Biography of Eugene V. Harris 1913–1978
Citation
Harris, Elizabeth, and Jeanette Harris. Biography of Eugene V. Harris 1913–1978. Milwaukee: American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 2012. Family-authored biographical document held in the AGSL photographer-archive collection for Eugene V. Harris.
Relevance
Identified via the Wikipedia article on Eugene Vernon Harris (fetched 2026-04-24), which cites this document as Reference 1 for both its Early Life and Death sections. Per CREDIBILITY.md, Wikipedia is a pointer only — the actual citation of record for Eugene V. Harris’s biographical dates is this AGSL document, not Wikipedia. The Harris archive of ~130,000 images and associated papers is held at the AGSL, UW-Milwaukee; the daughters’ 2012 biography is a finding-aid / companion document to that archive.
Used for the birth_year and death_year fields of pher-eugene-harris at year-level resolution (1913 / 1978, attested by the document title itself).
Key excerpts / pages
- Dates per document title: 1913–1978 (year-level only; month/day specifics NOT verified this round).
Notes
- Perspective: family / archival.
- Verified status:
verified: false. The AGSL document itself was NOT fetched this round — it is a physical archive item at UW-Milwaukee without a public PDF surface that WebFetch could retrieve. Dates are used at year-level only inpher-eugene-harris; any narrower specifics (month, day, exact place) should be re-verified against the physical AGSL document before use in interpretive prose. - Tier classification: Tier-1 (primary / archival — family-authored document held at an institutional research library), per CREDIBILITY.md § Tier 1.