When James Keith Harris was born on 27 June 1897, in Glendale, Kane, Utah, United States, his father, Moses David Harris, was 33 and his mother, Electa Belinda Leithead, was 28. He married Minerva Snell on 8 August 1923, in Logan Utah Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 25 May 1932, in Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Lovell Cemetery, Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
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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