The Harris surname

In the chronology 64 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Harris, A. Hugh 1 entry, 1953
  • February 9, 1953: UNC trustees' executive committee approves semesters and Saturday classes at Chapel Hill
• Harris, Barbara 1 entry, 1989
  • by February 3, 1989: Barbara Harris is named director of UNC's Program in Women's Studies
• Harris, Benton 1 entry, 1885
  • 1885: James H. Pratt's will leaves the Cabe farm to the family of Lucinda Harris
• Harris, Bernice Kelly 1 entry, 1939
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• Harris, Betsy 1 entry, 1868
  • May Term 1868: The court rescinds the 1859 binding of the four Harris children to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Betsy A. 1 entry, 1859
  • May Term 1859: The court binds four Harris children of color, the youngest under two, to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Bill 2 entries, 1933–1935
  • 1933–1936: The University's new athletic field, 1933–1936
  • by January 18, 1935: Relief funds restart work on the University's new intramural athletic field
• Harris, Brenda 1 entry, 1982
  • by October 5, 1982: About 300 people wait for Chapel Hill's 230 public housing units
• Harris, Charles 2 entries, 1795–1796
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• Harris, Charles W. 2 entries, 1796–1802
  • September 22, 1796: David Gillespie receives the earliest document resembling a university diploma
  • 1802: A trustee committee reports on the examination at the 1802 commencement
• Harris, Charles Wilson 9 entries, 1794–1802
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• Harris, Cora A. 1 entry, 1950
  • March 30, 1950: The Hillsboro Garden Club receives a key said to have locked the Regulators in jail
• Harris, Doctor W. 2 entries, 1859–1868
  • May Term 1859: The court binds four Harris children of color, the youngest under two, to Lambert W. Hall
  • May Term 1868: The court rescinds the 1859 binding of the four Harris children to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Don 1 entry, 1974
  • January 15, 1974: UNC's Student Health Service opens an evening Women's Health Clinic
• Harris, Edward 6 entries, 1786–1937
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  • 1786–1864: Free children of color and the apprentice law, 1786–1864
  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
  • August Term 1811: The court takes Franky Weaver, a girl of color, from Edward Harris and binds her to Nathaniel Carrington
  • August Term 1815: The court releases Isaac Weaver, a boy of color, from his binding to Edward Harris
  • August 29, 1815: A jury finds Edward Harris of unsound mind, and the court keeps him in the county jail
  • September 1937: The county school board pulls down a century-old house opposite the Hillsboro school
• Harris, Eugene L. 2 entries, 1879
  • April 23, 1879: Orange Presbytery holds its 318th session at Eno Church and approves the church order sent down by the General Assembly
  • by May 31, 1879: The university YMCA fits up a reading room and asks the public to help furnish it
• Harris, Eugene Lewis 1 entry, 1897
  • 1897: The Old Well rotunda is built
• Harris, Frank 1 entry, 1883
  • August to December 1883: Work begins on the Gray school and church for Black residents at Brownsville
• Harris, G. A. 1 entry, 1917
  • by May 3, 1917: Chapel Hill children enlist in a war garden army
• Harris, Gale 1 entry, 1973
  • March 26, 1973: Chapel Hill's public works director Shelton Womble retires
• Harris, George W. 1 entry, 1968
  • May 11, 1968: McCarthy supporters win three Chapel Hill Democratic precinct meetings
• Harris, H. B. 1 entry, 1942
  • June 1942: Army transport planes from Fort Bragg train at the Chapel Hill airport
• Harris, H. W. 1 entry, 1887
  • February 19, 1887: W. M. Stroud & Co. of University Station dissolves
• Harris, H. Y. 2 entries, 1882–1886
  • October 18, 1882: Caldwell Democrats organize a Bennett and Cox Club
  • April 6, 1886: Fire destroys the Caldwell Institute building in Little River Township
• Harris, Harold 1 entry, 1983
  • September 1983: Chapel Hill rebuilds Rosemary Street between Henderson and Hillsborough streets
• Harris, Henry 2 entries, 1752–1836
  • 1752–1837: Hillsborough's courthouse, jail, pillory and stocks, 1752–1837
  • March 1836: Henry Harris, held as a suspected runaway, is charged with burning the Orange County jail
• Harris, J. M. 1 entry, 1946
  • 1946: Principal J. M. Harris refits the Murphey School lunchroom
• Harris, Jacqueline Cato Hijmans 1 entry, 1972
  • 1972: Jon Condoret designs a Modernist house for Drs. Jerome and Jacqueline Harris
• Harris, James 1 entry, 1989
  • October 17, 1989: Carrboro aldermen vote 4-3 against endorsing the Downtown Commission's planning guidelines
• Harris, James R. 1 entry, 1866
  • August Term 1866: The court binds A. W. McBroom to James R. Harris and Margaret Jane McBroom to S. S. McBroom
• Harris, Jerome Sylvan 1 entry, 1972
  • 1972: Jon Condoret designs a Modernist house for Drs. Jerome and Jacqueline Harris
• Harris, Jesse 6 entries, 1886–1887
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  • 1886–1887: The killing of student Jacob Freeze and the trials, 1886–1887
  • November 8-12, 1886: The grand jury indicts five Black men in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
  • October 10, 1886: Student Jacob A. Freeze is shot dead during a clash between students and Black residents
  • May 8, 1887: Prisoners in the Freeze case try to break out of the Hillsborough jail
  • December 8, 1887: Three Black men convicted in the killing of student Freeze go to the penitentiary
  • March 30-April 2, 1887: Three Black men are convicted of manslaughter in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
• Harris, Jody M. 1 entry, 1942
  • by January 16, 1942: Orange County Training School opens defense trade classes for Black youth
• Harris, John 7 entries, 1957–1994
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  • November 7, 1957: Mrs. Raymond Thompson is named Orange County's home demonstration leader of the year
  • 1982–1994: The South Africa divestment campaign at UNC and Chapel Hill's sanctions, 1982–1994
  • 1990–1994: The movement for a freestanding Black Cultural Center, 1990–1994
  • September 10, 1993: Stone Center advisory board asks the trustees to review the Coker Woods site
  • September 24, 1993: UNC trustees refuse to reconsider the Coker Woods site for the Stone Center
  • July 23, 1993: UNC trustees elect John Harris of Charlotte as chairman
  • March 21, 1994: UNC's endowment trustees lift the ban on investing in companies tied to South Africa
• Harris, Johnny 6 entries, 1994
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  • 1994–1995: Hardin’s retirement and the search for a chancellor, 1994–1995
  • July 22, 1994: UNC Board of Trustees elects David Whichard chairman
  • January 28, 1994: Chancellor Paul Hardin announces he will retire on June 30, 1995
  • February 18, 1994: Trustees chairman Johnny Harris names the committee to find Paul Hardin's successor
  • February 23, 1994: Thirteen student groups demand six more student seats on the chancellor search committee
  • March 23, 1994: Students rally at Manning Hall for more seats on the chancellor search committee
• Harris, Joseph A. 53 entries, 1878–1914
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• Harris, Joseph A. 1 entry, 1901
  • 1901–1930: Prohibition and the blockaders in Orange County, 1901–1930
• Harris, Joseph A., Jr. 2 entries, 1892
  • by January 16, 1892: Joseph A. Harris Jr. opens a store in the old Brown building near the court house
  • late January 1892: The Orange County Observer moves its office to rooms over Joseph A. Harris Jr.'s store
• Harris, Joseph E. 1 entry, 1885
  • July 6, 1885: The new Board of Education sets aside $50 for an institute for Black teachers
• Harris, Josephine 1 entry, 1994
  • January 1994: First Baptist Church of Chapel Hill elects Josephine Harris a deacon
• Harris, June 2 entries, 1928–1945
  • by July 13, 1928: June Harris builds five Aladdin houses on Rosemary Lane
  • by March 1, 1945: Orange County is found to have only two justices of the peace
• Harris, Lizzie Carr 1 entry, 1928
  • by July 13, 1928: June Harris builds five Aladdin houses on Rosemary Lane
• Harris, Louis 1 entry, 1965
  • October 19, 1965: UNC establishes the Louis Harris Political Data Center
• Harris, Lucinda 1 entry, 1885
  • 1885: James H. Pratt's will leaves the Cabe farm to the family of Lucinda Harris
• Harris, Marcia 2 entries, 1990–1992
  • 1990–1993: Sexual orientation policy and anti-gay harassment at UNC and in the towns, 1990–1993
  • by March 12, 1992: UNC's career office decides to ask recruiters about sexual-orientation policies
• Harris, Mark 2 entries, 1784–1807
  • 1784–1818: Naming the father: bastardy bonds and support awards in the county court, 1784–1818
  • November 1807 (court term): A jury finds for Priscilla Woods in two suits against Mark Harris
• Harris, May Pashley 1 entry, 1927
  • April 8, 1927: Orange County schools hold their county commencement in Hillsboro
• Harris, Miss 1 entry, 1868
  • June 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay praises Hillsborough's Howard Freedmen's School and asks the Philadelphia Friends for more teachers
• Harris, Mrs. 2 entries, 1843–1895
  • by October 26, 1843: Mrs. Harris of Orange makes silk handkerchiefs from silk she raised
  • mid-November 1895: New Hope's women organize a missionary society
• Harris, Nancy 1 entry, 1868
  • May Term 1868: The court rescinds the 1859 binding of the four Harris children to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Nancy H. 1 entry, 1859
  • May Term 1859: The court binds four Harris children of color, the youngest under two, to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Nathaniel 3 entries, 1784–1801
  • 1784–1818: Naming the father: bastardy bonds and support awards in the county court, 1784–1818
  • May 27, 1795 to February Term 1798: The county court proves a run of deeds to and from the University's trustees
  • February 1801 (court term): A jury finds for Elizabeth Waggoner in her suit against Nathaniel Harris
• Harris, R. L. 1 entry, 1944
  • May 25, 1944: The National Munitions plant at Carrboro receives the first National Security Award given in North Carolina
• Harris, R. P. 8 entries, 1923–1926
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  • 1923–1927: Breeding and testing the county's dairy cattle and poultry, 1923–1927
  • 1923–1926: Selling the county's farm produce, 1923–1926
  • early September 1924: County commissioners vote $1,000 to pay a driver for a farm marketing truck
  • September 23, 1924: A farmers' marketing truck begins collecting Orange County produce
  • October 1924: The farmers' marketing truck sells $2,402 of Orange County produce in October
  • February 23, 1924: Hillsborough's poultry show launches the Orange County Poultry Breeders' Association
  • March 15, 1924: Orange County poultrymen ship 435 pure-bred eggs to an outside buyer
  • by August 6, 1926: Orange County farmers in the Sweet Cream and Poultry Producers report their profits
• Harris, Robert 3 entries, 1808–1816
  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
  • May Term 1816: The court cancels the Bennehan's mill bridge contract and orders it let again
  • March 1, 1816: The court names a committee to contract for an Eno bridge near Bennehan's mill
• Harris, Sandy 2 entries, 1833–1879
  • September 9 to 11, 1833: Internal improvement convention meets at Hillsborough and elects Thomas Ruffin president
  • early November 1879: The university museum receives Sandy Harris's carved group of Christian and Apollyon
• Harris, Sterling 13 entries, 1752–1807
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  • 1752–1837: Hillsborough's courthouse, jail, pillory and stocks, 1752–1837
  • about 1786: Sterling Harris builds the house on East Queen Street later called Heartsease
  • December 1, 1791: The court orders a pillory and stocks built on the public lot in Hillsborough
  • May 27, 1791: The court orders the road east of Hillsborough turned along the road to the mineral spring on James Hogg's land
  • March 3, 1792: The court pays for building the new pillory and stocks in Hillsborough
  • February Term 1797: The court levies a tax to build a county jail in Hillsborough
  • February Term 1798: The court pays for the register's books and has John Estes's indexing valued
  • February Term 1799: The justices elect Sterling Harris treasurer of public buildings
  • May 28, 1800: County auditors report nearly £1,000 through the public buildings treasury
  • February 29, 1804: The court binds Edy Weaver's five children to their mother, a free woman of color
  • May Term 1804: The court orders a bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough and levies a tax for it
  • May Term 1805: The court orders a public clock for the courthouse and levies a tax for it
  • May Term 1807: The court appoints James Webb treasurer of public buildings
• Harris, T. W. 2 entries, 1897
  • 1897–1931: The UNC pharmacy school under Howell and Beard, 1897–1931
  • March 1897: UNC sets up a chair of pharmacy under Edward V. Howell
• Harris, Thomas 1 entry, 1820
  • December 23, 1820: Thomas Harris is elected Hillsborough's magistrate of police
• Harris, Thomas N. 2 entries, 1859–1868
  • May Term 1859: The court binds four Harris children of color, the youngest under two, to Lambert W. Hall
  • May Term 1868: The court rescinds the 1859 binding of the four Harris children to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Thomas West 9 entries, 1875–1890
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• Harris, Trudier 6 entries, 1981–1993
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  • March 20-21, 1981: Delta Sigma Theta holds a workshop on the Black woman at the Carolina Union
  • November 13, 1986: Students and the Rainbow Coalition hold a vigil against racism at the Franklin Street post office
  • 1988–1990: The Office for Student Counseling and Dean Cell’s reappointment, 1988–1990
  • November 1989: Trudier Harris is chosen permanent chair of UNC's curriculum in African-American studies
  • spring 1991: Graduate students form the UNC Feminist Alliance
  • April 21, 1993: English graduate students protest the department's lack of diversity outside Greenlaw Hall
• Harris, Tyree 6 entries, 1752–1776
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• Harris, W. B. 1 entry, 1970
  • October 26, 1970: University trustees give chancellors the power to suspend disruptive students

In books and archives 8 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Harris family family, 3 works
• Harris, Bernice Kelly, 1892-1973 2 works
• Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804 1 work
• Harris, Charles, 1762-1825 1 work
• Harris, Harvey, 1915-1999 1 work
• Harris, Henry Speck, 1837-1863 1 work
• Harris, John Williams, 1840-1861. 1 work
• Harris, Robert Wilson, 1779-1812 1 work

In the historical records 863 records

154 deeds, 17 records of enslaved people, 130 marriages, 522 court minutes, 13 tax list entries and 27 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Harris marriages in full · Search the name in every collection