It has never been the task of the writer to record the birth, life and death of any one, whose life had been so meteorically successful and so full of promise of continued success, and yet whose untimely death was so sad as that of the subject of this sketch.
Gerald Harper, son of Alvin Harper and his wife, Mollie Carr Harper, was born near Macksville Pendleton County, West Virginia, on the 2nd of November, 1897, and suffered death in the burning of a Pennsylvania Railroad Shop, in Pittsburgh, Penna., September 3, 1922.
His boyhood days were spent on his father's farm on the North Fork, where those who live or have lived believe the sky is bluer, the sun shines brighter, the air purer, the grass greener, and the birds sing sweeter than any place else in the world.
His early education was such as was afforded by the public schools near his home, from which he graduated at the age of 17, and the same year took the uniform examination for teachers and was granted a second grade certificate with a very high average.
He taught on this one year session of 1914-1915.
The following year he was granted a first grade certificate, and again taught a term of school in the County of Randolph, being Principal of the school at Harperton.
Feeling the call to a higher education and wider fields, he entered Davis and Elkins College, at Elkins, W.Va., in the spring of 1916.
He graduated from the preparatory department of this college May 23, 1918, and on the 10th day of September, 1918, was admitted without examination to the Carnegie Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated with high honors, in mechanical engineering and physics, and a degree of Bachelor of Science, June 16, 1922.
On October 7, 1918 shortly after entering this school he volunteered into the Student Army Training School of the Institute, preparatory to bearing his part in the great world war, then in progress, but the war having ended thereafter he was honorably discharged November 26, 1918.
He was scheduled to begin teaching in the University of Kentucky, about the 18th of September last, and was filling in the time, working as a mechanic for the Pennsylvania Railroad which by doing this, he succumb to the Great Beyond.
{Abstracted from Pendleton County Obituaries}
Contributed by: Shock
Gerald Harper, son of Alvin Harper and his wife, Mollie Carr Harper, was born near Macksville Pendleton County, West Virginia, on the 2nd of November, 1897, and suffered death in the burning of a Pennsylvania Railroad Shop, in Pittsburgh, Penna., September 3, 1922.
His boyhood days were spent on his father's farm on the North Fork, where those who live or have lived believe the sky is bluer, the sun shines brighter, the air purer, the grass greener, and the birds sing sweeter than any place else in the world.
His early education was such as was afforded by the public schools near his home, from which he graduated at the age of 17, and the same year took the uniform examination for teachers and was granted a second grade certificate with a very high average.
He taught on this one year session of 1914-1915.
The following year he was granted a first grade certificate, and again taught a term of school in the County of Randolph, being Principal of the school at Harperton.
Feeling the call to a higher education and wider fields, he entered Davis and Elkins College, at Elkins, W.Va., in the spring of 1916.
He graduated from the preparatory department of this college May 23, 1918, and on the 10th day of September, 1918, was admitted without examination to the Carnegie Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated with high honors, in mechanical engineering and physics, and a degree of Bachelor of Science, June 16, 1922.
On October 7, 1918 shortly after entering this school he volunteered into the Student Army Training School of the Institute, preparatory to bearing his part in the great world war, then in progress, but the war having ended thereafter he was honorably discharged November 26, 1918.
He was scheduled to begin teaching in the University of Kentucky, about the 18th of September last, and was filling in the time, working as a mechanic for the Pennsylvania Railroad which by doing this, he succumb to the Great Beyond.
{Abstracted from Pendleton County Obituaries}
Contributed by: Shock
It has never been the task of the writer to record the birth, life and death of any one, whose life had been so meteorically successful and so full of promise of continued success, and yet whose untimely death was so sad as that of the subject of this sketch.
Gerald Harper, son of Alvin Harper and his wife, Mollie Carr Harper, was born near Macksville Pendleton County, West Virginia, on the 2nd of November, 1897, and suffered death in the burning of a Pennsylvania Railroad Shop, in Pittsburgh, Penna., September 3, 1922.
His boyhood days were spent on his father's farm on the North Fork, where those who live or have lived believe the sky is bluer, the sun shines brighter, the air purer, the grass greener, and the birds sing sweeter than any place else in the world.
His early education was such as was afforded by the public schools near his home, from which he graduated at the age of 17, and the same year took the uniform examination for teachers and was granted a second grade certificate with a very high average.
He taught on this one year session of 1914-1915.
The following year he was granted a first grade certificate, and again taught a term of school in the County of Randolph, being Principal of the school at Harperton.
Feeling the call to a higher education and wider fields, he entered Davis and Elkins College, at Elkins, W.Va., in the spring of 1916.
He graduated from the preparatory department of this college May 23, 1918, and on the 10th day of September, 1918, was admitted without examination to the Carnegie Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated with high honors, in mechanical engineering and physics, and a degree of Bachelor of Science, June 16, 1922.
On October 7, 1918 shortly after entering this school he volunteered into the Student Army Training School of the Institute, preparatory to bearing his part in the great world war, then in progress, but the war having ended thereafter he was honorably discharged November 26, 1918.
He was scheduled to begin teaching in the University of Kentucky, about the 18th of September last, and was filling in the time, working as a mechanic for the Pennsylvania Railroad which by doing this, he succumb to the Great Beyond.
{Abstracted from Pendleton County Obituaries}
Contributed by: Shock
Gerald Harper, son of Alvin Harper and his wife, Mollie Carr Harper, was born near Macksville Pendleton County, West Virginia, on the 2nd of November, 1897, and suffered death in the burning of a Pennsylvania Railroad Shop, in Pittsburgh, Penna., September 3, 1922.
His boyhood days were spent on his father's farm on the North Fork, where those who live or have lived believe the sky is bluer, the sun shines brighter, the air purer, the grass greener, and the birds sing sweeter than any place else in the world.
His early education was such as was afforded by the public schools near his home, from which he graduated at the age of 17, and the same year took the uniform examination for teachers and was granted a second grade certificate with a very high average.
He taught on this one year session of 1914-1915.
The following year he was granted a first grade certificate, and again taught a term of school in the County of Randolph, being Principal of the school at Harperton.
Feeling the call to a higher education and wider fields, he entered Davis and Elkins College, at Elkins, W.Va., in the spring of 1916.
He graduated from the preparatory department of this college May 23, 1918, and on the 10th day of September, 1918, was admitted without examination to the Carnegie Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated with high honors, in mechanical engineering and physics, and a degree of Bachelor of Science, June 16, 1922.
On October 7, 1918 shortly after entering this school he volunteered into the Student Army Training School of the Institute, preparatory to bearing his part in the great world war, then in progress, but the war having ended thereafter he was honorably discharged November 26, 1918.
He was scheduled to begin teaching in the University of Kentucky, about the 18th of September last, and was filling in the time, working as a mechanic for the Pennsylvania Railroad which by doing this, he succumb to the Great Beyond.
{Abstracted from Pendleton County Obituaries}
Contributed by: Shock
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