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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

DR. HARRY E. SHARRER.

    Dr. Harry E. Sharrer, for nearly a decade a leading physician and surgeon of
Hammond, Indiana, is a man of striking personality and high professional
ability, and has made his mark in this thriving Lake county town in many
different ways. He took up the practice of medicine in Hammond almost
immediately after his graduation at an early age from college, and in the few
years that have since elapsed has risen to a foremost place in the ranks of the
medical fraternity. Dr. Sharrer is a young man of great versatility of talents,
and while he has done well to reach his present prominence as a physician and
surgeon, his accomplishments and value as a citizen are not measured by his
professional skill and ability. He is a popular member of social and fraternal
circles, and a leader in many of the social functions and entertainments. He
takes an active part in practical politics, especially those of his town and
county, and in many ways has served his fellow citizens and his fellow
partisans. He is also a talented musician. He is highly deserving of honor for
his true manhood and many-sided and upright character. While giving a due share
of his energies and enthusiasm to the life work whereby he intends to prove his
greatest usefulness in the world and provide for his own material needs, he has
also recognized the multifarious interests which engage human society on every
hand and which likewise lay claim to man's endeavor, and thus has arrived at the
happy mean in which he can best serve himself and his fellow men.

    Dr. Sharrer was born in Bowen, Illinois, June 11, 1873, and may be said to
have inherited the profession of medicine from his father. He is a grandson of
an early Illinois pioneer, who was born in Pennsylvania and was a general
merchant in Bowen, Illinois, where he died at the age of sixty years; his wife
died at the age of seventy-nine years, and they were the parents of three
daughters and two sons.

    Dr. Wilbur F. Sharrer, the father of Dr. Sharrer, was born in Juniata
county, Pennsylvania. He was living in that state at the time of the Civil war,
and during that conflict served in both the cavalry and infantry arms of the
military, being in the Twenty-second and Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania regiments.
He was twice wounded, and entered as a private and was promoted through the
different grades to lieutenant. Right after the war he moved to Bowen, Illinois,
and taught school, and also studied medicine in the Keokuk (Iowa) Medical
College. He began practice in Bowen, and in the spring of 1874 came to Indiana
and located at Rockfield, where he remained until 1881, when he moved to Delphi,
where he has practiced ever since. He has been on the pension examining board
for about twenty years. He and his wife are Presbyterians, and are both of
Scotch-Irish stock. He married Catharine E. Moore, a native of Juniata county,
Pennsylvania, and one of the two sons and three daughters of a native farmer of
Juniata county, who died when about sixty-six years old. Five children were born
to Wilbur F. and Catharine Sharrer, two sons and three daughters, and the two
now living are Ella B. and Dr. Sharrer.

    Harry E. Sharrer was reared in Rockfield and Delphi, Indiana, and attended
the public schools of those places. In 1888 he entered Purdue University, and
was graduated from the School of Pharmacy in 1891. For a time he held the
position of manager and chemist of the Hoyt Chemical Company at Terre Haute, but
in the same year entered the drug business at Delphi in partnership with M. M.
Murphy, which they carried on for several years. In 1894 Mr. Sharrer entered the
Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, and remained until his graduation on
April 9, 1896. On the 12th of the same month he opened his office in Hammond,
and has been engaged in successful practice ever since.

    April 12, 1898, Dr. Sharrer was married to Miss Lottie M. Weaver, of Burr
Oak, Michigan, a daughter of Edward M. and Mabel Weaver. One daughter was born
of this marriage, Anna Kathryn. Mrs. Sharrer died November 25, 1901, aged
twenty-six years. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. On June 16, 1903,
Dr. Sharrer married Miss Katharine Tracy, of St. Joseph, Missouri. They are both
members of the Presbyterian church.

    Dr. Sharrer affiliates with Garfield Lodge No. 569, F. & A. M., and was made
a Mason in Delphi Lodge No. 516. He also belongs to Hammond Chapter No. 117, R.
A. M., and Hammond Commandery No. 41, K. T. His further fraternal connections
are with Hammond Lodge No. 210, K. of P., and with the Royal League and the
Knights of Khorassan. He is a member and secretary of the Lake County Medical
Society, is a member of the Kankakee Valley Medical Society, the Indiana State
Medical Association and the American Medical Association, and is also a member
of the executive committee of the National Association of Pension Examining
Surgeons. Pie is president of the Hammond Club and a member of the Commercial
Club of Hammond. He is a member of the Hammond Saengerbund, a German singing
society, and ah honorary member of Barnie G. Young's Concert Band of Hammond.

    A stanch Republican in politics, Dr. Sharrer has been precinct committeeman,
and is now a member of the county executive committee; is treasurer of the city
Republican committee and president of the Hammond Young Men's Republican Club.
He has been a delegate to the state Republican conventions for the past eight
years. He also belongs to the Chicago Indiana Club. He lives at the corner of
Hohman and Doty streets, where in 1897, 1898 and 1899 he built three residences,
which he still owns. He is surgeon for five factories in the city of Hammond and
is surgeon for the Monon Railroad.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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