Clarence HARMAN

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1871, Ohio
• Census: 1880, Living with parents in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Magnolia, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Occupation: 1900; Blacksmith
• Census: 1910, Living in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Occupation: 1910; Blacksmith
• Census: 1930, Living in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Occupation: 1930; County Clerk

Notes:

Information from Mariana L Zuelsdorf:
George A. Harman is County Court Clerk of Wetzel county, and was an active business man of New Martinsville before his accession to this public office. He is a member of a family that has supplied a number of most substantial citizens to the commercial life of Wetzel county.
He was born in Monroe County, Ohio January 25, 1873. His grandfather, Samuel Harman, was born in Pennsylvania in 1816, and on leaving his native state settled in Belmont County, then in Monroe County, Ohio, followed farming and eventually, on retiring from the farm, located at New Martinsville, West Virginia, where he died in1902, in advanced years. He was a democrat and a very devout member of the Christian Church. Samuel Harman married Mary Gates, who was of Scotch descent and who died in Monroe County, Ohio. Joseph S. Harman, father of George A., was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1844, but spent most of his early youth in Monroe county. In 1861 at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the Seventy-seventh Ohio Infantry, and served until wounded at the battle of Shiloh, which incapacitated him for further military duty. After leaving the army he went out to Elgin, Iowa, where he married and where he learned the wagon making trade. Subsequently he returned to Monroe County and in 1873 settled at New Martinsville. He was an exceedingly skillful wagon maker, and in his shop at New Martinsville he made a number of strong and durable wagons that served a generation of users. Joseph S. Harman died in New Martinsville in 1912. (sic) He was a democrat, a member of the City Council several terms, and during the latter part of his life was chiefly identified with the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Mary Bauder, who was born near Bern, Switzerland, in 1853, and is now living at New Martinsville. Of her children George A. is the oldest; frank is deputy under his brother George; Charles owns a tailor shop at New Martinsville; Ross is in the plumbing business at New Martinsville; William is senior partner of J.W. Harmon, a clothing merchant at New Martinsville; Anna is the wife of Thomas G. Allen, assistant postmaster at New Martinsville, and two other sons, Julius and Clarence, who died in childhood.
(from History of West Virginia p. 512)

Newspaper Clipping
GEORGE A HARMAN, COUNTY CLERK FOR QUARTER OF CENTURY, SUCCUMBS HERE
County's Most Widely Known Officer Taken after Long Illness
George A Harman, 72, County Clerk of Wetzel County since 1921 and one of the most popular men who ever held office in the Court House, died last Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock at his home at 747 Maple Avenue.
Mr. Harman had been in failing health for several years and in the past few weeks his condition had steadily grown worse.
He was a native of Monroe County, across the river in Ohio. He was a son of Joseph and Mary Bauder Harman. In His youth he followed the trade of blacksmith. On January 3 1900, he married Miss Amelia Stamm.
Once Mr. Harman got his "hand in" at running for office, he was unbeatable, and he made it that way by his untiring service to the public. He went out of his way to be more than a casual public servant and the voters knew it. It was nothing for him to leave his home after business hours and go to the court House in order to save some rural resident an extra trip to town. That, along with his cheerful personality was why the voters elected him county Clerk for the fifth time last November when his health would not even permit him to carry out a campaign. His campaigning had been spread out over more than two decades.
Politics was not the only field in which he was prominent and respected. He was outstanding in Masonic work, being a Past Master of Wetzel Lodge No. 39 A F & A Am. He was president of Doolin
federal Savings and Loan Association. He was a member of St. John's Methodist church.
Mr. Harman is survived by his wife; a son, Clarnece S Harman, New Martinsville; a sister, Mrs. Tom G Allen, Mew Martinsville; three brothers, J W Harman, Parkersburg; and Ross L Harman and C E Harman, both of New Martinsville, and two grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon by Rev.George W Tynyham, pastor of the McMechen Methodist church; Reg. J A Wright, pastor of St. John's Methodist Church, and Rev. W E Keenan, pastor of the First Methodist Church. Wetzel Lodge No. 39 A F & A M conducted rites at the grave. Burial was made in Williams Cemetery by Wharton Funeral Home.

George married Amalie STAMM on 03 Jan 1900 in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia. Amalie (daughter of John STAMM and Mary ?) was born on 12 Jan 1875 in Tyler County, West Virginia; died on 14 May 1950 in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia; was buried in Williams Cemetery, New Martinsville, Wetzel Co., West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Living with husband in in-laws in Magnolia, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Census: 1910, Living with husband in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia