BIO: Lawrence C. HARMAN, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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  LAWRENCE C. HARMAN, M.D., a well-known physician and surgeon of 
Philipsburg, Centre county, is no less noted for his ability in 
business and finance than for his skill in his profession. He is 
president of the Mahoning Lumber Co., and has extensive real-estate 
holdings, including a fine brick residence in Philipsburg and a tract 
of 145 acres of land at Aughwick Mills, Huntingdon county, Penn., where 
he erected a beautiful villa about eight years ago. His professional 
interests are not sacrificed to any others, however, as his best 
energies are given to his practice. For three years he was assistant 
surgeon of Philipsburg hospital, and for almost four years he was 
surgeon-in-chief.
  Dr. Harman was born in Huntingdon county, October 7, 1860, and is the 
son of Jackson and Mary (Slack) Harman. His father is a native of 
Mifflin county, Penn., was in early life engaged in the furniture 
business, and for eleven years was superintendent of the County Home in 
Huntingdon county. He is now living at the age of sixty-eight years, 
and takes charge of our subject's lands, spending his winters in 
Philipsburg and his summers at the villa at Aughwick Mills. He is a 
stanch Republican in politics, and a prominent member of the M. E. 
Church. His wife was a daughter of Joab Slack, a leading resident of 
Salisbury, Penn., and a manufacturer of plows and other iron implements 
and utensils. Her mother died at the age of fifty, and her grandmother, 
whose maiden name was Crownover, attained the age of ninety. The 
Crownovers were prosperous millers and agriculturists of Huntingdon 
county. Jackson and Mary (Slack) Harman had seven children: (1) Clara, 
Mrs. J. B. Shipton, of Ennisville, Huntingdon county; (2) John A., a 
farmer at Manor Hill, Penn.; (3) Oscar, who died in infancy; (4) 
Lawrence C., of this sketch; (5) Sadie (Mrs. George W. Miller), who 
died in June, 1895, leaving a son - Frank Lawrence Miller - who resides 
with our subject; (6) Annie M., and (7) Minnie, both of whom also make 
their home with our subject.
  The Doctor's youth was spent in his native county, where he attended 
the common schools. When prepared, he entered Stone Valley Academy, and 
later studied at Dickinson Seminary, afterward teaching for one year. 
His medical studies were then begun under the direction of Hon. W. P. 
McKnight, of Shirleysburg, and continued in Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1882. For a time he practiced 
with his preceptor, and he then located in Philipsburg. Here his 
professional abilities won speedy recognition. He is an active member 
of the State Medical Association, of the West Branch Medical 
Association, and of the County Medical Association. As a citizen he is 
deeply interested in the movements of the time, and he firmly believes 
in the doctrines of the Republican party. Socially he belongs to the 

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Royal Arcanum. He is a director of the Moshanon National Bank, which 
was established May 12, 1897, he being one of the organizers, and is a 
director of the Citizens Building & Loan Co., serving his second term. 
Up to this time he has maintained a state of single blessedness.