----Source: CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN PRESS (Neillsville, Wis.) 01/20/1887

Harriman, James (16 MAR 1805 - 18 JAN 1887)

Died, at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 1887, James Harriman, aged 81 years and 10 months.

James Harriman was born in Moltonborough, N. H., on March 16, 1805. In 1832 he was married to Miss Mary I. Brown in Clinton, Maine, and moved to Windsor. Two years later he returned to Clinton, remaining there until 1857, when he moved to Green Bay, Wis., where he engaged in shipbuilding. Six months later he sold his interest there and move to Horicon and engaged in farming, afterward in 1863, he moved to Necedah, and in 1871 he came to Neillsville, Clark County. In 1883 he went to live with his son in Irving, where he remained until last fall, when he returned to Neillsville to live with his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Edgebert, at whose home he quietly passed away at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.

Father Harriman leaves a family of eight children, all of whom, with his aged wife, mourn him as one of the kindest of fathers and husbands. His old neighbors and many friends speak of him in the highest terms as a man honest, true, betraying no trust reposed in him by his relation to the family or society. In 1823, Mr. Harriman joined the Methodist Episcopal Church and remained a faithful member of the same up to the close of his life. The religious instinct in him was large and his constant culture of it made him a marked man among his brethren. He was a class leader for thirty years and was licensed an exhorter in 1871. His last hours were peaceful like the close of an autumn day, when the declining sun sends back his gorgeous rays, shedding a halo of glory on all terrestrial things, painting the heavens with tints possible only to the brush of the Divine Artist.

The funeral will be held from the Presbyterian Church at 2 o'clock today, Rev. James McManus officiating, assisted by Rev. W.T. Hendren who will deliver the memorial address.