Joshua B. Harris Biography This biography appears on page 565 in "History of Minnehaha County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Joy Fisher, http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000031 . This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm HARRIS, JOSHUA B., was born at Franconia, Grafton county, New Hampshire. He attended common schools and worked on a farm until twenty-one years of age, and then went to New York city where he remained four years when he returned to his old home and worked on his father's farm two years. In 1852 went to Watertown, Wisconsin, where he remained two years and then took up and lived on a farm in Gooodhue county, Minnesota, four years. In 1858 he went to Colorado, where he resided until 1861, then returned to Wisconsin and in October of that year enlisted in Co. D, 16th Wisconsin, and served through the war. He held a non- commissioned office in his company at the time of his discharge. At the close of the war he returned to Watertown, Wis., and resided there three years, and then went to Owatonna, Minnesota, where he lived until he removed to this county, arriving in Sioux Falls on the 20th day of March, 1877. He took up a homestead in Wellington township, where he resided four years and then removed to Sioux Falls. On the 1st day of February, 1893 he went to the Soldiers' Home, and in 1895 was appointed sergeant at the home, which position he still holds. His family resides in the city of Sioux Falls. He is an honest, upright man, and a good citizen.