178 THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



tionsaiul was always interested in political as well as busi- 

 ness affairs. 



Admitted to membership Feb. 14, 1855. 



GEORGE OLIVER HARRIS died at his residence 77 La- 

 fayette street, Salem, Tuesday night, Aug. 21, 1888. Son 

 of Capt. Thomas and Abigail (Chapin) Harris, born in 

 Charlestown, Mass., Mar. 31, 1810. 



In early life he was in the counting room of Pickering 

 Dodge, a well-known and distinguished merchant of 

 Salem, having passed some part of his schoolboy days in 

 Switzerland. 



Later he went to sea as supercargo or some similar po- 

 sition making voyages to the Fiji Isles, Russia and other 

 ports. Later in life, after residing for a while in New York 

 and in the west, he returned to Salem and was clerk in the 

 Naumkeag Steam Cotton Mills. Afterwards he was em- 

 ployed in a clerical capacity by the firm of N. Thayer and 

 Co. of Boston, his son Walter C. Harris succeeding in that 

 capacity. 



Mr. Harris was a man of marked excellence of charac- 

 ter ; he was not one to aspire to public life or distinctions 

 of any kind. 



In all his business relations he exhibited the traits of 

 scrupulous integrity, and in every personal and public re- 

 lation those of true Christianity. He had for a long series 

 of years been a very interested member of the Barton 

 Square Church and Society, and never withheld his con- 

 tribution to any good work that deserved encouragement 

 either in or out of the denomination with which he was 

 identified. Mrs. Harris who survives her husband was a 

 niece of Rev. Henry Coleman the first minister of the 

 church above named. 



