After leaving high school, he took a "boy's position" in Daniel Sing's grocery store (probably the Conestoga Grocery at 312 South Queen St). In 1877 he was one of 8 candidates who applied to be a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was not the person selected. (Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, Apr 9 1877, page 3). In the 1880 census he was a "clerk in store". He worked in Steinman's Hardware Company then left there sometime before Mar 15 1883 to be an agent for Miller and Hartman Grocers, then returned to Steinman Hardware until Friday Aug 31 1888. Either Harry L. Raub or Galen John Peoples Raub was the Raub mentioned on a cover (envelope) dated Apr 5, 1893 which says "Raub & Kauffman district managers Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co...Lancaster Pa". After purchasing the firm of A. C. Kepler, Harry founded Reilly Brothers & Raub hardware store with William H. Reilly and Richard M. Reilly on Saturday September 1st 1888. The Reilly brothers supplied the money and Harry supplied the business acumen and labor. Harry Raub took a trip to Colorado and was injured in a railroad accident on Sep 6, 1905 in Brush, Colorado. The original Reilly Brothers and Raub building at 42 to 44 N Queen St. in Lancaster was destroyed in the biggest fire in the history of Lancaster on Thursday Feb 10, 1910. The saddle of General John Fulton Reynolds (who had died at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863) was lost in that fire. Harry Raub's family took a previously planned trip to Europe later in 1910, while Harry stayed behind to supervise the construction of a new building at the same location. The new building was designed by noted Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban. Harry Lyman Raub saw the new building completed but died shortly afterwards in 1911. The new building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Harry was also the President and co-founder, with his brother, Amos K. Raub, of Sheet Metal and Supply Co. in 1898, which was renamed Raub Supply Co. in 1919. Raub Supply Company was open 99 years, closing in 1997. Harry was a director of the Pennsylvania Soap Company (which made Dr. Raub's soap), a director of the Hamilton Club, and President of the Lancaster Board of Trade for many years. He was President of the Pennsylvania Hardware Association for one year, presiding over their meeting at the Hotel Astor in New York City on March 7th and 8th 1906. He was also Vice President of the Cecilian Society in 1886. He was a member of the still extant Pennsylvania Society of New York. He was a member of the board of Trustees of Franklin and Marshall College. After an automobile outing, he was stricken in the dining room of Antes Cafe on the Southwest corner of Center Square in Lancaster, and died at Lancaster Hospital. Milton S. Hershey was an honorary pallbearer at his funeral. The stained glass window in the right rear of the First Reformed Church, Lancaster is dedicated in his memory. Harry Lyman Raub III suspected that the middle name "Lyman" (started in 1860), came from Reverend Lyman Beecher. Submitted by Tom Raub.