BIO: John HARRIS, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 514.
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  JOHN HARRIS, deceased, spent a quiet, useful, industrious life.  For many 
years he was a respected citizen of Clearfield County, Pa., to which he came 
when thirty years of age, and faced many difficulties and hardships with 
Scottish stoicism.  He was born at Glasgow, Scotland, in 1810, and like every 
Scotch youth, was sent regularly to school.
  In 1840 John Harris settled in Clearfield County, Pa., having been attracted 
to this region on account of its mining possibilities, and for many years 
afterward he was engaged in mining for both coal and iron ore in the Karthaus 
mines.  Later in life he moved to Brookville, where he died in 1855.  He 
followed farming also in Clearfield County, but his main business in life, - the 
one in which he had been trained - was mining.
  In Bradford Township, Clearfield County, Pa., in 1842, Mr. Harris was married 
to Miss Eleanor Graham, who was born in Center County and was a daughter of 
Francis and Jane (Boggs) Graham, and a granddaughter of Judge James Boggs, of 
the Center County Bench.  Mrs. Harris died at Polk Furnace, Clarion County, Pa., 
in 1849.  She left three sons:  Joseph, Robert Bruce, and Frank G.  Of these 
sons, Joseph died in April, 1870.  Frank G. is one of Clearfield County's most 
prominent citizens, formerly a member of the State Legislature and also state 
treasurer.  Robert Bruce has been identified with the oil industry for many 
years and in his prospecting trips has visited many lands, and as a 
representative of an English syndicate, spent some time near the Caspian and Red 
Seas.
  In 1851 John Harris was married a second time.  This lady was Miss Eliza 
Scott, of Brookville, Pa., who survived him for some time and died at 
Brookville.