When Clement Laird Vallandigham Harris was born on 23 December 1865, in Morrow, Ohio, United States, his father, Joel Robinson Harris, was 35 and his mother, Samantha Jane Hollingsworth, was 33. He married Blanche Paulina Griffith on 9 September 1903, in Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Malcom, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States in 1930. He died on 13 August 1944, in Ames, Story, Iowa, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Ames Municipal Cemetery, Ames, Story, Iowa, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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