STOCKBRIDGE – Harmon Stevens, known as “Honest Uncle Harmon”, one of Wisconsin’s best known bee hunters, is dead.
Active until past his 90th birthday as one of Wisconsin’s best known apiarists, he died at 9 a.m. Saturday Jan. 18, after an illness of several months. He had celebrated his 90th birthday Sept. 26 surrounded by a host of friends and relatives who came from far and near to offer their congratulations to this venerable pioneer.
Mr. Stevens was born north of Dotyville, in Fond du Lac county, in 1850. His father had the distinction of being the first bee hunter of the state. Harmon followed in his father’s footsteps in bee culture and became a bee hunter at the age of seven. He attended school until the age of 11. When the Civil war broke out this father sold out and came to the Stockbridge Indian reservation where he acquired the present homestead from an Indian squaw named Mary Hendrick. Nearly all residents were Indians.
Although deprived of a formal school education in his desire for knowledge he carried on a course of home study much after the manner of Abraham Lincoln in his humble log cabin. He became a keen student of human nature and took a great interest in politics and economics. He had a remarkable memory and vividly related incidents and events with their exact dates from his early childhood days to the time of this late illness. He took special pride in his spick and span apiary which was kept up to the minute in very way. His products of honey and wax won numerous sweepstakes and prized at the various county and state fairs.
He is survived by two sons, Harold of Litchfield, Minn., and Douglas of Stockbridge’ one daughter, Mrs. F. E. Warren Cascade, Wis.; two brothers, John, Rio Lind, Calif.; Andrew, Stockbridge; one sister, Miss Orrie, Stockbridge; 12 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild.
Funeral services were held from the Methodist Episcopal church Jan. 20. The Rev. Ray Curless conducted the services, assisted by the local choir. Burial was made at the Lakeside cemetery. The beautiful floral tributes and great multitudes of friends, neighbors and relatives who gathered to pay their last tribute to their pioneer friend gave evidence of the high esteem in which he was held by all who knew him.
Chilton Times – January 23, 1941
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Active until past his 90th birthday as one of Wisconsin’s best known apiarists, he died at 9 a.m. Saturday Jan. 18, after an illness of several months. He had celebrated his 90th birthday Sept. 26 surrounded by a host of friends and relatives who came from far and near to offer their congratulations to this venerable pioneer.
Mr. Stevens was born north of Dotyville, in Fond du Lac county, in 1850. His father had the distinction of being the first bee hunter of the state. Harmon followed in his father’s footsteps in bee culture and became a bee hunter at the age of seven. He attended school until the age of 11. When the Civil war broke out this father sold out and came to the Stockbridge Indian reservation where he acquired the present homestead from an Indian squaw named Mary Hendrick. Nearly all residents were Indians.
Although deprived of a formal school education in his desire for knowledge he carried on a course of home study much after the manner of Abraham Lincoln in his humble log cabin. He became a keen student of human nature and took a great interest in politics and economics. He had a remarkable memory and vividly related incidents and events with their exact dates from his early childhood days to the time of this late illness. He took special pride in his spick and span apiary which was kept up to the minute in very way. His products of honey and wax won numerous sweepstakes and prized at the various county and state fairs.
He is survived by two sons, Harold of Litchfield, Minn., and Douglas of Stockbridge’ one daughter, Mrs. F. E. Warren Cascade, Wis.; two brothers, John, Rio Lind, Calif.; Andrew, Stockbridge; one sister, Miss Orrie, Stockbridge; 12 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild.
Funeral services were held from the Methodist Episcopal church Jan. 20. The Rev. Ray Curless conducted the services, assisted by the local choir. Burial was made at the Lakeside cemetery. The beautiful floral tributes and great multitudes of friends, neighbors and relatives who gathered to pay their last tribute to their pioneer friend gave evidence of the high esteem in which he was held by all who knew him.
Chilton Times – January 23, 1941
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STOCKBRIDGE – Harmon Stevens, known as “Honest Uncle Harmon”, one of Wisconsin’s best known bee hunters, is dead.
Active until past his 90th birthday as one of Wisconsin’s best known apiarists, he died at 9 a.m. Saturday Jan. 18, after an illness of several months. He had celebrated his 90th birthday Sept. 26 surrounded by a host of friends and relatives who came from far and near to offer their congratulations to this venerable pioneer.
Mr. Stevens was born north of Dotyville, in Fond du Lac county, in 1850. His father had the distinction of being the first bee hunter of the state. Harmon followed in his father’s footsteps in bee culture and became a bee hunter at the age of seven. He attended school until the age of 11. When the Civil war broke out this father sold out and came to the Stockbridge Indian reservation where he acquired the present homestead from an Indian squaw named Mary Hendrick. Nearly all residents were Indians.
Although deprived of a formal school education in his desire for knowledge he carried on a course of home study much after the manner of Abraham Lincoln in his humble log cabin. He became a keen student of human nature and took a great interest in politics and economics. He had a remarkable memory and vividly related incidents and events with their exact dates from his early childhood days to the time of this late illness. He took special pride in his spick and span apiary which was kept up to the minute in very way. His products of honey and wax won numerous sweepstakes and prized at the various county and state fairs.
He is survived by two sons, Harold of Litchfield, Minn., and Douglas of Stockbridge’ one daughter, Mrs. F. E. Warren Cascade, Wis.; two brothers, John, Rio Lind, Calif.; Andrew, Stockbridge; one sister, Miss Orrie, Stockbridge; 12 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild.
Funeral services were held from the Methodist Episcopal church Jan. 20. The Rev. Ray Curless conducted the services, assisted by the local choir. Burial was made at the Lakeside cemetery. The beautiful floral tributes and great multitudes of friends, neighbors and relatives who gathered to pay their last tribute to their pioneer friend gave evidence of the high esteem in which he was held by all who knew him.
Chilton Times – January 23, 1941
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Active until past his 90th birthday as one of Wisconsin’s best known apiarists, he died at 9 a.m. Saturday Jan. 18, after an illness of several months. He had celebrated his 90th birthday Sept. 26 surrounded by a host of friends and relatives who came from far and near to offer their congratulations to this venerable pioneer.
Mr. Stevens was born north of Dotyville, in Fond du Lac county, in 1850. His father had the distinction of being the first bee hunter of the state. Harmon followed in his father’s footsteps in bee culture and became a bee hunter at the age of seven. He attended school until the age of 11. When the Civil war broke out this father sold out and came to the Stockbridge Indian reservation where he acquired the present homestead from an Indian squaw named Mary Hendrick. Nearly all residents were Indians.
Although deprived of a formal school education in his desire for knowledge he carried on a course of home study much after the manner of Abraham Lincoln in his humble log cabin. He became a keen student of human nature and took a great interest in politics and economics. He had a remarkable memory and vividly related incidents and events with their exact dates from his early childhood days to the time of this late illness. He took special pride in his spick and span apiary which was kept up to the minute in very way. His products of honey and wax won numerous sweepstakes and prized at the various county and state fairs.
He is survived by two sons, Harold of Litchfield, Minn., and Douglas of Stockbridge’ one daughter, Mrs. F. E. Warren Cascade, Wis.; two brothers, John, Rio Lind, Calif.; Andrew, Stockbridge; one sister, Miss Orrie, Stockbridge; 12 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild.
Funeral services were held from the Methodist Episcopal church Jan. 20. The Rev. Ray Curless conducted the services, assisted by the local choir. Burial was made at the Lakeside cemetery. The beautiful floral tributes and great multitudes of friends, neighbors and relatives who gathered to pay their last tribute to their pioneer friend gave evidence of the high esteem in which he was held by all who knew him.
Chilton Times – January 23, 1941
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