chap12


              THE NEW JERSEY HARRIS FAMILY

                         Chapter 12               Pages 197-228
 
 

STEPHAN HARRIS,   son  of  John HARRIS and MARY HAMILTON was born 21 Aug 1780 near Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He married  Sibyl CLARK in 1804 a native of Morris County,  New Jersey, in Washington County, Pennslyvania. They had twelve children, seven  sons and  five  daughters.   After their marriage they relocated in 1809  to Stark County, Ohio and  settled near Massillon. He died in 1862 and his wife Sibyl preceded him by eight years.  They are buried in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio  where a marble monument was erected by their children. Sybil Clark born  4 May 1775 NJ and died 16 Oct 1854 in Ohio.

Photo/Woodcut of Stephen Harris

The  following  extract of the biography of Stephan Harris is taken from the history of Stark County, Ohio, written by R.G. Folger, Esq:

<>"Among the earnest men, and who where among the first to open up  the  forest  on  the west side of the county, was Stephan Harris. His paternal ancestry  were English, and his mother a Scots  woman, and a relative of Gavin Hamilton, of Manchline, the friend and partner of Robert Burns, the Ayrshire plowman, and of the same family as Alexander Hamilton, who fell in the duel at Weehawken, New Jersey, in 1804, with Aaron Burr.  Her
father emigrated to the island of Nevis in the West Indies.

Soon  after  the  close  of the Revolutionary War his father, John Harris, who served as a soldier in that struggle for the vindication of the rights of man, moved with his young family (Stephan being but six years old)  to Washington County, Pa., where  the  subject  of this sketch worked on a farm until he
was  twenty-one years of age.   He then worked for himself in various pursuits,  sometimes as a farm hand, and sometimes as a boatman on the Ohio River, and for some time was engaged in the  ginseng  trade  at  Maysville, Kentucky. He saved enough money  to  enter a  considerable body of land in the vicinity of  Lawrence Station,  on the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago
Railroad  in  the  township of  Lawrence, being the northwest township  in  Stark County, Ohio; which entry was made at the land office at Steubenville.

When  Harris  arrived  at  the  spot where is now the city of Canton and county seat of Stark County, on his way to his new home,  there  was  but three or four cabins to mark the spot, and  where now stands the city of Massillon, at that time was an impassable swamp.  About 100 rods northeast of the present village of Lawrence he commenced a clearing.
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

The first winter he had no feed for his cows or young cattle, but  subsisted  them  upon  browse.  He  would  cut the young linden,  sometimes  called  Basswood, and soft maple, and the cattle  would  follow  him  as  he  went  with  his ax on his shoulder  on a  cold morning on his way to the woods, waiting and  watching for their provender, rushing for the treetop as they saw it fall. He was always civil to the Indians, of whom their  were  many, and of course received civility in return.

In the winter of 1812, this region was  visited by  an earthquake.  Newman's  creek, so named for Jacob Newman, a pioneer Government  Surveyor,  was  covered with thick ice. Mr Harris was  awakened  from  his  sleep  late one night by a crashing sound  rapidly approaching from the East; it was the breaking of the ice,  occasioned  by the swift passing wave which flew by Mr. Harris's cabin which stood near the bank of the creek, and  was  lost  in  the  distance on it's Western course in a moment,  the  rocking  of  the  cabin and crashing of the ice producing  fear  which  vanished  with the cause, and all was quiet.

After  clearing  and  improving  the  farm first entered, Mr. Harris  sold  it  at  an advanced price, and purchased a half section  of  land  in  the Northwest corner of this township, which he improved and owned until near the close of his life. It  is  believed  that  he built the first brick house in the
county  west  of the Tuscarawas River. This farm was, and is, famous  for  the  fertility  of  its soil, good crops and excellent fruit,  and in this connection it should be said that it  was  owned  and  worked by one of the most scientific and practical farmers of his day."

<>He  and  his wife, Sybil were the parents of twelve children, ten of whom survived to be married. Two of his sons have been members  of  the  legislature,    a  third  is  a  successful practicing lawyer at Bucyrus, Ohio. Of his grandsons, two are practicing law in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one in  Bucyrus,  Ohio,  one  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  and at the present  time  a  member  of the Legislature of Illinois. One great grandson was a member of the bar at Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. Harris  was uncle and guardian of Rev. William L. Harris, D.D., Bishop  of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who made his home  for  some  time  in  his  uncle's family. Stephan was a brother  of  Hon. John Harris, of whom mention is made in the sketches of the Bench and Bar of Stark County, Ohio.
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

1.  Rhoda Harris b.  1 Dec 1805 d. 15 Mar 1868
m. William FINLEY 23 Mar 1826

2.  John Hamilton Harris b. 19 Aug 1807 d.
m. Harriet FOGLE 15 Jan 1833

3.  Lucinda Harris b. 27 Feb 1809 d.        1886
m. Samuel P. ROBISON 26 Feb 1828

4.  Amanda Harris b.        1810 d.  5 Oct 1843
m. James S. ALBAN 22 Oct 1833

5.  Mary Harris  b.        1812 d.
m. Madison EYLES 24 Mar 1849

6.  Rachel Harris b. 27 Nov 1814 d. 13 Jan 1888
m. William R. ALBAN 5 Sep 1837

7.  Nathaniel Mitchell Harris   b.        1816 d.        1851
m. Maria SLANKER 25 Jan 1838

8.  Demas Lindly Harris b. 16 May 1818 d.
m. Anna Louisa EYLES 5 Oct 1843

9.  William Franklin Harris  b.        1820 d. in infancy

10. Madison Raynolds Harris  b. 22 Feb 1823 d. 17 Jan 1877
m. Amanda GROVE 2 Dec 1851

11. Stephan Ross Harris b. 22 May 1824 d.
m. Mary Jane MONNETT 27 Sep 1853

12. Samuel Clark Harris b.        1826 d. in infancy
 

RHODA HARRIS,  daughter of Stephan HARRIS and Sibyl CLARK was born in Washington County, P., in 1805. She married William FINLEY in Stark County, Ohio 23 March 1826. They settled in Wayne  County, Ohio  after their marriage. Rhoda died 15 Mar 1868.   Her  husband  was a  farmer by occupation.  Rhoda and William had six children five grew to adulthood.

1. Stephan H. Finley b. 24 Mar 1827
m. Nancy RICHIE 7 Oct 1847

2. Jane M. Finley b. 10 Apr 1829
m. Jacob CARR 2 Aug 1846
 

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3. Amanda Finley b.  5 Apr 1831 d. 24 May 1832

4. Ebenezer B. Finley b. 31 July 1833
m. Emiline CODDING 18 Feb 1858

5. Sybil R. Finley b. 12 Jan 1841
m. Peter W. WIRT 22 Oct 1857
m. Simeon OVERHOLT 7 Jan 1877

6. Ella M. Finley b. 11 Oct 1844
m. Dr. N.S. EVERHARD 17 Oct 1867
 

JOHN HAMILTON HARRIS,   son of Stephan HARRIS and Sybil CLARK was  born  19 Aug 1807 in Washington County, PA. He married Harriet FOGLE  15 Jan 1833  in Stark County, Ohio.  She was from  Canton, Ohio.  Mr.  and Mrs. Harris settled in Wooster, Wayne County,  Ohio  after  their marriage, where their four children were born.  John practiced law for over twenty years
in  Wayne County.  He  attended  an  academy at Canton, Ohio, where  he  acquired  some  knowledge  of the classics, and of Mathematics,  and  later  spent one year at the United States Military  Academy at  West Point.  Mr. Harris read law in the office  of  his uncle, the late Judge John Harris, of Canton, Ohio,  and  was  admitted  to  the bar in 1829, and opened an
office  in  Millersburgh,  Holmes  County, Ohio.  In 1831, he removed to Wooster,  Wayne County, Ohio  where he practiced his profession until 1854.  While in that city he was elected Auditor of the county for one term, and one term as member of the State Senate.   Mr Harris was a success in the legal profession  in  Ohio, and having accumulated a fair property, he sold  out  and  went  to  Illinois and settled on a farm near Mendota, La Salle County,  on which he lived until the spring of 1860, when he moved into the city of Mendota. He served as Justice of the Peace most of  the  time he was in that State, keeping  an  office  in  the city, while on his farm. He also served  for a  number of  years on the County Board of Supervisors,  and  has  always  been a  man of much public spirit, willing  to help any cause likely to benefit the community.

Photo/Woodcut of John H. Harris

Mr. Harris'  wife  was a daughter of Doctor William FOGLE, of Canton, Ohio,  and his grandfather, John Harris, Sr., was one of the Jersey minute men of the  Revolutionary War,  and participated  in  the  bloody  battle  of Monmouth.   Their four children were:
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

1. Elnora B. Harris b. 11 Aug 1835 d. 9 Nov 1863
m. Rev. High STURGEON 14 Feb 1854

2. Frederick W. Harris b. 28 Fed 1839 d. 14 May 1840

3. Adaline L. Harris b. 13 Aug 1841 d.  6 Dec 1863

4. Mary Hamilton Harris b. 26 Oct 1851 d.
m. Collins A. HARBAUGH 26 Oct 1870
 

LUCINDA HARRIS,  daughter  of Stephan HARRIS and Sibyl CLARK was born 27 Feb 1809 in Washington County, PA. She married Samuel P. ROBISON in 1828  of Millersburgh,  Holmes County, Ohio. Mr. Robison was an extensive landowner. He died in 1873 and  Lucinda  died  in  1886  at Millersburgh. They had three children, all born in Holmes County.

1. Hamilton H. Robison b.
m. Elizabeth TEISHER

2. John W. Robison b.             d. in infancy

3. Sibyl M. Robison b.
 

AMANDA HARRIS, daughter of Stephan HARRIS and Sibyl CLARK was born in  1810  in  Stark County, Ohio. She married James S. ALBAN  22 Oct 1833  by  whom she had five children one son and  four  daughters.  A  few  years after their marriage, in 1837, they moved to Wisconsin. It is said that Mrs. Alban was the first white woman to set foot on the soil of Sauk County.
Mrs. Alban died 5 Oct 1843 and is buried at Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.  The children were sent east to be raised by their grandparents.

Mr. Alban,  after  the  death  of  his wife, became a lawyer, County Judge,  Assemblyman  and Senator from the same county, and  when  the  Civil War  broke out, became a Colonel of the Eighteenth Regiment of  Wisconsin Volunteers, and fell at the head of his regiment on the bloody field of Shiloh.
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

              He was gentle, faithful and noble,
                Patient and tender and brave;
              The husband and father and hero,
                Lies low in his Southern grave.
 

              Sleep, hero! sleep in calm repose,
                Upon Columbia's breast
              For thee! with love her bosum glows,
                Rest, brave hero, rest!
 
 

1. Lucinda Alban b. 27 Jly 1834
m. Luther HANCHETT 1853
m. James RAYMON   1866

2. Stephan Harris Alban b.  7 Apr 1836
m. Helen N. COWAN 1869

3. Elizabeth Alban b. 29 Jly 1838
m. Andrew O. BROWN 3 Oct 1858

4. Sibyl C. Alban  b. 12 Jan 1841
m. John Halladay 11 Oct 1865

5. Amanda R. Alban b.  8 Feb 1843
 

MARY HARRIS,  daughter of  Stephan HARRIS and Sibyl CLARK was born  in  1812  in  Stark County, Ohio. She married Madison EYLES (EYLAS) in Stark County 24 Mar 1849. Madison was from Wadsworth,  Medina  County, Ohio.  Madison died and his widow Mary was living in Wadsworth, Ohio in 1885.
 

RACHEL HARRIS, daughter of Stephan HARRIS and Sibyl CLARK was born  27 Nov 1814  in  Stark  County, Ohio. She married in Stark  County  William S. ALBAN  brother  to  her  sister's husband  James S. ALBAN   5 Sept 1837.  Mr.  and Mrs. Alban removed to Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin where Mr. Alban practiced  law  for  some  time,  and  where Mrs. Alban died 13 Jan 1888.  They had six children.
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

1. Samuel C. Alban b.  3 June 1838
m. Celina C. STEWARD 15 Oct 1872

2. Stephan Harris Alban b. 11 Sept 1840 d. 1842

3. William Harris Alban b. 23 Mar 1844 d.  1 June 1863

4. Milton L. Alban              b.  9 Jan 1846 d. 16 May 1879
m. Chloe S. BLODGITT 4 May 1872

5. Laura V. Alban b. 23 Dec 1848 d. 19 Jan 1880

6. Ada Alban b. 17 Dec 1851 d. 19 Jan 1882
m. John W. STROPE 19 July 1871
 

NATHANIEL MITCHELL HARRIS,   son of  Stephan Harris and Sibyl CLARK was  born in  Stark County, Ohio  in 1816.  He married Maria SLANKER  25 Jan 1838  in Stark County, Ohio. He was a dry  goods  merchant in Fulton, Ohio. They went to California where  Mr. Harris  died  in  1851.  He had one daughter, Mary Eliza Harris, who, soon after her  father's death (her mother
also being dead), went to Plover, Wisconsin, to live with her cousin,  Lucinda Alban,  then  wife  of  Luther Hanchett, the member of Congress from that district.  She became acquainted with,  and  married, James RAYMON a lawyer of that place. She died within a few years, leaving three children, of whom only one is living: Mitchell Harris RAYMON born in 1861. He lived
at Stevens Point, Wisconsin in 1883.
 

DEMAS LINDLY HARRIS,  son of  Stephan HARRIS  and Sibyl CLARK was  born 16 May 1818 in Tuscarawas Township, Stark County, Ohio.  He  married  Anna Louisa EYLAS  of  Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio  8 Oct 1843  by  whom he had five children. He attended  Grandville  Academy  in Ohio in 1841. He emigrated overland to California in 1850, where he spent two years. Mr.
Harris represented Nevada County, CA., in the first political convention  ever  held  in  the  State,  in  May 1851, in San Francisco.  Demas  was  nominated  to run for Governor as the Whig candidate from Nevada County. He lost by twelve votes.

He  went  with his family to Lee County, Illinois where he purchased a farm about eight miles north of Mendota. He moved in to the city of Mendota in 1876. He owned 400 acres of land which he farmed in Mendota County.
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

He  held  various  township  offices,  such as Supervisor and Chairman  of  the  Board.  He  was elected to the Legislature during the Civil War.  Mr. Harris cast his first vote for Tom Corwin  for  Governor  of  Ohio, in October 1840, and a month later he voted for Gen. William Henry Harrison for President. He was legislator from 4 Mar 1861, until 1884.

1. Mary Viola Harris b. 12 May 1844
m. Oscar MERRIFIELD 18 Mar 1883

2. Madison Raynolds Harris b. 29 Sep 1847
m. Katherine DUFFIELD 10 Sept 1886

3. Frank Mitchell Harris b.  4 Aug 1850 d.  8 May 1887
m. Lucy PEBLES 28 Nov 1878

4. Cora Louisa Harris b. 27 Aug 1855 d. 26 July 1881

5. Clarinda Hamilton Harris b.  5 Jne 1862
m. John S. EDGECOMB 14 Feb 1883
 

<>MADISON RAYNOLDS HARRIS,  son of  Stephan HARRIS  and  Sibyl CLARK  was  born  22 Feb 1823  in  Stark  County, Ohio.  He married  Amanda GROVE of Philadelphia, PA., 2 Dec 1851. She was  the  daughter  of Henry GROVE, a linseed manufacturer in Philadelphia.   Mr.  Harris  was  in  the  wholesale  grocery business  in  Philadelphia.   He died  January 17, 1877 aged
fifty-four years. Their five children were:

1. Henry Grove Harris b. 22 Feb 1853

2. Stephan Harris b. 16 Nov 1854 d. 17 Aug 1855

3. Albert Hamilton Harris b.  5 June 1856

4. Mary Sibyl Harris b.

5. Anna Grove Harris b. 19 June 1864
 

STEPHAN ROSS HARRIS,  son  of  Stephan HARRIS and Sibyl CLARK was born 22 May 1824 in Stark County, Ohio. He married Mary Jane MONNETT 27 Sept 1853  in Stark County.  Mr. Harris was educated  at  the preparatory department, Washington College, Pennsylvania,  then entered Norwalk Seminary, Ohio under the late Bishop Thompson, then  finished  his education at the Western Reserve College, Ohio. He taught school in 1846 at Canal Fulton, Stark County, Ohio, then read  law  with John Harris at Canton, in 1847 and 1848. He was law partner of Hon. Josiah Scott from the winter of 1849, until the death of Judge Scott in 1879, except the years he was Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio.  They had four children.

1. Sarah J. Harris b.        1864

2. William R. Harris b.        1866
m. Julia A. McGAHN 15 Dec 1886

3. Gavin Hamilton Harris b. 21 Sep 1868

4. Nellie Rachel Harris b.  3 Feb 1874
 

STEPHAN H. FINLEY, son of William FINLEY and Rhoda HARRIS was born  24 Mar 1827  in Wayne County, Ohio. He married Nancy RICHIE 7 Oct 1847.  They had four children. Mr. Finley was a farmer and lived near Bethel, Shelby County, Ohio.

1. Rhoda Finley b.  4 Feb 1849
m. R.J. McINTIRE 29 Mar 1868

2. Ella Finley b. 26 Feb 1850
m. S.G. McINTIRE 25 Dec 1868

3. Gallantha Finley b. 29 Sept 1854
m. S.H. FARRER 4 Mar 1880

4. Charles J. Finley b.  8 Aug 1859
 

JANE M. FINLEY,  daughter  of William FINLEY and Rhoda HARRIS was  born  10 Apr 1829  in  Wayne County, Ohio. She married Jacob CARR  of  Doylestown, Wayne County 2 Aug 1846 by whom she  had  four  children.  Mr. Carr  was a carpenter and they lived in Wadsworth, Medina County, in 1882.

1. William Finley Carr b. 13 Mar 1848

2. Frances Lucinda Carr b. 12 Aug 1852
m. James H. PORTER 31 Dec 1878
 

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3. Marshall M. Carr b. 21 Jan 1855
m. Emily F. EBNER 25 Aug 1876

4. Mary H.E. Carr b. 13 June 1863
 

MARSHALL M. CARR,  son  of  Jacob CARR and Jane M. FINLEY was born 21 Jan 1855 at Johnson's Corners, Summit County, Ohio. He  married  Emily F. EBNER  of  Wadsworth,  Medina County, Ohio 25 Aug 1876.  They had one child.  Jacob was a railroad man and lived at Cleveland, Ohio in 1882.

1. Edith E. Carr b.  4 July 1877
 

EBENEZER B. FINLEY,   son of  William FINLEY and Rhoda HARRIS was  born 31 July 1833 in Orville, Wayne County, Ohio.  His early  years  were passed on the farm, and he was educated in the  schools  of  the  time.  At the age of twenty he went to Kansas. He taught school in  Illinois for two years. In 1858, he  went to the far West,  to the Rocky Mountains, and stayed in this rugged place until the end of 1859.

<>He  returned  to Ohio and entered upon the study of law. When the Civil War  broke  out,  he  enlisted  in the Sixty-fourth Regiment  of  Ohio Volunteers. He served as First Lieutenant. After the war he was admitted to the bar and practiced law at Bucyrus, Ohio.   He was elected Congressman during the forty-fifth  and  forty-sixth congresses. Mr Finley was chairman of the committee on Public Expenditures.

He  married  18 Feb 1858 Emeline CODDING of Summit County, Ohio. They had one child Henry M. FINLEY born 10 Jan 1859 and died at his father's in Bucyrus, aged twenty-three years. He was a graduate of the Naval Academy Annapolis, MD.
 

SIBYL R. FINLEY,  daughter of William FINLEY and Rhoda HARRIS was  born  12 Jan 1841  in Wayne County, Ohio. She married Peter W. WIRT 22 Oct 1857  by  whom  she had five children. Mr. and Mrs. Wirt lived together for some sixteen years, then separated on 8 Sep 1873. She married Simeon OVERHOLT 7 Jan 1877 and they lived near  Hastings,  Barry County, Michigan. They had no children.
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

1. Weldon W. Wirt b.  7 Mar 1859

2. Edgar Wirt b. 19 Dec 1862

3. Nellie Wirt b.  7 Sept 1873 d. 22 Oct 1870

4. Maud Wirt  b.  1 Mar 1869 d. in infancy

5. Francis Wirt  b. 27 June 1873
 

ELNORA B. HARRIS, daughter  of  John H. Harris  and Harriet FOGLE was born 11 Aug 1835 in  Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio.  She married 14 Feb 1854 Rev. High STURGEON a Presbyterian minister, by whom she had two children.  Mrs.  Sturgeon died at Mendota Illinois  9 Nov 1863  while  her husband was an officer in the  Union Army, and was acting as Provost Marshal of the city of  Knoxville, Tennessee.  After the death of his wife he lived in Darlington, Pennsylvania.

<>
1. John Harris Sturgeon
2. Kate B. Sturgeon
 

MARY HAMILTON HARRIS,  daughter of John H. HARRIS and Harriet FOGLE  was born 26 Oct 1851 in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. She married  26 Oct 1870  Collins A. HARBAUGH  in Mendota, Illinois. They had three children. Mr. Harbaugh is a merchant of Mendota, Illinois.

<>1. Harriet Isabel Harbaugh

2. Fredrica Augusta Harbaugh

3. Cora Emma Harbaugh
 

HAMILTON H. ROBISON,   son  of  Samuel P. ROBISON and Lucinda HARRIS  was  born  in  Holmes  County  Ohio.   He  married Elizabeth TEISHER by whom he had three children. Mr. Robison was an extensive landowner,  and a civil  engineer,  and they lived near Millersburgh, Holmes County, Ohio.
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

1. Lucy Alice Robison

2. Stephan Harris Robison

3. Ella T. Robison
 

LUCINDA ALBAN,   daughter of James S. ALBAN and Amanda HARRIS was  born  27 July 1834 in Stark County, Ohio. She married in 1853 Luther HANCHETT in Plover, Portage County, WI. They had two children. Mr. Hanchett died young and Lucinda married for  her  second  husband  James RAYMOND in 1866. She had no children by the second marriage.

1. Amanda A. Hanchett b.         1855
m. Anderson W. BROWN

2. James Alban Hanchett b.         1859
 

STEPHAN HARRIS ALBAN, son of James S. ALBAN and Amanda HARRIS
was  born  7 Apr 1836  in  Ohio. Mr. Alban studied law, was admitted  to  the  bar, and  practiced law at Steven's Point, Wisconsin,  for  some  time; then removed to Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin.  He  married  Helen N. COWAN in 1869 by whom he had three children.

1. Edith L. Alban b. 20 July 1870

2. Helen L. Alban b. 19 July 1872

3. Anna A. Alban b..  7 Apr 1874
 

ELIZABETH S. ALBAN,   daughter  of  James S. ALBAN and Amanda HARRIS was born 29 July 1838 in Sauk County, Wisconsin and is supposed to be the first white child born  in that part of the  county.   She  married  3 Oct 1858 Andrew O. BROWN in Plover,  Portage  County,  Wisconsin. They had five children. After  some  years of living in Wisconsin they removed to the
Dakota  Territory  and  settled  near  Iroquois  in Kingsbury County.
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

1. Evalyn Amanda Brown b.  7 July 1859

2. Sibyl Mary Brown b. 12 June 1861 d. 18 Aug 1862

3. Luther Hanchett Brown b. 23 Dec 1862

4. Oliver Andrew Brown b. 24 Oct 1864

5. Schuyler Alban Brown b. 30 Sept 1868
 

SIBYL C. ALBAN,  daughter of James S. ALBAN and Amanda HARRIS was  born in Sauk County, Wisconsin 12 Jan 1848. She married John HALLADAY  11 Oct 1865 in  Plover, Wisconsin.  They had four  children.  After their marriage they moved to Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska.

1. Harris Hanchett Halladay b.  5 July 1866

2. Sibyl May Halladay b. 24 Jan 1869

3. Kitty Halladay b. 20 Dec 1875 d. 29 Aug 1877

4. Cora Emma Halladay b. 31 July 1880
 

SAMUEL C. ALBAN,   son  of William R. ALBAN and Rachel HARRIS was  born  3 June 1838  in  Ohio.  He married 15 Oct 1872 Celina C. STEWARD by whom he had five children. Samuel was a farmer and taught school for many years. lived in Portage, Wisconsin.

1. Rachel M. Alban b.  4 July 1873
m. Thomas GAGE
m. Will MARTIN

2. Earl C. Alban b. 10 Apr 1875
m. Mary Regina HUDSON

3. Charles H. Alban b. 23 Jan 1877

4. Floyd Lossing Alban b.  6 Oct 1878 d. 16 Feb 1933
m. Daisy A. LISKUM 20 Feb 1907  b. 30 June 1882 d. 12 July 1917
m. Bessie Mae EISENBISE b.  6 Jan 1898 d.    May 1985

5. Sibyl L. Alban b.  8 July 1882
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

RACHEL M. ALBAN,   daughter  of Samuel C. ALBAN and Celina E. STEWARD  was  born  4 July 1873 in  Wisconsin.  She married first  Thomas GAGE.   After he died she married Will MARTIN. She had three children by her first husband.

1. Harold Gage

2. Margaret Gage

3. Donald Gage
 

EARL C. ALBAN,  son of Samuel C. ALBAN and Celina E.  STEWARD was born  10 Apr 1875  in Wisconsin. He married Mary Regina HUDSON. They had three children.

1. Charles Alban b.             d. young

2. Matthew Alban
m. Leona ______?

3. Winifred Alban b. 12 Oct 1901
 

FLOYD LOSSING ALBAN,   son  of  Samuel C. ALBAN and Celina E.  STEWARD  was  born 6 Oct 1878 in Buena Vista, Wisconsin. He married  20 Feb 1907  Daisy Adele LISKUM born in Stockbridge, Wisconsin  30 June 1882.  She  was  the  daughter  of Lowell LISKUM and Mettie Inez SWEET. Floyd died 16 June 1933 and is buried in Forest Cemetery, at Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Daisy died 12 July 1917 in Stevens Point. Floyd  married  for his
second wife  Bessie Mae EISENBISE born 6 Jan 1898 she and died in May 1985.  Floyd  and Daisy had four children. Floyd and Bessie had one child, Ruth. Floyd was a railroad mail clerk.

1. Sybil Dorothy Alban b.        1908 d. 27 Jan 1920

2. Jean Mettie Alban (twin) b.  7 Aug 1912 d.  6 Mar 1986
m. Sam PAULKEN 1950

3. Janet Celina Alban (twin) b.  7 Aug 1912 d. 16 Nov 1974
m. Wilfred Walter MITTELSTADT 1938

4. Ada Virginia Alban b. 14 Nov 1914 d.
m. Joseph SIEGFRIED 4 Sept 1943  b. 29 Jan 1917 d. 24 June 1988

5. Edna Ruth Alban b. 27 Aug 1920 d.
m. Donald ZELLER 3 Oct 1948 b.  4 Feb 1912
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 
 

JANET CELINA ALBAN,   daughter  of  Floyd L. ALBAN  and Daisy Adele LISKUM  was  born  7 Aug 1912 in  Stevens Point, Wisconsin.   She  married  in 1938 Wilfred Walter MITTELSTADT. Janet died  16 Nov 1974.   Wilfred died in 1990. They had two children. Janet was a secretary for  an insurance company and was  an  active  member  of  the Republican Women's Party and
wrote articles for their publications. Her husband, Bill, was an  Osteopath,  M.D.  and  ran  a hospital in Marshfield, WI. Later he practiced medicine in Florida.

1. Melinda Jean Mittelstadt b.  4 Dec 1941
m. Ray Richard RAYMOND (div.)   b. 13 Apr 1934

2. Warren Alan Mittelstadt b. 27 Mar 1947
m. Laurie TOONEN  (div.) b. 18 Sept 1952
 

JEAN METTIE ALBAN, daughter of Floyd L. Alban and Daisy A. Liskum was born 7 August 1912 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She and Janet were twins. She married Sam (marion PAULKEN in 1950. Jean was a spar in World War II and later worked as a Computer operator for Tracy Defense Depot. They had no children.
 

ADA VIRGINIA ALBAN,   daughter of Floyd L. ALBAN and Daisy A. LISKUM was born  14 Nov 1914  in  Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She married 4 Sept 1943 Joseph Paul SIEGFRIED who was born 29 Jan 1917 and  died  24 June 1988. They had three children. Ada was a  nurse  in  the Army Nursing Corp. during World War II,  and  continued working as a registered nurse in civilian
life  until  her  retirement. Her husband, Joe, coached football,  baseball,  taught bookkeeping and was Ret. Col. of the Air Force Ready Reserve. Ada Virginia lives in Oakdale, CA.
 

1. Michael Francis Siegfried b. 15 July 1946 d.
m. Jane Alice POOLEY 28 June 1975 b. 12 Mar 1956 d.

2. Joseph Paul Siegfried b. 16 July 1947
m. Merry Anne WEEKS 31 Oct 1986 b. 25 July 1955

3. Diane Marien Siegfried b.  3 Aug 1949
 

RUTH EDNA ALBAN,   daughter of Floyd L. ALBAN and Bessie Mae EISENBISE was born 27 Aug 1920 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She  married  Donald ZELLER  3 Oct 1948.  He  was born 4 Feb 1912.  They  had three children. Ruth worked for the Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin  newspaper  and  the Stockton Record Office after she moved to California. She currently lives in Arcata, California  and  writes  copy for a public radio station. Her
husband,  Donald,  is an insurance broker and now that he has retired, appraises commercial  property  for  insurance  purposes part time.
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

1. Susan Janet Zeller (living)   b.  1949
m. Nathan KING 1985  (living)  b.   1949

2. Jan Elizabeth Zeller (living)   b.  1951
m. Clifford JANSON  1983  (living) b.   1954

3. Jill Morrison Zeller (living) b.  1953
m. Stephen BRAY  1991
 

MELINDA JEAN MITTELSTADT,  daughter of Wilfred W. MITTELSTADT
was born 4 Dec 1941. She  married  Ray Richard RAYMOND  who was born 13 Apr 1934. They have two children.  Linda and Ray are divorced.

1. Allen William Raymond b.  6 Mar 1962

2. Wilfred Daniel Raymond b. 10 May 1963
 

<>WARREN ALAN MITTELSTADT,   son of Wilfred W. MITTELSTADT was
born  27 Mar 1947.  He  married  Laurie TOONEN. They had two children. Warren and Laurie are divorced.

1. Amanda Sue Mittelstadt b.  9 Nov 1979
2. Warren Alan Mittelstadt Jr. b. 24 Apr 1983
 

MICHAEL FRANCIS SIEGFRIED, son of Joseph P. SIEGFRIED and Virginia A. ALBAN was born 15 July 1946. He  married Jane Alice POOLEY born 12 Mar 1956. They had two children. Michael teaches  Math and coaches football at Tokay High School in Lodi, California. Jane is a teacher in the Lodi
Unified School District.

1. Kathryn Louise Siegfried b. 25 Apr 1979
2. Anne Elizabeth Siegfried b. 17 Feb 1982
 

WILLIAM HARRIS ALBAN,   son  of  William R. ALBAN  and Rachel Harris  was  born  23 Mar 1844  in  Ohio.  He went with his parents  to  Plover,  Wisconsin.  He  enlisted  in Company G, Eighteenth  Regiment  of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War.  He was  a First Lieutenant and was killed at the  siege  of  Vicksburg 1 June 1863 in the defense of his
country.  Samuel C. Alban,  a  brother  of William H., was in Company I, of the same regiment, was  First Sergeant; and was wounded at Vicksburg, 18 May 1863.
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

MILTON L. ALBAN,  son  of  William R. ALBAN and Rachel HARRIS was  born 9 Jan 1846 in Ohio. He married Chloe S. BLODGITT 4 May 1872  by whom he had two children.  Milton died 16 May 1879 aged thirty-three years.

1. William L. Alban b. 23 Apr 1874

2. Robert Bruce Alban b. 26 July 1876
 

ADA ALBAN, daughter of William R. ALBAN and Rachel HARRIS was born  17 Dec 1851 in Ohio.  She married 19 July 1871 John W. STROPE  by  whom  she  had  one child. Ada died on 19 Jan 1882 leaving a  husband  and a little daughter to mourn her loss.

1. Elta M. Strope b. 10 Apr 1875
 

<>MARY VIOLA HARRIS,  daughter  of  Demas L. HARRIS and Anna L. EYLES  was  born  12 May 1843  in  Summit County, Ohio. She married  Oscar MERRIFIELD  18 Mar 1883 by whom she had one child. They lived in Mendota, La Salle County, Wisconsin.

1. Anna Louisa Merrifield b. 10 Sept 1885
 

MADISON RAYNOLDS HARRIS,   son of Demas L. HARRIS and Anna L.
EYLES  was  born  29 Sept 1847 in Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio.   He  married Katherine DUFFIELD of Chicago, Illinois 10 Sep 1886.  He was an attorney and a figure in politics. He represented his district in the Legislature in 1882 and 1883.  

FRANK MITCHELL HARRIS,   son  of  Demas L. HARRIS and Anna L. EYLES  was  born  4 Aug 1850  in  Summit  County,  Ohio. He married Lucy PEBLES of Virginia 28 Nov 1878 by whom he had two  children  both  dying  at  birth.   He  was educated in Illinois  and  prepared  himself  to  be  an engineer. He was employed  by  the  government  on  the  Mississippi river improvement project for four years.  He was superintendent of a division but resigned his  position  and engaged in the manufacture  of  barbed wire at Kansas City, Missouri. He died at Kansas City 8 May 1887.
 

                      THE HARRIS FAMILY
 

CORA LOUISA HARRIS,   daughter of Demas L. HARRIS and Anna L. EYLES  was born 27 Aug 1855 in Summit County, Ohio. When an infant  her  parents  removed to Illinois, where she grew to womanhood; took a  collegiate  education at the University of Evanston,  Illinois;  stood high in her classes, and excelled in  elocution.  The  confinement  of  the school room induced
pulmonary disease,  and  she died 26 July 1881 at the age of twenty-five years.
 

CLARINDA HAMILTON HARRIS,   daughter  of  Demas L. HARRIS and Anna L. EYLES was born 5 June 1862 in Lee County, Illinois. She married  14 Feb 1883   John S. EDGECOMB.  They  had two children. Mr Edgecomb was a farmer and they lived near Utica, La Salle County, Illinois.

1. Fred Harris Edgecomb b. 15 Dec 1883

2. John Harold Edgecomb b. 14 Aug 1885
 

SARAH J. HARRIS,  daughter  of  Stephan R. HARRIS and Mary MONNETT was born in 1864 in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. She took a classical course and  graduated  with first honors of  a  class  of  thirty-two  in  the  Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio.
 

WILLIAM R. HARRIS,  son of Stephan R. HARRIS and Mary MONNETT was  born  in  1866  in  Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. He married  Julia A. McGAHN  of  Caselton,  Vermont.  They were married  at  Humphrey,  Nebraska, and ran a large stock farm near Hartley, O'Brien County, Iowa.
 

GAVIN HAMILTON HARRIS,   son  of  Stephan R. HARRIS  and Mary MONETT  was born 21 Sept 1868 in  Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio.  He graduated in July, 1886 at  Orchard Lake Military Academy, Michigan,  then  entered  as a law student at Kenyon College, Knox County, Ohio in 1887.

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