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Source:             Honor Roll, Linn County, Iowa. An Illustrated Biography - Page 46
Name:               Lieut. Harlan R. Amen
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Lieut. Harlan R. Amen 

Cedar Rapids, Iowa 

Born in Ida Grove, Iowa, March 19, 1887. Son of Mary and John J. Amen. 
Volunteered June 1917. Ambulance S. S. U., 583d Convois Automobiles. Served 
with French Army transferring American Army. A. E. F. 

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His father was also known as James J. Amen, a bank president who ended up as a 
grocer in Northwood, Worth County, Iowa in 1930. 

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The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette 
Tues., Dec. 30, 1919, page 3, Col. 5. 

Local Man May Lose His 
Sight; Hurt By Golf Ball 
_After serving eighteen months on most of the battlefields of France without 
injury, Harlan Amen of Cedar Rapids, will probably be permanently disabled as 
the result of an injury received while playing golf, according to word received 
here today. Amen is now in an Omaha hospital it is said where he went recently 
when it became evident that eyesight in one eye was permanently destroyed and 
that in the other affected through being struck in the eye by a golf ball, in a 
game last fall. At the Omaha hospital the injured eyeball was removed and the 
other eye is now being treated in an effort to retain its sight. 

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The Cedar Rapids Gazette 
Tues., Jan. 21, 1964, page. 3, col. 8. 

Mrs. Harlan Amen 
Dead at age of 71 
__Pauline Day Amen, widow of Harlan R. Amen, 2537 Vernon court SE, a lifelong 
resident of Cedar Rapids, died Tuesday following a brief illness. She was born 
May 14, 1892 in Cedar Rapids. 
__Surviving are two brothers, Burton H. Day of Cedar Rapids and John D. Day of 
Pacific Palisades, Calif., and two sisters, Helen D. Rush and Dorothy Day, both 
of Cedar Rapids. 
__Mrs. Amen was a member of St. Michael's Episcopal church, St. Ann's Alter 
Guild, Grace Walpole circle King's Daughters, and was teasurer of the Cedar 
Rapids Garden club at the time of her death. She was also a member of the Cedar 
Rapids Country club. 
__Funeral arrangements will be made later. Friends may call at the Turner 
chapel after 1 p.m. Wednesday. Burial: Oak Hill cemetery. 
__The family suggests that friends, may if they wish, make a contribution to 
St. Michael's Memorial fund or the Hall Radiation center. 


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