Thoro Harris

HARRIS, Thoro. b. Washington, DC, 31 March 1874; d. Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 27 March 1955. Harris was one of two children born to Joseph Dennis Harris, an African American physician in Washington, DC, and Elizabeth W. Harris (neé Worthington) from Michigan (ca.1840-ca.1900). The marriage took place in Wayne County, North Carolina, in 1868 (information from Chris Fenner). The 1880 Washington DC census lists the mother as ‘white’ and ‘head of household’. Thoro and his sister Worthy (born South Carolina 1871), are identified ‘MU’ (mulatto). The Catalog of Howard University, 1889, lists Harris as a fourth year student in the Normal Department, a Post Graduate student, and a special student in...