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Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Harris is 1 Married Fifty Five YearsMr. and Mrs. Josiah Harris', living at 1439 Smith Eighth street. were married flfty-flrc years ago today I The event will I.C celebrated this afternoon with n reception at the , home of Mr. ami Mrs. Harris’s daughter. Mrs A. A. Hen nett and Mr. Bcn-r nett. 3«»T. Division street, j Josiah Harris Is eighty years of age I He was lorii in Fair Haven. Ohio. I j September 1, 1844. and lived there until ho grew to manhood. As isj ’often the ease with youth, he had n! i desire to explore the west, and so, at the age of twenty-three, on October I II. 1887. he started for the great west.j i Ho whs accompanied by a brother.I They crossed the Mississippi river at I Peoria, III., where they took a stage coaeli trii* through Missouri, stopping In Springfield. Mo., for awhile. Then they came on to Kansas, visiting law renoe and Topeka. After looking around they derided to return to Ohio, reaching there in lM»*v Hut the next year, Josiah Harris raidgoodbye to his old home and again started west. He stopped in Fountain Green, J1L His .tlt;r*thcr was with, him, and together they engaged In farming.It was in Fountain Green lie met, his wife. She was Miss Angeline; Wltherow, one of the twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wltherow.| a prominent Presbyterian family in j Fountain Green. One of Mrs. Harris’s uncles was a prearhrr In the l*nitcd|IPresbyterian church. She was a school teacher when she married Mr Harris on January 11. 1870. and he says h very pretty girl.Mr. and Mrs. Harris lived the first nine years of their married life in Illinois, and then moved to Missouri, where they remained three years. Then they went to Iowa, where they lived for fourteen years During those years they preempted *5° acres of J land near Grecly, Kansas. ‘In 18P3 they went to Bllonmei Springs. Ark., where they lived until coming to Atchison In 1913. to lie near two of their children: Mrs. A. A.Rennett, and a son. C II. Harris. I*ookk«s*per at the Itlair Milling «'o. 'They have t\vj^ other children. It. It. Harris, who is in tin* monument business iu VJIIIscu. Iowa, and Mrs. A. A. Moyer. Richlaud, Iowa. There are seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.It is an achievement for a man and his wife to make a success of their married life, and so Mr, and Mrs. Josiah Harris, with fifty-five years of happy married life to their credit. lmv© attained heights of success In this world. Both like work better than idleness. Their children have a hard time restraining them fr«*m doing too much work. They keep house in their comfortable home on South Eighth street, and in the sum nor time their garden is one of the best and most productive In Atchison.
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Atchison Sunday Globe
Atchison, Kansas, US
Sun, Jan 11, 1925
Page 9
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