Asahel N. Harris

Asahel N. Harris and family settled in Fulton county in February, 1836, at Wethersfield, Henry county, in 1839; in 1841 settled on Indian creek of Spoon river, and in 1843 located on sections 9 and 10, Goshen, where, it is alleged, a division of Black Hawk's Indians camped in 1832. This land was purchased in 1843, from one of the early settlers of Goshen, who joined the Mormons' at Nauvoo.