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.
Canton (OH) Repository. William McKinley was President of the United States from 1896 until 1901, the fifth and last Civil War veteran to occupy the office. He began his military career in June 1861 as a private in the 23rd Ohio Infantry and after commendable service, ended it a brevet major.