Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1915 — Former Ohio Governor Dead After Long Siege of Sickness. [ARTICLE]

Former Ohio Governor Dead After Long Siege of Sickness.

Andrew L. Harris, former governor of Ohio, died in Eaton, Ohio, Monday. •He was governor of that state from 1906 to 1909 and was 80 years of age. Mr. Harris was a graduate of Miami University and for the last 30 years Tad been one of Ohio’s leading citizens. He was a member of the U. S. ndustrial Commission from 1898 to 1902. Mr. Harris enlisted in 1861 in the Union army and reached the rank of brigadier general by brevet. He was elected lieutenant governor of the state when John M. Patterson was elected governor and succeeded to the governorship at the death of Mr. Patterson in 1906.