Cumberland-Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Harmon, Zebulon King 1816 - 1895
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   ZEBULON KING HARMON, the son of Daniel and Mary (True) Harmon, was born in
Durham 11 Nov. 1816. At the age of eighteen he began to learn the printer's
trade in Brunswick, where he remained three years. He was for two years clerk in
St. Charles, Mo. Was several years in the County Clerk's office in Portland. For
thirty years he was solicitor of claims. He completed for the State a
muster-roll of the soldiers of Maine in the War of 1812. He filed over six
hundred pension claims. He was an earnest promoter of the Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution. He was a good citizen, honored and respected by all who
knew him. He often visited his native town, and took an active part in its
Centennial, reading a sketch of Isaac Royall's life. He died in Portland, 16
March, 1895.

   He married 29 Nov. 1846, Harriet A. dau. of Isaac and Mary (Little) Davis of
Portland. Their son, Charles C, is a member of the firm of Loring, Short & Harmon.


Additional Comments:

Part of Chapter IX.
A FEW OUT OF MANY

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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