Nevada Genealogy Trails Storey County Harry M. Gorham Biography

HARRY M. GORHAM. of Virginia City, Nevada, superintendent of the Challar Potosi and Sooage mines, came to this locality in 1877. He is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, where he was born March 4, 1859, and he comes of old English ancestry. The founder of the family in America was John Gorliam, who emigrated to New England in 1621, and was a sea captain by occupation. He married Desire, the daughter of John Howland, of New England fame. Members of both sides of Mr. Gorham's family were active participants in the early history of the country and served in both King Philip's war and that of the Revolution.

Edward Gorham, the father of H. M. Gorham. was born in New Haven, Connecticut, July 31, 1832. He married Miss Cornelia Jones, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, born June 11, 1839, a daughter of Thomas Jones, Sr. who was one of the founders of the city of Cleveland. Edward J. Gorham had gone to Cleveland when a young man, but later in life went to California, and there died May 9, 1903. His wife survives, aged sixty-four years. These parents had two children, Harry M. and Mrs. Schuyler Cote, of Cole Grove, California.

Mr. Gorham was educated in Cleveland, where he grew to manhood, and then came to Nevada, at first accepting a position with the Crown Point Company as timekeeper, but soon was made superintendent of the Kent tick, and gradually advanced to higher and more responsible places. Mr. Gorham has been connected with several of the leading mines of this locality, and his reputation as a mining expert is very high not only in Virginia City but throughout the state.

Until the silver question arose, Mr. Gorham was a Republican, but he then felt that the party had departed from its true principles, and from then on he has been a silver Republican. He has always been active in politics, attending county and state conventions, and supporting those measures he believed would work for the lest interests of the state and country.

On April 15, 1885, he was married to Jessie Anderson, a native of San Francisco, California, and a daughter of Hon. Thomas Anderson, now deceased, of that city. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gorham but only a son. Harry Winthrop Gorharn. remains. Fraternally Mr. Gorham is a member of the order of Elks and is a Knight Templar Mason. Successful, enterprising, thoroughly posted in his chosen profession. Mr. Gorham occupies a very high position among the leaders in the city, and has a host of warm personal friends.

Source:
A History of the State of Nevada: Its Resources and People
By Thomas Wren, Lewis Publishing Company
Published by The Lewis publishing company, 1904