Biography of John F. Harter, page 733.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  ]
Inter-State Publishing company, Chicago, 1885

John F. Harter was born in Stark County, Ohio, Oct. 24, 1848.  He is the 
third son and fifth child of six children of Emanuel and Mary Ann (Rasor) 
Harter.  The former is a son of Jacob Harter, a native of Pennsylvania and 
of German parentage; the latter was a daughter of William and Mary Ann 
(Everhard) Rasor, formally from Westmoreland County, Pa., and later of 
Medina County, Ohio.  Our subject was reared on a farm, the district schools 
affording him the means for an education.  He lived with his parents till 
twenty-two years of age, when he came to De Kalb County and remained one 
year, then returned to his former Ohio home.  A year later he returned to De 
Kalb County, and Jan. 8, 1873 was married to Eliza, daughter of William and 
Catherine Schoup, and again returned to Ohio, where he remained till after 
the death of his father, which occurred June 24, 1873.  His mother died July 
14, 1882.  Returning to De Kalb County he rented land, and in 1881 purchased 
eighty acres, on which he now lives.  He has two children---William E. and 
Rosetta.  He is a member of the Lutheran church.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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