Harris County

Harris County is the name of two counties in the United States:

  • Harris County, Georgia, just southwest of Metro Atlanta.
  • Harris County, Texas, the more populous of the two, and the most populous county in the state of Texas.

Famous quotes containing the words harris and/or county:

    “Mother came to us destitute. She brings a child into the world, takes one look at him and promptly dies. Without leaving so much as a forwarding name and address.”
    —Vernon Harris (c. 1910)

    “Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)