Clark County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Biographies

General William Henry Harrison, of St. Francisville, Mo., is a very old settler. He attended the celebration, coming in an old-fashioned
stage coach drawn by four horses. This coach carried the first mail into Clark county Mr. Harrison was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, in
1801, and made his first trip up the Mississippi in 1819. He went to Clark county, Mo., to establish a trading post in 1822, and has been a
resident for 63 years. He traded with the Indians for about 20 years.
For a time he was a pilot on a steamboat. He was in one battle in the Winnebago war and served all through the Black Hawk war His memory
is quite distinct as to old settler days, but he is liable to get dates mixed. His daughter, Mrs. Octavio Harris was the first white child born west of
the Des Moines river, above the Missouri line.
[Organization And First Reunion of The Old Settlers Union of Illinois, Missouri And Iowa, 1881 -C. Horton. 2009]