Junius Harris

biography

Junius Harris, a native of Erie county, Pennsylvania, and now a resident of Crawford county, engaged in the building business in Mississippi and Tennessee until the breaking out of the civil war, when he came north, locating in Titusville. Here he at first was employed as a journeyman carpenter, from 1761 to 1863, when he began contracting, and continued in this line for several years; afterward he built tenement houses for a while, and then erected a planing-mill, which he ran in connection with building and contracting. In 1875 he established a machine-shop, which he operated in the reconstruction of second-hand engines and boilers; and he continued at this until about 1890. when he rented his works. Mr. Harris is probably the owner of more buildings in the city than any other man. He built and is still the owner of the Arcade block, which extends from Diamond street to East Central avenue. He is one of the citizens who subscribed $10,000 to the industrial fund. In 1863 he was married to Miss Adelaide Brownell, of Kansas, and they have had seven children. At different times Mr. Harris has served in the city council, it is not extravagant eulogy to say that Junius Harris has earned the substantial reputation which he enjoys as one of Titusville’s most worthy citizens.

Our county and its people: a historical and memorial record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania by Samuel P. Bates, 1899, pages 686-687.