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Harris served as a guard in Nauvoo to protect Joseph Smith against mob violence. He also served in the Nauvoo Legion and witnessed the laying of the cornerstone of the Nauvoo Temple.

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After being driven with other Latter-day Saints from Nauvoo in , he resided temporarily in St. Louis, Missouri until , when he went to Kanesville, Iowa and then to Utah. In Harris commenced farming at what is now Harrisville, where he built a house and fenced some land, his being the first house west of Four Mile Creek, and the only house which remained standing in that neighborhood during the "Move South," in consequence of which the ward, when organized some years afterwards, was named after him.

Harris served as president of the first Latter-day Saint co-operative store in Ogden. He also served as road commissioner of Weber County for 11 years and assisted in locating most of the highways of that county. Harris was ordained a Seventy September 5, by Luman A. Shurtliff, and was secretary for many years of the 38th Quorum of Seventies.

Harris was the first missionary called from the district to the Salmon River Mission, and during "The Move" in he went South. He was also fifer in the first military band of Weber County. In the summer of , Harris was appointed presiding Elder of the Eighth ecclesiastical district later Harrisville.