Naturalist John Muir, who had joined him on the 1899 Alaska Expedition, wrote in his eulogy of Harriman, "In almost every way, he was a man to admire."
自然學家約翰·繆爾在1899年曾加入他的阿拉斯加考察團中，他在哈里曼的悼詞中寫道：“幾乎在所有方面，他都是一個值得敬佩的人。