When Joseph was a youth, his father, Stephen, realized that he was dying and that his untimely death would likely leave his family destitute. Looking to leave his wife with a means of supporting herself, Stephen Harris sold his farm, moved his family to Philadelphia, and purchased a boarding house, as that was one of the few business occupations available to respectable women of the time. Stephen's death did indeed leave his family strapped, but his children were able to finish high school. Joseph attended Philadelphia's Central High School, graduating in 1853.[2]
Harris married Delia Silliman Brodhead, daughter of George Hamilton Brodhead, later president of the New York Stock Exchange, in 1865. They had five children (see below). After the death of his first wife, Harris married Emily Eliza Potts in 1882, and in 1896, after Emily's death, he married her sister, Anna Zelia Potts. His last two marriages were childless. He died at home in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1910. Harris and all three of his wives are buried in the family plot at the Great Valley Presbyterian Church, near Malvern, Pennsylvania, about four miles from his birthplace.
In 1853, Harris took a job as a topographer for the North Pennsylvania Rail Road Company, which was under construction. He left this job after a year, becoming an astronomer for the U.S. Coast Survey. Upon joining the Coast Survey, Harris worked at Station Yard, Philadelphia, in the late fall of 1854 where he was engaged in checking earlier triangulation and astronomic work. By mid-November, this work was completed; Harris was assigned to the Coast Survey vessel Phoenix in the Mississippi Sound. His older brother Stephen was a Sub-assistant on the Survey, and it seems that sibling rivalry played a significant role in his work. Although he displayed many quirks of personality, Joseph Harris was meticulous in his work; his autobiography provides, among other things, an idea of Coast Survey shipboard life in the 1850s. lPics Www Sexvidio Joseph Smith Harris - pedia, the free encyclopediam a c c Pornography Lesbian rPics Www Sexvidio Joseph Smith Harris - pedia, the free encyclopediav l Lesbian Pics Babe