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"The Pioneer Harris's of Harris County," Notable people of Texas and Harris County.
Harris, John Richardson (1790–1829) Julia Beazley Biography Entry
John Richardson Harris Notice of Death John Richardson Harris Notice of Death, Courtesy of the New York Evening Post, September 14, 1829. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107. Harris's Headstone
John Richardson Harris's Cenotaph. Courtesy of Bruce Hicks. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
HARRIS, JOHN RICHARDSON (1790–1829). John Richardson Harris, early Harris County settler and founder of Harrisburg, the son of John and Mary (Richardson) Harris, was born in Cayuga, New York, on October 22, 1790. On May 7, 1813, he married Jane Birdsall. John and Jane Birdsall Harris settled near Waterloo, New York, where two sons, DeWitt Clinton, and Lewis Birdsall Harris, were born. In 1819 they were living in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, where their daughter Mary Jane Harris Briscoe was born. A third son, John Birdsall Harris, was born in 1821. At Ste. Genevieve Harris met Moses Austin and decided to move to Texas. He came to Texas in his own vessel in 1824 and received title to 4,428 acres of land at the junction of Brays and Buffalo bayous in what is now Harris County. He boarded with William Scott while he built a house on the peninsula between the bayous and a store and warehouse on Buffalo Bayou. In 1826 he employed Francis W. Johnson to lay out the town of Harrisburg. With his brother David Harris, John Harris established a second trading post at Bell's Landing on the Brazos River. Their sloops and schooners plied between Texas and New Orleans. One of these vessels, the Rights of Man, carried eighty-four bales of cotton to New Orleans in 1828. Harris was building a steam sawmill-gristmill at Harrisburg in 1829 when he went to New Orleans to buy equipment and there contracted yellow fever. After his death on August 21, 1829, his sawmill and shipping enterprise were operated by his brothers David, Samuel, and William Plunkett Harris. His widow and son DeWitt moved to Texas in 1833; the other children came later. Litigation over Harris's estate prevented Harrisburg from becoming the seat of the new Texas government in 1836 when Houston was named instead.
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John Richardson Harris died of yellow fever while in New Orleans, Louisiana, on a trip to buy equipment. He was buried in New Orleans but the specific location of his burial is now unknown.
The two monuments pictured on this memorial page are in Glendale Cemetery, Houston, Texas. They were erected in his honor and do not represent the location of his remains.
- http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fha85* Reference:
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_County,_Texas] This family is the Harris Family of Harris County, Texas
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John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: Daniell, 1880; reported., Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978). Zachary T. Fulmore, History and Geography of Texas As Told in County Names (Austin: Steck, 1915; facsimile, 1935). Adele B. Looscan, "Harris County, 1822–1845," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 18–19 (October 1914-July 1915). Adele B. Looscan, "The Pioneer Harris's of Harris County," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 31 (April 1928). Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, the University of Texas at Austin (Harrisburg, Texas). WPA Writers Program, Houston (Houston: Anson Jones, 1942).
John Harris is the first child of European ancestry born in Cayuga County, New York.
Source: John L. Richardson Family of Auburn, NY by T. L. Warren
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John Richardson Harris's Timeline
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March 22, 1789
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Cayuga, Cayuga County, New York, United States
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| 1814 |
July 17, 1814
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New York, USA
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August 17, 1819
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Sainte Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, USA
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| 1829 |
August 21, 1829
Age 40
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New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States
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Glendale Cemetery, 8349 East Magnolia Street, Houston, Harris County, Texas, 77012, United States
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