutionary Army.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892

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