He then attended Girard College, a private boarding school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His Native American guide in southeastern Alaska was Chief Kowee.
There, Kowee took them beyond Gold Creek (which today flows beside the Hurff Ackerman Saunders Federal Building and Robert Boochever U.S.
The town did not take its current name immediately; originally, it was known as Harrisburg, Pilzburg, and Rockwell.
Harris lived most of the remainder of his life in Juneau; later he was moved to a nursing home in Oregon, where he died.