REV. THEOPHILUS HARRIS. OLD DUBLIN, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

A native of Wales, Theophilus Harris (1769–1841) emigrated to the United States from England in 1794 with his wife, Mary.

He ran a wet and dry goods shop in Alexandria, Virginia, from 1796 to at least 1798, and advertised the sale of porter and brown stout in early April 1803.

Sometime around 1805, perhaps after the death of his wife, he moved to Philadelphia. There he purchased farm land in Lower Dublin from Baptist minister Samuel Jones and eventually married his widowed daughter, Sarah Jones Henderson.

Harris was active in civil and religious affairs, becoming a director of the Philadelphia Bank and the Philadelphia Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Manufactures as well as a justice of the peace and clergy member of the Philadelphia Baptist Association.

Founders Online ~ National Archives.


REV. THEOPHILUS HARRIS. OLD DUBLIN, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

In this city, on the 18th instant, The Rev. Theophilus Harris, in the 73rd year of his age. His friends, and those of the family, also h is Ministering Brethern, are respectfully invited to attend his funeral, from his late residence, 162 North Ninth Street, Monday morning at 8 o'clock, without further notice. To procedd to the burial ground of the Lower Dublin Church.

Public Ledger Philadelphia ~ November 20th, 1841.