My Genealogy Hound

HARMAN H. BAHN, a native of Hanover, Germany, at the age of thirteen, came with his parents to the United States and located in Cincinnati, where he was employed in wagon-making and as a salesman in a lumber yard until 1852. He then came to Spencer County, where he bought the farm of 160 acres in Section 15, Clay Township, where he still resides. He has since bought and owns eighty acres in Section 16. He is the eldest son of Richard H. and Margaret Bahn, both natives of Germany. His father worked at shoe-making in the winter and the stone-mason’s trade in summer. July 28, 1851, Mr. Bahn was joined in marriage with Mary Barters, and to them ten children have been born, John, William, Mary, Anna (now Mrs. John H. Bowman), Henry and George are the only ones now living. Mr. Bahn and wife are members of the Lutheran Church, and he is also an Odd Fellow. In politics he is very conservative, always voting for principle and not for party, though in national issues he usually goes with the Democratic party.