Source: Dictionary Of Alabama Biography (p. 754-755)

JAMES C. HARRIS. physician, was born February 27, 1812, near
Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia; son of James and Mary
(McCulloch) Harris, the former of whom came to this country from
Wales at an early date, the latter whose ancestors came from the
neighborhood of Loch Lomond, Scotland; great-grandson of John
McCulloch, who came to Virginia from Scotland, and lies buried in the
family graveyard, in Albemarle County, Va.  Dr. McCulloch, of the
University of London, is believed to have been a grandson of John
McCulloch.  Mr. Harris was related to Hon. William H. Crawford, of
Georgia; Dr. William Harris, of North Carolina; Hon. Thomas
McCulloch, of Abingdon, Ia., and of the Jewetts and Hadens of
Kentucky, Virginia and Missouri.  He obtained his early education in
the common schools of the district, and was for some time under the
instruction of Mason Frizelle, later president of the University of
St. Louis. Before he was seventeen years of age, his father died, and
in February 1829, in company with his mother and his brother, Dr.
Nathan harris, he left Virginia for Monroe County, Tennessee.  He
began the study of medicine under his brother, and attended a course
of medical lectures in the University of Lexington, Kentucky, 1830-
1831.  he practiced medicing at Madisonville, Tennessee until 1834,
then moved to Alabama, settling at Mount Meigs, Montgomery County.
Some time later he proceeded to Selma, where after an examination by
the state board, he obtained a license to practice the different
branches of his profession throughout the state. Immediately after
his examination, he commenced practice in Wetumpka, in association
with Dr. H. A. Caldwell, and continued in the association until 1835,
when he attended another course of lectures in Transylvania
University, and was graduated, M.D.  Failing health necessitated the
dissolution of his partnership.  Late in the fall of 1836, he was
engaged in the medical department of the U.S.Army, and continued
there under contracts made with Drs. Hitchcock, Satterlee, Lawson,
and Meyer, and Gen. Winfield Scott, until the removal of the
Cherokees in 1838.  He located at Cedar Bluff, Cherokee County, until
1845, when he returned to Wetumpka.  In 1838, Dr. Harris was elected
a fellow of the South Alabama medical society, and in 1847, was
admitted to the ad eundem degree in the medical department of the
University of Louisville.  He contributed to various medical journals
of the time, and was twice a delegate to the National medical
association, serving once as one of its vice-presidents. In 1849, Dr.
Harris attended medical lectures in the University of Louisiana at
New Orleans, and the following year, attended the Medical college of
Georgia. Married: July 29, 1839, at Cedar Bluff, to Mrs. Dorcas M.
Barker, daughter of Col. John Lowry, of Cherokee County, by whom he
had one child, a son.  Last residence: Wetumpka.

Thanks to Ira L. Harris III
Evansville, Indiana