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Title: Harris-Kearney House
Description: File containing a nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places for the Harris-Kearney House in Westport, built by John Harris.
Object Type: Report

Title: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
Description: Chapter of the book about John Harris, a mountain man in the early 1830s from Missouri, one of "a number of John Harrises living in Missouri at that time." Description of his career, trapping and trading on the Santa Fe Trail starting about 1829 and traveling to Colorado and New Mexico in 1831 with his presumed brother, Robert Harris, and disappearing after 1833.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Book

Title: Death of Mrs. Susan H. Bernard
Description: Obituary for Susan Harris Bernard, or Susan Bernard, "wife of Judge W. R. Bernard" of the Jackson County court and daughter of John Harris, dying at the age of 61 on April 8, 1895, at her residence at 39th and Pennsylvania Avenues.
Date: 1895-04-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Harris-Kearney House: Preserving and Protecting a Precious Piece of Early Kansas City History
Description: Article provides brief history of Harris-Kearney house and its inhabitants as well as current activities there.
Date: 2000-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Otto H. Jacobs Dies: Retired Musician, 95, Was Born in Belgium
Description: Obituaries for Otto Jacobs, a composer of polkas and other music, and player in orchestras at the Orpheum and Willis Wood theaters, dying at the age of 95 in 1958.
Date: 1958-08-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: John Harris
Description: Information on John Harris, a native of Kentucky born in 1795 and moving to Missouri in 1830, arriving in Westport about 1832 and building a log cabin about 1844 around Broadway and Westport Roads, the site of many Western travelers' meetings. Description of his house built in 1855 at Westport and Main Streets, called the Harris home and afterwards used as a hotel and called the Harris House hotel, with a photo of it after being moved for preservation to 40th and Baltimore Avenues about 1933.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: The Historic Harris Hotel, Seventy Years Old, Comes Down
Description: Photo and caption about the demolition of the Harris House hotel, "built at Westport avenue and Penn street in 1852" by John Harris. Planned to be "replaced by a modern store building, with shops on both Westport and Pennsylvania avenues."
Date: 1922-11-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Harris Home Ready for Its First Step
Description: Illustration and caption about the relocation of "the old Harris home, Main street and Westport avenue" to "its new location at Fortieth street and Baltimore avenue."
Date: 1922-01-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The American Geography; or, a View of the Present Situation of the United States of America
Description: Manuscript notes in the book about John Harris moving to Jackson County, Missouri, in 1832, written in the front of "his Book." Also a note about Duke Williams Simpson, or Duke Simpson of "Richmond [Virginia], November 22nd, 1815."
Date: 1789
Object Type: Book

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