Hiram James Ferris (1847 - 1912)

Born 20 Apr 1847 in Johnstown, Rock County, Wisconsin,USA

Ancestors

Husband of Harriet (Sanburn) Ferris — married 15 Sep 1872 in Milton, Rock County, Wisconsin, USA

Died 7 Oct 1912 at age 65 in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, USA

Biography

FERRIS HIRAM J. Pastor of the Congregational Church; Sec. 2; P. O. Stillman Valley; born n Johnstown, Rock Co., Wos., April 20, 1847; married Harriet Sanburn, at Milton, Sep. 5, 1872; she was born in Union Village, Orange Co., Vt., Aug. 18, 1842; have two children: William S., born June 30, 1873, and Sarah L., June 7, 1876; Mr. F. while a student had studied with great earnestness in his profession for the ministery, until failing health induced him to seek the dry and bracing atmosphere of the western climate, where he remained three years, when he returned and became pastor of this people Jan. 1, 1876; he also officiates at New Milford, and is beloved by all who know him; his father, Wm. P. Ferris, was one of he earliest settlers in Wisconsin; also Levi Sanburn, father of Mrs. F., lsft Vermont and settled in Rock Co., Wis., in 1854.

Sources

• The History of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing A History of the County---Its Cities, Towns, Etc., A Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN, History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, Map of Ogle County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., ILLUSTRATED, Chicago, H. F. Kett & Co., Times Building, 1878, p. 825.

• Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011