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HARRIS, JAMES A. Is a native of Butler County, Pennsylvania, and was born October 30, 1839. When he was thirteen
years of age his parents moved to Iowa. Here farming was prosecuted about five years, when he engaged in teaching
school for about three years. We next find Mr. Harris in the gold mines of Colorado, where he remained about eighteen
months, when he returned to Iowa and engaged in dairying. In July, 1862, he enlisted and served as a private for
three years in the Northern ranks. At the end of this time he returned to Iowa and resumed his dairying business
about one year; then, on account of failing health, he came to California. He came via Panama and arrived at San
Francisco November 4, 1866. As health was the chief object, he sought the desirable climate of Lake County, and
settled about three miles south from Lower Lake, where he now resides, being engaged in farming and stock raising.
Mr. Harris married April 22, 1862, Miss Louisa C. Parker. She died January 2, 1873, leaving three children: Eugene,
Erwin and Katie. He married secondly, April 14, 1875, Miss Lina Powell, by whom he has three children: Ralph A.,
Carl N. and Martha. She died September 5, 1881, leaving three children, as above named.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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