When Edwin Esta Harris was born on 9 August 1874, in Sullivan, Missouri, United States, his father, Charles Martin Harris, was 43 and his mother, Mary Josephine Harmon, was 26. He married Edith Rosetta Linhart on 7 September 1899, in Linn, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Adair, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Kirksville, Adair, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 8 August 1969, at the age of 94, and was buried in Sullivan, Missouri, 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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