Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Harry, Charles A. 1863 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

CHARLES A. HARRY.

    One of the well-known and successful farmers of Guittard township, Marshall
county, was born in Buckcastle, England, on July 31, 1863, being the son of John
and Elizabeth (Thomas) Harry.

    John and Elizabeth Harry were also natives of England and there were
educated, grew to maturity and were later married, becoming the parents of four
children. After their marriage they continued to live in that country. To them
those places were an inspiration to a better and a nobler life. They were well
respected people and were prominent in the social life of the community in which
they lived. After useful and worthy lives they died m their native land. They
were of the farming class and reared their children amid the pleasant scenes of
country life.

     Charles A. Harry received his education in schools of England and there
grew to manhood. As a young man he learned the trade of a mason, at which he
worked there until 1883, when at the age of nineteen years he came to America.
On his arrival in this country, he came direct to Kansas and he located in
Marshall county. He came with the intention of visiting a brother, with whom he
expected to stay for one year and then return to his native clime. But he soon
obtained work at his trade and came to like the country so well that he stayed.
He invested the first money that he made in eighty acres of land. On this land
he built a small house and was soon engaged in general farming. He met with much
success in his farming and stock raising and in 1906 he built his present
beautiful house, one of the best in the township, with its fine lawn,
magnificent evergreen trees and ideal location. Mr. Harry is now the owner of
two hundred and forty acres of the best land, all of which is in a high state of
cultivation and well improved. He is a thorough and scientific farmer and his
machinery is of the most modern make. He keeps the very best of White Hereford
cattle and Poland China hogs, and his reputation as a progressive and successful
farmer is recognized throughout the county.

    On April 10, 1884, Charles A. Harry was united in marriage to Anna L.
Thomas, who was born on September 18, 1863, in Buchanan county, Missouri. She is
the daughter of Joseph H. and Elizabeth W. (Hopper) Thomas, to whom fifteen
children were born, Mrs. Harry being the youngest of the children. Six of this
family of children are now living. Joseph H. Thomas was born in Virginia in
1804. He received his education in the public schools of that state and was
reared on the home plantation. During his active life in that state he was a
slave-owner, yet he was to a great extent opposed to the system. In an early day
he left Virginia and moved to Missouri and there he died in 1864. His wife was
born in Kentucky in 1830, and there she was reared to womanhood and educated in
the public schools. She later moved to Missouri, where she reared her children
and where she lived until 1871, when she and her family moved to Marshall
county. They located on the farm now owned by Chaides A. Harry. Mrs. Thomas
later moved to Beattie, where she lived with a faithful negro, whom she brought
from the south with her until the time of her death in 1888. She is buried in
the cemetery at Beattie, and by her side is buried the negress, who died in
1890. This colored woman, who had lived the greater part of her life with Mrs.
Thomas, even after her emancipation, would not leave Mrs. Thomas and remained
with her until death parted them.

    To Charles A. arid Anna L. Harry have been born the following children:
Leslie, Sidney, Jennie M. and Robert C. Leslie T. was born on March 25, 1885,
received his education in the local schools and was reared on the home farm,
where as a lad he assisted his father with the farm work. On reaching manhood he
was united in marriage to Sarah Satterfield, of Emporia, Kansas, and to this
union two children have been born. He is now living in Franklin township, where
he is a well known farmer and stockman. Sidney C. was born on January 3, 1887.
He received his education in the schools of Beattie, where he completed the
course in the high school and later graduated from the Gem City Business College
at Quincy, Illinois, He was reared on the farm and early in life decided to
follow agricultural work. He is now the manager of the Wuester farms of Marshall
county. He was married in 1908 to Charlotte Wuester, of Home City, Kansas. She
was a graduate of the Gem City College. To them has been born one child. Jennie
M. was born on February 18, 1889, and is the wife of A. Kelley, of Frankfort,
Kansas, and they are now living at St. Joe, Missouri. Mrs. Kelley is a graduate
of the local school and of the Hiawatha Normal. Before her marriage she taught
music for two years and was considered one of the successful teachers in the
county. Robert B. was born on April 28, 1905, and is now at home. Mr. and Mrs.
Harry are active members of the Christian church and are prominent in the social
and the religious life of the community, where they are held in the highest
regard. They have always taken a keen interest in the development of the
educational, moral and social condition of the community in which they live.
They are interested in all that tends to the betterment of their home community
and their best efforts are directed to that end.

    Fraternally, Charles A. Harry is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons and the Modern Woodmen of America. He has always taken much interest in
the work of these orders and held offices in both of the organizations. Mrs.
Harry is an active member of the Order of the Eastern Star and has held the
office of chaplain in that order. Their lives have been devoted to the interests
of their children and the good that they might do in the community in which they
live. In church and lodge work, as well as in the general social life of the
township, they are ever ready and willing to do their part for the advancement
of any worthy cause.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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