Weber County UT Archives Biographies.....Harris, William Henry July 18, 1878 - 
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    It is a trite saying that there is always room at the top, but few people
grasp this statement with sufficient understanding to have it serve as a
stimulus for individual effort, resulting in successful accomplishment. Actuated
by a laudable ambition, William Henry Harris, however, has worked his way
steadily upward and is today the president and manager of a large and profitable
business conducted under the name of the Ogden Paint, Oil & Glass Company, his
sales establishment being located at No. 2440 Washington avenue.

     Mr. Harris is a native of Salt Lake City. He was born July 18, 1878, a son
of John and Anna (Maddock) Harris, both of whom are of English birth, although
they were married in Salt Lake City. The father came to the United States in
1860, crossing the Atlantic to New York, where he remained for a time engaged in
the confectionery and bakery business. He afterward removed westward to Salt
Lake and became one of the pioneers in the confectionery business in this city,
where for many years he has figured as a leading and progressive business man.
Both he and his wife are yet residents of Salt Lake.

     William H. Harris of this review obtained his education in the schools of
Salt Lake, completing the high school course by graduation with the class of
1890. He afterward pursued a course In the Salt Lake Business College, of which
he is also a graduate. He entered upon his business career as a representative
of financial interests, obtaining a position with the Utah Commercial & Savings
Bank, with which he served for two years as assistant cashier. He then turned
his attention to the paint, oil and glass business in 1906 and through the
intervening years has been an active factor in the conduct of the Ogden house.
The business was founded thirty-five years ago and is now conducted under the
name of the Ogden Paint, Oil & Glass Company, Inc., with Mr. Harris as president
and manager, William R. Wallace, vice president, and William J. Bennett,
secretary and treasurer. While the main sales rooms are at No. 2440 Washington
avenue, the company also has a large warehouse at Twenty-third street and Wall
avenue and a gasoline warehouse at Twentieth street and the Oregon Short Line
tracks. The company are jobbers of paint, oils and window glass, handling both
American and French plate glass. They sell illuminating, automobile and
lubricating oils, handle painters' supplies, also hand and power seperator oils
and are sole agents for the Wolverine Luhricants Company. They also sell the
genuine Packard oil, the Wolf Head oil and others of equal known excellence. For
five years Mr. Harris has likewise been associated as president of the Ogden
Gasoline & Oil Company, Inc.

     In September, 1916, Mr. Harris was united in marriage to Miss Mattie
Wattis, a daughter of E. O. Wattis, of a very prominent family of Ogden, and
they now have one child, Ruth Wattis, who is a year old.

     Mr. Harris is well known in the social circles of the city, being a
prominent factor in club life in Ogden. He holds membership in the Weber Club,
also in the Ogden Golf & Country Club and in the Rotary Club and he likewise has
membership in the Salt Lake City Country Club. He turns to golf as a diversion
from business cares. He is also a Mason of high rank, having attained the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is a man of strong personality,
successful in business, prominent socially and in every relation of life his
course has commended him to the confidence and high regard of all with whom he
has been associated.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1919


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