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. rosorves, 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 fora period he studied law under his father, was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his profession in his native City. He joinod tho thooaophiesl oovenent in the e e rly n in o tie s and fron the beginning took a coneplcuous a r t ln defense of theosophieel p rin c ip le s, the оголяй gstion o f vhich he iede h is l i f e oik. Le wes President of the ’ieeon brench of the thooeo ihical soeiety up to the time of h is reaoval to Ca lifo rn ia . In 1899 he se ttle d a t th e In te rnational Iheoaop i c s l Eeedquartsre, Point Lckm, ch ie fly fo r th e purpose of edueating i s children in tho Efja-Yoge School, l ie h waa about to be eotahliehed by Мое. Katharine Tingley (q .v .) In the yosr previous he had beccrae e шешЬег o f Ltae. Tingley’ e eabinet aac wes r.ctlve in the foimetion of the Universal Brotherhood vhen i t wes organlzod by ü u . Tingley in 1898. He was pcrrnnel counsel fo r и в . Tlngley» and professor and dem of law s t the ^haosophieal ünivaroity u n til h is death. He was adraitted to the California bar in 1900, and ho hsd bees ld en tlfied I th such important lltg e tlo n in Southern California courte. be was e ueaber of various ber a aoeiations and of the asonic f r e - te rn i y. He was also a ioainant fe c to r in the ; весе Congress hold by las. Tingley in .л eüen in 1913. He was universal ly beloved for h is sto rlin g q u a litio e ae e an , h is generosity, h is in te g rity , hie broad view of l i f e , and h is unsworvlBc devotion to p rin c ip le . 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.