Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . s descended from GideonHarris, one of the earliest settlers of the town ofScituate. Gideon was born March 15,1714, and wasthe great-grandson of Thomas Harris, who in companywith his brother William, Roger Williams, and others,sailed from Bristol, England, in the ship Lyon,William Peirce master, December i, 1630, landing atNantasket, Mass., on the 5th of February following;he settled in Providence in 1638 and died there in 1686. Dr. Harris r
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . s descended from GideonHarris, one of the earliest settlers of the town ofScituate. Gideon was born March 15,1714, and wasthe great-grandson of Thomas Harris, who in companywith his brother William, Roger Williams, and others,sailed from Bristol, England, in the ship Lyon,William Peirce master, December i, 1630, landing atNantasket, Mass., on the 5th of February following;he settled in Providence in 1638 and died there in 1686. Dr. Harris received his early education atLapham Institute, North Scituate, graduating in theclass of 1873. After graduation he taught schoolfor a year, and then passed two years in railroadsurveying under Edward Everett, a nephew ofthe statesman of the same name. He began thestudy of medicine in 1876 with his maternal Albert Potter of Chepachet, and graduated fromthe Columbia College Medical School (the Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons), New York, in theclass of 1880. He first settled at Greenville, R. I,and remained there nearly a year, when he was. GEO. A, HARRIS. called to Chepachet on account of the illness of hispreceptor, and has remained there since. He hasbeen a member of the school committee for nineyears. He has been Medical Examiner for DistrictNo. 3, Providence county, since 1884. He is amember of the Rhode Island Medical Society, ofthe Ancient Order of United Workmen, and of theRhode Island Medico-Legal Society. He has al-ways been greatly interested in musical affairs andhas been chorister of the Chepachet Church for thepast seven years. He was converted under theministry of Rev. Richard K. Wickett. He has beentreasurer of the church since 1887, and deaconsince 1893. He has been active in the ChristianEndeavor movement. In politics he is a Repub- 36 MEN OF PROGRESS. lican. A careful and conscientious practitioner ofmedicine, he yet believes that the truest Men ofP
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