Background
Harris, Emerson Pitt was born on December 30, 1853 in Kennedy, New York, United States. Son of Gilbert Dennison and Mary (Stratton) Harris.
Harris, Emerson Pitt was born on December 30, 1853 in Kennedy, New York, United States. Son of Gilbert Dennison and Mary (Stratton) Harris.
Educated Jamestown (New York) Union school and Collegiate Institute, 1866-1869, Fredonia (New York) Normal School, 1878-1880.
Postmaster and country merchant, 1873-1878. Writer and representative of engineering journals, 1880-1884. Owner public engineering journals, 1884-1889.
Public fruit grower publications, 1892-1897.
Broker in publishing property 1898-1920. Organizer Harris-Dibble Company, specialists in public business, 1893.
Formerly president American Railway Public Company. Retired. Founder of following publications: Power, Electric Railway Journal, Advertising and Selling, The Grape Belt.
Married Ella Florence Stevens, May 1, 1888 (died 1920). Married second, Viola East. Rice, October 14, 1922. Children: John F. (died at birth), Florence (Mistress Robert Gay Hooke, deceased).