BIO:  HARMON, Isaac, s/o Jacob & Mary (Clarke) Harmon

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

HARMON   CLARKE   ROBERTS   JOHNSON   KELLEY

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Dubois County, Hall Twp, page 760

ISAAC HARMON, a native of Dubois County, Ind., is a son of Jacob and Mary
(Clarke) Harmon, and was born January 19, 1826.  The parents were natives
respectively of Virginia and Kentucky, and lived alternately in Harrison
and Dubois Counties, moving four times.  The father died in Dubois County
December 27, 1870, the mother died in 1858.  Isaac received a limited
education in the log schoolhouses of early times, most of his education
being acquired since grown.  He worked for some years on a farm and then
engaged in running a carding-mill, at which he continued one year.  The
father then bought a farm, and the son followed farming and running a
peddling wagon.  He also ran a blacksmith shop for some time in Newton 
Stewart, Ind.  February 6, 1865, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-
third Indiana Volunteers, and was out till June, when he was discharged,
owing to disability caused by measles.  He has been farming the greater part
of the time since coming from the war.  He was married, in 1851, to Nancy
A. Roberts.  To them were born six children, three living.  The wife died
in 1871, and in November, of the same year he married Violet (Johnson)
Kelley, the result of this union being five children, four now living.  Mr.
Harmon is a Democrat in politics, and was elected justice of the peace 
in 1882.
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