HARRIS–Hiram

HIRAM HARRIS, Esq., was born September 17, 1814, in Roane County, N. C. [sic], and is the son of John Harris, a native of Harrisburg, Penn., born about 1775.  That city derived its name from our subject’s great-great-grandfather, John Harris, who donated the property where Harrisburg now stands to the State of Pennsylvania for the … Read more