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Howard (1907) I, pp. 285–288 (the Lyon paper); Chapman (1880), pp. 676–677
Jonas Harris, "a Quaker from Richmond, Ind., who came to this county in 1832," designed and built the flouring mill on Section 23 in the winter of 1836–'37, engaging Burton Swearingen and Samuel Brooks as his millwright contractors and Ephraim Trueblood as his first miller. The mill was the township's one industry, and Harris is its founder at the strength the record gives. He died about 1843, within a few years of his building, and was buried "on the farm back of the house" by his own request, his wife Barbara Beeson Harris laid beside him later; the Lyon paper records that other neighbourhood burials at the spot were afterwards removed, "with the exception of Mr. and Mrs. Harris, whose dust… lies undisturbed" — under cultivation by 1901, the place "really unknown." The mill passed the same year to the Sheffields and Edward Carpenter, and its later holders — Elting, Hall, the Siders family, Kirby, Robinson — run in the before-the-city file's mill article and the long-tail below. Harris's own line ends where the paper ends: a builder who left a building, a grave the township lost, and a mill that ground for sixty years after him.