University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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JUDGE WILLIS OVERTON HARRIS Dean of the Law Department of the University of Louisville, to whom this issue of The Colonel is dedicated, has filled that position since 1890, and has been a professor in that depart- ment since 1886. Judge Harris was born on the 5th of February, 1847, on his father’s farm, called Mill Quarter,” Powhatan County, Virginia. He was educated at home and in the schools of the neighborhood until 1863, when he entered the Virginia Military Institute. He took part, as a member of the corps of cadets of that institution, in the campaign under General Breckin- ridge in the spring of 1864, which resulted in the defeat of General Siegel at New Market. , Judge Harris then worked on the farm until 1866; he attended the University of Virginia from 1866 to 1868, in which year he came to Kentucky and opened a law office in Louis- ville in the fall of 1868. Judge Harris was Judge of the Law and Equity Court under the appointment of Governor Knott in 1887 and 1888. He served for eight ye ars as captain and major of the first battalion of the First Regiment in the militia in Louisville. Judge Harris has always taken an active part in matters ofjpublic interest concerning the city and State. His teaching in the law school has been almost exclusively by lectures and thorough quizzes. He has been successful in building up his pupils in the systematic knowledge of the law.

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JUDGE WILLIS OVERTON HARRIS

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Tbe Colonel J. W. CONKLING Co all the girls in 21. of L., And our instructors too; Co all the bovs of ebery class, And friends both old and nefu. To all (who Looe our campus sud, Co heads both vomng and hoary, Co all {ho join in hearty cheers Around our Colonel’s glory. Cou those fho'll come in after vears, For foorthy fame competing, Che bovs and girls of nineteen ‘lefen Piroclaim most hearty greeting!