Brief Life History of Charles Joseph
When Charles Joseph Harris was born on 23 February 1883, in Mount Calm, Hill, Texas, United States, his father, George Alexander Harris, was 34 and his mother, Bettie Ann Alexander, was 33. He had at least 1 son with Vera Pearl Jordan. He died on 2 February 1943, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 59.
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- Chas J Harris in household of George A Harris, "United States Census, 1910"
- Charles Joseph Harris, "Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981"
- Charles Joseph Harris, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
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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