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WILLIAM H. HARELL, the organizer and general manager of the Harell Steam Heating company of Dunkirk, was born in the city of Paterson, N. J., February 23, 1861, and is a son of Richard and Margaret (Hays) Harell. Richard Harell was born in England in 1836, and came when a boy, with his parents to New Jersey, where he was engaged in the machine shops in Paterson until 1877, when he went to Hudson, New Jersey, and was interested for three years in the Clapp & Jones Manufacturing company of that place. In the spring of 1880 he removed to Dunkirk and accepted his present position of foreman of the Brooks’ Locomotive works. He is a republican in politics, a Master Mason in Free-masonry and married Margaret Hays, who was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1841.

William H. Harell passed his boyhood days in Paterson, where he attended Tallman seminary. In 1877 he went with his parents to Hudson, where he remained until 1880, when he became a clerk in the freight office of the N. Y., L. E. & W. R. R. at Salamanca, N. Y. Two years later he came to Dunkirk, where he learned the trade of machinist in the Brooks’ Locomotive works. In 1886 he left these works and organized the Harell Steam Heating company, of which he is general manager and his father superintendent. They manufacture steam and hot water heating apparatus and pay attention to ventilating and plumbing. Their specialty is a steel-plate tubular boiler, patented by R. Harell in 1883, which is made in a great variety of styles and sizes and is perfectly adapted to warming all classes of buildings, from the ordinary dwelling to the largest factory. Their system of heating has been successfully applied to some of the largest manufacturing establishments and many private residences in Dunkirk and other cities of western New York. Their business increased so much that on May 1, 1890, Mr. Harell organized a stock company with a capital of forty thousand dollars and they are now erecting an extensive plant for the manufacture of boilers and radiators on a large scale and in quantities sufficient to meet the present demand for them.

W. H. Harell is independent in politics, for which his business affairs leave him but little time. He is a Royal Arch Mason and holds membership in Dunkirk Chapter of H. R. A. M.