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Paul P Harris, the founder of Rotary, was born in Racine, Wisconsin, USA, on 19 April, 1968. Paul was the second of six children of his father George N Harris and mother Cornelia Bryan Harris. He was brought up in Wallingford, Vermont under the care of his paternal grandfather. He attained L.L.B from the University of Iowa and got the honorary L.L.D from the University of Vermont.

 In his early life he worked as a newspaper reporter, a business teacher, stock company actor, and a cowboy. He widely explored USA along with Europe for selling marble and granite.

 In 1896 he started practice law in Chicago. One evening Paul visited the home of one of his friends and subsequently he came across a few tradesmen there. It was when he conceived the notion of a club that might develop a friendly spirit among the businessmen within small communities.

 Eventually Paul Harris initiated the first Rotary Club on 23 February, 1905 with three other friends Silvister Schiele, a coal merchant, Gustavus Loehr, a mining engineer and Hiram Shorey, a merchant Tailor.

 
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