. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . PENNSYLVANIA. bells, traps and all edge-tools. He raised a largefamily, comprising three sons and seven daugh-ters, and died about 1821, aged nearly eightyyears. His oldest sou, Charles Harmes, wasthe father of the subject of this sketch. He wasa large, powerful man, and worked at variousoccupations, including farming, lumbering andblacksmithing. Although his education wasvery limited in Neversink, his native town, hewas elected and served two consecutive terms asjustice of the peace. He was married three stand what he read. He then
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . PENNSYLVANIA. bells, traps and all edge-tools. He raised a largefamily, comprising three sons and seven daugh-ters, and died about 1821, aged nearly eightyyears. His oldest sou, Charles Harmes, wasthe father of the subject of this sketch. He wasa large, powerful man, and worked at variousoccupations, including farming, lumbering andblacksmithing. Although his education wasvery limited in Neversink, his native town, hewas elected and served two consecutive terms asjustice of the peace. He was married three stand what he read. He then became fond ofreading, but owing to his inability to obtainbooks, and to the frequent changes of place towhich he was subjected, he had few opportuni-ties to gratify his inclination. At the age ofnineteen years he bargained with an uncle tolive with him a year, to receive eight dollars amonth for nine months labor, and three monthsschooling. His uncle was a blacksmith, andkept him busy with the bellows and sledge dur-ing the summer. Wheu the winter term of. tA^vdn&t/ %C. J CLt/M£4 times, and raised a family of twelve moved to Illinois when advanced in life,andsoon after died there, aged over eighty years. Rodney Harmes, the oldest son of CharlesHarmes, from the time of his mothers death,which occurred when he was between eight andnine years of age, never had a permanent homeuntil he located at Pleasant Mount, Pa. Butlittle reliance could be placed upon the schoolswhere he spent his boyhood days, and he wasten years old before he could rfad and under- school commenced he took his books and wentto school, as he believed, according to the con-tract, with the intention of studying, in additionto arithmetic and geography, grammar, theteacher being competent to instruct in that art,an acquirement which few possessed in SullivanCounty at that time. He returned to his uncleshome in the evening, and found his prospects forschooling blasted. His uncle claimed that hehad not
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