lawyer. son of the late Stephen V. Harkness of Cleveland, was born Dec. 17, 1860, in Monroeville, O., and received his education in Yale University, class of 1883, and Columbia Law School, class of 1888. At the age of twenty-four, he entered business life as a clerk and was occupied with the real estate interests of his father. At the death of his father, he was made administrator of the estate, and has been engaged since then in its management. He succeeded his father as director in many business corporations, including The Euclid Avenue National Bank, The Cleveland Arcade Co., The United Salt Co., The Ohio River Railroad, and The Monongahela River Railroad; also in The Iron Belt Mining Co., and The Ashland Mining Co. of the Gogebic range in the Lake Superior region and The Spanish American Mining Co. of Cuba. He married Mary Warden in 1896, and died of Influenza on 1 May 1916. Mr. Harkness was temporarily placed in his brothers mausoleum because he and his wife were so ill with influenza services could not be done. After her death months after his her family placed them in her fathers mausoleum in West Laurel Hill Cemetery. Charles William was moved to West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Dec 1916 after the death of his wife. They are entombed in her father's mausoleum.
lawyer. son of the late Stephen V. Harkness of Cleveland, was born Dec. 17, 1860, in Monroeville, O., and received his education in Yale University, class of 1883, and Columbia Law School, class of 1888. At the age of twenty-four, he entered business life as a clerk and was occupied with the real estate interests of his father. At the death of his father, he was made administrator of the estate, and has been engaged since then in its management. He succeeded his father as director in many business corporations, including The Euclid Avenue National Bank, The Cleveland Arcade Co., The United Salt Co., The Ohio River Railroad, and The Monongahela River Railroad; also in The Iron Belt Mining Co., and The Ashland Mining Co. of the Gogebic range in the Lake Superior region and The Spanish American Mining Co. of Cuba. He married Mary Warden in 1896, and died of Influenza on 1 May 1916. Mr. Harkness was temporarily placed in his brothers mausoleum because he and his wife were so ill with influenza services could not be done. After her death months after his her family placed them in her fathers mausoleum in West Laurel Hill Cemetery. Charles William was moved to West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Dec 1916 after the death of his wife. They are entombed in her father's mausoleum.
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