James Dunlop Harris and Mary Ann Miller
Husband James Dunlop Harris 1 2
Born: 1797 2 Christened: Died: 26 Feb 1842 - Bellefonte, Centre Co, PA 1 2 Buried:
Father: James Harris, Esq. (1755-1826/1828) 3 4 Mother: Ann Dunlop (1768-1844) 4 5
Marriage: 1824 2
Wife Mary Ann Miller 6 7
Born: Christened: Died: 1 Feb 1851 2 6 Buried:
Father: Reuben Miller ( -Bef 1815) 8 Mother: Thomazine Valentine ( - ) 9
Children
1 F Thomazine Harris 2
AKA: Thamasine Harris 10 Born: 1 Sep 1821 10 Christened: Died: 10 Sep 1876 10 Buried:Spouse: Dr. George Latimer Potter (1824-1879) 11 12
2 M James Harris 13
Born: Abt 1825 Christened: Died: 1846 2 Buried:
3 F Nancy Dunlop Harris 2
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1883 Buried:Spouse: Rev. James Henry Orbison (1826-1869) 2 14 Marr: 22 Nov 1858 15
4 F Jane M. Harris 17
AKA: Jane H. Harris 16 Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1883 Buried:Spouse: James L. Sommerville (1837- ) 18 Marr: 1860 19
5 F Eliza Dobbins Harris 20
Born: Abt 1837 Christened: Died: 1 Jul 1881 16 Buried:Spouse: William P. Humes (1844- ) 21 22 Marr: 27 Dec 1877 16
6 F Louisa M. Harris 23 24
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1883 Buried:Spouse: Hon. Adam Hoy (1827-1887) 23 24 Marr: 26 Dec 1865 23 25
General Notes: Husband - James Dunlop Harris
He was one of the ablest civil engineers Pennsylvania ever produced. Linn's History records very briefly some of the important undertakings in which he was engaged, viz.: "In the incipient operations preparatory to the legislation which authorized the commencement of the Pennsylvania canal, he, in 1825, explored one of the proposed routes for the canal to connect the eastern and western waters, and the Act having passed February 25, 1826, he was immediately appointed principal assistant to N. S. Roberts, Esq., who was charged with the location and construction of the section adjoining Pittsburgh and extending thirty-one miles to the mouth of the Kiskiminetas. On Mr. Roberts resignation, in May, 1827, Mr. Harris was appointed to take charge of that line, which was so far advanced by the first of June, 1828, that the Board of Canal Commissioners appointed him to the additional duty of locating and constructing that part of the canal extending from Blairsville to Johnstown, twenty-eight miles. He had this line, including four dams, thirty locks and two large stone aqueducts, so near completed in July, 1829, in substantial manner, that they could have been finished during the season, when he was suddenly removed by adverse influence of James S. Stevenson, acting canal commissioner on the Western Division. Mr. Harris' memorial on the subject to the Legislature in 1830 caused the defeat of Stevenson for U. S. Senator. In 1831 John Mitchell and James Clark, overruling Stevenson, appointed Mr. Harris, in connection with Robert Faries, engineer to locate the whole West Branch line of the Muncy Dam to the mouth of the Bald Eagle. Mr. Faries and Mr. Harris were associated in the location of the canal, and the line was then divided for construction, Mr. Harris taking the western portion. In June, 1834, he was principal engineer of the Pennsylvania and Ohio canal, and was shortly after offered charge of the Bald Eagle canal, which he declined as he had pledged himself to stay with his friend, Gen. Abner Lacock, in the former enterprise. On March 25, 1836, he was appointed principal engineer upon the extension of the North Branch Division, and to have general supervision of that and the Susquehanna Division. In the fall of 1838, he was designated, at the request of the citizens of Schuylkill county and other counties interested in the trade of the Union canal, as an able and disinterested engineer, to make examinations relative to its enlargement. His exceedingly able report will be found among the records of the House of Representatives at Harrisburg for the year 1839". In speaking of his death and funeral ceremonies attended by an immense concord of friends and neighbors, to testify their regard for his memory, the Centre Democrat, published by S. T. Shugert, in its issue of the 28th of February, 1842, among other things, says: "He acted his part in many important places, in all of which he sustained the character of an able, honest and conscientious man. He was the patron of all public improvements, and also of more limited and local pertaining to our town. He was the efficient advocate of everything that was good and useful in civil and religious society. The temperance cause, the Sabbath-school, the Presbyterian Church, of which he was a ruling elder and a very cheerful supporter, have experienced a severe stroke, and all deeply lament his loss."
1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 199.
2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 186.
3 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 198.
4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 182.
5 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 190, 199.
6 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 200.
7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 186, 239.
8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 69, 239.
9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 69, 186, 239.
10 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 338.
11 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 110, 186.
12 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 322.
13 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 186, 671.
14 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 19.
15 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 20.
16 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 29.
17 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 187, 671.
18 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 670.
19 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 671.
20 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 29, 187.
21 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 28, 187.
22 Emmett William Gans, A Pennsylvania Pioneer: Report of the Executive Committee of the Ball Estate Association (Mansfield, OH: R. J. Kuhl, Printer, 1900), Pg 699.
23 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 201.
24 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 39, 187.
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—, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 39.
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