Harris, Right Rev. Samuel Smith

D.D. (William and Mary College, Williams burg, Va., 1875), LL.D. (University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, 1879), Episcopalian, bishop of Michigan; b. in Autauga County, Ala., Sept. 14, 1841 graduated at the University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, 1859; studied law at the University Law School, Montgomery, Ala., and admitted to the bar in 1860, by special enabling act of the legislature, being a minor; after practising law for some years, was admitted to holy orders in the Protestant-Episcopal Church, at Montgomery, Ala., 1869; became rector of Trinity Church, Columbus, Ga., 1869; of Trinity Church, New Orleans, La., 1871 of St. James's Church, Chicago, 111., 1875; consecrated bishop, 1879. He is "in sympathy with the liberal school of thought in the Protestant- Episcopal Church." In 1878, with Rev. Dr. John Fulton, he founded The Lining Church newspaper, and was editor for six months. Besides many occasional sermons, articles in periodicals, etc., he has published The Relation of Christianity to Civil Society (Bohlen Lectures for 1882), New York, 1883.