Name/Title
AU Harris, Daniel Alfred - 1983-11-04 letter to Helen (Ward) O'ConnorEntry/Object ID
1991.1.3Context
5840 S.W. 48th St.
Miami, Fla 33155
Nov. 4, 1983
Dear Helen:
I have just re-read your very interesting and welcome letter, and I will try to supply the information you request about your family. Welcome to the Harris - Lambert tribe!
Paul’s (and my) father and mother were both born in Athens County, Ohio, in the hills just above the Ohio River, between Athens and Marietta, Ohio. Both families were of English background. Our father was Joseph H. Harris, son of John W. Harris and his first wife, whom I never knew. Our mother was Bertha Lambert Harris, daughter of Rev. Daniel W. Lambert and his wife Deborah Vernon Embree. She was a Quaker, and had been kicked out of her church when she married Daniel, who was not a Quaker. Both the Harris and Lambert families were large, - ten children in each, - and the two families united in two places. The oldest Harris child, Jordan, married the oldest Lambert, Ida, and the seventh Harris child, Joseph, married the seventh Lambert, Bertha. All quite proper.
Joseph and Bertha had six sons, Paul, Robert, (who died in infancy) Daniel, Theodore, James, and Richard, who lives in Columbus, Ohio. When Joseph and Bertha were students at Otterbein College, in Westerville, Ohio, Bertha had trouble with her eyes and had to drop out. Many years later, when her two oldest sons were in college, she went back to college, taking a few courses each year, and when she graduated in 1926 she was a grandmother. (Midge) Joseph, (Paul’s father, J. H. Harris) became a minister, and later, President of a Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. You will find him listed in “Who Was Who”. (People formerly listed in Who’s Who, who have died.)
Let me know if you need additional information. Can you let me have Paul’s latest address? Do keep in touch. I turned eighty in May, but I manage to keep busy and out of mischief.
Lots of love
{Uncle Dan}
My father’s name - Rev. Joseph Hastings Harris 1870
My mother’s name - Bertha Elizabeth Lambert Harris 1872