Bio: Hanowitz, Harris B. (No dates given)

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Surnames: Hanowitz

---Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Hanowitz, Harris B. (No dates given)

HARRIS B. HANOWITZ, manager and junior member of the J. Hanowitz & Son Company, at Mosinee, general merchants, operating the largest store in the place, having floor space of 50x120 feet, is one of the enterprising and successful young business men of this section. He was born in New Jersey, the eldest child of Julius and Fannie Hanowitz. Both parents were born in Prussia and both came when young to America, here became acquainted and subsequently married and for some time afterward lived in New York and New Jersey. They have four children: Harris B., Harry, Max and Meyer.

When the parents of Mr. Hanowitz came first to Wisconsin they settled at Milwaukee and the father soon became interested in the cedar lumber business in which he continues to some extent. In 1904 the present mercantile enterprise was established at Mosinee and the present firm style adopted, and it has been prosperous from the start. This firm carries the largest stock of general merchandise of any store in the county outside of Wausau and draws custom from a radius of twenty miles. A large force of employees is required to handle the trade and keep every avenue of the business up to the high standard which has marked it from the beginning. It is one of the most enterprising business concerns of Mosinee.