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    2. Brenda Stocks
    3. I ran across this book review on a site of rare and out of print books. They have 1 copy and it is $85. If anyone is interested, the website address is: http://www.raregenealogies.com/ On the web page click on the link for Current stock . HARRIS, JAMES COFFEE. The Personal andFamily History of Charles Hooks and Margaret Monk Harris. [Np.,Privately Printed], J.C. Harris, 1911. 8vo. Pp. 116. 19 fullpage plates, mostly portraits,fullpage genealogical charts. Later mustard buckram, ex-library,black leather label on spine printed ingilt, discreet date stamps on topof few pages in rear, orig. wrappers boundin, blind library stamp on titlepageand a few others, otherwise a very goodcopy of a very scarce book. First and only edition. In establishing the family lines to be delineated,Harris' Foreward states: "In 1800 ... They were four pairs, mated as follows: William Harris and Sarah Coffee; Charles Hooks and AnnHunter; Jacob Monk and Sallie Wilkinson,Henry Maxwell and Margaret Hunter. At that time they all lived in the eastern part of North Carolina, except William Harris, born in New Bern, N.C.and Sarah Coffee, born in PrinceEdward County, Virginia who were then living in Middle Georgia ..." Uses anecdotal and historical data as well as genealogical to describe this family's Scotch-Irish origins, their sufferings and survival through the Civil War, and its more prominent members, including William HarrisCrawford, U.S. senator from Georgia, 1807-1813, who was Ambassador to France and candidate for U.S. President; William A. Harris, U.S. senator from Kansas; Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio, Thaddeus William Harris, who was founder of the Harvard Natural History Society, and Townsend Harris,who established the Free Academy, which eventually became the City Collegeof New York. A rich account. Perhaps most interestingis the discussion of Charles Hooks Harris' parole from prison at the end of the Civil War, returning to his native Tuskegee, Alabama and seeing about him the destruction of the Confederacy; slavery and the Civil War are discussed at length. Brenda

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