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About Donald Jasper Harris, PhD
Origins
”My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me). The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1936 two years before I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown’s Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte).
Both of my grandmothers had the strongest influence on my early upbringing(“not to exclude, of course, the influence of my dear mother”Miss Beryl” and loving father “Maas Oscar”). ...”
Sources
- professional Biography: Stanford
- ”Reflections of a Jamaican Father” By Donald J. Harris“ < link > to The Diaspora KAMALA HARRIS’ JAMAICAN HERITAGE – UPDATED – 14.01.2019
- Articles Written by Donald J Harris: < Stanford >
- Green, Erica L. "'Run, Kamala, Run': Mention of Harris's Father Was a Rare Homage to a Fleeting Figure." The New York Times, published 24 August 2024. < link > Accessed 26 August 2024.
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Donald Jasper Harris, PhD's Timeline
| 1938 |
August 23, 1938
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Kingston, St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica
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| 1964 |
October 20, 1964
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Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States
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| 1967 |
January 30, 1967
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Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois, United States
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