William T. Ferris

    William T. Ferris, of Lawrenceburgh, died in that city, August 1, 1883, aged seventy years. He was a son of Dr. Ezra Ferris, one of the prominent and useful citizens of the same city, whose sketch will be found elsewhere in this work. Our subject commenced business for himself at Hartford before he had reached his majority, but after three or four years, he returned to Lawrenceburgh, and for a number of years was engaged in the wholesale grocer business with John Wymond, the firm being Wymond & Ferris, which met with great success. he was next in business in Cincinnati, then for a time farmed, and for many years prior to his death, he was connected with the revenue service. He passed a long life of usefulness and died leaving a name unsullied.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.