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Marion F.  Harmon November 25, 1861 - unknown
Adair County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th Edition

ELDER MARION F. HARMON was born November 25, 1861. His father, C. W. Harmon, 
was born in Adair County when it was a portion of Green, January 19, 1836. His 
life-long occupation has been in the line of agriculture, and he is a man of 
limited education, but acquired sufficient to teach in the pioneer schools. He 
was married, March, 1861, to Miss Louisa Smith, the fifth of a family of seven 
children, three of whom were daughters, born to Zachariah and Sallie (Puryear) 
Smith, natives of Virginia, and among the earliest settlers of Taylor County. 
Only two of Zachariah Smith's children are now living, John W. and Samuel F., 
both of whom reside in Taylor County. Two of his sons, James and William, were 
in the Federal service during the late war, and the former was killed at the battle of Perryville, Ky.; the latter died in the Andsersonville prison. C. W. Harmon in 1861 moved to Adair County, near Neetsville, and was a renter until 1870, when he bought a farm six miles south of that place, where he resided until the spring of 1886, when he sold out. He now lives about two and a half miles from Columbia. He and wife are both members of the Christian Church, and parents of eleven children: Zachariah; Sarah C., wife of Benjamin Montgomery, now residing in Bates County, Mo.; Nancy M.; Mary L.; Ulysses S.; Martha S.; Ida E.; Montie C. And Marion F., who is the eldest; the other not mention died in infancy. Rollin Harmon, the grandfather of Marion FD., was a native of Marion County, Ky., but his father's family originally emigrated from North Carolina. He was married to Miss Casander White, a native of what is now Adair County, and they were the parents of four children: John, Marion, Creed W. and Benjamin N. He next married Miss Gunter, of Marion County, and they were the parents of three
children: Archibald, Sophronia and Casander. Rollin Harmon was a farmer, and also navigated the Green River as a raftsman. He was man of great personal bravery, and lived to an advanced age, always in moderate circumstances. Elder Harmon, a native of Adair County, had the advantage of attending the common schools of his neighborhood until sixteen years of age. In the autumn of 1878 he entered the primary department of the Columbia Christian College. Every cent of the money necessary to pay tuition, buy books and clothing and pay living expenses, was earned by him while attending school by extra work out of school. This was the case the first year, but the other four years he taught in the country schools of Adair, and attended college the remainder of the session. While attending college he became acquainted with Miss Mary S. Squires, the youngest of six children, two of whom were daughters, born to Winfield and Sally M. (Montgomery) Squires, both natives of Adair County. 
Winfield Squires was a son of John and Lockie (Jones) Squires, both natives of 
Kentucky. Sally M. Montgomery was the third of a family of five children, two 
of whom were daughters, born to Francis and Lockie (Hurt) Montgomery, both 
native Virginians. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon occurred October 12, 
1882, before his graduation, and their home has been gladdened by the addition 
of a bright little girl, Lena Burkley, born October 28, 1883. June 5, 1883, Elder Harmon graduated from Columbia College with a degree of Bachelor of Sciences (B. S.), but in April 1883, was ordained to preach the gospel by Elder John W. Sweeney. His first sermon was preached in 1881, and since then he has entered into the life work of the ministry. In the years of 1884 and 1885, he was one of the faculty of Columbia College, and now has the entire management of that institution. In October, 1885, he established the Columbia Herald, a weekly newspaper, Republican in politics, which he ran successfully three months, but which he sold out to take charge of Columbia College. He now has charge of the Egypt Christian Church in Adair County, and this is his third year in that ministerial work in connection with that congregation.


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