When James Reed Harris was born on 2 April 1827, in Indiana, United States, his father, John Harris, was 27 and his mother, Eliza J Colvert, was 24. He had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters with Mary L McCarthy. He lived in Wilkin, Minnesota, United States in 1870 and McCauleyville Township, Wilkin, Minnesota, United States in 1880. He died on 16 June 1893, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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