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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