Life and times of Paul Harris

 Timeline

1. 1868 Paul P. Harris is born in Racine, Wisconsin, USA, on 19 April.
2. 1871 Harris, age three, and brother Cecil, age five, move to Wallingford, Vermont, in July.
3. 1881 Jean Thomson is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 8 November.
4. 1886 The faculty of the University of Vermont votes on 11 December that Harris and three others “be indefinitely suspended from college” upon recommendation of the Committee on Discipline.
5. 1888 Harris's grandfather dies in Vermont on 17 March.
6. 1891 Harris graduates from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Laws on 1 June.
7. 1896 Harris moves to Chicago and begins practicing law in February.
8. 1910 Harris meets Jean in March, and they wed on Saturday, 2 July. Harris is elected the first president of the National Association of Rotary Clubs in August, a position he holds until the international convention in August 1912.
9. 1912 The Harrises purchase a home and name it Comely Bank.
10. 1919 The University of Vermont awards Harris an honorary Bachelor of Arts (accompanied by an apology for his expulsion in 1886). It awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws on 19 June 1933.
11. 1930 Harris attends the RI Convention in Chicago, his first since 1915. He also attended international conventions in 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944.
12. 1947 On 27 January, Harris dies in Chicago at age 78.
13. 1963 On 9 November, Jean Thomson Harris dies in Edinburgh, Scotland, at age 82.