Ferris

Warren Angus Ferris (Ferriss), surveyor and early settler of Dallas County, was born on December 26, 1810, in Glen Falls, New York, the son of Angus and Sarah (Gray) Ferriss. As a youth he lived in Buffalo, New York. He left home in 1828 and reached St. Louis in 1829, where he joined the American Fur Company. He mapped the Yellowstone country and kept a journal of his five adventurous years in the West, first serialized in the Western Literary Messenger from January 11, 1843, to May 4, 1844, and later published as a book, Life in the Rocky Mountains (1940).