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[46] [47] Donald J. Harris wrote in an account of his family ancestry that the Harris name comes from his paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, a land owner and agricultural produce exporter, and that his paternal grandmother "Miss Chrishy" (née Christiana Brown) was a descendant of both enslaved Jamaicans and Hamilton Brown, a ...
[10] [11] As a child, Harris learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed in the Anglican Church, and served as an acolyte. [12] Harris's paternal grandmother, born Christiana Brown, told Harris that she was descended from Irish-born plantation owner Hamilton Brown (1776–1843), who founded the local Anglican Church where she is buried. [12]
Here, her family tree—featuring the Harris, Gopalan, and Emhoff families, all the extended family of Kamala Harris: Vice President Harris’s family tree. ... my grandmother, Rajam Gopalan, had ...
Kamala Harris's father, Donald J. Harris, [10] arrived in the United States from Jamaica in 1961, for graduate study at UC Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in economics in 1966. [11] Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan met in 1962 and were married in 1963. [12] [13] He would become a Stanford University professor of economics in 1972. [14] [15]
Kamala Harris’s mom was a prominent breast cancer researcher. “My mother was a pioneering breast cancer researcher, so I grew up learning about the importance of screening and early detection ...
Watch this video to learn more about Kamala Harris’ grandparents, too: Kamala’s mom was the daughter of an Indian diplomat and was born in India. Shyamala was a Tamil Indian-American born in ...
Brown died on 18 September 1843 and is buried in the Protestant graveyard of St Mark's Anglican Church in Brown's Town, Jamaica. [5] [9] In 2018, Kamala Harris' father, economist Donald J. Harris, wrote in his work Reflections of a Jamaican Father that his paternal grandmother was Christiana Brown, a descendant of "plantation and slave owner Hamilton Brown."
Kamala Harris would go to visit her father’s family in Brown’s Town, Jamaica, and her mother’s, in Chennai, India. Her parents separated while they were living in Madison and Shyamala ...