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     Elbert L. Harn was born on 18 October 1909.¹ He was the son of Trebert Sloan Harn and Margaret E. Stuart. Elbert L. Harn married Viola Lena Hamm in 1927. Elbert L. Harn married Ruth I. Strode on 1 September 1944.² Elbert was a TEC 5 (Technical 5 rank) in the US Army during World War II. Elbert L. Harn married Doris Mabell Compton on 18 October 1974.³ Elbert L. Harn died on 30 March 1988 at Macomb, McDonough Co., Illinois, at age 78.¹ He was buried at Harris Cemetery, Adair, McDonough Co., Illinois.¹

     Elijah Harn was born circa 1760 at Maryland.¹ He was the son of John Hearn and Dorcas Davis. Elijah Harn married Cassandra Davis, daughter of Garrard Davis Sr. and Nancy (?), on 6 September 1787 at Frederick Co., Maryland.² Emigrated to Kentucky with sister, Hester Harn Davis. Elijah Harn married Mary Tolle on 1 February 1814 at Lewis Co., Kentucky.³ Elijah Harn died circa 1819 at Lewis Co., Kentucky.

     Elijah Harn was born on 4 December 1826 at Kentucky.¹ He was the son of John D. Harn and Susannah Norman.¹ Elijah Harn married Margaret Jane Lightfoot on 27 March 1856 at Kentucky.¹ Elijah Harn died on 27 July 1891 at Fleming Co., Kentucky, at age 64.¹

     Elisha Lemuel Harn was born circa 1805 at near West Falls, Frederick Co., Maryland.^1,2 He was the son of Denton Harn and Rachel Ruth Pickett. Elisha Lemuel Harn was a farmer. He married Keziah Griswell circa 1822.² Elisha Lemuel Harn died on 10 October 1869.^1,2,3 Migrated to Ohio in Fall of 1833, then to Elkhart Indiana in April 1844.² He was buried at F-26, Grace Lawn Cemetery, Elkhart, Elkhart Co., Indiana.³

     Elisha Lemuel Harn Jr. was born on 24 August 1836 at Sidney, Shelby Co., Ohio.¹ He was the son of Elisha Lemuel Harn and Keziah Griswell. Elisha Lemuel Harn Jr. was born in 1843.² In 1860 Elisha Lemuel Harn Jr. was a Miller. He married Zilpha St. John, daughter of John St. John and Lucinda (?), circa April 1865 at Cass Co., Michigan.¹ Elisha Lemuel Harn Jr. died on 2 February 1881 at Red Wing, Goodhue Co., Minnesota, at age 44.³ E.B. HARN Sheets 140,146,147 (listed death as Jan1881). The cause of death was Consumption. E.B. HARN Sheets listed Elisha as born about 1843 in Ohio. Birth Record for Harold, says father born in Ohio. >>> Double-check children and birthyears, especially Harold.

Following from HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY, published in Red Wing-1878, pg 518.
HARN, E.L., was born in Sidney, Shelby county, O., Aug. 24, 1836. Moved with parents to Elkhart county, Ind., in 1845. In 1851 he went to Chicago, and was engaged in milling until 1866, when he came to Minneapolis and engaged as head miller in the Island Mill a number of years, then in the Cataract Mill at the same place. In 1871 he went to Winona, where he was engaged in Otto Frost's mill two years, and in Sept., 1873, to this city, and has since been engaged as head miller in the mills of the Red Wing Mill Company. Married Miss Z. St. John, in Cass county, Mich., in April, 1865. She is a native of New York State. Their children are, Hattie B., Lottie M., Arthur, and an infant not named.

     Eliza Harn was the daughter of Mathias Harn and Amelia Shipley. Eliza Harn married Perry Lowman on 24 November 1826.²

     Elizabeth Harn was born on 15 May 1837.^1,2 The cause of death was died in infancy.² She was the daughter of Perry G. Harn and Eva Strohm.

     Elizabeth Harn was the daughter of Ephriam Harn and Elizabeth Ellen Gosnell. Elizabeth Harn married Samuel M. Remmey.² Elizabeth Harn lived in December 1905 at Havre de Grace, Harford Co., Maryland.³ She died on 29 January 1923 at Havre de Grace, Harford Co., Maryland.

     Elizabeth Harn was born circa April 1871 at Fayette Co., Pennsylvania.² She was the daughter of Morgan Harn and Ariadne Hackney. Elizabeth Harn married Winfield Scott Haney on 15 February 1899.² Elizabeth Harn died on 1 May 1910 at Luzerne Twsp., Fayette Co., Pennsylvania.^2,3 She was buried at Hopewell Presbyterian Cemetery, Luzerne Twsp., Fayette Co., Pennsylvania.³

     Elizabeth Harn was the daughter of Samuel D. Harn and Mary Moore.

     Elizabeth Corella Harn was born on 16 October 1831.² She was the daughter of Singleton Wesley Harn and Maria Cordelia Harn. Elizabeth Corella Harn was born on 28 November 1831 at Frederick Co., Maryland.^3,4 She married John Henry Luzenbeel on 24 June 1852 at Frederick, Frederick Co., Maryland.⁵ Elizabeth Corella Harn lived on 4 June 1880 at Linganore, Frederick Co., Maryland.⁶ Ellen Dorcas Harn Manuscript. Marriage Record had name spelled LUGENBEEL. The cause of death was old age. She died on 17 January 1902 at Baltimore, Maryland, at age 70.^7,2 She was buried at Linganore Cemetery, Unionville, Frederick Co., Maryland.²

     Elizabeth Jane Harn was born on 23 March 1856 Ellen Dorcas Harn Manuscript. Elizabeth Jane Harn was a Teacher. She was the daughter of Aden Green Harn and Perninah Crawford. Elizabeth Jane Harn died on 4 March 1889 at age 32; Ellen Dorcas Harn Manuscript. The cause of death was Consumption.

     Elizabeth Jean Harn was born on 2 July 1922 at Red Wing, Goodhue Co., Minnesota. She was the daughter of Oscar Cecil Harn and Delta Ann Perkins. Elizabeth Jean Harn was baptized on 25 July 1924 at Faribault, Rice Co., Minnesota.¹ Elizabeth Jean Harn was a beautician. Elizabeth Jean Harn was also known as Betty. She lived in September 1940 at Duluth, St. Louis Co., Minnesota; living in Duluth when father died. She married Charles Swanke on 20 September 1940 at Duluth, St. Louis Co., Minnesota.¹ Elizabeth Jean Harn and Charles Swanke were divorced. Elizabeth Jean Harn was a Non-Denomination Protestant.¹ She lived in 1965 at 601 Bancroft St., St. Paul, Ramsey Co., Minnesota; lived at this address from about 1965 till July 2000. Elizabeth Jean Harn was a beautician. In July 2000, moved from house lived in since about 1965, at 601 Bancroft, to an apartment 3-blocks away. The cause of death was In Oct 2000, due to intestinal infection went down to 85 lbs. In July 2002 at 82 pounds. Around that time, also diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, which is a hearing nerve non-malignant tumor. Used chemotherapy to shrink the tumor. She lived in July 2002 at 516 Humboldt Ave., Apt #428, St. Paul, Ramsey Co., Minnesota. Her Social Security Number was 475-14-3442. She died on 31 March 2003 at St. Paul, Ramsey Co., Minnesota, at age 80.²

St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) - May 6, 2003
Deceased Name: Swanke, Elizabeth Jean
July 2, 1922-March 31, 2003 St. Paul's Lifetime Beautician Survived by brother William Ham; sister, Doris Spilman of Faribault; and special friend Demetrio Casillas; many nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by parents Oscar & Delta Perkins Ham; two brothers David and Gerald Ham. A private service was held. Burial was in Oakridge Cemetery, Faribault, MN.
St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
Date: May 6, 2003
Edition: City
Page: B7
Record Number: 0305090128
Copyright (c) 2003 St. Paul Pioneer Press. She was cremated on 4 April 2003 at St. Paul, Ramsey Co., Minnesota. She was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Faribault, Rice Co., Minnesota.²

     Elizabeth M. Harn was born on 20 November 1867 at Gordonsville, Orange Co., Virginia.¹ She was the daughter of Carroll Prather Duval Harn and Sarah Elizabeth Mills. Ellen Dorcas Harn Manuscript. Have seen last name spelled as DOUGHTERY and DAUGHTERY. Elizabeth M. Harn married James W. Doughtery on 1 November 1884 at Austin, Travis Co., Texas. Elizabeth M. Harn and James W. Doughtery were divorced on 4 November 1896 at Austin, Travis Co., Texas. Elizabeth M. Harn married Algie Richard Morris on 27 April 1897 at Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas. Elizabeth M. Harn lived in 1920 at Earlsboro, Pottawatomie Co., Oklahoma. Living with second husband in 1920, in Earlsboro, OK. She died on 1 October 1924 at Earlsboro, Pottawatomie Co., Oklahoma, at age 56. She was buried at Resthaven Memorial Park, Shawnee, Pottawatomie Co., Oklahoma.²

     Elizabeth Rose Mary Harn was born on 10 October 1921 at Monroe City, Monroe Co., Missouri.² She was the daughter of Ezra Blodgett Harn and Josie Ella Jane Rouse. Elizabeth Rose Mary Harn married James Henry Dean on 6 April 1946.³ Elizabeth Rose Mary Harn lived in July 1998 at Monroe City, Marion Co., Missouri.³ She died on 18 April 2014 at Monroe City, Monroe Co., Missouri, at age 92.² She was buried at Saint Jude Cemetery, Monroe City, Monroe Co., Missouri.²

     Ellen Harn married male Crawford at Fayette Co., Pennsylvania.² Referred to as Nelly. Ellen Harn was born circa 1785 at Maryland. She was the daughter of John Hearn and Dorcas Davis. Ellen Harn died circa 1846 at Fayette Co., Pennsylvania.²

     Ellen Dorcas Harn was born on 18 January 1829 at West Falls, Frederick Co., Maryland.^1,2,3 Ellen Dorcas Harn was a School Teacher. She was the daughter of John (II) Harn and Charlotte Hay.

Flying High at Ninety
"Well, I know I have been nearer heaven than most of you fellows," was the greeting Ellen Harn of Kenesaw gave to the people she met when, at the age of 90, she descended from her first airplane voyage and came back to earth and the cornfields of Nebraska. Miss Harn, a former school teacher and pioneer suffragist, took her first flight seventy years ago, when flying was a novelty to people of any age.

Recording her adventures in The Woman Citizen, the publication of the National Suffrage Association, Miss Harn explained that she was not afraid of flying. On the contrary, she worried she'd never get the chance to be airborne. "I had been fearful that at my age I might drop off and never see an airplane, when to my surprise a plane came floating over my head. I returned to the house to find my grand nieces with a car to take me to the ascension grounds, where I was invited to make a flight with Aviator Creeth in the machine that had just flown over my head."

"Several of my friends wished me to take with me a small flag and to wave it so that they might know it was I in the plane above. In search for the flag the only one to be found had a suffrage pennant attached to it. Upon asked leave to do the bidding of my friends the owner of the plane, Mr. Snyder, promptly filed an injunction." But the pilot, Mr. Creeth, came to the rescue and offered to drop the flag with its suffrage banner as the pair flew over the town flag pole.

"We mounted the airplane and started. On the broad-tread of the plane we went bumping over the uncircumscribed alfalfa field. The bumping ceased. I leaned out to see what was up; found the nose of the plane describing an upward angle and clear of all entanglements. 'Now we are in for it,' my brain fluttered."

"I was secure in the hidden arms of the trusty aviator behind me with clear, alert brains. So I gave myself up to the newness of the lower landscape, its child-like markings into fields and city squares. The higher we went up the more like the playground of the kids it became.

"We made note of the whitening stubble of the many wheatfields and I cannot describe the feeling that took possession of me as we were so quietly and peacefully tobogganing up the ethereal heights.

"We drifted south. Then, westward. Grey Eagle pointed her straight beak and we seemed to float. I don't know how far. I only knew that we were floating, that the air was sugary sweet, and the great round world, whispering no sound to us, lay far below. The white, comfortable, homelike farmhouses . . .became mere flecks of white. There were old barns, sleek Percherons, high-stepping trotters, graceful, pretty little mustangs arrayed in the colors of Joseph's coat, grazing on the alfalfa stretches, Jerseys, Holsteins, shorthorns on the thousand, grassy interstices of the gray old sand dunes.

"Striking the southwestern suburbs of Kenesaw we circled round west, then north until we struck Smith Avenue. The focus of our search was the Stars and Stripes, at high mast on the avenue over which Aviator Creeth had promised to drop the pennant.

"When the opportune time came, down it went, through the blue ether and the golden sun-light, U.S. flag and suffrage pennant. Dual as they were at the starting point, before they had reached the earth they had become so interwoven, so entwined, that no political microscope could discover their individuality. They two were one and the same.

"The plane momentarily hovered over the gray gable of my prairie home, then stuck a bee line for the point of decension, a mile or more away. I braced myself for a bump and a bang, but the bird caught hold of a tuft of alfalfa as softly and smoothly as if a bevy of twilight sparrows were stopping for a night's rest.
http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/timeline/flying_high.htm.⁴ Never married, no known children. Ellen Dorcas Harn died on 30 April 1930 at Kenesaw, Adams Co., Nebraska, at age 101.^2,3 The cause of death was Chronic Endocarditis. She was buried on 2 May 1930 at Kenesaw Cemetery, Kenesaw, Adams Co., Nebraska.^5,6,3 Author of an apparently unpublished manuscript on Harn Family.

The Hennepin Co., MN Deed Index, Book 7, page 313, states that on 27Jun1865, Ellen D. Harn was the Grantor of Lot 11, block 223. The Grantee being Alvin D. Williams.

In 1906, Ellen owned 40 acres in Adams Co., Kenesaw twsp., Sec 35. Ellen D. Harn was president of Adams Co Suffrage Organization for years.

The following was from the book, Adams County: A Story of the Great Plains, by Dorothy Weyer Creigh, published in 1972, by the Adams County-Hastings Centennial Commission, page 513, 899:
     "She still does a large part of her own work, feeds her chickens, cares for the family cow and plants her own garden. She acquired the vote after 70 years of constant effort toward woman suffrage. At 91 she took an airplane ride when such a feat was considered exceptionally dangerous."
"Miss Ellen D. Harn, Kenesaw pioneer and early-day teacher, made her first airplane flight in 1918 when she was 89 years old. When the open cockpit plane piloted by Burgess Creeth, was over the house-tops of Kenesaw, she released a banner which said "Votes for Women", clearly visible to the gawking public a few hundred feet below."

Following from the book History of Nebraska, volume III, by Albert Watkins, Ph. B., pg 495, Western Publishing & Engraving Company, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1913:
     HARN, ELLEN DORCAS, Kenesaw, Neb., came to this state in 1881 from Barton, Allegheny county, Md., where she was teaching her eleventh year in the public schools. She taught a term in 1881 and again in 1885-86 and was principal of the Kenesaw schools for four years. She was a member of the Kenesaw school board for three years and has taught about forty years. She was educated in Cedar Hill Seminary. Mount Joy, Pa., a graduate in the class of 1852. She began her teaching career in Cedar Hill Seminary. She was very active in Good Templar work in Minnesota, where she was one of the first teachers when the schools were organized in 1858, having previously taught in Pawtucket, R. I., and Lawrence, Mass. She taught here for seven years. She also taught in the Cheshire Academy, and the West Virginia State Normal at Huntington, W. Va. She was sent as delegate to the convention of Good Templars of North America at Nashville, Tenn., in 1860, at which convention there were only three lady delegates. Her grandfather, John Harn, Jr., was in the War of 1812, being a member of a Maryland regiment. The Harn family are English, of Norman descent. Her brothers were all in the Civil War. Miss Harn has been president of the Kenesaw local suffrage club since its organization, April 23, 1902. In 1908 she celebrated her eightieth birthday. Her brother, Reverend George W. Harn, of Wooster, O., was one of the organizers of the republican party, when his life was more than once in jeopardy, a candidate for Congress, within two votes of nomination, and a captain in the Civil War in the Union army. Miss Harn is in her eighty-fifth year (1912) and is active, and interested in all the topics of the day and in all good works. She attends to ten acres of fruit and a garden and cares for a horse and a cow and also f1nds time for reading and social activities.

The following obituary for Ellen Dorcas Harn was in the Kenesaw Progress Newspaper, on 01May1930, page 1.
Death Claims Kenesaw's oldest citizen 1829-1930.
Ellen D. Harn, who over one hundred years ago opened her eyes in this world, and since that time has kept one focused on the doings of the world, is dead.
She had been ill only two days. Her trouble developed so rapidly that she was unconscious throughout the day Tuesday and at 12:40 Wednesday she passed out of this life at 101 years, 3 months and 13 days of age.
Miss Harn was born in Fredericks county, Maryland, January 18, 1829. She was an early school teacher, one of the first women to teach. She was brave, daring and always fought for the things she thought right. She was never ill to speak of, and late years found her pen as strong as her voice was 75 years ago for woman suffrage, against the saloon, and for higher ideals in her profession as a school teacher.
Miss Harn came to Kenesaw many years ago. After spending half a century in Pennsylvania and Maryland, she came to Nebraska and helped those struggling early-day settlers build what is today one of the greatest educational systems in the world. She was one of the early pioneer school teachers, in fact one of the first of her sex to teach in the states of Pennsylvania and Maryland. As she got older the world got better, and no doubt at all but from some of her teachings. Then she became older, never weakened; her power become stronger and stronger, until today that for which she stood has all come to pass- teachers by the thousands of her own sex in the school room-yes and in congress-no saloons-and the women still forging ahead.
At the time of her 100th birthday, Kenesaw and community tendered her a birthday party in the Methodist Hall. All afternoon it was packed from the front to the back. Hundreds came to congratulate her; some of then early-day pupils, their hair gray and their backs bent. The school children marched from the school to the front of the hall where Miss Harn met them and talked to them for 10 minutes as though nothing unusual had happened. She was young; only the great number of years she lived were old. Just to look at her was to admire her.
Miss Mary Williams, who has made her home with Miss Harn for many years and Miss Katie Thrall, of Formosa Beach, Calif; two nieces were with her when the quiet ending of her life came. Many other relatives will arrive before Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock when the funeral will be held in the Methodist church. At first arrangements it was to have been held beside the 35-year old lilac bush which she planted and so greatly admired, but since have been changed.
Rev. Harry Wolcott of Smithfield will preach her funeral. He is a former pupil of Miss Harn and spoke at her 100th birthday party. Early Wednesday morning telegraph keys began to click off the news of her passing, the radio announced it, and later came the press, all carrying with their messages a tribute to her many years of usefulness.
Her funeral will be the largest ever held in Kenesaw. It will be attended by relatives, friends and admirers from four different directions. After it then will come a shower of flowers, letters, and cards, from all over the United States- from governors, from congressmen, from former students and from other pioneers who are creeping close to the century mark.

     Ellen Elizabeth Harn was born on 28 April 1912 at Sarahtown, Pennsylvania, Obituary for Ellen Bukowski says "...She was born April 28, 1912 in Sarahtown, Pennsylvania". Unable to locate Sarahtown or anything similar in Google searches. So far, unable to locate any birth or baptism records for her.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of Aden Wesley Harn and Sarah Catherine Lilley. Ellen Elizabeth Harn married Joseph Stanley Bukowski on 16 May 1933 at Delaware.¹ Ellen Elizabeth Harn lived in August 2002 at Elyria, Lorain Co., Ohio; Ellen still living when her brother Donald died in August 2002. She lived in 2008 at South Carolina.² She died on 3 April 2016 at Kershaw Co., South Carolina, at age 103.^2,3

Following obituary for Ellen Bukowski:

Ellen Bukowski, 103, passed away peacefully Sunday, April 3, 2016. She was born April 28, 1912 in Sarahtown, Pennsylvania and moved to Elyria in 1955, where she lived until moving to South Carolina to live with her daughter, Barbara in 2008.
Ellen was always active and worked until the age of 85. Her hobbies included reading, jigsaw puzzles and watching baseball. She loved to cook and always had a pot of soup on the stove or something in the oven. She lived a good, honest life and was loved by all.
Ellen is survived by her daughter, Barbara Collins of Lugoff, South Carolina; sons, Joseph (Barbara) of Lugoff, South Carolina, John of Denver, Colorado, Jim of Micco, Florida and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph and sons, Arthur (Marcia) and Dean (Sharon).
The family would like to extend their gratitude to all of the staff at Springdale Nursing Home and Hospice in Camden, South Carolina.
There will be no public service.
In lieu of flowers, contributions to the Alzheimer's Association would be appreciated.
Arrangements are in the care of Powers Funeral Home, Lugoff, South Carolina.

Published on April 10, 2016.² She was buried unknown burial location.³

     Elmer Harn was born circa 1852.^1,2 He was the son of Thomas Sillingsby Harn and Mary Miller.

     Elmer Harn was born in October 1898 at Illinois According to 1900 Census, Emma born in 1898 in Illinois. He was the son of Reason Elmer Harn and Martha Jane McNeil.

     Elmer J. Harn Jr. was born on 2 July 1928 at Illinois.² He was the son of Elmer Levi Harn and Myrtle Barbara Rohn.

Elmer served as a Seaman Apprentice (SA) during World War II and Korea.

Elmer J. Harn Jr. died on 5 June 2016 at age 87.² He was cremated.² He was buried at Fort Custer National Cemetery, Augusta, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan.²

     Elmer Levi Harn was born on 22 July 1894 at Frederick, Schuyler Co., Illinois.² He was the son of Stephen Adrian Harn and Mary Etta Blodgett. Elmer Levi Harn was born circa 1895 at Illinois. He married Myrtle Barbara Rohn on 29 July 1916 at Frederick, Schuyler Co., Illinois. Elmer Levi Harn died on 20 February 1931 at Frederick, Schuyler Co., Illinois, at age 36.² He was buried at Messerer Cemetery, Pleasant View, Schuyler Co., Illinois.²

     Elmer M. Harn was born circa 1872 at Maryland. He was the son of Edwin Washington Harn and Leoline Edith Uesline. Elmer M. Harn married Pauline Mayfield.


Polytechnic Bids Farewell to Elmer Harn
The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
18 May 1941, Sun Page 48

If it hadn't been for the stubbornness of the young lady who later became his wife, Elmer Harn, who retired two weeks ago after thirty-seven years as a teacher at Polytechnic Institute, might have spent his life in a newspaper city room instead of behind a professor flat-top desk. For so long as he worked at being a newspaperman, the future Mrs. Harn wouldn't have him. "I followed after that girl for nine years," he explains, as if recalling a losing battle, "but she said she would never marry a newspaperman, who changed night into day." So, as any good Irishman would, Mr. Harn "pitched the job for the girl"' and turned to teaching. And he has never regretted the choice. He considers it the wisest thing he ever did. In that, most of the thousands of students he taught at Polytechnic in the past three-and-a-half decades will agree, regardless of the merits of the musical and literary criticisms which made up most of his newspaper writings.

An Unpredictable Manner
They remember him, more and more fondly as he comes within the focus of a more mature perspective, as a wild-eyed, emotional and highly eccentric Irishman, who was just as often in trouble with the school administration as they were themselves. His manner of teaching was informal and unpredictable. He would sit upon his desk, or in a window, or stand with one foot on a chair. In short, his manners were largely those of the newsroom, for whose sloppy freedom he has always borne a great fondness. He never placed much stock in textbooks, or the teacher who instructed by them. And, happily for his pupils, he never felt unduly constrained to follow even his own assignment sheet. Instead of the beauties of Hamlet, as announced, his students might receive a dissertation upon the mating habits of pigeons (some having coincidentally appeared in the classroom window) with only the very pith end marrow of the Hamlet problem telescoped into the period's final two minutes.

Widely Informed
He impressed his students, and does even yet. as being one of those rare persons whose talk deserves the adjective "brilliant," even on the most banal of subjects. In his mouth, the art of fishing and the choice and construction of flies, for example (which he for one would never content to brand as banal), become almost an epic. As a teacher, he had a keen quiet sense of humor and an immense and sudden Irish temper. "Be quiet." he'd address his class preparatory to a lecture. "I have a few pearls to cast." He lost his temper, when he lost it. in a most wonderful fashion. He rarely, if ever, allowed himself the luxury of profanity and he even more rarely the release of hurling blackboard erasers. Bui to his students it sometimes seemed as if he were capable of lifting and throwing his whole desk, let alone an eraser. Even before John Kieran became a sort of human test-your-strength device by which to measure prodigy of whatever age, Mr. Harn impressed his students as enormously and discouragingly informed on all manner of things. His memory, especially for poetry, was and is prodigious. Not only can he quote scene after scene from Shakespeare, for example, but he can quote the changes in the scenes from edition to edition. " He had a preference for red ties, which time has sobered to black, and like every good Irishman, loved a fight.

Nothing Like A Fight
He got into the thick of one at the first City-Poly game after he joined the Polytechnic faculty in 1904. Ostensibly, he, an instructor, was supposed to separate the struggling students. Instead, he encouraged the Poly youths himself, and capitalized upon the confusion to knock off with his cane the hat from the head of the Polytechnic vice-principal, for whom he had small use, then or now. Later that afternoon, he was called before the principal, who was then Willian R. King, "Mr. Harn," said the principal, "your action this afternoon was highly reprehensible, highly reprehensible but it was the best thing you've ever done!" "Yes, I always enjoyed those City-Poly fights," Mr. Harn smiles in retrospect, "and would yet, if they hadn't moved them out to the Stadium, where I can't get to 'em." As a matter of fact, Mr. Harn- has had to fight for much of the success which has been his in life. He was born, the son of a cotton-mill worker, in Alberton, in Howard county, on April 7, 1870. April 7 that year happened to fall on Good Friday and he had to wait sixty-nine years before his birthday fell on Good Friday again. As a youth Mr. Harn did mill work, whitewashing and other odd jobs to work his way toward college. His mother, who was an Evans, traced her ancestry back to William Bradford, the second Governor of Plymouth colony, and of this genealogical blue ribbon Mr. Harn has always been very proud.

Got Book About Protestants
He entered Rock Hill College, a parochial school at Ellicott City, in 1S89. Although he had no high school education, having studied independently with preachers, and knew no foreign languages, he graduated in three years, with French, Latin and Greek. He was awarded a book, "The History of the Protestant Revolution," "for diligence" by his professor in Latin, and the faculty medal for "mental philosophy." This alone of all the medals and charms a scholar collects over a lifetime he still wears. The others, he says laughingly, he pawned. His first teaching position, was at a little elementary school at Roxbury Hills, where he was a pedagogical jack-of-all-trades. Former Governor Warfield was the first man to teach at Roxbury Mills and Mr. Harn the last. Mr. Harn says Warfield jokingly accused him of destroying the school. For four years he was principal of the graded schools at Ellicott City and then he went back to Rock Hill College as an instructor for a year. There he taught Greek and mathematics. Then came the nightmare that was five years of newspaper vagabondage, "I hit the high spots of life," Mr. Harn says of these turbulent years in what is probably a masterpiece of understandment. His marriage to Miss Pauline Mayfield for that was the stubborn young lady's name was a turning point in his life. He started teaching again at Calvert Hall, where once again he instructed in Greek and mathematics ... and Latin, which, he says, he always hated. After two years, he went to Pittsburgh to work in the office of a telephone company, was taken ill and returned to Baltimore to become a member of the secret service of the United Railways. The purpose of this job, Mr. Harn explains, "was to stop leakage on the line: the good men were rewarded, the bad one fired." "But I didn't like the work," he says, "I had to work every other Sunday." Finally, in 1904 he landed in Polytechnic to stay, But-now the secret can be told he first applied for a position at City and got one at Poly only because there were no vacancies at City. At Poly he taught English from the. very beginning. He had started to teach English at Calvert Hall when the regular English teacher died. Because he had done newspaper work the good fathers thought he should know something about English . . . and, by almost unpredicted coincidences, he did. Mrs. Harn died fourteen years ago, putting an end to a marriage of high and rare devotion. At about the same time, Mr. Harn finally gave up contributing to newspapers, which he had done, at space rates, sporadically ever since the great renunciation.

Now Lives Alone
Now he lives alone in a converted apartment in Forest Park. The front room is both his living room and his office. There are bookcases on either side of the folding doors at its rear and old pistols and swords hang from its walls. He is ??? to greet a caller in smoking jacket and a high, stiff collar, a label of his generation he has never seen fit to discard. The first thing he normally does is proffer a drink: Rye, Scotch, Bourbon anything you desire, he explains, except rum and gin. Then he excuses himself from joining you -because he is to have wine with his dinner instead. He hasn't changed much in appearance through the years. He is tall, spare and modelly erect. He still brushes his hair, now white, in a pompadour straight back from his forehead. His mind is still lightning quick. And he is still unreservedly outspoken and quick to flare at the mention of persons or things for which he has no respect. Ask him if he knows professor Such-and-such, a contemporary of whom you are fond and whom you therefore think will make a nice conversational bond, and, likely as not, he'll answer, "Certainly I know him; he's a damn fool.". But unless you know Mr. Harn, you can never be sure whether he intends such a pronouncement as a term of opprobrium or endearment. Such emphatic exaggerations are all a part of the ornate, climactic language with which he clothes the simplest thoughts.

Last To See Billy Alive
For example, it was typical that he should battle through the years with his first principal at Polytechnic, King, and yet at the end value him as one of his dearest friends. And it was equally typical that he should describe their last moment together, just before King's death, as he did. "I was the last to see Billy King alive," he recalled, "I took him a bottle of whisky, and he kissed me on the cheek." For companions, Mr. Harn has a housekeeper and a tomcat named Kingfish. The first time you visit him, he poses Kingfish on his hind legs on a dining room chair and, manipulating the cat's forelegs in forensic gestures, requests that he give his speech for the guest. The speech, actually delivered by Mr. Harn after the manner of a poor amateur ventriloquist, turns out invariably to be some manner of diatribe against the President. Too much spending, says Mr. Harn, returning to his natural voice, too much spending. He thinks there are a lot of things wrong with public schools, but that is another story. He is writing" what he calls a report on his "steward-ship" in the schools for Dr. Weglein's eyes alone.

Great Stakes With Fishing
If the doctor sees fit to disclose its contents, well and good; if not, Mr. Harn will keep his peace as best he can. Fishing is his consuming hobby and greatest pride. Twenty rods, all made by himself, hang on his dining-room wall; 600 flies, all tied by his hands, are filed in his desk drawers. He's very proud of his flies, which he gives to other fishermen. "Aren't they pretty?" He asks, fingering the colorful strands. "They've all got names, too: there's a Mickey Finn, there's Tiger; there's Black Ghost. Yessir, I've made a lot of friends with these flies."

Follows The Fish
Mr. Harn says he fishes wherever there are fish to be had. During the summer months he fishes mostly near Syracuse, where both his son and daughter have homes and where he knows twenty-six good fishing streams. He maintains a room in both his son's house and his daughter's house in Syracuse." "Then1 when one of them does something I don't like," he laughs, "I can go over and stay with the other until I cool off." He has two lessers hobbies. Poetry is one and being a "joiner" is the other. Now, for the first time in a busy life, he has more time than he knows what to do with. But he has a tentative schedule mapped out. "I'll loaf six months," he says, "then I'll review my Greek and mathematics, and then I'll write my obituary and go to sleep.". But everyone knows Elmer Harn will find a great deal more time to fish than that.

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The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
18 May 1941, Sun • Page 48.² Elmer M. Harn died on 14 March 1953 at Maryland.

     Elsie Olivia Harn was born on 9 July 1873 at Carroll Co., Maryland.¹ She was the daughter of George Washington Harn and Catherine Molesworth. Elsie Olivia Harn married William Landing Stem on 18 October 1891 at Carroll Co., Maryland.¹ Elsie Olivia Harn died on 13 November 1945 at Westminster, Carroll Co., Maryland, at age 72.² She was buried at Taylorsville United Methodist Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Carroll Co., Maryland.^2,3 E.B. HARN Sheets has spouses name as STERN. Gary C. Harn's letter has spouses surname as Stem.

     Elvira Harn was born in 1858.¹ She was the daughter of Richard William Harn and Lucretia Whittaker.¹ Elvira Harn married George W. Kelley. Elvira Harn died in 1897.² She was buried at Redstone Cemetery, Brownsville, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania.

     Emaline C. Harn was born on 2 August 1880 at Oregon.^1,2 She was the daughter of William Singleton Harn and Juliette Ann Reed. Photo of Emma HARN, taken in Portland, Oregon. Emaline C. Harn was also known as Emma. She lived in August 1904 at Multnomah Co., Oregon.³ She married Norman Harvey John Brooke, son of Thomas James Brooke and Elizabeth Jenkins, on 17 August 1904 at 360 San Rafael St., Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon; married by a Minister of the Episcopal Church.³ In Reid J. Brooke's application for enlistment on Dec 1941, his parents were still alive. Emaline C. Harn died on 22 January 1950 at Kellogg, Shoshone Co., Idaho, at age 69.² She was buried at Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon, Plot: Sec 6, Lot 12, Grave 3S.²

     Emilio Harn is the son of Paul David Harn and Maricella Sanchez.

     Emily Belle Harn was born in March 1890 at Illinois Birthdate data from the 1900 Federal Census in Illinois. She was the daughter of Stephen Adrian Harn and Mary Etta Blodgett. Emily Belle Harn was born on 30 March 1890 at Frederick, Schuyler Co., Illinois.² She married Ernst Roscoe Stevens on 12 October 1907 at Schuyler Co., Illinois. Emily Belle Harn died on 17 November 1949 at Beardstown, Cass Co., Illinois, at age 59. She was buried at Messerer Cemetery, Pleasant View, Schuyler Co., Illinois.³

     Emma Harn was born in June 1895 at Illinois According to 1900 Census, Emma born in 1895 in Illinois. She was the daughter of Reason Elmer Harn and Martha Jane McNeil.

     Emma Harn was the daughter of Samuel Davis Harn and Mary Virginia McClellan.