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 COLUMBIA AXD MONTOUR COUNTIES and a member o f Washington to d g c, No. 265, F. & A. M. I lis wife« Elizabeth (ShelJhcim cr), bom M ay 19, 1795, w as a daughter o f General Shellheimer. o f Briarcreek town­ ship, Columbia county. She died Ju ly 23. 1877, and is buried with her husband in Rose­ mont cemetery, Bloomsburg. F ou r children w'crc born to them : Jerem iah I L; H arriet, who died unm arried; Sarah, who married Franklin J. Schreilicr, of Allentown, P a. (they had noTchildren); and M a ^ a re i, who became the w ife o f R. Tubbs (they had no children). Jerem iah H. Harntnn was to m N ov. $. 1830, at Mifflinville. For some time in his early life ho worked for his father, later go­ ing to Scranton, where he clcrketl for the Scrantons several years. Then he returned to Columbia county, as the first agent o f tbe Reading Railroad Company at Kupcrt. Pa., where he remained several years. H is next venture was as partner with Lloyd Paxton, dealing in feed, grain, etc., and they w*crc as­ sociated for many years. During this partner­ ship M r. hlarman became president of the Salem Coal Company, at Shickshinny, Pa., with whom he continued until obliged to retire on account of the loss o f his sight. A fte r that he lived in Bloomsburg until his death, which occurred Feb. 27, 1885. H e is buried in R ose­ mont cemetery. He was a memtor of the Episcopal Church and scr*ed as *estrj*man. In 1855 M r. Harman married Alm ira Car­ penter, daughter o f George Carpenter, of Philadelphia, and she died in 1868. leaving one child. Elizabeth, who married Edwin W. F u l­ ton Oct. n, 1876. and had one son, Lloyd F’axton, who died when twenty months o ld : M r. Fulton died March 9, 1879. In 1870 Mr. Harman married (second) M ary N. H ess, widow o f John S. Hess, o f Philadelphia, and youngest daughter o f William M cK elvy. o f Bloomsburg. She dieil in 1887, buried in Rosemont cemetery. B y this union there were three children: Samuel H ow ard: Helen Willetts, who married Charles Paist. J r .. o f Norristown, Pa., where they reside ’ (they have a lUiughter, M ary H . ) : ami Percy I,., who tiled when two years old. Samuel H. Harman was torn Aug. ifi. 1872, at Rupert, Columbia county. He obtained his early e<lucation in the public schools, biter w as a student at the Bloomsburg State N oniial School, and then attcndctl Chelten­ ham M ilitary Academy at Ogontz, near Phila­ delphia. from which he w as graduated in i8<jO. Returning to Btoomsbui^ he became a clerk for his uncle, Isaiah M cK elvy, remaining in

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his employ for a few years. H e then went to llazlcton, Pa., and became coal shipper for the Pardee Coal Company, holding that position two years, at the end o f which time he came back to liloomsburg. Entering the law office o f Fred Ikeler, he read law for two years, until he formed a partnership wilh F. P. I’ursci to carry on the mercantile business, the firm toing known as Pursel & Hannan. Mr. Harman continued in this association for five years, retiring liccause o f failing health; he sold his interest to M r. Pursel. A fte r with­ drawing from business activities for a time he Ofganizcd the Harman Advertising Agency, and five years later consolidated with the Scranton .Agency, later forming the Penn­ sylvania Railw ays Advertising Company and finally selling out lo the R ailw ays A d ­ vertising Company, one of the largest oranizatk)iis of its kind in the country, 'or the five years following M r. Harman traveled in the E ast and Middle W est, and on Nov. 27. 1 9 1 1. he tought the stock farm near the town o f Blooni.sbu(^, Colum­ bia rounty, to which he is now devoting all his attention. H is interest has been serious from the start. In June. 19 12, he w as one of the founders and organizers of the Columbui County Breeders' .Associations, and is serving a s its president, his election to that offke being an expression of the unqualified approval o f his as.sociates in his activities as a stockman. Gucriiseydale. as Mr. Harman’s estate is known, consists o f three adjoining tracts, one o f fifty-four acres in the town o f Bloomsborg, at the mouth o f Fishing creek, another of one hundred and eight acres adjoining it. nearer Bloomsburg, a third o f ninety* acres lying op­ posite, at Rupert, on the Catawissa trolley line. Kupcrt is an advantageous railroad center, which materially enhances the value of the location for a dairy farm. T he projierty is alt bottom land and all under cultivation. Mr. Harman has made decided changes for the better on his farm even in the short time it has l>ecn in hts possession. tw*o silos being among the improvements he made in 19 12. H e has a fine herd o f sixty Guernseys, thirty of them registered, among which are several famous milch cows. The cream is separated and sold to an ice cream manufacturer at W ilkes-Barre, Pa. T he conditions on this place arc very fax'orablc as afTording the liest facilities for the maintenance o f high-grade dairy* cattle in the most desirable condition. Coiisiderahlc limestone is underneath the land in (his locality or readily available, and Mr. Hantuin. like his ncightors, uses much lime.

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