Iverson L. Harris, Sr.

Iverson L. Harris, Sr. was an attorney associated with the Point Loma community.

The National Cyclopedia of American Biography of 1926 provides this information:

НАRRIS, Iverson Louis, theosophist, was born at Macon, Ga., Nov. 25, 1860, son of Charles Jenkins and Mary Clopton (Wiley) Harris, of Huguenot stock. His father was а well-known lawyer of Macon, was solicitor-general and a judge of the city court. In the civil war he organized the 3rd Ga. reserves, of which he was colonel. To the same family belonged Isham Green Harris (q.v.), U. S. Senator and governor of Tennessee. Iverson Harris was the youngest student ever admitted to Mercer University. He left before graduating in order to help support the large family, made necessary by the devastations of the war and the failing health of his father. After teaching school for a period he studied law under his father, was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his profession in his native City. He joined the theosophical movement in the early nineties and from the beginning took a conspicuous part in defense of theosophical principles, the promulgation of which he made his life work. He was President of the Macon branch of the theosophical society up to the time of his removal to California. In 1899 he settled at the International Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma, chiefly for the purpose of educating his children in the Raja-Yoga School, which was about to be established by Мme. Katherine Tingley (q.v.) In the year previous he had become a mеmЬег o f Мme. Tingley’s cabinet and was active in the formation of the Universal Brotherhood when it was organized by Мme. Tingley in 1898. He was personal counsel for Мme. Tingley, and professor and dean of law at the Theosophical University until his death. He was admitted to the California bar in 1900, and he had been identified with much important litigation in Southern California courts. He was member of various bar associations and of the Masonic fraternity. He was also a dominant factor in thePeacе Congress hold by Mme. Tingley in Sweden in 1913. He was universally beloved for his sterling qualities as a man, his generosity, his integrity, his broad view of life, and his unswerving devotion to principle.

He ao an orato r of ra re g if te , s rlp e scholar wlth an urmsuai -mo.-leige o f phllosophy, history ond the cla ssic e an a profbuaö gresp o f tho priiiciplee of modern jurispruaenee. He was а лап to wboa the bickeringe o f the law wer© ae mught, but v-hosc nind was o f such finenasc of cnlib r th a t only the g rea t, undorlyinf p rin cip le s apper.led to hin, and the phlloaoptor o f the low re th e r thm i t e technical aspccte was h is Joyous p u rsu it, Hs was courteouc, thoughtful, hlph-ninded, and possessed o f th a t high semeo o f honor so ehernster ie tie of a re a l southom'T. As a lewyer he had the mental poise e i esoontial in a good counsellor. He eemed and meintetned to the l a s t the resport of both bench and b a r. Не was rv rrie d Gct. 31, 1383, to ' .ary, dm h te r of Jane® t* n id e r and .lis a P. Steider o f %con, Ga.; ehe survived bin. Ш had fbur children: two of w an died in in ancy; h is s’jrviving ehilch on nre: Annie Mitchell, if e of roderick Holsen, ; iatai, A riz .; and Tverson L. in r r iö , J r . , Point Lona. He died a t Point Loos, C a lif ., Sopt. 13, 1931.