Biography: "STEPHEN HARRIS is the owner and occupant of a beautiful and valuable farm lying on the Blue Valley bottom lands, two and one-half miles from Garrison, Pottawatomie County. Bordering on the Blue, it has ten acres of valuable timber, and is well adapted for grain and stock raising, in which occupation its own is engaged. The estate is enclosed and divided by neat hedges, the beautifully situated dwelling is surrounded by a fine yard and accompanied by an excellent orchard, and the entire place shows taste and thrift on the part of the occupants. The estate comprises sixty-five acres, fifty of which are broken, and all the improvments have been made since Mr. Harris purchased it in 1883. The owner of this comfortable rural home was born near Allegheny City, PA., Oct. 30, 1859, and is the son of George and Elizabeth (Dodd) Harris, natives of Kent, England. (For further history of the ancestry and family, see sketch of Ezekiel Harris, which occupies another page in this ALBUM.) Mr. Harris was reared on a farm within sight of the Allegheny River, and received the advantages of the common school, obtaining therein a good education in the ordinary branches of study. He was in his thirteenth year when he accompanied his parents to Kansas, and his life since that time has been spent on the Blue, where the country presents a vast difference in appearance from what it did when our subject first saw it. Then deer and other game abounded, and young Harris indulged, to some extent, in hunting, one of his early experiences being that of bringing a deer to the ground. When fifteen years old, Mr. Harris began working out by the month, continuing so employed until he reached the age of twenty years, when he rented a farm on section 36, Blue Valley Township, which a few years later he purchased of $85 per acre, and has since brought to its present state of improvement. The entire acreage is on the bottom, and the land is among the most fertile in the State. At the home of the bride in Green Township, on April 19, 1888, the rites of wedlock were celebrated between Mr. Harris and Miss Jennie Fleming. She is a daughter of Alex and Susanna (Carnahan) Fleming, old settlers and prominent farm residents of Green Township. Her birth took place in Alleghany County, Pa., and she accompanied her parents to Kansas when a child, receiving her education in this State, finishing her studies at the Manhattan High School and the State Agricultural College at the same place. She taught several terms of school, her first work in that profession having been when she was nineteen years of age. Educated, refined and possessed of womanly virtues, she looks well to the ways of her household, and is highly esteemed by neighbors and acquaintances. Her happy union with Mr. Harris has been blessed by the birth of one child--Ina May. Mr. and Mrs. Harris are active and prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Garrison, Mr. Harris being a charter member therein. He is now filling the office of Trustee. In his political views he favors the principles of the Republican party, for which his vote is ever cast. He has served a term on the jury, and as a private individual and a citizen is held in high repute by his fellow-men."
[Portrait and Biographical Album, Pub. by Chapman Brothers, 1890, Kansas Historical Society, p. 314-315.]
Obituary: "Stephen Harris Dies at 80 Years -- Retired Farmer Had Resided Here Since 1922 -- Stephen Harris, 80, died unexpectedly at 6 o'clock last night at his home at 912 North Tenth street. He had not been ill until yesterday. Mr. Harris had been living in Manhattan since 1922, when he retired from his farm near Garrison. A daughter-in-law, Mrs. Anna Harris, had been keeping house for him during most of the time he lived here. He was born October 30, 1859, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Coming to Kansas as a small boy, he lived near Garrison, working the same farm for more than 40 years. Mrs. Harris was a member of the United Presbyterian church. Additional survivors include three children: Mrs. Ina Hamlet of Onaga, K.C. Harris of Chetopa, and Myron Harris of Garrison. Funeral arrangements have not been made. His body was taken to the Ryan funeral home."
[Morning Chronicle, Manhattan, KS, 11 Nov 1939, pg. 1]
[Portrait and Biographical Album, Pub. by Chapman Brothers, 1890, Kansas Historical Society, p. 314-315.]
Obituary: "Stephen Harris Dies at 80 Years -- Retired Farmer Had Resided Here Since 1922 -- Stephen Harris, 80, died unexpectedly at 6 o'clock last night at his home at 912 North Tenth street. He had not been ill until yesterday. Mr. Harris had been living in Manhattan since 1922, when he retired from his farm near Garrison. A daughter-in-law, Mrs. Anna Harris, had been keeping house for him during most of the time he lived here. He was born October 30, 1859, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Coming to Kansas as a small boy, he lived near Garrison, working the same farm for more than 40 years. Mrs. Harris was a member of the United Presbyterian church. Additional survivors include three children: Mrs. Ina Hamlet of Onaga, K.C. Harris of Chetopa, and Myron Harris of Garrison. Funeral arrangements have not been made. His body was taken to the Ryan funeral home."
[Morning Chronicle, Manhattan, KS, 11 Nov 1939, pg. 1]
Biography: "STEPHEN HARRIS is the owner and occupant of a beautiful and valuable farm lying on the Blue Valley bottom lands, two and one-half miles from Garrison, Pottawatomie County. Bordering on the Blue, it has ten acres of valuable timber, and is well adapted for grain and stock raising, in which occupation its own is engaged. The estate is enclosed and divided by neat hedges, the beautifully situated dwelling is surrounded by a fine yard and accompanied by an excellent orchard, and the entire place shows taste and thrift on the part of the occupants. The estate comprises sixty-five acres, fifty of which are broken, and all the improvments have been made since Mr. Harris purchased it in 1883. The owner of this comfortable rural home was born near Allegheny City, PA., Oct. 30, 1859, and is the son of George and Elizabeth (Dodd) Harris, natives of Kent, England. (For further history of the ancestry and family, see sketch of Ezekiel Harris, which occupies another page in this ALBUM.) Mr. Harris was reared on a farm within sight of the Allegheny River, and received the advantages of the common school, obtaining therein a good education in the ordinary branches of study. He was in his thirteenth year when he accompanied his parents to Kansas, and his life since that time has been spent on the Blue, where the country presents a vast difference in appearance from what it did when our subject first saw it. Then deer and other game abounded, and young Harris indulged, to some extent, in hunting, one of his early experiences being that of bringing a deer to the ground. When fifteen years old, Mr. Harris began working out by the month, continuing so employed until he reached the age of twenty years, when he rented a farm on section 36, Blue Valley Township, which a few years later he purchased of $85 per acre, and has since brought to its present state of improvement. The entire acreage is on the bottom, and the land is among the most fertile in the State. At the home of the bride in Green Township, on April 19, 1888, the rites of wedlock were celebrated between Mr. Harris and Miss Jennie Fleming. She is a daughter of Alex and Susanna (Carnahan) Fleming, old settlers and prominent farm residents of Green Township. Her birth took place in Alleghany County, Pa., and she accompanied her parents to Kansas when a child, receiving her education in this State, finishing her studies at the Manhattan High School and the State Agricultural College at the same place. She taught several terms of school, her first work in that profession having been when she was nineteen years of age. Educated, refined and possessed of womanly virtues, she looks well to the ways of her household, and is highly esteemed by neighbors and acquaintances. Her happy union with Mr. Harris has been blessed by the birth of one child--Ina May. Mr. and Mrs. Harris are active and prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Garrison, Mr. Harris being a charter member therein. He is now filling the office of Trustee. In his political views he favors the principles of the Republican party, for which his vote is ever cast. He has served a term on the jury, and as a private individual and a citizen is held in high repute by his fellow-men."
[Portrait and Biographical Album, Pub. by Chapman Brothers, 1890, Kansas Historical Society, p. 314-315.]
Obituary: "Stephen Harris Dies at 80 Years -- Retired Farmer Had Resided Here Since 1922 -- Stephen Harris, 80, died unexpectedly at 6 o'clock last night at his home at 912 North Tenth street. He had not been ill until yesterday. Mr. Harris had been living in Manhattan since 1922, when he retired from his farm near Garrison. A daughter-in-law, Mrs. Anna Harris, had been keeping house for him during most of the time he lived here. He was born October 30, 1859, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Coming to Kansas as a small boy, he lived near Garrison, working the same farm for more than 40 years. Mrs. Harris was a member of the United Presbyterian church. Additional survivors include three children: Mrs. Ina Hamlet of Onaga, K.C. Harris of Chetopa, and Myron Harris of Garrison. Funeral arrangements have not been made. His body was taken to the Ryan funeral home."
[Morning Chronicle, Manhattan, KS, 11 Nov 1939, pg. 1]
[Portrait and Biographical Album, Pub. by Chapman Brothers, 1890, Kansas Historical Society, p. 314-315.]
Obituary: "Stephen Harris Dies at 80 Years -- Retired Farmer Had Resided Here Since 1922 -- Stephen Harris, 80, died unexpectedly at 6 o'clock last night at his home at 912 North Tenth street. He had not been ill until yesterday. Mr. Harris had been living in Manhattan since 1922, when he retired from his farm near Garrison. A daughter-in-law, Mrs. Anna Harris, had been keeping house for him during most of the time he lived here. He was born October 30, 1859, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Coming to Kansas as a small boy, he lived near Garrison, working the same farm for more than 40 years. Mrs. Harris was a member of the United Presbyterian church. Additional survivors include three children: Mrs. Ina Hamlet of Onaga, K.C. Harris of Chetopa, and Myron Harris of Garrison. Funeral arrangements have not been made. His body was taken to the Ryan funeral home."
[Morning Chronicle, Manhattan, KS, 11 Nov 1939, pg. 1]
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