Source: "Biographical Annals of Lancaster Co., PA", John F. Meginness, J. H. Beers & Co., 1903, pp. 471-2.

"J. HAROLD WICKERSHAM, of Lancaster, son of the above (James Pyle Wickersham),
is President of the Wickersham Printing and Publishing Company, which was
instituted by his father.  This concern was organized in 1873, with a capital
stock of $65,000, and May 1, 1891, the name was changed to its present style.
It is one of the large enterprises of the city, and they have a large business
in publishing books and pamplets, and in their bindery and electrotyping depart-
ments.  The office is situated at No. 53-55 North Queen Street, which building
is owned by the company.

"The birth of our subject occurred in Marietta, Pa., February 24, 1856, and his
boyhood was passed at Millersville and in Lancaster, where he received good
public and high school advantages.  He was graduated from the latter in 1872 and
at once entered the Freshman Class of Franklin and Marshall College, where he
remained for three years.  The next two years were passed in Yale College, and
in 1877 he received from that institutions the degree of Philosophy on his grad-
uation.  On beginning his active life work he entered the old Inquirer Printing
and Publishing Company in a subordinate position, and by his enterprise and
ability steadily worked his way upward until he was made general manager, a
position he has held ever since.  After his father's death the name of the
company was changed to the one it goes by now, and our subject was made its
President.  Employment is given to about eighty persons, and the business
transacted by the firm brings in a large income.  They have a regular book
office and ten large book presses.  The building which is occupied by the
company is owned by the same and is four stories in height; it has a frontage
of forty feet and a depth of one hundred and forty-four feet.  Mr. Wickersham
is a Director in the Farmers' National Bank and also a Director in the Lancaster
Gas Light and Fuel Company.

"The pleasant home of our subject was erected by him, and is situated at No. 505
North Duke Street.  He was married in Ft. Wayne, Ind., in 1880, to Miss Jessie,
daughter of John Hough, formerly an attorney, but now deceased.  In his political
faith our subject uses his ballot in favor of the Republican party.  As a
business man he has shown good ability and is numbered among the best citizens
of Lancaster."