Brief Life History of James Edward
When James Edward Harney Sr. was born on 25 September 1914, in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, his father, Arthur Edwin Owen Harney, was 34 and his mother, Annie Laura Fogg, was 25. He married Maxine E Copp on 6 July 1935, in Gray, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States in 1940 and Oxford, Oxford, Maine, United States in 1950. He died on 22 September 1980, in Norway, Oxford, Maine, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Gracelawn Memorial Park, Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States.
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- James E Hurney, "United States 1950 Census"
- James E Harney, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
- James E Harney, "Maine Death Index, 1960-1996"
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Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAthairne ‘descendant of Athairne’, a personal name based on athair ‘father’, originally of three syllables and borne by a famous Old Irish satirist. The surname was sometimes also Anglicized as Hartney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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