Bio: Joshua P. HARRY, (1893); Chester County, Pennsylvania Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** From "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania, comprising a historical sketch of the county", by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1893, pp. 688-9. "JOSHUA P. HARRY, a well respected citizen of West Pikeland township who has been for several years actively and successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits, is a son of William and Ann (Pusey) Harry, ad was born in East Caln township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1842. He received his education in the common schools of West Pikeland township and West Chester State Normal school, which latter he attended for one term. Leaving school, he has been engaged ever since in farming on the home farm, which he now owns. His farm contains one hundred and twenty acres of rich, tillable and well improved land. In connection with farming and stock raising, Mr. Harry operates a first class dairy, and has steady demand in Philadelphia for his products. He is a republican in politics, and a member and deacon of Lionville Evangelical Lutheran church. He is methodical and prompt in whatever he does, and by industry and good management has secured a competency. He was united in marriage with Martha Shafer, daughter of John and Martha Shafer, and to them has been born one child, a daughter, Florence, who is now attending Professor Darlington's seminary of West Chester. The Harry family is of English Quaker stock, and Jesse Harry Sr., the paternal grandfather of Joshua P. Harry, was a residence of Columbia, Lancaster county, during a part of his life. He was a blacksmith by trade, a whig in politics, and a consistent and useful member of the Orthodox Society of Friends. He married Catharine Mears, of Delaware, and reared a family of seven children, four sons and three daughters: David, Jesse, Robert, William, Deborah Foreman, Mary C., and Sarah Davis. William Harry (father) was the eldest of the four sons, and during the early part of his life, resided in East Caln township. He afterward removed to Uwchlan township, which he left to settle in West Pikeland, where he purchased the farm now owned by his son, the subject of this sketch. William Harry was a farmer by occupation, a republican in politics, and had been an active member of the Orthodox Society of Friends for many years before his death, which occurred April 1, 1873, when he was in the eighty-first year of his age. He married Anna Pusey, who was a daughter of Joseph Pusey, and who died in 1876, aged seventy-two years. They reared a family of four sons and six daughters: Maria, Sarah, Sophia, Deborah, Edward, Lizzie, Hannah, Joshua (subject), William and Frank."