When Marvin A. Harris was born on 18 March 1904, in Teague, Freestone, Texas, United States, his father, Hubbard Clinton Harris, was 30 and his mother, Addie Oddie Calloway, was 31. He married Clara Elizabeth Manahan on 9 May 1935. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Justice Precinct 6, Freestone, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 1, Freestone, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 21 August 1969, in Fairfield, Freestone, Texas, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield, Freestone, Texas, United States.
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English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
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