Dr. and Mrs. John B. Harmon were the parents of six children and an adopted one....
The third in order of birth is Captain Charles R. Harmon, who was born November 4, 1826. He was engaged in the hardware business in Warren for a number of years, and for about a year edited a spicy sheet in the interest of the Mecca oil business. On the outbreak of the Civil war, he enlisted as a private in Company F, of the Twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was in the Western Virginia campaign, in Colonel Ammon's brigade, serving as a valuable scout, and enjoying the respect of his superior officer and his comrades. He was shot at the battle of Stone River, and the commission of Captain was mailed to his address the day he was killed, which commission was afterward ratified by President Lincoln, as Lieutenant Harmon had been acting Captain for some six months previous to his death. His son Ellis was adopted by Dr. Julian Harmon, the subject of this sketch, but that youth died of diphtheria when thirteen years of age.
