Investment dealer.
Born at Winnipeg around 1885, son of lumber merchant John Henry Housser (1849-1914) and Mary Jane Broughton (1853-1920), brother of Frederick Broughton Housser, he was educated in public schools there and in Toronto, Ontario, then at the School of Practical Science of the University of Toronto.
In 1903, he began his working life with the agricultural equipment firm of Massey Harris and Company. He left in 1907, by which time he was assistant to the branch manager, and worked as assistant to the general manager of the International Marine Signal Company at Ottawa until 1911. At that time, he became an investment dealer as Toronto manager of the Montreal-based J. A. McKay Company. Three years later, he became manager of the bond department for A. Jarvis and Comapny at Toronto. He was an investment dealer for nearly 50 years, concluding his career around 1954 as President of the firm H. B. Housser and Company. He served as President of the Toronto Stock Exchange (1936-1937) and a governor of the same (1930-1941).
He married Lucille Graham (?-?) and they had two children: John G. Housser and ? Housser (wife of John B. Aird). He was a member of the National Club, University Club, Lambton Golf Club, Badminton and Racquet Club, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, and Grace Church on-the-Hill.
He died at his Toronto home, 561 Avenue Road, on 27 February 1957.
“Harry B. Housser, investment firm head, Exchange President in 1936,” The Globe and Mail, 28 February 1957, page 9.
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