Happy Trails to you on your quest for your ancestors. Harris County, Texas. Harris County is named for John Richardson Harris, who first arrived in the area in 1824. He first settled on land located at the junction of Bray's and Buffalo bayous. In 1825, he laid out the city of Harrisburg.
In the 1890s, lawyer and politician James Wickersham argued that pre-Columbian contact between Japanese sailors and Native Americans was highly probable, given that from the early 1600s to the mid-1800s several dozen Japanese ships were carried from Asia to North America along the powerful Kuroshio Currents.
May 06, 2013 rated it liked it. 1  http://bestpresidentialbios.com/2013/... âOld Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Timeâ by Freeman Cleaves was published in 1939 and remains the âgo toâ classic on the nationâs ninth president. Born in 1904, Cleaves graduated from the University of New Hampshire and worked as a journalist beginning in 1925.