Harmon, Melvin Myron, 1861-1938
Dates
- Existence: 1861 - 1938
Biographical History
Melvin Myron Harmon (1861-1938) was a student at Brigham Young Academy.
Melvin Myron Harmon was born on April 11, 1861 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Nehemiah Harmon and Eunice Chidester. He attended Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah. After graduation he moved to Saint George, Utah, where he married Alice Cannon Woodbury in 1891. They had nine children.
In Saint George, Harmon worked as an office clerk. In 1905 he left to serve a mission in Hawaii for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By 1910 he had taken up farming, which continuing to serve in the Church. He died in Saint George on April 12, 1938.
Citation:
Melvin Myron Harmon class notes, 1884 (student at Brigham Young Academy)Familysearch, via WWW, May 13, 2019 (Melvin Myron Harmon; b. Apr. 11, 1861 in Salt Lake City, Utah; parents, Levi Nehemiah Harmon and Eunice Chidester; m. May 27, 1891 in St. George, Utah to Alice Cannon Woodbury, nine children; served mission in Sandwich Islands, 1905; office clerk (1900); farmer (1910); temple recorder (1920); farmer (1930); d. Apr. 12, 1938 in St. George, Utah)
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Melvin Myron Harmon class notes
Contains class notes (holograph, 90 pages) from the Normal Department on various aspects of teacher training. Includes teacher training, rhetoric, theology and physiology with diagrams.