Brief Life History of Winfield Scott
When Winfield Scott Harris Sr. was born on 5 September 1858, in Catlettsburg, Boyd, Kentucky, United States, his father, Kelsey Nelson Harris, was 49 and his mother, Louisa J Peery, was 37. He married Anna Laura Farr on 30 September 1880, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Browns Fort, Weber, Utah, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 20 August 1914, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Winfield S. Harris, "United States Census, 1880"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Winfield Scott Harris, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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World Events (8)
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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