Dr. John Harris, M.D. and Ellen Matilda Orbison

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Husband Dr. John Harris, M.D. ^{1 2}

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           Died: 1881 - Vienna, Austria 1
         Buried: 

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         Father: James Harris, Esq. (1755-1826/1828) 3 4
         Mother: Ann Dunlop (1768-1844) 4 5

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       Marriage: 2 May 1837 1

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   Other Spouse: Eliza Hoge (      -      ) 2

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Wife Ellen Matilda Orbison ^{1 2}

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           Born: 19 Jul 1816 1
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           Died: Aft 1898
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         Father: William Orbison (1777-1857) 6 7 8 9
         Mother: Eleanor Elliott (1788-1865) 6 9 10 11

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. John Harris, M.D.

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He was a practicing physician for some years, and afterwards engaged in the wholesale drug business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and importers under the firm name of Harris, Hale & Co. He died in Vienna while serving as U. S. consul.

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General Notes: Wife - Ellen Matilda Orbison

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from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

She acquired much celebrity during the Rebellion in the organization of help, collection and distribution of supplies and delicacies for the Pennsylvania soldiers in home and field hospitals.

During the war of the Rebellion, she was secretary of the Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in that capacity spent much of her time ministering to the soldiers in the hospitals. Her husband having been appointed consul to Venice in 1870, she went there and remained until his death in 1881; she later resided in Florence, Italy.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 15.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 183.

3 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 198.

4 Editor, 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, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 190, 199.

6 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 437.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 4.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 930.

9 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 111.

10 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 2.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 931.