FIRST LT.MAJOR CONFEDERATE ARMY 5th VIRGINIA CAVALRY. 10TH VIRGINIA CAVALRY.Mustered out September 1864.
Son of William Overton and Lucy Robinson(Butler)Harris.Married Bettie Edwards(Clark) 30 March 1870 Independence, Missouri.(ancestery.com) Father of;
William Temple,
Lucy Ellen Harris Grose(1873-1949),
Frederick Thomas Harris
Reuben W.Harris(1877-1884)
Emma Caroline Harris Perry(1870-1966),
Owen Overton Harris
Katherine Ellen Harris Peck(1884-1951).

Served as City Attorney for San Bernardino and City clerk.(information from the library California room.

MAJOR,CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, PIONEER, ATTORNEY. arrived at Mariposa mines in 1849 and San Bernardino in 1870. He served as the city attorney and city clerk for San Bernardino and he was buried in Pioneer Cemetery.
The San Bernardino Society for California Pioneers was chartered in 1888 by three men, George W. Suttenfield, Major Benjamin B. Harris, and Sydney P. Waite, who called meetings for every Saturday afternoon in the county's courthouse.

Requirements for membership were stiff. A person had to prove United States citizenship or the capability of becoming naturalized and must have lived in California before December 31, 1850 and in the county on or before the county's incorporation date, April 26, 1853.

Male descendants of persons who had qualified for membership were permitted to join, but women who were related to qualifying members could only be honorary or life members. Courtesy San Bernardino Historical society.
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Mariposa Gazette, Number 9, 14 August 1897
DEAD - HARRIS - In San Bernardino, August 1st, 1897, Major Benjamin Butler Harris, formerly a resident of Mariposa county, a native of Virginia, aged 73 years.

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