By
FIELDER BOWIE HARRIS
B. A. Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio
B. S. and M. S. University of Chicago
August, 1935
| DEDICATION |
| FIRST, To my own father and mother, to whom I owe so much; SECOND, To my ancestors back of these, people who played so well their part in the early history of our great commonwealth and so made possible the homes of the present generation, this book is most reverently dedicated. |
| THE AUTHOR. |
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| FIELDER BOWIE HARRIS |
| From a Cut Made for the History of the Miami Valley in 1918 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| Foreword | ix | ||
| Part I — The Ancestry | |||
| Chapter I — The Harris-Winn Lines | |||
| The Harris Family in England and the Early Colonies | 3 | ||
| The Harris Family in Virginia | 4 | ||
| The Ohio Harris Ancestry | 7 | ||
| The Winn Ancestry | 10 | ||
| The Cherry Coat of Arms | 14 | ||
| Chapter II — The Cherry-Hollenback Lines | |||
| The Cherry Family in England | 17 | ||
| Origin of the Cherry Family | 17 | ||
| General Lines of Descent | 19 | ||
| General Character of the Cherry Families | 20 | ||
| Cherrys in Ireland | 22 | ||
| The Cherry Family in America | 22 | ||
| Our Cherry Ancestors in America | 24 | ||
| The Hollenback Ancestral Families | 28 | ||
| Captain William Cherry’s Home | 31 | ||
| Part II — The Ohio Pioneer Family | |||
| Chapter I — The Ohio Pioneer Family | |||
| Pioneer Life, Conditions, Etc., 1809-1860 | 37 | ||
| Early Clarksville Community | 46 | ||
| Chapter II — The James Harris-Mary Cherry Home | |||
| The James Harris-Mary Cherry Home | 55 | ||
| His Public Life of James Harris | 58 | ||
| Part III — The Posterity | |||
| Chapter I — The Mary Harris-Statler Descendants | 65 | ||
| Chapter II — The Eleanor Jane Harris-Villars Descendants | 73 | ||
| Chapter III — Susan Harris-Deakin Descendants | 81 | ||
| Chapter IV — James Harris-Wilkerson-Biggs Descendants | 85 | ||
| Chapter V — Samuel Harris-Phebe Kibbey Descendants | |||
| Pioneer Housekeeping | 93 | ||
| A Boy’s Paradise | 95 | ||
| History of the Miami Valley, Published 1919 | 106 | ||
| Chapter VI — Isaiah Harris-Wilkerson-Murrell Descendants | |||
| Life of Isaiah Harris | 113 | ||
| Children of First Marriage | 114 | ||
| Children of Second Marriage | 117 | ||
| Chapter VII — Martha C. and George Harris; Wilkerson Family | |||
| Martha C. and George Harris | 123 | ||
| Springhill and its Early Settlers--The Wilkerson Family | 124 | ||
| Part IV — Connections | |||
| Chapter I — The Harris-Winn Children | 131 | ||
| Chapter II — The Cherry-Hollenback Children | 135 | ||
| The Cherry-Patton-Wysong Posterity | 135 | ||
| Ancestry of Joseph Wysong | 135 | ||
| Posterity of Elizabeth Cherry and Joseph Wysong | 136 | ||
| Eleanor Jane Cherry | 145 | ||
| William Cherry | 145 | ||
| John Cherry | 151 | ||
| Richard Cherry | 155 | ||
| Matthias Hollenback Cherry | 162 | ||
| Reference Index | |||
| Pictures | |||
| 1 | Fielder Bowie Harris | v | |
| 2 | The Cherry Coat of Arms | 14, 15 | |
| 3 | Mary Cherry Harris (at age of 65) | 52 | |
| 4 | Hon. James Harris (at age of 50) | 53 | |