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The State - September 29, 1921
Husband to Family --- Married Seven Times, Wives All Sisters
New York World
Atlantic, Iowa -
Fred Harris, 90, has just married his seventh wife. All his wives were daughters of Peter Yost, who lived in Milwaukee and sailed a freighter on the Great Lakes in the '60's.
Harris began by marrying the oldest daughter of Yost and has gone right down the line. The last five were widows. Mrs. Gustave Eidelmann is the last bride and she is now 78 years old. She has been married twice before.
Harris, who was a hack driver and later driver of a horse car in Chicago after the great fire, recently bought a small fruit farm here on which to pass his remaining years.
Submitted by Dena Whitesell









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