Dr. Chester E. Harris, associated in the ownership of the Basin Hospital at Basin, Wyoming, with Dr. Herbert T. Harris, was born in Algiers, Indiana, September 6, 1881, his parents being James Finley and Josephine Harris", the former also a physician. With the removal of the family to Ogden, Illinois, he continued his education in the schools of that city until graduated with the class of 1897. He afterward entered the preparatory school of the University of Illinois, which he attended in 1898 and 1899. He then became a student in the University of Illinois and won his Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduation with the class of 1902. The following year his alma mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree and in 1906 he completed a medical course in the State University of Illinois, winning his M. D. degree at that date. He was then a member of the house staff of the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago from 1906 until 1908 and through hospital experience gained that broad knowledge and efficiency which can never be as quickly acquired in any other way as in hospital work. He afterward opened an office in Chicago, where he remained in active practice from 1908 until 1912. In the latter year he removed to Basin, Wyoming, to become joint owner with Dr. Herbert T. Harris of the Basin Hospital, which they have since conducted. In the same year he was made county physician of Bighorn county and has since served in that capacity.
    In Chicago, Illinois, on the 14th of April, 1910, Dr. Harris was united in marriage to Miss Adriana Van Eenenaam, a daughter of Dick Van Eenenaam and Rica (Vyan) Van Eenenaam. Dr. and Mrs. Harris have one child, Frances Josephine.
    In his political views Dr. Harris is an earnest republican and in 1915 was elected coroner of Bighorn county, which position he is now filling. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and along strictly professional lines he has membership with the Northwestern Wyoming Medical Society, of which he is the vice president, the Wyoming State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. Through the meetings of these different organizations he keeps in touch with the trend of modern scientific thought, investigation and progress and readily adapts progressive ideas to the needs of his private practice.