George Washington Harris (March 20, 1814, Allegheny City, Pennsylvania - December 11, 1869, near Knoxville, Tennessee), was an American humorist. Allegheny was a city in western Pennsylvania, located on the north shore of the junction of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, across from Pittsburgh. ... Nickname: The Marble City, K-Town, Big Orange Country, Knox Vegas Location Location within the U.S. State of Tennessee Coordinates , Government Cities in Tennessee Tennessee Mayor Bill Haslam (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 254. ...

Harris was taken to Knoxville, Tennessee when four years old, where he was apprenticed to a jeweller. Afterward, he commanded a Tennessee river steamboat. He wrote able political articles during the William Henry Harrison campaign, and in 1843 began to contribute humorous stories to the New York "Spirit of the Times," under the pen-name of "S--l." In 1858-'61 he wrote for Nashville journals the "Sut Lovengood Papers," some of which afterward appeared in book-form as Sut Lovengood's Yarns (New York, 1867). Captain Harris made several inventions, which he described in Scientific American. He died suddenly, and it was thought by some that he was poisoned. A riverboat passing under the Henley Street Bridge on the Tennessee River. ... William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States, (1841). ... Scientific American is a popular-science magazine, published monthly since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. ...

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography.