Harming, Edward W.

HARMING, LOVE

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 7/21/2006 at 22:30:12

HARMING, EDWARD W.

Edward W. Harming, who works with his brains as well as his hands, and is not afraid of hard work under any circumstances, has achieved a commendable standing among the younger element of the farming community of Garfield Township, Lyon County, where he is making his way by thrift and energy to a very large measure of success in a not distant future.

Mr. Harming was born in Illinois in 1872, and is a son of George O. Harming, who was born in Germany, and was among the pioneers in Illinois and Kansas. Edward W. was the oldest of a family of two children only, and was reared to manhood on his father's farm in southeastern Kansas. When he reached the age of twenty-one years he left home to shift for himself. For seven years was employed by an uncle, who lived in Illinois, as a farm helper. Saving his money, and having already married he came to Lyon County in 1900, where he has since made his home. His marriage to Miss Verna Love occurred February 14, 1900. She was born in Illinois, and is a daughter of James H. Love, who came of German descent, and has been all his life a farmer. For three years before her marriage she was a schoolteacher in Illinois, and during that time had only one district. Mr. and Mrs. Harming have one child, Helen, a bright and charming little girl who was born in Lyon County.

Mr. Harming settled on the south half of section 8, Garfield Township, and here he has developed a magnificent rural estate of three hundred and twenty acres, all well improved and in a good state of cultivation. At the present time he is largely engaged in grain farming, but is gradually working into stock raising, to which he hopes soon to give the most of his attention.

While Mr. Harming devotes himself very closely to his farm, and lets nothing come between him and that great interest, he holds a considerable block of stock in the Farmers' Mutual Telephone Company, in which he has been active since its organization. His business sense is considered good, and he is rapidly becoming one of the leading spirits of the community.

Source: Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Lyon County, Iowa. Published under the Auspices of the Pioneer Association of Lyon County. Geo. Monlun, Pres.; Hon. E. C. Roach Sec’y; and Col. F. M. Thompson, Historian. Geo. A. Ogle & CO., Published, Engravers and Book Manufacturers. Chicago, 1904-1905

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