When Wilford Dewey Harris was born on 29 April 1899, in Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Nathan John Harris, was 35 and his mother, Emma Elvira Oakason, was 32. He married Mary Ferguson on 19 September 1928, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Ogden City Legislative District 3, Ogden City Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 8 January 1979, in Clinton, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Aultorest Memorial Park, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Treaty of Vereeniging ends the second Anglo-Boer War. The Transvaal and Orange Free State are made self-governing colonies of the British Empire.
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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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