Seale Harris/Stella Baskins of Ga., Mobile, Ala.,
 

Source: Dictionary Of Alabama Biography

SEALE HARRIS, physician, was born at Cedartwon, Polk county, Ga.,
March 13, 1870; son of Dr. Charles Hooks and Margaret Ann (Monk)
Harris. Dr. Seale Harris received his early education in the schools
of cedartwon and Marietta, Ga.; was a student at the University of
Georgia for three years; received the degree of M.S. from the
University of Virginia, 1894; and did post graduate work in the New
York polyclinic and Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, making a specialty of
internal diseases. He began the practice of his profession in Union
Springs, 1894; was health officer of Bullock County for eight years;
surgeon  for the Central of Georgia railway and president of the
Central of Georgia railway surgeons association, 1905; established
the Chunnenugge sanitarium, Union Springs, 1904; spent the year 1906
at Johns Hopkins in the study of gastro intestinal diseases; accepted
the chair of practice of medicine in the Medical college of Alabama,
Mobile, December 1907, and remained there until August 1913, at the
same time being chief physician in the Mobile city hospital. Dr.
Harris resigned these positions in 1908, when he purchased the Mobile
medical and surgical journal, changing the name to the Gulf states
journal of medicine of the Southern medical association, the official
organ of the Southern medical association, of which he was made
editor-in-chief. He was made secretary of the Southern medical
association in 1910; is a trustee of the American society of tropical
medicine, and a honorary fellow of the London society of tropical
medicine. He was a surgeon with the rank of captain, Second Alabama
infantry regiment National Guard, 1903-05. He is a Democrat;
Presbyterian; Mason; Knight of Pythias, and a member of the Sigma
Alpha Epsilon college fraternity. He is the author of many scientific
articles on malaria, pellagra, the negro, and many other subjects.
Married: April 28, 1897, to Stella Baskins, at Union Springs,
daughter of Capt. Joseph Herron and Josephine (Wood) Rainer, the
former having served throughout the War of Secession, and sister of
Mrs. T. W. Palmer, wife of Pres. T. W. Palmer of Montevallo.
Children: 1. Josephine Ann; 2. Seale Harris, Jr. Residence: Mobile.

Ira L. Harris III
Evansville, Indiana