Editing Frank Harris (section)

===Early years===
Harris was born '''James Thomas Harris''' in 1855, in [[Galway]], Ireland, to Welsh parents. His father, Thomas Vernon Harris, was a naval officer from [[Fishguard]], Pembrokeshire, Wales.<ref>Ancestry.com – Passport Application Form and Welsh Censuses</ref> While living with his older brother he was, for a year or more, a pupil at [[The Royal School, Armagh]]. At the age of 12 he was sent to [[Wales]] to continue his education as a [[Boarding school|boarder]] at the [[Ruabon Grammar School]] in Denbighshire, a time he was to remember later in ''My Life and Loves''.  Harris was unhappy at the school and ran away within a year.

He emigrated to the United States in late 1869, arriving in New York City virtually penniless.<ref name=RevAve>"Frank Harris is Dead in France: Great Author Succumbs at 75; Had Just Completed a Biography of Shaw", ''The Revolutionary Age'' [New York], vol. 2, no. 40 (5 Sept.. 1931), pp. 1, 3.</ref> The 14-year-old took a series of odd jobs to support himself, working first as a [[shoeshiner|boot black]], a [[porter (carrier)|porter]], a general laborer, and a construction worker on the erection of the [[Brooklyn Bridge]].<ref name=RevAve /> Harris would later turn these early occupational experiences into art, incorporating tales from them into his book ''The Bomb.''<ref name=RevAve />

From New York Harris moved to the [[Midwestern United States|American Midwest]], settling in the country's second largest city, Chicago,<ref name=RevAve/> where he took a job as a hotel clerk and eventually a manager. Owing to Chicago's central place in the meat packing industry, Harris made the acquaintance of various cattlemen, who inspired him to leave the big city to take up work as a [[cowboy]].<ref name=RevAve/>  Eventually growing tired of life in the cattle industry, he enrolled at the [[University of Kansas]],<ref name=RevAve /> where he studied law and earned a degree, gaining admission to the Kansas state bar association.<ref name=RevAve/>

In 1878, in [[Brighton]], England, he married Florence Ruth Adams, who died the following year.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}