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Harry Jennings Noyes, assistant treasurer of the Wadhams Oil Company and one of the directors of that concern, was born in Milwaukee, January 18, 1874, and is a son of Cassius M. and Dora (Jennings) Noyes. The father's birth occurred in the state of New York in 1845, while the mother, a native of Milwaukee, was born in 1848. On removing westward Cassius M. Noyes settled in Delafield, Wisconsin, having accompanied his parents to this state when a lad of about twelve years. In 1865 he became a resident of Milwaukee and entered commercial circles here as a hardware and iron merchant. The Jennings family, too, were pioneers of Milwaukee, settling here at a period when the city had scarcely emerged from villagehood. Edgar C. Jennings was the cashier of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company for many years and the family has long been prominently and honorably known in this city.

Harry Jennings Noyes pursued his education in the public schools of Milwaukee until he had mastered the branches constituting the curriculum, after which he entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison and was there graduated in 1896, with the Bachelor of Arts degree. For about three years he was connected with the Milwaukee Gas Light Company, filling various clerical positions, and thus instituted his business career. He afterward went to New York city, where he was employed as a salesman by the Stowell Manufacturing Company, remaining for about a year in the eastern metropolis, when he resigned to accept a position with the Russell, Burdsall & Ward Bolt & Nut Company of Port Chester, New York, which he also represented in the capacity of salesman. In 1907 he returned to Milwaukee, where he became associated with the Wadhams Oil Company and has since filled the office of assistant treasurer and has from the beginning been financially interested in the business, of which he is one of the directors. Thoroughness and earnestness characterize all that he does and in the accomplishment of every purpose he never stops short of his objective.

On the 9th of October, 1907, Mr. Noyes was united in marriage to Mrs. Dell Trueman Kerr of Kansas City, Missouri, and they have become parents of two children, John T. and Harry J., Jr. Mr. Noyes is a member of the Milwaukee Athletic Club, also of the University Club, of the Beta Theta Pi, a college fraternity, and also of the Theta Nu Epsilon. He likewise has membership in the Milwaukee Association of Commerce and cooperates heartily in all plans of that organization for the city's upbuilding and benefit. During the World war period he participated in all the drives which gave financial support to the government, or which in any way furthered the interests of the American army in its connection with the allied forces overseas. He has always felt a justifiable pride in his native city and his labors have been a tangible element on the side of progress and advancement here.