Joseph Wesley Harper
1827–1886 (age 59)
publisher
About Joseph Wesley Harper
Joseph Wesley Harper (1827–1886) lived to age 59. They were a publisher. They died in Munich. They are buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York.
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