Isaac Harris, on of the pioneers of Carroll County, IA, lives (in 1887) on section 21, Union Township, where he owns 360 cares of good land. Mr. Harris was born in Licking Co, OH, in 1824, the sixth of fourteen children of John and Cassandra (Hughes) Harris. He was reared in his native State, and there married Lydia Ann Cretsinger, who was born in Virginia in 1831, a daughter of John and Mary Magdalene Cretsinger. April 18, 1856, Mr. and Mrs. Harris started from Ohio for their Western home, and after a journey of thirty-one and a half days, landed in Dallas County, IA, and the following January moved to Carroll County and settled on the farm where they now (in 1887) live. They are among the few of the pioneers of the county who are left to recount the trials and privations of the early day. They have had nine children. Two died in infancy and one after reaching maturity. Those living are: Samuel, Lyman, Arista, Lincoln, Frank and Oliver.