Biographical Sketch of Edgar P. Harris, Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Edgar P. Harris, founder of the Midland Blast Furnace Company, was born
in Stowe, Lamoille Co., VT., May 7, 1845.  His father, James Harris, a
native of Massachusetts, and of Irish descent, married Charlotte Downer
of Vermont, both having worked in the cotton mills of Massachusetts 
when young.  They afterward moved to New York, and are now residents of
Michigan, aged, respectively, eighty-one and seventy-four years. James
Harris has been principally engaged in farming, though for a time he 
was superintendent of an iron mine in New York; politically, he was a 
Democrat, but since the war he has sympathized with the Republican 
party.  The parents are Universalists in religious belief, and had six
children.  When eighteen years of age Edgar P. Harris enlisted in Com-
pany I, First New York Veteran Cavalry, Union army, served three years,
and participated in the battles of New Market, Piedmont, Leetown Heights,
Monocasy, Harper's Ferry, Charleston, two battles at Winchester, Fisher's
Hill and Cedar Creek; he served one year as sergeant.  Returning home 
he engaged in farming until 1867, and then went to Michigan, where he
worked in a blast furnace.  In turn he rose to the positions of watch-
man, helper in the furnace, keeper, and lastly founder, having entire
charge of the furnaces at different places.  He accepted his present
position in 1877, which he has since continuously filled.  In 1876 he
married Mary Tyler, a native of New York.  Mr. and Mrs. Harris have 
three children: Charles H., Bertie E. and Nellie.  In politics Mr. 
Harris is a Republican.

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