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 TH-E HARRIS FAMILY
AMOS LOVE HARRIS, ,who was named after his unle, Amos Love,
was born at Thomaaville, Georgia, and came to Tampa in 1899
lHe was first bookkeeper for the Southern Express Company;
he then filled a similar position in the employ of one of
the largest eigr factories. Later he was with the Giddens
wholesalee Grocery Company. Subsequently he engaged in the
.real estate business as a partner in the firm of Drew, Henp
derson and Harris, The business of this firm was successful-
ly conducted until the death of William B. Henderson, the
senior partner, when it was wound up, and Mr. Harris has
,since conducted the same line of business alone. He is a
member of the First Baptist Church.
 Amos L. Harris married on the 15th day of January;
 1902, Mattie Ward Henderson, the youngest daughter of Wil-
 liam B. and Caroline Elizabeth (Spencer) Henderson. (See
 Henderson family.) They have three children, whose names
 are Robert H., Caroline and William Henderson. They were
 all born in Tampa.
 Amos Love Harris, the son of Dr. Robert Hamilton and
Mary Martha (Love) Harris, was born in Georgia. His fathers-
father died when his father was but two years of age. His
father received a very meager early education, and entered
the Confederate arm0 as a private in the First Georgia regi-
ment at the age of eighteen years. Later he was transferred
to the Twenty-ninth regiment, and afterwards. promoted to the
rank of second lieutenant, then first lieutenant attached
to the Fifty-seventh regiment, subsequently becoming a cap-
tain of the last named regiment. Id this capacity he served
till the end of the war.
: After the close of the war he studied law (having at-
 ed for a short time before the cmmncement of the war -
 rcer University at Penfleld, Ga.). After the war he stud-
 led in the office of his father-in-law, Hon. Peter E. Love,
 and after his admission to the bar practiced his profession
 t Thomasville, Gwrgia, for eight years. He than becao
 Attorney for the Atlantic and Gulf railroad, now a part of
 he Atlantic Coast Line system, remaining in that position
 tor three years.
 He then took up the profession of teaching, becoming
 -nmipal of Cairo AcadeMy, where he remained for six years.
 Water he was principal of the ColMan High School. He be-
 professor in the Southern Femal Colege at Lah*ang,
 gia, and later at the Cox Female College, at Atlanta,
 ergia. 2
 iWhea practicing law in ThOnasville he was mayor of
the zity ror two or thre e -nns and at ontmeiv'was solicito
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