Quick Summary of Harris’s Ohio Roots: to Ohio, Central Ohio, and the 18th District
James Brodbelt Harris, CFA, a Central Ohio native and long term resident
Harris was born in and is a native of Central Ohio and has resided here for a total of 20-25+ years, in the Central Ohio metropolitan area. After graduation from college in 1991, Harris had moved his residency to New York, but returned to Ohio for several years in the mid-nineties and returned to Ohio in 2003, and Harris has lived most of this decade in Central Ohio.
Central Ohio Roots and close, personal links to the 18th District:
Harris and Harris’s father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, and uncle were born in, resided in, went to school in, worked in, spent summers in, went to 4-H camp in, or paid property taxes to the following counties: Butler County, Preble County, Montgomery County, Franklin County, Muskingum County, Licking County, Hocking County, Harrison County, Knox County, Fairfield County. Harris’s mother’s German ancestors immigrated to SE Central Ohio soon after 1820. Her father’s family, the Dr. Brodbelt family, bought a farm on the National Road in the 1840’s, moved to Columbus before the Civil War, and since then has given their name to a street in downtown Columbus located in the Arena District.
Harris Family’s Extensive Ohio Roots
Of course, Harris’s father’s family has many ties to the state of Ohio and agriculture over the centuries, with these highlights: the Harris family owns and operates an Ohio Century Farm, the family has continuously farmed for over 200 years in the same Ohio township named by pioneer ancestor Judge Robert Lytle – a veteran of the Revolutionary War, the family includes Governor Andrew Lintner Harris, Ohio’s “farmer-statesman” and a brigade commander at Gettysburg, and Harris’s father was formerly a Farm Bureau county President and Ohio’s Executive Director for the ASCS (now FSA).
Father worked in and lived in Muskingum and Knox Counties working for USDA
For a period over several months, Harris’s father lived and worked in Zanesville in Muskingum County while working for the USDA’s Commodity Stabilization Service (now FSA), and for several more months was transferred to and lived and worked in Mount Vernon in Knox County in a similar posting, and was later promoted and assigned to USDA headquarters in Columbus. A Republican U.S. Secretary of Agriculture later selected Harris’s father to be the Director of the ASCS (now FSA) in Ohio, and he spent a lifetime serving Ohio farmers and the USDA for the cause of Ohio agriculture and conservation.
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