Introduction
WILLIAM HARRIS was a prominent Camden businessman featured in South Jersey A History 1624–1924.
South Jersey A History 1624–1924
WILLIAM HARRIS—The profession of the law has commanded the attention of William Harris, of Camden, for the past eighteen years. It is a matter of record that he was admitted to the bar of the State of New Jersey as attorney in February of 1906. Progressive in his thinking and well qualified for his profession, Mr. Harris is considered one of the thoroughly representative professional men of the day. He is a member of a leading family of that section, having for his parents Isaac and Sarah (Beaman) Harris. Coming from such a background, being also a member of a prominent family and both his parents people of standing, Mr. Harris was reared in the midst of good moral principles and the proper schools and he graduated from high school. Later he entered William J. Thompson, Jr., while he attended college. He was thus enabled to cover his preparations for his life-work at a very early age and was admitted to the bar of the State of New Jersey as attorney in February, 1906. Admitted as counselor in February, of 1909, he has gone ever forward to more definite and more widely recognized success. Following general lines of practice from the beginning, Mr. Harris has been active as a director and solicitor, also one of the organizers of the Memorial National Bank of Collingswood, at West Collingswood, New Jersey, and he is also a director of the West Collingswood Building and Loan Association. With offices located at No. 315 Market Street, in Camden, Mr. Harris has attained a strong professional position, and he is considered one of the thoroughly representative professional men of the day.
A Republican by political affiliation, Mr. Harris has been more or less active in the councils of the party, and his recent appointment to the County Board of Taxation placed him on that important body in June, 1924. Fraternally, Mr. Harris is affiliated with Collingswood Lodge, No. 210, Free and Accepted Masons; Excelsior Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; Crescent Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and he is a member of the Camden Young Men’s Christian Association, and the Camden County Branch of the American Red Cross. His clubs are: The Camden Club, the Tavistock Country, of Haddonfield, and the West Collingswood Rod and Gun Club. His chief leisure interests are golf, gunning and fishing. His religious affiliation is with the West Collingswood Methodist Episcopal Church.
William Harris married, April 7, 1909, in Camden, Ethel M. Sutton, born December 23, 1884, died June 19, 1922, daughter of John R. and Lizzie L. (Woolson) Sutton, her father a jeweler by occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Harris are the parents of one child, Elizabeth G., born April 14, 1910.