Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Harris, Norfleet December 5 1848 - liiving in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    HON. NORFLEET HARRIS, state senator from Hale county, was born in Hale, then
Marengo, county, December 5, 1848. His father, Richard Norfleet Harris, was a
native of North Carolina, and of English descent. He was the eldest of several
children, and when a young man he brought his widowed mother and her other
children to Alabama, and settled in north Alabama. There he married Miss Amanda
Banks, a native of Tennessee. Her people were Virginians, and settled at an
early day in Tennessee. They were laterally related to George Washington.
Richard Norfleet Harris was the father of four sons and two daughters. Hon.
Norfleet Harris was reared in Tuscaloosa, to which city his parents moved when
he was but an infant. He was educated at the university of Alabama, remaining
there about two years. This was during the war, and he left that institution on
account of its buildings being burned down by the Federal soldiers. In 1868 he
commenced the study of law at the university of Virginia under Prof. Minor, and
there received the degree of LL. B., in the summer of 1869. He was admitted to
the bar in the fall of 1868, before entering college. He had studied law
previously under Judge H. M. Summerville, his brother-in-law. After graduating
in law he went to St. Louis, Mo., where he practiced for a short time. In 1871
he married Miss Bettie Blocker of Greene county, Ala. At her request he remained
in the south and located at Tuscaloosa, where he practiced about one year, and
losing his wife in 1873, he gave up the practice of law and retired to a country
home near Tuscaloosa. In 1878 he removed to his plantation in Hale county, at
Laneville, where he has since resided. He at length drifted into politics, and
was elected to the lower house of the legislature in 1882, from Hale county, and
served one term. In 1890 he was elected to the senate from Hale county, and is
now serving out that term. He is a democrat, and is a master Mason. Since living
at Laneville he has carried on merchandising as well as planting.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1062-1863
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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