William Henry Harries (January 15, 1843 – July 23, 1921) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician.

Earlier, he served in the famed Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac through most of the American Civil War.

[1] He was commissioned captain of Company F, Third Regiment, United States Veteran Volunteers, General Hancock's corps, on December 21, 1864, and was honorably discharged on April 17, 1866.

Harries died in Seattle, Washington, on July 23, 1921, and is interred in Evergreen Cemetery, Caledonia, Minnesota.

[6] The eleven children of these two marriages are Mary Lucretia, Anna Belle, Ethelind, Paul W., Anstice, Hattie, George, Alice, Beth Bernice, Edna Beatrice, and Donald Dunbar.