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.
The Inauguration. What begins as a joyous occasion and an opportunity to celebrate a nation's achievements, ends in tragedy and a test of that nation's Constitution. President William McKinley, recently elected to his second term in office, visited the Buffaloâs Pan-American Exposition with his wife Ida in September, 1901. He arrived on September 5, designated âPresidentâs Day,â and spoke before the largest crowd assembled at the Exposition.