John Harris (16 July 1812 - 20 July 1869) was a railway engineer who worked on the Stockton and Darlington Railway from 1836 to 1847. Personal life He was born on 16 July 1812 in Maryport, Cumbria, the son of William Harris, a sailcloth manufacturer who was bankrupted in the financial crisis of 1816, and his wife Sarah. He married Mary Ann Mason on 24 September 1838 at the Friends' Meeting House, Penrith, but she died in 1839. He married secondly Mary Wilson on 11 April 1844 at Kendal and they had 5 children: Mary Elizabeth Harris (1845-1852) John William Harris (1851-1852) Ernest Wilson Harris (1852-1857) John Wilson Harris (1853-1962) Bertha Harris (b. 1856) He died on 20 July 1869 in Kendal after an attack of jaundice.

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