1914
Delaware Co., IA History pgs. 181-182
Reuben W. Harris, an enterprising
young agriculturist of Coffins Grove township, owns a
well improved farm of forty acres on section 33 and is busily engaged in its
operation. His birth occurred in that township and his entire life has been
spent within the borders of
Reuben W.
Harris attended the common schools in the acquirement of an education and
remained under the parental roof until twenty-six years of age, when he was
married and established a home of his own. Subsequently he operated a rented
farm for seven years and on the expiration of that period took up his abode on
a forty-acre tract on section 33. Coffins Grove township,
which he had inherited from his grandfather. He has made a number of
substantial improvements on the property and in the cultivation of his land has
won well merited success, annually gathering good crops which find a ready sale
on the market.
When
twenty-six years of age Mr. Harris was united in marriage to Miss Edith Kitch, a native of Buchanan county, Iowa, and a daughter of
Alvin and Ida (Brumble) Kitch,
who were also born in this state. The father is still living, but the mother
passed away on
Mr. Harris
is a republican in his political views and now holds the office of township
assessor, ably discharging the duties devolving upon him in that connection.
Fraternally he is identified with Lodge No. 587 of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, in which he has filled all of the chairs, and he also belongs to