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Collection : HARRIS, JAMES HENRY, PAPERS
Raleigh, Wake County
1848, 1864-1890, 1967
Physical Description: 30 items; letters, affidavit, petition, charter,
circulars, certificates, newspaper clipping; biographical sketch,
envelope .
Acquisition: Gift of Mrs. David Henry [Gertrude] Harris, daughter-in-
law of James H. Harris,
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Raleigh, January, 1967.
Additional^gift of 3 items from Mrs. Harris via Mrs. James W. (Elizabeth]
Re i dT fUJBNHMttRHI , Raleigh March 16, 1970. Biographical sketch
received from Elizabeth Balanoff, University of Chicago, 1967.
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Description: James Henry Harris (ca. 1830-1891) was a free black in
Granville County, where he was apprenticed to an upholsterer and later
opened his own business. Leaving North Carolina, he attended school in
Oberlin, Ohio, and travelled to ..Canada and to American Negro settlements
in Africa. During the Civil War he was a recruiting officer for Negro
troops in the state of -Indiana. After the war he returned to North
Carolina and became prominent in the Republican Party serving in the
state legislature in 1868, 1872, 1883. In Raleigh he was a city aider-
man, a deputy tax collector, and an original trustee of St. Ambrose
Episcopal Church (1868), a trustee of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb
and the Blind, and editor of the North Carolina Republican. Harris
died suddenly in Washington, D.C. on May 31, 1891. He is buried in Mount
Hope Cemetery in Raleigh with his wife Bettie Miller Harris (d. 1935)
and children Florence (d. 1889) and David Henry (d. 1955), husband of
Gertrude Harris of Raleigh.
Calendar of Items
March 18, 1848 Affidavit of John Dickinson, Granville County,
before justice of the peace that James Harris
is a free dark mulatto, ca. 19 years old.
Affirmation of justice's office by clerk of
superior court.
