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James C. Harmon, a successful farmer of Newton County, and the son of Henry Harmon, was born on his father’s farm, in North Carolina, July 8, 1808, and was reared a farmer. Henry Harmon was a native of North Carolina, and while living in that State married Miss Sallie Collier, also a native of North Carolina, and to them were born ten children: Polly, Nancy, Pattie, Rachel, Eliza, William, John, Holmes, Jacob and James C. The father, who was a farmer, moved to Georgia, where he passed the last eight years of his life. He died in 1882, at the age of eighty-six years. James C. Harmon married, at the age of twenty-four, Miss Elizabeth Dixson, of North Carolina, and this union resulted in the birth of six children: Margaret, Emily, Eliza, Joseph, Amanda and Ellen. A few years after marriage Mr. Harmon moved to Severn County, Ark., where he purchased two farms of over 240 acres of land, and where he remained for eleven years. In 1872 Mr. Harmon and family removed to Newton County, Mo., and settled on his present farm in Van Buren County. In political views he is a Democrat, and both himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Harmon has by his own industry accumulated considerable property, has a good farm, and is in comfortable circumstances. Although getting well along in years, he is still hale and hearty, and able to do a good day’s work. He is a representative pioneer American, and his children, for whom he has labored so many years to bring up in the paths of honest industry, may well point with pride to the honorable race from which they have sprung.