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Arrived 1833 · cabin on Section 14
The tie, exactly: settler, 1833 on Chapman's dating — his cabin stood on Section 14 — and, on Howard's first-hand record, the first schoolmaster of Harris Township, teaching in the township's first schoolhouse, a log building fourteen by sixteen feet with a stick-and-mud chimney. His full school course stands in the Schools section; he stands here as the settler who taught.
The course: the 1875 atlas directory still carries him in his own name forty-two years after his arrival: Section 14, farmer, a native of Columbia County, Pennsylvania, settled in the county in 1833 — the directory's year agreeing with Chapman's against Howard's undated roll. Howard adds the end of the course in one clause: Kennedy afterwards removed to St. Edward, Nebraska. A first schoolmaster who stayed four decades and then walked west out of the record is a complete Harris Prairie life at the record's strength, and it is printed so.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), ch. V, §3 — the first schoolhouse and its first schoolmaster; the removal to St. Edward, Nebraska.
- Chapman (1880), Harris Township chapter — arrival 1833, cabin on Section 14.
- Illustrated Historical Atlas (1875), Harris patrons' directory, p. 103 — Kennedy, Section 14, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, settled 1833.