Joseph Henry Harris, Chambers Co., Alabama
 

Source: Dictionary Of Alabama Biography

JOSEPH HENRY HARRIS, farmer, was born February 1, 1838, at LaGrange,
Troup County; son of Edmund S. and Mary R. (Hamilton) Harris, of
LaGrange, Ga., the former a Virginian.  He received his education at
LaGrange high school, at Brownwood institute and at Beemore's select
school for boys at Mt. Zion, Ga. He began to farm in January, 1858,
near Oak Bowery, Chambers County; served as a private in the Thirty-
seventh Alabama regiment, C.S.Army; was elected to the State
legislature from Chambers County, 1890, 1891, 1894, 1895, 1900, and
1901; has been a member of the Alabama State agricultural society
since its organization, and for two years general superintendent of
the Alabama State fair, held under the auspices of that society; was
twice elected president of the Chambers County agricultural society;
was a member of the National farmers' congress held in Chicago,
November, 1887; a delegate to the National farmers' alliance,
Meridian, Miss., December 1888, and St. Louis, Mo., December, 1890;
held the office of commissioner of agriculture with Hon. R. F. Kolb
for two years; served for many years as a lecturer for the Alabama
State alliance; is a Democrat; a Methodist, serving the church twice
as a delegate to the general conference. Married: April 21, 1859, in
Autauga County, To Cornelia Josephine Houser. Residence: Oak Bowery.

Ira L. Harris III
Evansville, Indiana