HARKNESS, James Frederick

HARKNESS, WIMMER, MCQUEEN, CARY

Posted By: John Hutchins (email)
Date: 12/25/2001 at 00:36:48

James Fredrick HARKNESS d 31Dec1902 at his home near Clinton. Any local obit or other death record? What happened to his wife? Here is what was in his home-town (Sycamore, IL) paper:

“JAMES FREDERICK HARKNESS - A Sycamore Boy Born and Raised Died at His Home in Iowa. - James Frederick Harkness, son of Mrs. E. M. Harkness, of Sycamore, died at his home near Clinton, Iowa, on December 31, 1902, after an illness of only six days, of appendicitis and kidney disease. [PICTURE] Fred Harkness, as he was familiarly known to his young friends in Sycamore, was a son of John B. Harkness, a well-known hardware merchant a quarter of a century ago. He was born in this city on May 7, 1860, and was therefore over 42 years of age. He was educated in the Sycamore schools, and at the age of 17 years he went to Iowa, and he had since been engaged in farming near Clinton in that state. -- Mr. Harkness was married on April 12, 1881, to Miss Elizabeth Wimmer. -- There are left to mourn his loss the mother, the widow and his two sisters, Mrs. Florence McQueen, of South Grove, and Mrs. Isabel Cary, of DeKalb. -- Mr. Harkness was a loving husband, a kind and genial friend, a straightforward and honorable man and was liked by all who knew him.”