Joseph Harman Biography

Joseph Harman

Born January 6 1853 to William Harman and Ann Jones Harman at Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Sailed London to New York on ship Wyoming October 25 1876 Married Margaret Rowland Sept 22 1905
Died Nov 22 1910 at Upper Bingham Canyon, Utah
Buried Bingham Canyon Cemetery Nov 26 1910, moved to Bingham City Cemetery 1999

Joseph Harman, son of William and Ann Jones Harman, was born at Merthyr Tydfil on January 6, 1853. He spent his early years at nearby Clyn Mill where his father was a collier, and moved with the family in 1870 to Treorchy. Joseph was then employed at the mine at Abergorky. William Harman departed soon after their move to Treorchy for Utah, and Joseph followed his father several years later.
24-year-old Joseph sailed from London to New York on the ship Wyoming, leaving on October 25, 1876, which was two years before his mother died. The 1880 census shows him living at the William Harman family house at Salt Lake's Pollard Court. In Utah Joseph was employed alongside his father William Harman Sr. and his younger brother William Jr. on the construction of the Salt Lake Temple. These three family members are included in the Savage picture of temple construction workers taken shortly before its dedication in 1893. Joseph married Margaret Rowland and together they raised a family of seven children. After some years of mining in Almy Wyoming, Joseph worked the Mercur, Utah, gold mines.
Joseph Harman died of miner's consumption in 1910 at upper Bingham Canyon, having stayed with his son Lewis for seven months while suffering from respiratory difficulties. Kennecott Copper has since expanded into the original cemetery there, and the graves were moved in 1999 to the Bingham City Cemetery. His new grave is unmarked. Today Joseph has many descendants, mostly in Canada and California.

Biography written by Verena Eastley Blackburn

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