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Joel Chandler Harris; December 9, 1848-July 3, 1908; American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist; best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories; led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris; as Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist; wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition.

Sir John Hobbis Harris was born on July 29, 1874, in Wantage, Berkshire, England.

He was an English missionary, an anti-slavery campaigner, and a Liberal Party politician. In 1895, he worked in London for Cooks, the gentlemen's outfitters. As a devout Christian, he began to train to become a Baptist missionary in Central Africa and together with his wife, he sailed for the Congo Free State in 1898. They were soon horrified by the brutal treatment, murder, and enslavement of the native people at the hands of the Belgian agents exploiting the territory for rubber and ivory. To protest the colonial system in Africa, Harris and his wife became active campaigners, travelling and giving lectures at hundreds of public meetings in Britain, Europe, and the United States. Harris published the pamphlet "Rubber is Death: the Story of the Bonguronga Rubber Collectors" (1905) and contributed numerous articles to Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend. He became a political crusader against white capitalist imperialism in general, advocating a system of genuine, international trusteeship in the interests of all native peoples on every continent. He served as secretary to the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society (1910-1940) and a Liberal Member of Parliament (1923-1924). Harris was knighted in the New Year Honours list of 1933 for his services to the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society.

In 1898, he married Alice Seeley (1870–1970). He died on April 30, 1940, in Frome, Somerset, England.

Robert Carr-Harris was born on July 9, 1843, in London, England.

He was a civil engineer, educator, and author. He was educated in King’s College, London. In 1861, his family emigrated to Canada where he became a civil engineer in 1864. In the 1870s, he worked for the Canadian Pacific Railroad, calculating bridge superstructure and inspecting the bridges from the Rocky Mountains to Vancouver on behalf of the Dominion government. He also worked for the Brooklyn Waterworks (1874), the Pictou Railway, and Quebec Government Railway. He was a consulting Bridge Engineer for St. George Viaduct, Grand Trunk Railway. As an expert with the most varied and extended professional experience in railroad construction, he became a Professor of Civil Engineering first at the Royal Military College, Kingston, and then at the Queen's University, Kingston (1879-1897). He was a Vice-President of the Kingston Humane Society and he published several articles and textbooks on civil engineering.

In 1875, he married Ellen Jane Fitton (1840-1890) and in 1896, he married Hannah Bertha Wright (1863–1949). He died on April 12, 1923, in Ottawa, Ontario.

William Critchlow Harris was born on April 30, 1854, in Bootle, near Liverpool, England.

He was an architect noted mainly for his projects in Maritime Canada. In 1856, his family moved to Prince Edward Island. In 1870, after schooling in Charlottetown, he was apprenticed to architect David Stirling in Halifax. He returned to Charlottetown in 1875 and among his first commissions was Beaconsfield, a 25-room mansion that is today the headquarters of the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation. In 1877, Stirling joined him in Charlottetown and they formed a partnership. Harris’s specialty was churches. His buildings reflect a talented and original approach to the High Victorian Gothic style. Over 120 are extant in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. They include St. James Anglican Church, Mahone Bay, NS (1886); St Paul's Anglican Church, Charlottetown (1895); and his masterwork, All Souls' Chapel, Charlottetown (1888), which contains 18 paintings by his brother Robert. In 1881, he became an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

He died on July 16, 1913, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Rev. William Harris was born on December 20, 1831, in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

He was a clergyman. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1850. For over eight years he was engaged in mercantile business first in Philadelphia, and then in New York. In 1858, under the influence of strong religious convictions, he turned away from the business prospects and entered Princeton Seminary, graduating in 1861. He served as a Civil War Union Army Chaplain of the 106th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1862) and as a Relief Agent of the U. S. Sanitary Commission (1863). He was assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Towanda, Pa. (1864-1865) and was ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Susquehanna in 1864. In 1870, he accepted the office of Treasurer of the College of New Jersey. Besides preaching in the college chapel, he was interested in all that concerned the religious welfare of the students. He was also the Treasurer of the Alumni Association of Princeton Seminary.

In 1864, he married Christina Van Alen Butler (1837–1918). He died on March 23, 1885, in Savannah, Georgia, and is buried in Princeton Cemetery, New Jersey.