Harris, Thomas

HARRIS, MAYO, DODDS

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/5/2013 at 07:04:35

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

HARRIS, THOMAS—Deep River Twp—pg 730-1. Dealer in lumber and grain. Section 17, P.O. Montezuma. Owns a farm of 360 acres. Was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, October 14, 1832. His father was the captain of a sailing ship, and when fifteen years of age he went with his father, and made two trips to Europe, and one to San Francisco. In the fall of 1849 he returned home and soon after removed to Hampden, Maine, and engaged in the general merchandise and manufacture of lumber, and in shipping. He was there married to Miss Maria Mayo, October 15, 1854. In 1856 he sold out and came to this county and located on section 21, Deep River township. His wife died, leaving one son and one daughter: Nathan M. and Sarah Lizzie. He took for his second wife Sarah Dodds, of Washington county, by whom he had four children, two sons and two daughters: Thomas, Jr., Wilber, Minnie and Alma.