William H. Harries

Harries was born near Dayton, Ohio. He moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and enlisted as a private in Company B, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment on April 18, 1861. He was wounded at the Battle of Antietam.T. Christianson, Minnesota, The Land of Sky-Tinted Waters, A History of the State and Its People, V.II, p 321-22 (The American Historical Society, Inc., 1935) He was commissioned captain of Company F, Third Regiment, United States Veteran Volunteers, General Hancock's corps, on December 21, 1864, and was honorably discharged on April 17, 1866.

Harries graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor law school in 1868. He was admitted to the bar in 1868, and commenced practice in Hokah, Minnesota. He later practiced in Caledonia, Minnesota. He served as prosecuting attorney of Houston County, Minnesota, from 1874 to 1878.

He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1893. Harries was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress. He was then appointed by President Grover Cleveland as collector of internal revenue for Minnesota and served from 1894 to 1898, residing in St. Paul, Minnesota.

He resumed his law practice in Caledonia, Minnesota, in 1898. He served as president of the village of Caledonia and a member of its board of education,T. Christianson, Minnesota, The Land of Sky-Tinted Waters, A History of the State and Its People, V.II, p 321-22 (The American Historical Society, Inc., 1935) department commander of the Minnesota department of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1901, member of the board of trustees of the Minnesota Soldiers’ Home in 1903, secretary of the board 1907 to 1911, and commandant of the home 1911 to 1918. Harries died in Seattle, Washington, on July 23, 1921, and is interred in Evergreen Cemetery, Caledonia, Minnesota.

Capt. Harries married Austis L. Dunbar in 1870,Harries Family Genealogical Records and after she died he married her sister Hattie Hadley Dunbar in 1882.Harries Family Genealogical Records Hattie died in 1895.T. Christianson, Minnesota, The Land of Sky-Tinted Waters, A History of the State and Its People, V.II, p 321-22 (The American Historical Society, Inc., 1935) The father of these two sisters was William F. Dunbar, the first state auditor of Minnesota.T. Christianson, Minnesota, The Land of Sky-Tinted Waters, A History of the State and Its People, V.II, p 321-22 (The American Historical Society, Inc., 1935) The eleven children of these two marriages are Mary Lucretia, Anna Belle, Ethelind, Paul W., Anstice, Hattie, George, Alice, Beth Bernice, Edna Beatrice, and Donald Dunbar.Harries Family Genealogical Records

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