Samuel Harris (July 2, 1850 – April 20, 1926) was a fishing captain and merchant in Newfoundland.
[2] The son of Thomas Harris and Eleanor Ann Foote, he was born in Grand Bank and first went to sea at the age of ten.
A downturn in European markets following the end of World War I and a change in government regulations controlling the fishery resulted in the firm declaring bankruptcy in 1923.
[2] He served on the Board of Works for Grand Bank and contributed most of the funds for the construction of the town's first hospital.
[1] Harris was married twice: first to Mary "Polly" Forsey in 1875 (she died in 1913) and then to Harriet Marion Harding in 1915.