BIO: Prof. Harry Elmer WARD, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 967 & 968.
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  PROF. HARRY ELMER WARD,* superintendent of the public schools of Clearfield, 
Pa., is a well known educator and is a member of one of the old and honorable 
county families.  He was born May 19, 1876, at Grayhampton, Clearfield county, 
Pa., and is a son of John Lucine and Henrietta (Forcey) Ward.
  John Lucine Ward was born in Clearfield county, in 1846, and is a son of 
Robert F. Ward, who was formerly deputy sheriff of Clearfield county.  Robert F. 
Ward came to this county from Lewisburg, Ky., and later became associated with 
William Rodebaugh, in the tailoring business at Clearfield, where he died in 
1860.  John Lucine Ward learned the saddler's trade in early manhood and later 
was in partnership with F. H. Forcey, in the lumber and general mercantile 
business, at Grayhampton, where he resided until 1898, when he and wife retired 
to their farm in Graham township, where they still reside.  She also is a native 
of Clearfield county and was born in Bradford township.  To John Lucine and 
Henrietta Ward five children were born, namely:  Margaret, William, Harry Elmer, 
John and Robert F., all of whom live in Clearfield county with the exception of 
William, who resides at Altoona, in Blair county.
  Harry E Ward passed from the public schools, where he had been a creditable 
student, into the Lock Haven State Normal School, from which institution he was 
graduated in 1900.  Shortly afterward he became principal of the Third Ward 
School at Clearfield and also became a student of law, but finding more 
satisfaction in educational work than in his law studies, he gave up the latter 
in order to devote himself more entirely to the former profession.  He remained 
at the head of the Third Ward School for four years and then resigned and for a 
change in occupation, accepted a position with the Hamilton Leather Company, at 
Hamilton, W. Va.  In August, 1905, Prof. Ward returned to Clearfield in order to 
accept the position of principal of the Market Street School, where he continued 
until June, 1910, when he was elected superintendent of the city schools.  More 
or less continuously Prof. Ward has been engaged in school work since 1892.  He 
is widely known throughout Clearfield and adjacent counties and is recognized as 
an earnest and progressive leader in his profession.
  Prof. Ward was married November 25, 1896, to Miss Margaret Pierce, a daughter 
of Jacob and Jane (Rigley) Pierce, and they have three daughters, Catherine, 
Margaret Elizabeth and Helen Lenore.  Prof. Ward and family are members of the 
Presbyterian church.  The family residence is situated at No. 495 Fifth street, 
Clearfield.  In identifying himself with a politic party in early manhood, Prof. 
Ward became a Republican and is an interested citizen but by no means a 
politician.  He is an educated, cultured man, one who commands the respect and 
enjoys the esteem of his fellow citizens.