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Below is a Harrison
Pottery price list. This will give a good idea of the types of items they made.
Below is shown an
extremely nice piece.
Mr. Pruden establishes The Harrison Pottery at 316 Market Street (now Harrison Ave. where La Rosas stands). He makes crocks, containers and other useful pieces from clay found in the area. The pottery changed hands twice more that we know of- owned and operated by Frank Rupp who was killed in the gas explosion in the Harrison Town Hall, then taken over by his son William Rupp. (From 1899) WILLIAM RUPP was born in Cincinnati February 2, 1854, son of
Frederick and Catherine (Oehlar) Rupp, natives of Germany. His father first located in
Cincinnati. He was a potter by trade, a vocation he followed for some time in the city,
when he moved to Harrison, Ohio, continuing there in the same business until his death,
which occurred March 8, 1878, in a gas explosion. His wife died in 1884. They were the
parents of nine children, six of whom are living: Maggie, Catherine, Frederick, William,
Elizabeth and Anna. |