Ferris, Henry, 1855-1941

found: Ferris family papers, 1737-1940 (finding aid), via Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College website, viewed August 24, 2022(Henry Ferris; Henry C. Ferris (1855-1941); apprenticed with the printing firm Jenkins & Atkinson in Wilmington, Del.; went into the printing business with his brother Francis (or, Frank) Ferris (1850-1880) in Wilmington, Del. by buying out Every Evening Publishing Company and Jenkins & Atkinson which became Ferris Brothers; after the death of Francis, brother Alfred Justice Ferris (1864-1950) joined the business as a partner; after a fire in the Wilmington shop (January 1886), they moved the business to Philadelphia in 1889; Henry eventually left the business to work in advertising and sold his part of the business to Alfred; the brothers established the Friends Printing House, formerly a business owned by Howard M. Jenkins, after moving to Philadelphia; Philadelphia location: 6th and Arch Streets)

found: PSC-Hi files(Henry Ferris; born 1855 son of David & Sarah Ann Underwood Ferris; married 1885 Elizabeth Masters; died 1941)

found: Pennsylvania, U.S., death certificates, 1906-1968, via ancestry.com, August 24, 2022(Henry Ferris; born August 16 1855 in Rancocas, NJ; died January 5, 1941 in Philadelphia)

found: Philadelphia inquirer public ledger, January 7, 1941, via ProQuest historical newspapers, August 24, 2022(Henry Ferris; advertising writer for Gimbel Brothers in Philadelphia and John Wanamaker store in New York; founded and edited The housekeepers weekly; active in the Society of Friends; active member and consulting genealogist of the Friends' Historical Society and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; editor of the Friends intelligencer; was a minister of the Greene Street monthy meeting in Germantown, Philadelphia)