"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, 
Adams  and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical
Publishing  Company, Publishers, 1904.

CLAUDE A. HARRIS, engaged in the livery business at Ritzville with his brother,
Jesse R., whose biography is published in another place in this history, is the
son of Jared M. Harris, who also is sketched in this book. He was born in South
Dakota, near Canton, July 23, 1874, and lived at the place of his birth until
three years of age, when the family came to Walla Walla. Washington. He attended
school at Walla Walla only one year when he came to Ritzville, where he finished
his education in the graded schools. He lived at home until his marriage, which
event occurred at the home of the bride, Minnie B. Heater, twenty miles south of
Ritzville, June 15, 1898. Mrs. Harris is the daughter of Edward and Lizzie
(Snyder) Heater, both now living on a farm on Rattlesnake Flat, Adams county.
She has four brothers and two sisters, mentioned elsewhere in this history.
     Two issues have come of this marriage; Vera and Harold -- a bright and
promising little pair.
     Mr. Harris is politically a Republican, though an inactive party man, and a
member of Prairie Queen lodge, Ritzville, K. of P.
     Claude A. Harris is a young man of the highest ideals of honor, and a
business man of much promise and enterprise.


Submitted by: Georgia Harter Williams, georgiahw@earthlink.net