Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Harris, Garland 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

JUDGE GARLAND HARRIS was elected to the office of county judge in the fall of
1867, on the republican ticket. He was a Missourian before coming to the Pacific
coast, and had been sheriff of a Missouri county. He brought with him the
peculiar dialect of that region, which invariably tinctured his language with
strange and outlandish figures of rhetoric. He was a very good man, but not
sufficiently versed in the law for the position he held. In 1851 he was a
constable at Downieville, under Justice Graham, at which time he bore the title
of "Pap Harris"; and afterwards he became justice of the peace. He served until
1872.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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