BIO:  O. S. HARNER, Germany Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 424

O. S. HARNER, teacher, P.O. Kingsdale, was born September 24, 1857, in Myers’ 
District, Carroll County, Md.  His grandparents, Samuel and Hannah (Bauers) 
Harner, were natives of Pennsylvania, and of German extraction.  They were 
potters by occupation, and had five children.  Samuel died in Maryland and 
Hannah in Pennsylvania.  Our subject’s maternal grandfather, Samuel Messinger, a 
fuller by occupation, was only three years old when he was brought to America.  
The father of our subject, James A. Harner, Sr., was born August 3, 1826, in 
Germany Township, this county, and is now a farmer in Carroll County, Md.  He 
married Anna E. Messinger, born in Carroll County, Md., daughter of Samuel and 
Margaret (Shuyler) Messinger, and to this union were born seven children now 
living and one deceased:  Granville R., O. Samuel, James J., Maggie T., Henry 
(deceased) Susannah E., John N., and Addison A.  Our subject was reared on a 
farm and educated at Littlestown, Penn., and at Taneytown, Md., and now teaches 
school in the winter.  He was married November 28, 1878, to Sarah C. Menchey, 
born December 2, 1855, daughter of Ephraim and Catharine (Rohrbaugh) Menchey.  
To Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Harner have been born three children:  Alverta May, born 
July 31, 1880; Emma Blanche, born July 5, 1883; and Charles Cleveland, born 
February 12, 1885.  Mr. and Mrs. Harner are members of St. John’s Lutheran 
Church, of which he has been an officer.  He has served as township auditor, and 
is now a justice of the peace.  Politically he is a Democrat.