Charles Joseph Harris

In 1888, after his marriage to Florence concluded, Harris moved to Dillsboro, North Carolina, with his surviving sons, David Rust and Robert Ward, to live near his brother William Torrey Harris and nephew Theodore, who ran the Hog Rock clay mine.

[1] In 1889, Harris' brother William became United States Commissioner of Education and served in that role until 1906.

[3] Harris later opened Beaver Creek Mine in Mitchell County, North Carolina, in 1910.

Harris built Jackson County's first iron truss bridge in 1898, spanning the Tuckasegee River.

Harris Building on the corner of Main and Spring streets in the Downtown Sylva Historic District.

[1] Harris contributed financially to the nascent Candler-Nichols Hospital and in 1929, four years after its founding, it was renamed C.J.

[3] Harris had multiple lumber businesses and 76,000 acres of his timberland became part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

[1] Harris broke his hip in 1938 and was confined to bed until he died at his son Robert's home in Asheville on Valentine's Day in 1944.