Willis G. Harry
Biography from Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, PA, page 1373
Submitted by Wanza CampbellWILLIS G. HARRY, manager of the Lancaster Dairy Company, at No. 36 West Chestnut street, Lancaster, is an Ohioan by birth, but has adopted this city as him home; and as he has made himself felt in his crusade for pure milk he deserves more than a passing notice.
Mr. HARRY is a son if Silas C. HARRY, of Wooster, Ohio, who is now living retired in that pleasant little city after a long and useful career as a contracting plasterer. He married Margaret SOMMERS, and from this union came Scott G., Anna May and Willis G., the two first named at home with their parents in Ohio.
Willis G. HARRY was born in West Lebanon, Ohio, where his parents lived for a time, and after reaching the proper age became a pupil in the schools of Wooster, graduating from the high school in due time. His first work was in the dairy and creamery business, and then he spent a year in study at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. HARRY was then employed at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, where he spent two years, after which he spent a year at the Ohio State University. Mr. HARRY then came East and was employed in the creamery business in York, Pa. He was next at Lititz, where he had charge of the creamery business of E.L. GARBER, through whose enterprise and liberality the Lancaster Dairy Company was established in the spring of 1900, with Mr. HARRY as manager. Mr. HARRY proceeded to pasteurize the milk and cream, and for the first time the people of Lancaster were offered a pure article. So popular did this pure liquid food become that in a short time four wagons were required by the growing trade, taxed to their utmost capacity in serving the many patrons the Lancaster Dairy Company had secured. Mr. HARRY has brought not only rare industry, but rare intelligence as well to the work, and the people of Lancaster have abundantly shown their appreciation of his work.
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