Samuel Harris family correspondence and photograph, 1911-1922.

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Samuel Harris family correspondence and photograph, 1911-1922.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83600831

The collection includes a photograph of Samuel Harris (1911); letters from Rabbi Martin Meyer to Samuel Harris (1912-1914); and a letter from Rabbi Rudolph Coffee (1922) to Moses Harris about the appointment of Melbourne Harris (Moses' son) to a pulpit in Toledo, Ohio.

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Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8304313

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Bancroft Library. Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.

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Online Archive of California

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Harris family.

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Meyer, Martin A. (Martin Abraham), 1879-

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Harris, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1858-1939

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Private Samuel Harris trained at Fort Bliss, Texas during World War I. He was assigned to Company B, 14th Machine Gun Battalion, and was shipped to France with the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). His unit participated in an American advance against the German lines in September 1918. After assisting in the capture of a town, his unit was ordered to pull back. While dug in after the attack, Harris was gassed in his sleep. The next day, he was evacuated to a hospital. From the des...

Coffee, Rudolph I. (Rudolph Isaac), 1878-1955

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Harris, Moses

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Harris, Melbourne

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Judah L. Magnes Museum

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Harris, Samuel, b.1895

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Samuel Harris was the son of Moses and Libby Harris of Oakland, California. Samuel's brother Melbourne Harris was a Rabbi and long-time resident of Ohio. From the description of Samuel Harris family correspondence and photograph, 1911-1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83600831 ...