Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Harr, John
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Rockhill Township


   JOHN HARR proprietor of Washington hotel, P.O. 
Sellersville, was born in Bucks county in 1837, and is a son 
of Tobias and Sophia (Hartzell) Harr.  His father died in 
1886, and his wife is still living, and is 85 years old.  
John was the fifth child in a family of six children, four 
of whom are still living.  In 1861 he married Margaret, 
daughter of Jacob and Gaynor (Lewis) Courter, of this 
county.  They are the parents of the following:  Sallie J. 
(Mrs. Ruff), Gaynor A., at home; Harry, Julia (Mrs. Berlin), 
Lizzie (deceased), George Clayton, Mamie Bell, Charles 
Edward and Florence May.  From his childhood Mr. Harr has 
been identified with the hotel business, in which for 
thirty-five years he has been engaged in different parts of 
this and in other counties.  In 1887 he sold his stand in 
Perkasie, where he had been for fifteen years, and purchased 
a farm of fifty-three acres in Hilltown township, which is 
considered as fine a farm as there is in the township.  
After his long continuance in hotel life, Mr. Harr could not 
content himself on a farm, and therefore rented the 
Washington hotel at Sellersville, formerly conducted by Mr. 
Nace. The reputation of the house has lost nothing under his 
proprietorship, as his long experience in the business 
enables him to provide for the wants of guests in a 
satisfactory manner.