Henry Schenck Harris, was the son of Israel Harris, was born in Belvidere, Dec. 27, 1850. He entered the sophomore class at Princeton in the fall of 1867, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1870. Immediately following his graduation, he commenced the study of law in the office of J.G. Shipman, at Belvidere, was admitted to the bar as attorney at the June term in 1873, and as counselor at the June term in 1876. Upon being admitted to the bar as attorney he opened a law-office in Belvidere. In March, 1877, he was appointed prosecutor of the pleas for Warren County by Governor Bedle, and is the incumbent of that office in 1880. He was prosecutor in some of the most important causes ever tried in New Jersey. The most notable of these were the cases of the strikers on the Morris and Essex and the New Jersey Central Railroads, in which nearly a score of them were indicted and convicted, and also in the famous Warren County ring trials of 1878, wherein twelve high officials of the county were indicted, convicted, and sent to the State’s prison and jail for conspiracy, forgery, and embezzlement, seventy-six bills of indictment having been found against them. In the fall of 1880, Mr. Harris, in 1872 acted as a Democrat, received the unanimous nomination for member of Congress from the Fourth Congressional District of New Jersey by the Democratic party, and was elected by a majority of four thousand one hundred and seventy-three, against Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, the Republican candidate. The district is composed of the counties of Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon, and Somerset. Mr. Harris married, Aug. 19, 1874, Miss Martha, a daughter of Anthony B. Robeson, of Belvidere. They have one child, Bertha Robeson, aged four years and six months.

Photo Taken May 2018.

Photo Taken May 2018.