BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES *9 



NORVIN TRENT HARRIS. 



Few men who are devotees of the sport pertaining to dog and gun are so favored 

 by the wealth of opportunity as that enjoyed by Norvin Trent Harris. His domicile 

 and business interests are within the vast region of the south where game is in greatest 

 abundance. He is a sugar planter on a vast scale in Louisiana, a state specifically re- 

 nowned in respect to its game supply. He is a member of the firm of Harris & Eustis, 

 cotton factors and general commission merchants, of New Orleans, the city of his na- 

 tivity. However, he makes his home at "Hurstbourne," Lyndon, Jefferson county, 

 Ky., a vast, world-famous stock farm devoted to breeding of pure-blooded horses. 

 "Hurstbourne" was purchased by his father, the late J. L. Harris, who was a Ken- 

 tuckian by birth, who was interested extensively in cotton and sugar plantations in 

 Louisiana^ and who was also a cotton factor and commission merchant in New Or- 

 leans up to the time of his demise in 1888. 



As becomes a cultured gentleman, Mr. Harris' hunting activities are after the 

 most refined methods of up-to-date sportsmanship. He is identified with many branches 

 of sport. He is specially devoted to fox hunting, and, in that relation has been an ex- 

 pert cross-country rider since he was fifteen years of age. He has owned many ex- 

 cellent fox hounds, some of which have proved their superiority in the best of com- 

 petition. Wing shooting and big game hunting, as a matter of good sport, also en- 

 gage much of his attention. His greatest fame, however, in these matters is associ- 

 ated with field trials. He has been a field trial club member, officially, has acted as 

 judge, and has owned many contesting dogs since the early 8o's, amongst which were 

 the renowned field-trial winners Wun Lung, Tony Boy, Cynosure and Hurstbourne 

 Zip. 



While the field trial competition of many years was honored with Mr. Harris' 

 entries and attendance, the chief purpose in maintaining his kennel was to indulge his 

 fondness for field shooting. He is also skilful in trap shooting. 



Socially, he is a man of rare personal charm. Nature has endowed him with a 

 happy disposition, and to this is added the hospitality and suavity of the true southern 

 gentleman. He is the kind of man one always feels a warm delight to meet; of keen 

 intellect, courteous, energetic and sympathetic ; he is also the kind of man who achieves 

 success in business, and does honor to the sport he cherishes. In his lighter moods- he 

 is an excellent raconteur, and no party of which he is a member can suffer a dull. mo- 

 ment. 



