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HARRIS, Albert Mason<\/strong>, Professor Vanderbilt University; born Old Mystic, Conn., January 13, 1868; English descent; son of William C. and Elizabeth (Comer) HARRIS<\/strong>; father, building contractor; paternal grandparents George W. and Hannah Vincent (Hinckley) HARRIS<\/strong>, maternal grandparents John and Elizabeth (Parkhurst) COMER<\/strong>; educated Old Mystic schools, Emerson College of Oratory, Cornell (Iowa) Academy and College; graduated from Cornell (Iowa) College 1901 and Emerson College of Oratory (Boston, Mass.), in 1894, with B.A. and M.A. degrees; began business career as reporter on the Hartford (Conn) Times; was Instructor in Harrington’s School, Waterbury, Conn., in 1894; Assistant in Oberlin (Ohio) College 1894-96; Instructor in Cornell (Iowa) College 1896-1902; Adjunct Professor Public Speaking and Debate, Vanderbilt University 1902-07; Associate Professor 1907; married Florence BLACKWELL<\/strong>, December 31, 1902; member K. of P. and Sons of Veterans, and Quartermaster General S. of V., Department of Connecticut, 1889; Republican; member M. E. Church, South.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Nashville HARRIS, Albert Mason, Professor Vanderbilt University; born Old Mystic, Conn., January 13, 1868; English descent; son of William C. and Elizabeth (Comer) HARRIS; father, building contractor; paternal grandparents George W. and Hannah Vincent (Hinckley) HARRIS, maternal grandparents John and Elizabeth (Parkhurst) COMER; educated Old Mystic schools, Emerson College of Oratory, Cornell (Iowa) Academy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,77,7,4062,4419],"tags":[3186,3727,994,3728,1903,3729],"class_list":{"0":"post-8778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-h","8":"category-vanderbilt-university","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-blackwell","12":"tag-comer","13":"tag-harris","14":"tag-hinckley","15":"tag-mason","16":"tag-parkhurst","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13296,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions\/13296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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