BIO: P. Harmon, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

552  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  P. HARMON, dealer in coal, grain and lumber, and agent for the 
Harrisburg & Potomac Railroad Company, Mount Holly Springs, was born in 
South Middleton Township, this county, December 13, 1848, son of George 
(a farmer) and Julia (Baker) Harmon, natives of York County, Penn., and 
of German origin; their family consisted of eight children.  Our 
subject, the fifth born, was reared on the farm and attended the 
schools of his native county.  Early in life he left the farm and 
clerked in a store in Mount Holly Springs; then embarked in mercantile 
trade, keeping a general store for fifteen years, most of the time in 
company with his brother, though he conducted business alone for six 
years.  In 1877 our subject embarked in his present enterprise.  He was 
married, in 1872, to Emily L., daughter of Stephen F. Weakley, and of 
Irish descent.  Her father was a farmer, and was a strong Abolitionist 
in those days when it cost something to be an advocate of that 
doctrine.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. P. Harmon are Bessie, Percy and 
Helen.  Mrs. Harmon is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mr. 
Harmon is a Republican in politics; has served in the town council, and 
for three years was secretary of the school board.  During the late war 
of the Rebellion he enlisted, in 1865, in Company H, One Hundred and 
First Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the 
war.