Charles Harris

Charles Harris (1772 – March 17, 1827) was a British-born lawyer who emigrated to the United States. He served two-and-a-half terms as mayor of Savannah, Georgia. He was also a slave owner. Savannah's Harris Street is named for him, as is Harris County, Georgia. Life and career Harris was born in England in 1772 to William Harris, a barrister and first cousin to Lord Malmesbury, and Elizabeth Dymock. After being educated in France, he emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen, settling in Savannah, Georgia, where he studied law under Samuel Stirk. He opened is own practice in 1793. In 1798, he married Catherine McCauley McIntosh, youngest daughter of American Revolutionary War hero Lachlan McIntosh. They had three known children: Sarah Elizabeth (1809), Catherine Virginia (1811) and McIntosh (1814). Sarah died at the age of 20 or 21, Catherine died aged four, and McIntosh after eighteen days.