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Subject: [PaCambri] More Iron and Steel - Harris
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:14:01 EST

Thanks to everyone who has sent me hints on this!
I'm looking for information on my great-great-grandfather, Richard Harris.  I
know he came from England about 1887, was in Pennsylvania for a short time as
an iron worker (apparently a family occupation that started at least with his
father and carried down through his two sons) and then settled in Anderson,
Indiana, where he died in 1891, so I know that if Johnstown was where he was,
he survived the flood.  I know it is a very small window of time, but I now
have found some 4-year old notes from a cousin to my mother that leads me to
believe that it was in Johnstown that he settled in PA, and the flood caused
him to move on to Indiana.  His younger son (as stated, also an iron/steel
worker) was David Thomas Goodwin Harris - and I have always heard references
that the son arrived first, then the rest of the family followed him, so if
Richard was in Johnstown, likely Thomas (as he was called) was, too.
Any help would be so appreciated, as I haven't yet found either of them on
any passenger list, the 1890 census is useless on this line, and other than
the date and place of death of Richard, everything else I know has been
family hearsay.
Thanks,
Jan

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