O. S. Harner

"O. S. HARNER, teacher, P.O. Kingsdale, was born September 24, 1857, in Myers’ District, Carroll County, Md. His grandparents, Samuel and Hannah (Bauers) Harner, were natives of Pennsylvania, and of German extraction. They were potters by occupation, and had five children. Samuel died in Maryland and Hannah in Pennsylvania. Our subject’s maternal grandfather, Samuel Messinger, a fuller by occupation, was only three years old when he was brought to America. The father of our subject, James A. Harner, Sr., was born August 3, 1826, in Germany Township, this county, and is now a farmer in Carroll County, Md. He married Anna E. Messinger, born in Carroll County, Md., daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Shuyler) Messinger, and to this union were born seven children now living and one deceased: Granville R., O. Samuel, James J., Maggie T., Henry (deceased) Susannah E., John N., and Addison A. Our subject was reared on a farm and educated at Littlestown, Penn., and at Taneytown, Md., and now teaches school in the winter. He was married November 28, 1878, to Sarah C. Menchey, born December 2, 1855, daughter of Ephraim and Catharine (Rohrbaugh) Menchey. To Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Harner have been born three children: Alverta May, born July 31, 1880; Emma Blanche, born July 5, 1883; and Charles Cleveland, born February 12, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Harner are members of St. John’s Lutheran Church, of which he has been an officer. He has served as township auditor, and is now a justice of the peace. Politically he is a Democrat. "