| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Second Generation14. Samuel HARRIS
was born on 16 Feb 1844 in Ontario, Canada. In 1893 he was in Farmer.
He appeared in the census on 4 Mar 1920 in Richland Center, Richland Co., Wisconsin.82 He died on 19 Oct 1925 in Richland
Center, Richland County, Wisconsin.83
He was buried on 22 Oct 1925 in English Ridge Cemetery, Richland County, Wisconsin.
He served in the military in Civil War Co B 42nd Wis Inf. He is
reference number 80. History of Richland County, Pg. 462-3
SAMUEL HARRIS has been a resident of Richland county since his boyhood days and
is a member of one of the well known pioneer families of the town of Marshall,
where he is now the owner and operator of a well improved farm, also having the
distinction of being a veteran of the Civil War. In the sketch of the life of
his elder brother, Thomas, appearing in this volume, is given detailed record
of the family history, so that a repetition of the data is not demanded in the
present connection. He was born in the province of Ontario, Canada, Feb. 16,
1844, and in the same year his parents removed to Onondaga county, New York,
where they remained until 1855 and where he received his rudimentary education
in the common schools. In the year mentioned the family came to Richland county
and he was a lad of eleven years at the time, so that the conditions and incidents
of the pioneer days were firmly impressed upon his youthful and plastic mind.
He early began to do hard work in connection with the reclaiming of the old homestead
farm, in the town of Marshall, and he attended school at irregular intervals,
during the winter terms. He continued to reside with his parents until he was
thirty-two years of age, save for the period of his service in the Civil War,
having married in the meanwhile. On Aug. 19, 1864, he enlisted in Company B,
Forty-second Wisconsin volunteer infantry, being stationed with his command at
Cairo, Ill., from September of that year until March, 1865, on guard duty, and
being thereafter at Springfield, the capital of that state, until the close of
the war, having received his honorable discharge June 20, 1865 at Madison, Wis.
Though he took part in no decisive battles he was ever ready to respond to the
call of duty and it was but a contingency that he was not called to the field
of conflict. Mr. Harris bought a farm of sixty acres in the town of Aken, the
same having been partially improved. He resided on the place five years and then
returned to the old homestead, a part of which he owned. After the death of his
mother, he continued to reside on the homestead until November, 1903, when he
sold the same, since which time he has lived on his present farm, in section
28, the same comprising forty-one and one-half acres of most arable land, well
improved and under a high state of cultivation. He is a general farmer and stock-grower
and is a man of progressive ideas and of marked loyalty as a citizen. He gives
his allegiance to the Republican party, and has served twenty years as a member
of the school board. His wife is a member of the United Brethren church at English
Ridge. Apr. 15, 1866, Mr. Harris was married to Miss Laura Gorsuch, of Hudson,
St. Croix county, Wis., and she died in 1877. Of the five children of this union
only the second is living, - Otis, who is a farmer in Akan township. Those deceased
are Hattie, Ida, Bertha and Charles. As his second wife, Mr. Harris married Miss
Penina Beeman, who was born in Indiana and whose death occurred in 1889. Her
only child, Jay, died at the age of twelve years. January 1, 1894, Mr. Harris
married Miss Martha Doudna, and they have one daughter, Laura H., who is attending
the district school near her home.
Samuel HARRIS
and Laura E. GORSUCH were married on 15 Apr 1866. Laura
E. GORSUCH (daughter of Silas GORSUCH and Phebe) was born on 15 Feb 1851
in Wisconsin. She appeared in the census in 1860 in Hudson, St. Croix
County, Wisconsin. She died on 10 Apr 1876.84 She was buried in English Ridge Cemetery, Richland
County, Wisconsin. She is reference number 2919. Samuel
HARRIS and Laura E. GORSUCH had the following children:
Samuel
HARRIS and Pemina BEEMAN were married on 1 Sep 1878 in Eagle, Richland Co, Wisconsin.89 They appeared in the census on
17 Jun 1880 in Marshall, Richland County, Wisconsin.90 Pemina BEEMAN (daughter
of John BEEMAN) was born on 17 Jan 1856 in Grant County, Indiana.
She died on 9 Jun 1888 in Akan, Richland County, Wisconsin.91,92 She was
buried in Felton Cemetery, Richland County, Wisconsin.93 She is reference number 2920. Samuel HARRIS
and Pemina BEEMAN had the following children:
Samuel HARRIS and Martha Euphemia DOUDNA
were married on 1 Jan 1893 in Marshall, Richland County, Wisconsin.95,96 They appeared
in the census on 13 Jun 1900 in Marshall, Richland County, Wisconsin.97 They appeared in the census on
20 Apr 1910 in Marshall, Richland County, Wisconsin.98 Martha Euphemia DOUDNA (daughter
of Isaac DOUDNA and Martha PEEBLES) was born on 19 Nov 1849 in Somerset, Belmont,
Ohio.99 She died on 11 Feb
1920.100 She was buried
in Fancy Creek Cemetery, Richland County, Wisconsin. She is reference
number 2972. Samuel HARRIS and Martha Euphemia DOUDNA had the following
children:
Samuel HARRIS and Almira J. SPARLING were married in 1923. Almira J. SPARLING is reference number 4347. |