J.R. married Conley, A.E. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Harig, R.E.
2. Harig, J.R. Jr

J.R. married Stone, L. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

J.A. married Myers, V.M. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Forrest graduated in 1927 from The University of Akron and entered the real

estate business with his father, concentrating on appraisal.  As a long-time

member of the metropolitan park board, he worked hard to expand the park

system. He was active in politics, served many years as intermediate

department superintendent of Trinity Lutheran Church and as a member of the

Church Council, was Potentate of Tadmor Temple, helped organize and served

in the housing authority, and made many other civic contributions to Akron.

He was an avid sportsman (fisherman and hunter of deer, moose, and water

fowl).  He was youngest president of the Akron Area Board of Realtors

(1938) and one of five founding members of (and President of) the Akron

Chapter of the Society of Real Estate Appraisers.  He was a Senior Member

of the American Society of Appraisers, Western District Commissioner of Boy

Scouts of America's Fir Hill Council, elected Delegate to the 1944 Ohio State

Convention of the Democratic Party, Trustee of Akron Community Trusts,

Trustee (and from 1992 resident) of Sumner Home for the Aged, Secretary of

the Summit County Democratic Party, Director and Chief Appraiser of Evans

Savings Ass'n, Director of Centran Bank, founder and board member of the

Akron Municipal Housing Authority, founder of Young Men's Democratic

Club (Summit County), multi-term President of the Alumni Association of The

University of Akron, founder of Penobscot (ME) Historical Society,

Director of Castine (ME) Scientific Society, Life Member of The Perry

Historians (Newport, PA), member 73196 of the Lafayette Chapter of the Ohio

Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, member of The Ohio

Genealogical Society, member of Akron City Club, Castine Country Club,

Castine Men's Club and for 36 years of Congress Lake Club (Hartville, OH),

Izaak Walton Leauge of America, Lutheran Laity Movement for Stewardship,

and active in various Masonic organizations.

See obituary in the Akron Beacon Journal, 18 July 1993; also editorial in

same newspaper, 20 July 1993, which says in part, "Forrest Myers was

well-known by many, but thousands more who never knew him can long appreciate

his foresight in working to provide this region with a fine park system."

His life was celebrated by his family and friends in his church at 10 a.m. on

19 July 1993.  He is interred with his wife near his parents and brothers at

Uniontown, Ohio.

His children are Albert, Vivian, Lucy and Howard.

        This database is maintained by Albert E. Myers, son of Forrest and Marian.

        Email addresses:  aem@ezonline.com - aem@earthling.net

Forrest married Conner, Marian Helen on 15 Aug 1930 in Trinity Lutheran Church, Akron, OH. Marian (daughter of Conner, Edwin Solon and Kenniston, Vivian Inez) was born on 23 Sep 1906 in Amherst, ME; died on 23 Jan 1985 in Ormond Beach, FL; was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Uniontown, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: homemaker

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Marian graduated BA from The University of Akron (Ohio)and was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority there. She was an
active Christian Scientist, and an avid student and reader. She was the first May Queen at Central High School, Akron, and was considered a very beautiful woman throughout her life. She loved music, taught piano and supported musical programs (such
as the Tuesday Musical Club) in the Akron area. Her death resulted from an automobile accident. She was a member of the Society of Mayflower Sescendants (National 16262, Ohio 746).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: coach; recreation dir.

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Edwin went to sea on fishing schooners as a boy, graduated from Eastern State Normal School (now the Maine Maritime Academy) and in 1906 from Bates College (starring there in baseball, basketball and football and for four years on the all-state

football team [once as an end, once as a tackle and twice as a fullback]), then was principal and coach at Hallowell, Maine, then teacher and coach at Lincoln High School, Cleveland, Ohio (where his life-long nickname "Chief" originated).  During his

ten years at Lincoln High School he also operated summer camps for boys in New York's Adirondack Mountains, where he became friends of naturalists Ernest Thompson Seton and Dan Beard, and was in the group with them which worked with General Sir Robert

Baden-Powell to bring Boy Scouting to the United States.

During World War I he was athletic director at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio.  His effectiveness there led Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. to induce him to come to Akron to coach its basketball team in the industrial league; he coached at Goodyear from 12

May 1919 until he retired 01 Sept. 1953.  [After W.W. I he had a choice of three positions: recreational director for Goodyear, one with the federal Park Service, and an opportunity to go to Bermuda to be in a motion picture with Ann Kellerman, a

famous swimmer.]  He started every heat of the Soap Box Derby from its move to Akron in 1935 until the late 1950s, served on the Akron Recreation Commission, 1934-51 (chair, 1941-51) and the Akron Board of Education, originated the father-son banquet

and pioneered the industrial recreation movement; he was in wide demand as an inspirational speaker.

His career at Goodyear was celebrated 20 January 1954 with an open house at the Goodyear Gym in Akron.  Sportswriter Jim Schlemmer offered an extensive tribute in the Akron Beacon Journal the previous Sunday.  He wrote, "Swimmer, cyclist, skater (he

once skated nonstop from Cleveland to Akron on the frozen canal); Conner might have succeeded Jack Johnson as the heaveyweight fistic champion is his desire for that kind of business had been equal to his ability...

"Instead, even before coming to Akron, he devoted his space time to church work and already had won recognition as the originator and developer of the Father-Son Week idea.

"...Long years spent in Boy Scout work built intimate friendships with General Baden-Powell, Ernest Thompson Seton, Dan Beard and others.  They called him Coach or Chief like everybody else...."

His obituary in the Akron Beacon Journal calls him "big in body, in voice, in mind and in ideals."  He was an avid, serious fisherman, tying his own flies.  He died fishing from a boat in the Indian River.  He is buried beside his wife in Castine,

Maine.  He was a mesomorph in body type.  Historian Phil Perkins told A. E. Myers in August, 1995 that Ed Conner had been touted as a contender for the national boxing championship, but that his wife (Vivian) protested strenuously, and he therefore did

not fight.  He was member 73083 of Lafayette Chapter of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution as a descendant of Capt. David Dunbar, Jr. of Massachusetts.

Edwin married Kenniston, Vivian Inez on 6 Dec 1901 in Amherst, ME. Vivian was born on 27 Sep 1881 in Amherst, ME; died on 21 Jun 1960 in Castine, Hancock, Maine; was buried in Castine, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: homemaker

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Vivian entered Eastern State Normal School (now Maine Maritime Academy) at Castine, Maine in 1898, teaching in small schools to pay for her tuition and graduating in June, 1901. In the fall of 1900 she met Ed Conner, a fellow student whom she married
in her family's living room. After the birth of their first child she returned to the normal school and finished
the Advanced Normal Course in 1905. She was organizer and president of the Goodyear Women's Club, Central High School PTA, the Women's Democratic Club and League of Women Voters, all in Akron, Ohio. She also belonged to the Sixth Ward Democratic
Club, Public Affairs Study Club, Cleveland Shakespeare Society (charter member), and the Cleveland South Side Women's Club. She was active in the Society of Mayflower Descendants, Daughters of the American Revolution (Regent of the Akron Chapter),
National Huguenot Society, Daughters of American Colonists, National Society of Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (National Number 626), National Society of Magna Carta Dames and the New England Genealogical and Historic
Society. She was active in the Women's Suffrage Movement, Democratic Party State Central Committeewoman, served as a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1936 and vigorously engaged in local politics. She would have agreed with First
Lady Hillary Clinton ("It Takes a Village," 1996) in the "view of government that dates back to the Pilgrims. In this view, government is an instrument both to promote the common good and to protect the individual's rights to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness." She was first president of the Mothers' Clubs of Kappa Kappa Gamma (her daughter Marian's sorority at The University of Akron) and of Chi Theta Tau. She is buried beside her husband in Castine.