Edward Kersy Harris, Mobile, Alabama
 

Source: Dictionary Of Alabama Biography (p. 751)

EDWARD KERSY HARRIS. Editor, author and poet, was born February 15,
1830, at Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee, and died in Mobile,
November 15, 1859; son of George and Matilda T. (Roper) Harris, the
former a native of Warren, Tennessee, later residing at McMinn, where
he practiced law;  grandson of Jesse and Matilda T. Harris, of
Jefferson County, Tennessee, and of Joseph and Mary Roper of
Dandridge, Tennessee, and later of Columbiana.  His education was
received from his father and private tutors; and he read law but
never practiced.  In politics he was first a Whig, and later a
Democrat; and he was without church connection. As editorial and
literary writer on the "Mobile Tribune" he made a place for himself
in the journalism of the state.  He was also a frequent contributor
to magazines and periodicals.  Some of his poems are included in a
volume entitled "Poems," by Mrs. Mary Ware, published in 1911.  He
never married.  Last residence: Mobile.

Ira L. Harris III
Evansville, Indiana