词条 | Jeptha Vining Harris (doctor) |
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|name = Jeptha Vining Harris |image = |caption = |birth_date = May 28, 1839 |death_date = 1914 (Aged 74/75) |birth_place = Abbeville County, South Carolina |death_place = Key West, Florida |placeofburial = Key West, Florida |placeofburial_label = |placeofburial_coordinates = |nickname = |birth_name = |allegiance = Confederate States of America |branch = Confederate States Army Confederate States Navy |serviceyears = |rank = Assistant Surgeon |servicenumber = |unit = |commands = |battles = American Civil War |battles_label = |awards = |relations = |laterwork = Doctor, customs collector, school superintendent |signature = }} Jeptha Vining Harris (May 27, 1839 – 1914) was an assistant surgeon for the Confederate States Army and Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. After the Civil War, he was a customs collector, doctor and school superintendent at Key West, Florida. BiographyJeptha Vining Harris was born on May 27, 1839 in the Abbeville District of South Carolina.[1] He was the sixth child of James Walton Harris and Martha Watkins Harris.[2] James Walton Harris was the first child of Jeptha Vining Harris of Georgia and Sarah Hunt Harris.[3] Jeptha V. Harris grew up in North Carolina and Mississippi.[4] Harris was the nephew of Jeptha Vining Harris (Mississippi), a Mississippi militia (Confederate) brigadier general during the American Civil War (Civil War) and Mississippi State Senator.[5][6] He was the grandson of Jeptha Vining Harris (Georgia) and Sarah (Hunt) Harris.[5][6] The elder Jeptha Vining Harris was a Georgia militia general during the War of 1812, prominent lawyer, planter and member of the Georgia House of Representatives.[5][6] Harris received his college and medical education at the University of Mississippi, graduating in 1859.[7][8] Jeptha V. Harris married Mary Perkins of Mississippi on March 5, 1861.[1] They had the following children: Jeptha V. Harris, Jr., Louis A. Harris and Martha Watkins Harris.[9] Both sons were lawyers.[9] Soon after he completed college and medical school, Harris served as an assistant surgeon in the Confederate States Army and Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.[4] After the Civil War, Harris and his family moved to Key West, Florida, where he became customs collector and lived in the Customs House.[4] He also resumed his medical practice.[4] Harris was interested in promoting and improving public education. Because of this interest, he became school superintendent at Key West.[4] Harris School, which was built at Key West in 1909, was named for him.[4] DeathDoctor Jeptha Vining Harris died in 1914 and is buried in Key West Cemetery, Key West Florida.[4] Notes1. ^1 Harris, Gideon Dowse. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SKRRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA74 Harris Genealogy]. Columbus, Miss., Keith Printing Co., 1914. {{OCLC|4707316}}. Retrieved September 23, 2012. p. 76. 2. ^Harris, 1914, pp. 75–76. 3. ^Harris, 1914, p. 75. 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Born, George Walter. Preserving Paradise: The Architectural Heritage And History of the Florida Keys. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-59629-152-2}}. p. 32. 5. ^1 2 Allardice, Bruce S. [https://books.google.com/books?id=d7kKuAZFDu0C&pg=PA120 More Generals in Gray.] Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. {{ISBN|0-8071-3148-2}} (pbk.). Retrieved September 16, 2012. p. 120. 6. ^1 2 Harris, 1914, pp. 74–75, 94. 7. ^Harris, 1914, p. 79. 8. ^University of Mississippi. [https://books.google.com/books?id=66LOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA40 'Historical and Current Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the University of Mississippi Forty-Second Session']. University of Mississippi: 1894. {{OCLC|18523522}}. Retrieved September 28, 2012. p. 40. 9. ^1 Harris, 1914, p. 80. References
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