Posted By:	Deborah Brownfield -Stanley
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	Subject:	Bio. of Keith C. Harder ~ son of Herbert R. and Emma Ethel(Fitzpatrick)Harder
	Post Date:	November 10, 2005 at 08:09:46
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A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 KEITH C. HARDER, superintendent of schools at Woodbine, began his career as an educator in his native State of Ohio and has been an Iowa school man since 1922. He was born at Radcliff, Ohio, December 11, 1897, son of Herbert R. and Emma Ethel (Fitzpatrick) Harder. His parents are residents of Wilkesville, Ohio. Mr. Harder had his first advantages in country schools in Ohio, and after graduating from high school in 1916 entered Ohio University. During 1917-18 he taught at Zaleski, Ohio, and left the school room to join the colors, enlisting in the Naval Aviation Corps. For two and a half months he was in training at the Dunwoody Institute at Minneapolis, Minnesota. After the armistice he returned home, was high school principal four months, and for five months attended the Municipal University of Akron, Ohio. He was paying his way while in this school by work in the Goodrich rubber factory. He then returned to Ohio University and in 1920 graduated Bachelor of Science in education. In Ohio he was principal of the high school at Fayette, principal of the high school at Fairfield, and of the Fairfield Centralized at Columbiana, Ohio. On coming to Iowa Mr. Harder served as principal of the school of Lamoni from 1922 to 1924. During 1924-25 he was in Iowa State College at Ames, doing work that earned him the Master of Science degree. In addition to his college degrees Mr. Harder is a man eminently qualified by character and personal temperament for the work of an educator. He belongs to various teachers organizations and is a member of the fraternities Phi Kappa Phi and Gamma Sigma Delta at Ames, and the Lambda Delta Sigma of Graceland College at Lamoni. Mr. Harder from 1925 to 1929 was superintendent of schools at Bonaparte, Iowa, and left there in September, 1929, to take up his duties as superintendent at Woodbine. His first year's work has made a very favorable impression on the community. Mr. Harder is a member of the Orphans Friend Lodge of Masons at Wilkesville, Ohio, and belongs to the Royal Arch Chapter at Bopnaparte, Iowa. In religion he is a member of the Latter Day Saints Church. He married Myra B. Nelson, a native of Cherry County, Nebraska, and their two children are Keith Cyril, Jr., and Doris Elaine. http://www.iagenweb.org/history/index.htm *Check your facts, don't know how accurate.