Noah HARMAN

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1. Biography Noah worked hard in the mountains cutting timber. He spent his sparetime educating himself. He committed to memory all the, then known,rules and formlae of spelling, grammar, mathematics and philosophy.After obtaining a certificate, he taugh t school seventeen years inWest Virginia, Ohio and Kansas. He went to Kansas City and arrivedMarch 28, 1857. There was no railroad to Kansas City then. Travel,except by boat was by covered wagons and stages drawn by from two toeight horses. The re were a few small stores on the Kaw river at theeast end of Minnesota street where the trade was chiefly with indians.The present industrial district was covered with slough grass four tosix feet high, cut up by Indian and cattle trails. 640 acres couldhave been bought of the hilly section on which Kansas City's tallestbuilding now stand for $2000.00. He had two thousand earned byteaching school, but there was little promise of the construction ofan industrial center at the mou th of the Kaw. He went by boat fromthere to Leavenworth, bought a government wagon and an ox team; drovewest 30 miles through Indian country and settled near what was latercalled Valley Falls Kansas. He acquired 1440 acres and dealtextensively in live stock. Many winters were spent in teaching schooland he supplied work and material for the first school house in thatdistrict, which was built on his farm. There was an unselfishness and congeniality of spirit about him whichmad e him liked by all. His ideas were broad and liberal and he wasgenerous to a fault. He was a thinker, a good speaker and an essayist.He took great delight and an active part in the many debates at theHarman school house on his farm and in th e Philomatic Hall inGrasshopper Falls in which laymen and clergymen had equal opportunity. He was an ernest champion of free speech and free press and anadvocate of the universal and eqial rights of man--A believer in thereligion of humanity , and a confessor of his inability to grasp theinfinite--the future--he was denounced by the clergy as an agnosticand a so-called infidel, and there were many interesting discussionson the freedom of the will, the trinity, the immaculate conception,the divinity of Christ, the inspiration of the Bible, the veracity ofthe Red Sea, the Jonah and the Lion Den stories, when he, Moses Hall,O.A Phelps, Gen Artz and Moses Harman met such men as Clark Braden andother religious debaters at th ese local arenas. Out of these discussions and as an advocate of free speech and generalpersonal liberty, grew a new publication at first named the ValleyFalls Liberal, financed by Noah Harman and edited by Moses Harman, acousin. This paper was continued by Moses Harman as "Lucifer, theLight Bearer" throughout his lifetime--later years as a magazine.Moses Harman was an ordained minister, a brilliant speaker, a deepthinker and a fearless martyr to his belief in many reforms ardentlyadvocated. He was Justice of the Peace for years. He financed the newspaper namedthe Valley Falls Liberal. In 1890, Noah founded the Farmer'sVindicator, which he edited the remainder of his life to Nov. 26,1897. He took an active part in many debates at the Harmon schoolhouse on his farm, and in the Philomatic Hall in Grasshopper Falls(Later called Valley Falls.) He was considered an agnostic and lovedto debate with the clergmen. He was an earnest champion of free speechand of free press.

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Titel	Familienstammbaum Engelken
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Einsender	Roger Engelken
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