Biographical review of Hancock County, Illinois : containing biographical and genealogical sketches of many of the prominent citizens of to-day and also of the past . is pro-fessional and business connections and hisactivity in support of many plans andmo^ements for the public good. Whileundoubtedly he is not without that honor-able ambition which is so powerful anduseful an incentive to activity in publicaffairs he has ever regarded the pursititsof private life as being in themselvesabundantly Avorthy of his best efforts andby the faithful and conscientious per-formance of each days duty a§ i
Biographical review of Hancock County, Illinois : containing biographical and genealogical sketches of many of the prominent citizens of to-day and also of the past . is pro-fessional and business connections and hisactivity in support of many plans andmo^ements for the public good. Whileundoubtedly he is not without that honor-able ambition which is so powerful anduseful an incentive to activity in publicaffairs he has ever regarded the pursititsof private life as being in themselvesabundantly Avorthy of his best efforts andby the faithful and conscientious per-formance of each days duty a§ it hascome to him he has found inspiration andencouragement for the labors of the suc-ceeding da). He has thus won publicconfidence and his ability in the line of hischosen profession has given him pres-tige at a bar which has claimed manynotable members. Mr. OHarra was born on a farm nearCamp Point in Adams county, Illinois,I-ebruary 22, 1857. his parents being Jef-ferson and Pauline (Robertson) father was a native of Indiana, bornJune 4. 1833, and the mothers birth oc-curred in Adams county. Illinois. May Jefferson devoted his at-. ^y^U^oM^(y^oM^:iy^^^ ji.^xcucK couxry, illjxojs. -9 lention to general agricultural pursuitsuntil 1866 and at the age of tiftecn yearshe went ti) Adams count}, Illinnis. Ini860 he removed to Hancock county,where he engaged in the tilling of the soiluntil 1866, when he moved to Bentleyanil hccanie jjroprietor of a general storewhich he cnnducted for thirty-two 1899 he removed to Carthage, thinkingto retire from active business life, butindolence and idleness are utterly foreignto his nature and he could not contenthimself without some occupatitm. so thatfor the past five years he has acted asmanager of the mortgage department inthe office of his son, A. W. OHarra. Hevotes with the democracy and has servedas township supervisor and as a memberof the schonl board, but is witlmut polit-ical ambitions. A member of th
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