Background
Harris, Cicero Richardson was born on August 25, 1844 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States. Son of Jacob and Charlotte Harris.
Harris, Cicero Richardson was born on August 25, 1844 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States. Son of Jacob and Charlotte Harris.
Educational public schools, Chillicothe and Delaware, O., grammar and high schools, Cleveland. (Doctor of Divinity, Howard University, Washington, 1891. Master of Arts, Livingston College, North Carolina, 1902).
Taught school, Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1866-1872. Licensed as exhorter and as preacher, 1872. Ordained deacon, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 1873, as elder in Concord, North Carolina, November 1874, and as bishop at Newbern, North Carolina, 1888, in African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church In Livingston College, Salisbury, North Carolina, 1882-1888.
General secretary African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1882.
Business manager Star of Zion, organ of the Church, 1880-1884. Prohibition Republican.
Home: Salisbury, North Carolina.
Married Maria East. Guion, December 17, 1879.