James Harris and Lavinia Catharine Slaymaker

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Husband James Harris ¹

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           Born: 24 Sep 1832 1
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         Father: Hon. William Harris (1799-1865) 1 2
         Mother: Margaret McLanahan (      -      ) 1

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Wife Lavinia Catharine Slaymaker ¹

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General Notes: Husband - James Harris

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After completing his education, early in life he engaged in the tanning business in Snow Shoe township (from 1851 to 1856). In 1857 he engaged in business at Milesburg Iron Works, operated by his cousins, J. H. Linn and J. M. McCoy, with whom he remained until the beginning of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the service of the United States, attaining to the rank of Major, and upon his return at the close of the war organized, in connection with his cousin, John Harris (son of Joseph), the hardware house of J. & J. Harris. In 1884 and '85 he erected the large brick block, northwest corner of High and Water streets, with a special reference to the future home of the now extensive wholesale and retail hardware business of James Harris & Co., John Harris having in the meantime dis­posed of his interests to their cousin, James H. Potter. James Harris is an elder in the Presby­terian Church. He is one of the best known men in Bellefonte, PA.

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General Notes: Wife - Lavinia Catharine Slaymaker

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from Lancaster Co, PA

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 187.

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