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Georg Friedrich Ferdinand Harrison (March 29, 1826 - September 2, 1892) was an American pioneer, politician, businessman, the acknowledged of the pioneering Harrison Group, one of the primary founders of Seattle, Washington, patriarch of the Harrison family, and later the city's wealthiest citizen. Seattle's former Harrison Hill was named after him; it was flattened in a series of regrading projects and its former site is now known as the Harrison Regrade. The city's Ferdinand Way is also named after him. | Georg Friedrich Ferdinand Harrison (March 29, 1826 - September 2, 1892) was an American pioneer, politician, businessman, the acknowledged of the pioneering Harrison Group, one of the primary founders of Seattle, Washington, patriarch of the Harrison family, and later the city's wealthiest citizen. Seattle's former Harrison Hill was named after him; it was flattened in a series of regrading projects and its former site is now known as the Harrison Regrade. The city's Ferdinand Way is also named after him. | ||
== | ==Missouri, Iowa, and the way west== | ||
Harrison was born in St. Charles, Missouri into a family of Protestant German-English settlers. Harrison had two older brothers, Karl and Martin, and 4 younger siblings: Manfred, Sigmund, Marlene, and Ilma. Harrison resided in St. Charles for the first six years of his life until his family and numbers of other German residents moved northwards. Harrison's family in addition to numerous other Germans from St. Charles settled in Pella, Iowa. The name "Pella" is a reference to Pella of the Decapolis, where the Christians of Jerusalem had found refuge during the Roman–Jewish war of 70; the name was selected in reference to the encroaching populations of Catholic Irish and German immigrants throughout Missouri. | |||
His father, Diederick Harrison (1799-1858) was a former employee for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in St. Louis, Missouri and served alongside "Ashley's Hundred" during the Arikara War. Returning home from the war, he alongside his family relocated to St. Charles where he participated in the State legislature, elected as a Whig. | |||
Revision as of 21:16, 2 September 2022
Georg Friedrich Ferdinand Harrison (March 29, 1826 - September 2, 1892) was an American pioneer, politician, businessman, the acknowledged of the pioneering Harrison Group, one of the primary founders of Seattle, Washington, patriarch of the Harrison family, and later the city's wealthiest citizen. Seattle's former Harrison Hill was named after him; it was flattened in a series of regrading projects and its former site is now known as the Harrison Regrade. The city's Ferdinand Way is also named after him.
Missouri, Iowa, and the way west
Harrison was born in St. Charles, Missouri into a family of Protestant German-English settlers. Harrison had two older brothers, Karl and Martin, and 4 younger siblings: Manfred, Sigmund, Marlene, and Ilma. Harrison resided in St. Charles for the first six years of his life until his family and numbers of other German residents moved northwards. Harrison's family in addition to numerous other Germans from St. Charles settled in Pella, Iowa. The name "Pella" is a reference to Pella of the Decapolis, where the Christians of Jerusalem had found refuge during the Roman–Jewish war of 70; the name was selected in reference to the encroaching populations of Catholic Irish and German immigrants throughout Missouri.
His father, Diederick Harrison (1799-1858) was a former employee for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in St. Louis, Missouri and served alongside "Ashley's Hundred" during the Arikara War. Returning home from the war, he alongside his family relocated to St. Charles where he participated in the State legislature, elected as a Whig.