Harmon, L. T.

HARMON, MILLER, MCKEEVER, BEARD, HUMPHREY, THOMPSON, MOREHEAD, DEETER, DODD, MCNORRIS, WALKER, CAPRON, HAND, CORBETT

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Date: 8/30/2009 at 12:35:37

Harmon, L. T.

The subject of this sketch is known to be a man of courage, self-reliance and of the utmost integrity of purpose, as a result of which he has, during his entire life, stood high in the estimation of his neighbors and friends and is therefore deserving of a place in this book.

L. T. Harmon was born in Jasper County, Iowa, July 28, 1866. He grew to manhood and was educated there and has always been identified with the agricultural interests of this and Marshall Counties. He is the son of William Harmon, who married Mrs. Julia A. Miller-McKeever, early settlers of Jasper County; the father died in Jasper County and the mother in Dallas County. A. L. Harmon, twin brother of L. T., of this review, resides in Adel, Iowa; J. A., another brother, died in Dallas County; M. J. lives in Adel; W. S. lives in Dallas County; Ola May died at the age of nine years. The mother of these children had the following children by her first marriage: B. A., of Des Moines; D. A., of Mingo, Iowa; W. L. resides at Oswalt, Iowa; Amanda A. is deceased; Emma Beard, of Jasper County; Samantha Humphrey, of Dallas County; Evaline died in Dallas County; J. H. is deceased; Loretta died when eighteen years of age; S. H. lives in Kansas.

L. T. Harmon, of this review, was married on January 22, 1889, to Hattie Elizabeth Thompson, who was born in Clear Creek Township, Jasper County, August 27, 1871, and there she grew to womanhood and attended school. Her father, Samuel Thompson, who was one of the early settlers of Jasper County, was born in Venango County, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1830. When ten years of age he moved to Wayne County, Ohio, and remained there until 1851, when he moved to Jasper County, Iowa, and he has continued to live in this locality ever since, being now a resident of State Center Township, Marshall County. His father, William Thompson, who was a forty-niner, was a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and he died in Iowa; the mother, Margaret Morehead, also a native of Pennsylvania, died in Iowa. Samuel Thompson was third in a family of nine children. He was married in 1852 to Harriet Deeter, who died the following year, after which he married a sister of his first wife, Catherine H. Deeter, who was born in 1833 and died in Rhodes, Iowa. One child, Margaret Ellen Dodd, was born of the first union, her birth occurring on December 19, 1852; she is living in Jasper County.

To the second union eleven children were born, namely: Mary Alulia McNorris lives at Valley Junction, Iowa; Annis Capron is deceased; Samuel lives at Olathe, Kansas; Lillian Walker is deceased; Jennie Signs lives in Olathe, Kansas; Rose Hand lives in Colo, Iowa; Sadie Corbett lives at State Center, Iowa; John lives at Clyde, Iowa. The youngest son died in infancy; Hattie Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Harmon, of this review.

Samuel Thompson owns a well-improved farm of two hundred and twelve acres in Clear Creek Township, Jasper County, Iowa. He is a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted in Company E, Fortieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in which he served two years and eight months in the Army of the Potomac. He is one of the honored pioneers of Iowa, having come overland from Hancock County, Ohio. In 1860 he made an overland trip to Pike's Peak. He is now making his home with his daughter, Mrs. Corbett, of State Center.

Four sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Harmon, of this review, namely: Ora C., born July 21, 1890, lives in Marshall County; Clare G., born April 15, 1897 is with his parents on the farm; Leonidas B., born August 6, 1899; Russell A., born February 12, 1906. The eldest child was born in Jasper County, the others in Marshall County, Ora C. having been born on the same farm on which his mother was born.

Politically, Mr. Harmon is a Democrat and he has been a member of the school board. He belongs to the Modern Brotherhood of America at Rhodes. The son, Ora C., belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America at Rhodes. Mrs. Harmon is a member of Crystal Chapter No. 11, Order of the Eastern Star at Rhodes. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 654.