"When William Henry Harrison was Governor of the Territory, he traveled from Vincennes on horseback to and from Harrison County, where he owned large tracts of land. On these trips he often visited the home of Edward Smith, who is said to have left the British army during the Revolutionary War and made his way to Indiana, where he married and lived with his family in a log cabin in Harrison County. On the occasion of General Harrison's visits, after evening meal was finished the members of the family and their guest would gather around the open cabin door and sing the general's favorite songs. On one of these visits, as General Harrison was making his departure, tradition says he remarked: 'in a few days I expect to lay out a town near here and would like to have you suggest a suitable name for it.' Whereupon Miss Jennie Smith asked: 'Why not name it Corydon, from the piece you like so much?' Her suggestion pleased the Governor, and thus the town is said to have derived its name. Mr. Smith's cabin stood near the present Fair Grounds Spring at Corydon." - Merica Hoagland. The words and music of this traditional song appeared in the "Missouri Harmony," a copy of which is preserved in our State Library.