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HENRY C. HARMON, a prominent citizen, is the efficient Justice of the Peace, now serving an extended term of judicial office in the city of Cassopolis, Cass County, Mich., and is regarded as a man of excellent business attainments. Our subject was one of the seven children who clustered about the hearth of Harvey and Eunice (White) Harmon, whose pleasant home was in the Empire State. The father was a native of Connecticut, and was born in the city of Hartford, which was also the birthplace of the paternal grandfather. The mother’s ancestors were likewise of New England birth, the Whites for many generations having been born, reared and educated among the old granite hills of New Hampshire. Henry C. Harmon was born in Manchester Centre, Ontario County, N. Y., April 24, 1840, and with his brothers and sisters passed the days of early youth among the scenes of his childhood.

Our subject received primary instruction in the public schools of the home neighborhood, and completed his education in the Canandaigua Academy, then under the management of Professor Noah T. Clark. Mr. Harmon was from his youthful days accustomed to the round of agricultural duties, and having attained to a mature age began life for himself upon a farm. For years he successfully devoted his time to the tilling of the soil, and later shared with the cares of the homestead the official perplexities incidental to the office of Justice of the Peace. For twelve consecutive years Mr. Harmon administered law in the near locality of his home, and in the performance of his duties gave full satisfaction to the community by whom he was surrounded. Deciding finally to make a change of residence, our subject and his family removed to Michigan, locating in the West in 1881. Since this latter date Mr. Harmon has been one of the enterprising citizens of Cassopolis, and here, as in the East, has served most acceptably as Justice of the Peace.

April 24, 1872, Henry C. Harmon and Miss Mary L. Caldwell, of Clifton Springs, Ontario County, N. Y., were united in marriage. Mrs. Harmon was the daughter of Murray Caldwell, one of the representative men of the Empire State. The mother was a daughter of William Rockfeller, of Dutchess County, N. Y. Grandfather Caldwell was a noted physician of Ontario County, N. Y., and, possessing a wonderful physique and magnificent constitution, survived to one hundred years, and completed a century vivid in the rapid development of the United States. Our subject is in political affiliation a pronounced Democrat, and was defeated as Representative to the Legislature in the Tilden campaign by a majority reduced from four hundred to forty-two. In all matters of public welfare Mr. Harmon is liberal and progressive in his ideas. Financially prospered, he has accumulated a comfortable competence, and, together with his excellent wife, enjoys the esteem of a large circle of acquaintances.