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词条 Jeptha Vining Harris (doctor)
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  1. Biography

  2. Death

  3. Notes

  4. References

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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.

Biography

Jeptha 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]

Death

Doctor Jeptha Vining Harris died in 1914 and is buried in Key West Cemetery, Key West Florida.[4]

Notes

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. ^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. ^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. ^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. ^Harris, 1914, p. 80.

References

  • Allardice, Bruce S. Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-8262-1809-4}}.
  • 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}}.
  • Harris, Gideon Dowse. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SKRRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA94 Harris Genealogy]. Columbus, Miss., Keith Printing Co., 1914. {{OCLC|4707316}}. Retrieved September 23, 2012.
  • 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.
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