Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Joseph Harris and Jane Huston




Husband Joseph Harris 1 2

           Born: 1801 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Jul 1845 1 2
         Buried: 


         Father: James Harris, Esq. (1755-1826/1828) 3 4
         Mother: Ann Dunlop (1768-1844) 4 5


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Jane Miller (      -      ) 1 6



Wife Jane Huston 7

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: [Father] Huston (      -      )
         Mother: 




Children
1 F Sally Hopkins Harris 7

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: while young
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry



General Notes: Husband - Joseph Harris


He had a thorough education and training and was early inclined to a general business life. He was an iron-master, and in 1829 erected and carried on the furnace and works at Howard, Centre County, Pennsylvania; some years later William A. Thomas and Jacob Lex, of Philadelphia, became interested with him in the firm name of Harris, Lex & Thomas. In 1837 Joseph Harris built the dam for the Canal Co., finished the canal from Marsh Creek and cut a passage from the creek near the dam to the works. The company then built another furnace stack in 1840, and built an expensive rolling-mill, putting it in operation that fall.

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Sources


1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 200.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 188.

3 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 198.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 182.

5 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 190, 199.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 188, 239.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 189.


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