Biography of 	HARRIS, William H., Chillicothe, Ohio, then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, 
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 194.  Edited by 
Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Harris, William H., well-known New Orleans physician and specialist in 
bacteriology, was born in Chillicothe, O., Oct. 6, 1885; son of Delbert 
and Elizabeth (Goeltz) Harris, born, respectively, in Virginia and 
Chillicothe, O., where the mother also died in 1887.  The father was a 
graduate of the University of Virginia, afterward became a sculptor, and 
followed that profession throughout the remainder of his life.  When 7 
years old, William H. Harris was taken to New Orleans, La., where he 
afterward became a student at the Jesuits' college, from which institution 
he graduated in 1902 and in the same year entered the medical department 
of Tulane university, completing the course and taking his medical degree 
at Tulane in 1907, after having served 2 years--1905-1907, inclusive--as 
interne in the New Orleans Charity hospital.  For 2 years following his 
graduation he engaged in private practice, in connection with laboratory 
work at Tulane as assistant demonstrator in Pathology and Bacteriology.  
In 1909 he gave up his general practice and began specializing in Pathology 
and Bacteriology.  Since 1910 he has been Pathologist for the Presbyterian 
hospital at New Orleans, and since 1911 also instructor in Pathology and 
bacteriology in the medical department of Tulane university.  Dr. Harris 
is a member of the Roman Catholic church, and is also affiliated with the 
Orleans Parish Medical association, Louisiana State Medical association, 
American Medical association and the Phi Chi medical fraternity.  Recently 
Dr. Harris has come into national prominence through research  connected 
with pellagra and experiments bearing upon infection of lower animals with 
that disease.  The preliminary report of this work has already been 
published.