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Milton B. Harris, M. D., was born in Madison County, Tenn., on the 3d of September, 1835, son of Newton and Nancy (Spencer) Harris, and of English lineage. Newton Harris was born in Rowan County, N. C. in 1802, and died in Crockett County, Tenn., in 1883. His wife was born in the same State and in the same year as himself. Rowland Harris, grandfather of Dr. M. B. Harris, was a Virginian and a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He died in North Carolina. The family came to Tennessee in 1819. Milton B. is the seventh of eleven children—five living—and his early days were spent on a farm. In 1853 he entered Wentworth College, in North Carolina, and there remained four years. He began the study of medicine in Atlanta, Ga., in 1858, under Dr. J. B. Thomas, and came to Gibson County, Tenn., and began practicing in the spring of 1859. He attended lectures at the medical department of the Nashville University, graduating in 1860, and was a successful practitioner from that time until 1883. In April, 1885, he engaged in the grocery business, and farms also. He owns 500 acres of good land. November 17, 1861, he married Elizabeth Clark, who was born in Carroll County, in 1841, and by her is the father of four children: Robert B., Adazeaux, Curd D. and Herman B. Dr. Harris has made his own way in life, and is a Democrat in politics. He and wife belong to the Baptist Church.