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(Now back in print! The "major" minor American humorist of...)
Now back in print! The "major" minor American humorist of the early nineteenth century.
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George Washington Harris was born on March 20, 1814 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The details of Harris's early life are obscure. His father, George Harris, and a companion, Samuel Bell, moved to Pennsylvania in the 1790s. Bell's son, also named Samuel, was born in 1798. After the elder Bell died, Harris married his widow, Margaret Glover Bell.
At an early age, three or four, Harris was taken to Knoxville, and after only slight schooling was apprenticed to his half-brother, Samuel, a jeweler. As a youth his craftsmanship and ingenuity, his fondness for steam and engineering, marked him for promotion.
When of age Harris became captain of the Knoxville, the first steamboat regularly plying out of that city, and later he engaged in transporting the Cherokees westward. By 1843 he had become pretty well established, advertising in the Knoxville Register his new workshop, which was equipped to execute orders "in the metals generally" for "jewelry and silver-ware, copper-plate and wood-engraving, die-sinking, making models of new inventions, every variety of turning in steel, iron and brass, also racing cups. "
After the Civil War he turned to railroad engineering, becoming superintendent of the Wills Valley Railroad. Always mechanically minded, he completed a number of inventions and contributed to the Scientific American.
As a writer Harris first contributed political articles in the vigorous Whig campaign of 1839 to the Knoxville Argus, then edited by his friend Elbridge G. Eastman. In 1843 he began writing humorous sporting letters to William Trotter Porter, editor of the New York Spirit of the Times; and in 1845 contributed his first full-length humorous sketch, "The Knob Dance - A Tennessee Frolic, " over the pseudonym Sugartail.
From 1843 to 1857 Harris was one of the most popular contributors to the Spirit, taking rank with William T. Thompson, T. B. Thorpe, Johnson J. Hooper, and Joseph G. Baldwin. In 1854 the Spirit published his first story featuring that egregious Tennesseean Sut Lovingood. Subsequently Sut Lovingood yarns appeared in Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville newspapers, and a collection of them was published in New York by Dick & Fitzgerald in 1867. No other published works are recorded, although it is known he contemplated issuing two other collections of stories, "Smoky Mountain Panther" (about 1843) and "High Times and Hard Times" at the time of his sudden death in 1869; but no trace of either survives.
The Sut Lovingood Yarns (1867) and his other uncollected humorous sketches are unique in American literature, and except for their dialect and local setting would be nationally known for their rollicking humor. In Harris' hands Sut Lovingood immediately becomes a vivid character - in a sense an early prototype of Huck Finn - with a robust and hearty humor, sometimes rough but always funny. The Yarns are full of comic situation, plot, and phrase; and his other sketches as well are fresh and racy. Along with their rugged humor these sketches are colored with a sound, homely philosophy; and they delineate in a characteristic manner the localisms, dialect, thoughts, and superstitions of the mountain people of East Tennessee.
In Knoxville Harris was a prominent and respected citizen. He died in 1869 after mysteriously falling ill on a train ride.
George Washington Harris was a prominent writer best known for his character, "Sut Lovingood, " an Appalachian backwoods reveler fond of telling tall tales. Harris was among the seminal writers of Southern humor, and has been called "the most original and gifted of the antebellum humorists. " His work influenced authors such as Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor. On April 20, 2008, a monument in his honor was erected at his burial site by Sigma Kappa Delta, an honor society for students studying English at two-year colleges.
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Harris was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
Harris was actively involved in politics, writing propaganda for the Nashville Union & American, serving as alderman for Knoxville's Fourth Ward, and attending the secessionist Southern Commercial Convention in Savannah, Georgia. Harris was a staunch supporter of the South and argued heatedly against the women's suffrage movement and the idea of freedom for slaves. These strong political views were expressed both in articles written for various Southern magazines as well as some of his Lovingood stories where Sut speaks out against liberal political leaders such as Lincoln and Grant.
Harris was a Mason. He was also a member of the Mechanics Association, treasurer of the Young Men's Literary Society, and postmaster (1857-1858).
Harris was twice married: on September 3, 1835, to Mary Emeline Nance of Knoxville, by whom he had six children; and six weeks before his death to Mrs. Jane E. Pride of Decatur, Alabama.
