MAHONING COUNTY OHIO BIOS: RAYEN, Harry K. (published 1925)
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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 186

        HARRY K. RAYEN gained in his boyhood and early youth a goodly
fellowship with the work of the home farm, and after attending the public
schools of Mahoning County, he continued his studies in the high school at
Girard. He forthwith entered active service in the pedagogic profession,and
he has continuously been engaged in teaching in the public schools of Ohio
during the long intervening years, which have been marked by large and
worthy service of constructive order. In Trumbull County he taught four
years in the district schools of Wethersfield Township, and after his
removal to Mahoning County he was for nine years superintendent of the
public schools in the rural districts of Youngstown Township. In the  City
of Youngstown he thereafter served eight years as principal of the market
Street School, and for the ensuing three years he was principal of the
Delason Avenue School. He had held since 1914 the position of principal of
the Princeton School, and he has done much to advance the standard of work
in the public schools of the city and county, his professional enthusiasm
being on a parity with his distinctive professional loyalty and efficiency.
        Mr. Rayen shows the trend of his political convictions by the
staunch allegiance which he gives to the republican party. He is affiliated
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he is an active member of
the local Kiwanis Club, of which he has served as a director. He and his
wife are zealous members of the Hillman Street Christian Church, in
Official Board since 1915. He was formerly an official member of the Four
Mile Run Christian Church in Mahoning county, this church having been
founded in 1828, and having been one of the first Christian, or Disciples,
churches established in the historic old Western Reserve. The home of Mr.
Rayen is an attractive place at the corner of Princeton and Oak Hill
avenues, and there he has found both recreation and pleasure in the
cultivation of his fine garden and the propagation of a great variety of
flowers and ornamental shrubs.
        On the 5th of September, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Rayen and Miss Caddie Kyle, who was born at Youngstown, in the year 1875,
and who is a representative one of the sterling pioneer families of this
now large and important industrial city. She is a daughter of Wesley and
Ann (Kerr) Kyle, both likewise natives of Youngstown. Of the children of
Mr. and Mrs. Rayen the eldest is Marion Rachel, who was born in 1895 and
who still remains at the parental home; Dorris E., who was born May 29,
1897, is the wife of Dr. Walter Strand, a representative physician and
surgeon in Youngstown; and James Wendell, youngest of the children, was
born January 4, 1908.






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