Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Harris, Henry O.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Doylestown A-L


HENRY O. HARRIS attorney-at-law, P.O. Doylestown, was born 
in Kendall, Orleans county, N. Y., July 10, 1850, and is a 
son of Marvin and Jinnet (Lyell) Harris, both of whom are 
natives of Connecticut.  Our subject was brought up in 
Kendall, N. Y.  He received his education at Genesee 
Wesleyan seminary, at Lima, N. Y., where he prepared himself 
for college, and entered Genesee college at Lima in 1868.  
On the dissolution of Genesee college, he entered Syracuse 
university and was graduated in 1872.  He taught school in 
Genesee Wesleyan seminary for a short time, and in 1871 came 
to Bucks county and located at Carversville as a teacher and 
afterwards principal of the Excelsior Normal Institute.  He 
engaged in the lumber business in Cadillac, Mich., in 1873, 
as a superintendent and bookkeeper for the firm of Harris 
Brothers.  He spent about eighteen months there, then went 
to Philadelphia, where he was employed as bookkeeper by 
Harley & Beale, wholesale grocers, for about one year.  In 
July, 1875, he came to Doylestown, and the following October 
began to read law under Louis H. James.  He was admitted to 
the bar November 12, 1877, and has since been practicing in 
the courts of Bucks county, remaining two years in 
partnership with Louis H. James.  He was married September 
24, 1879, to Laura Firman, eldest daughter of Samuel A. 
Firman, of Doylestown, Pa.  Mrs. Harris is a member of the 
Presbyterian church.  He is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity and of the Odd Fellows.